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I had a pie yesterday, it was excellent. (I was out from 8-30 am to 7-00 pm and it was all I had all day so I'm allowed to eat at the football).

We went to the Brecon Beacons for our team building, goin back 25 years here. Two teams parked their mini buses in two different locations and had to converge at the top of the mountain (then work together) to solve the challenge. Two teams trudged up the mountain for 2 hours and then we met up - I was sort of leading our team (by default),their leader 'We've looked at the maps ('OK'), and we've got a plan ('OK'), we think you need to go back down and move your minibus to 670 301 and then come back up'. Me 'F++k off', it all kicks off at the top of the mountain (two teams of grown men fighting over a buried Mars bar). ..... we laughed about it in the bar later but I can't recommend the Brecon Beacons if you want harmony and a quiet awayday.

Clyne and Chambers at FB? Not ideal, maybe 4-3-3 if we are deprived of our flying wing backs? .............Arthur ............ Chambers Usual Usual Patsy ......MS ......VW ......... JC ....... ......JR ..... DO ........ AL .......... Keep it tight, don't give Swansea room to play between us, control the midfield, those front three have a goal in them, keep Swansea honest, 1-0 It won't be pretty but whoever said finishing top 6 would be pretty? COYRs!

Want one, not so keen on the navy blue knickers though.

I quite like it but it's all a bit random, which is of course part of the attraction. Maybe this Jedanak guy represents a particular country? I don't really know anything about him. Maybe a design with club names / ground names / nicknames and reaching down into the non-league would have been better? Maybe I've got too much time on my hands?

Alan Hansen? Hardly a pivotal figure in 150 years of football is he?

Add Lovren for Golac (diff position I know) but both out of the same top-draw and cult-hero status already looks nailed-on for Lovren too.

Worst player in the Prem? Don't exactly know but Guffran must come close?

Any one read his autobiog? Top read and right up with some of the very best sports books.

Fair play if they did but ..... Fulham went from Lge 1 to top 4 in the Prem in three years? And the week when they arrived in the top 4, 50% of their match-day squad were players or youth players who had come up from Lge 1?? Not sure about that???

Awesome, not sure this will ever be repeated (or has ever been done before?)

Dipped out there, I called it 2-0 Osvaldo and Lambert in the build-up thread! Who ever would have thought that moving into a CL spot could be so straightfd? Palace poor and we did enough, hopefully it will be be a better spectacle against Swansea next week, a much more realistic test of where we are at the moment.

Get in, Os off and running!

Cork and Ramirez for Wanyama and SRL?

We're labouring somewhat, ball seems to take a long time to go from back to front? Palace have surprised me, not really parked the bus and quite happy to have a go when they can. Disappointing so far. Sticking with 2-0 , based on what I'm not sure!

He scores when he wants He scores when he wants Dani Osvaldo He scores when he wants.

Sounds like a fit and proper person to me (tho I probably wouldn't tell him he wasn't to his face).

Smells like teen spirit.

I was disappointed to read a post somewhere on here last week referring to the players throwing their shirts into the crowd at Liverpool last week and indulging in lots of man-love at the final whistle; the poster put it down to 'the spirit the MP has generated', I wasn't going to rain on his parade at the time and spoil my/his weekend, but this is utter horseshi7. 'Team spirit' started with AP and was carried on massively by NA, MP was lucky to inherit a team 'together as one' and TBF, if it's not broken, it hasn't needed fixing. The 'togetherness' thing is what sets us apart, we genuinely seem to be doing things 'the Southampton way' (Jeff Stelling's comments today) and if we can retain this focus we will become the Academy of choice for pretty much every talented player in our catchment area. Happy days.

About as meh as it gets, one for the SuperFans only.

Unbelievable, and anybody that 'holidays' here is complicit in this as well.

Don't really care, will probably go to a home game if they price it right. Would prob go away anywhere south of Brum. Don't even know who is in it?

Don't think there's any chance of this after last week, the players will be (should be!) on cloud 9 after last week, they will have loved the feeling of winning at L'pool and will have loved looking at the league table all week, and they will want more of it. There's competition for places too and they will all want to play when we are doing well. Same team, 2-0 Osvaldo and Lambert (pen).

Oh dear, can-of-worms? Not care about the shirt colour? Seriously? You'd have no objection if we turned out in Blue/Amber/Green/Claret next season? Extraordinary. Come on trolls: 'Would you rather we qualified for Europe playing in a blue home strip, or be relegated wearing a red and white one, innit'.

Not sure you can play Carrick and Fellaini in the same team? Big panic buy but I reckon Moyes will get two full seasons before they even look at anybody else.