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What's it like? They reckon a third of those that could have updated in the first 24hrs .. I didn't, I'm not really not that bothered, am I missing anything?

I will bite oh Great One .... MP's team for Saturday: ............... Holy Goalie ................ Clyne ..... Lovren ..... Fonte .... Shaw ............... MS ...... VW ............... ................... JWP ..................... Osvaldo ......... SRL ............. AL Not quite sure how it shapes up on the pitch but that might be MP's players for the starting XI? If you are not interested in my team, look away now: usual suspects across the back, plus .............................VW ............................... ......................MS ......... JC ......................... .............................GR................................ ..............JRod .................Dani ................... Not quite sure how it all pans out but I'm picking three centre mids and recalling our talisman JC, hopefully to kick start MS into finding some form. I'm also recalling the Great White Hope and would tell him he's playing the next 6 games in his favoured no. 10 spot -it's down to him now - shape up or ship out at Xmas. I'd play Osvaldo who looked class on Sunday (horror miss not withstanding). I'd persist with JRod, he's a confidence player and with his pace on the counter he might find himself in wide-open spaces as L'pool are forced fd in the later stages while suffering a frustrating 0-0 score line. SRL to brood on the Anfield bench before a triumphant last 15 minutes where he does a Chelsea/Man City, 0-1 Saints, Lambert R 83 mins, I'd take that.

Always a good look if you want to get in cheap!

I thought Sun'lan away was 1-1? Stand to be corrected, I'd had a few....

What did you expect from MoPo v FatSam at 4-00 on a wet and windy Sunday afternoon? Not happy with what I saw on the box, but very happy that I dodged a £150 wasted day out today. I'm going to Liverpool next week (where 0-0 would be a great result!) We need to find some attractive/goal scoring/winning football before I pay SMS prices. Palace holds no appeal to me at all, it could be anything from 4-0(as if!) to 0-1, will probably be 0-0 or 1-1. We have gone massively backwards and we need to turn it round majorly before we start selling out again. Today's game? Compared to last season we are much stronger at the back, weaker in midfield, and equally as woeful up front. Time for 4-3-3? Our attacking full-backs appear a busted flush at the moment (2-2-6? it hasn't happened so far in four mid-table games) and even FatSam has got wise to our game plan. We have a decent back four, let's let them concentrate on keeping the goal against down to manageable proportions (they are doing OK so far). Midfield, where do you start? We have swapped one of Europe's leading stats men and his ultra reliable sidekick for a rabbit-in-the-headlights and a Sunday parks player. Morgan and Cork need to BOTH play henceforth, the third man can be VW or SD or JWP, all have different attributes and all three CDAJFU, the team can be picked around: home/away, form, oppo etc. Which leaves three players to stick it in the net! Osvaldo looks top draw and plays every game, my second pick (Turkish will love this) would be our fastest player, for me that's JRod and he 'starts' every game (where's the hate coming from? Is he the new Gully? No worse than anyone else today). The third attacker is fluid: Lambert as a 9? Lambert as a 10? Lallana, poor game today but decent in the first three games? Gaston? Nothing to say here, the question mark says it all really. What we are doing now isn't working in terms of scoring goals so something (?) has to change. The clappers will say the their GK was man of the match, but beyond Osvaldo's miss the rest of it was pretty routine, at no time after the first five minutes did I feel we could win that game, the last 2 minutes were played out around our box and MP's reaction at the final whistle said it all, take a point and move on. People that were bigging up the Sunderland result must be feeling a bit silly tonight. We played well at West Brom for large parts but it looks like they are going to be struggling, we failed to beat Sun'lan who most people knew were shi7, we lost at Norwich (a so so result), and we've been pretty poor at home to what resembled a Championship team, hardly the next level is it?

TBF he did score our last goal from open play (Sunderland away)

And baring an unnerving similarity to a 1940's SRL? Looks like Bearsy missed this bit out in his recent Life of Rickie biog?

Don't you just love living in a world where 11 year-olds sneer at an iphone?

England's new scoring and assists sensation on the bench ... we'll muller 'em. ................ Boruc ............. Clyne Fonte Lovren Shaw ......... MS Cork .......... J Rod Gaston AL ............ SRL ............... Should be enough to get things started; VW and Dani Os are available as and when required, heart says 2-0, will probably be 1-1.

You must be nearly quids in with your dodgy ITK transfer betting?

If I could post a picture of an elephant, where's Rooney going to play?

You've got to get in first, SRL has arguably only got in via injuries to Carroll/Defoe/Sturridge/Rooney etc, there's no guarantee that if you do it week in week out for one of the lesser lights you will ever get near.

Chuffed with that, I didn't do any maths beyond O Level in 1976, just know BIDMAS from a bit of primary school TA-ing 15 years ago, not that I particularly understand it.

Why is he fitter,trimmer and slimmer at 40-something than he was when he was playing, and does he have even the teensiest regret about this? (I bet he doesn't but please do pop the question).

VFT what was the problem? Presumably it was to do with buying a children's ticket? Not sure how the club can trace adult STs buying adult tkts and passing them on? A depressing thread on so many levels, maybe the club could use 'technology' and introduce some sort of points/loyalty system? Just saying like....

I'll go first BIDMAS = 9 ?

Saw Ian Turner playing in goal for Waterlooville at Margate. Would you see that now? An FA Cup winner ekeing out a final pay-day in the Southern League.

The Ricoh is available and we could extend it and have a purpose built 50k soccer-dome in a central location. Our foreign fans could fly in and we would be re-located in the geographical and sporting centre of the whole country. Admittedly pre-match hospitality would be a choice between Pizza Hut and KFC and we might have to re-brand our shirts to match the colour of the seats (I've heard sky blue is very popular in emerging markets) but what's 180 miles between friends?

30 miles for a home game? ....... Luxury.

Pretty much. It makes sense if you're a ST holder who wants to do a limited number of specific aways to get your purchases/priority up by using games you aren't personally going to. I had 3 STs last season and did 5 aways as well but not all were in my name so therefore I don't have any 'credit' from last season. (I have lots from L1 and the Champ tho!) Due to a combination of factors we haven't renewed this year but we're looking to do maybe 6-8 homes and 6-8 aways. I can take 2 or 3 tickets for pretty much most aways, and happy to pay a little something for your trouble. If anybody is looking to get their points up this way do give me a pm and will see what we can do.

AshleyB you have a pm.

I thought the Guardian piece was fair comment, the writer was writing for a neutral audience and was putting out there what we all know, our home record isn't great and for the money spent, the ambitions of the owners and the general feel-good vibe around Saints as a team 'on the up' it needs to be much better. I am surprised how relaxed people are with a 1-1 draw at home to Sunderland who by all accounts were pretty dire. I know it's all aunties and uncles but if we had lost 0-1 or even drawn 0-0 at WBA would we all be so incredibly relaxed with Saturday's result? WBA was a cracking result and we should have followed it up on Saturday.

Has anybody else got spare numbers? I would love two tickets, I've seen Saints in most places but I've never been to Anfield. Happy to pay face value plus a little something for your time.

I'll go with a clean sheet for us, we looked very solid last week. A 1-0 or 2-0 win would be absolutely fine, I'm going for 2-0, J Rod and SRL. Haven't got a clue about the team but a sneaky feeling JWP has done enough to stay in the starting X1 this week. Happy days (we're not going unfortunately, on flipping wedding duty with a bunch of Brighton and Cov fans, also a couple of Saints ST's there who will be gutted to be missing it).

Carragher? My head's spinning!