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A minutes silence for Gary Speed but not for Dean Richards, how does that work? I was quite happy to observe the Speed one, but it was a major bo.ll.ock from the club not to do one for Deano.

I'm quite tempted by this option, looks like a 20 minute walk and then beat most of the traffic after the game, we've driven over the bridge before the last 2 home games. What's the parking like in Woolston? Pubs? That big one right on the bridge looks fairly Saints related? Anybody else (hundreds!) get caught up in that M3 business on Saturday? We sat in the Charlotte Place car park total gridlock for 15 minutes then did a right turn back down towards the ground and went out to the M27/A3. My phone had the M3 down as shut till 8.00pm. Don't know how accurate that was?

Did he say 'If we lose on Saturday we are fecked'?

In the days of the 25 man squad, international breaks, player rotation etc isn't it rather quaint to keep using the pejorative term 'dropped'? Whatever happened to 'together as one', something that's served us pretty well the last couple of seasons. We probably have a hard core of at least 15-16 players who are good enough to start and could easily justify their place in the starting line-up depending on the team selected for each individual fixture. (I'm hoping to see a bit of Tandanari Lee sometime soon but not sure where/when he's actually going to get a game). Simple maths tells me that 4 or 5 players will be justifiably disappointed every game they are not picked, and experience tells me that the team will fluctuate both in the short and medium term. I do fully agree though that we need to shuffle the pack and if that involves positive changes to strengthen the team then I'm all for it!

Looked strong last night, if we stop Baines and Pinnear we will only have Fellini and Jelavic to worry about! TBF I could see a few goals either way in this one, both teams are better going fd than they are defending.

Reasons to be cheerful 1-2-3 1 We are in the Premier League and we get to watch the likes of Ramirez and Lallana every week. 2 We are as stable and secure as I can ever remember us, if we go down we are solvent; we take the parachute payments, sell off our big money buys (probably at a profit) and start again. 3 The academy continues to be a production line with JWP playing and doing well in the Prem at 17 years old and the promise of more to come. Enjoy the ride, would you swap those Arsenal fans? I wouldn't.

Soooooooo glad I didn't get tkts! Sounds (and looked) awful!! Good work agent Morgan tho. I'm guessing Wenger would have had a look in his black book after the game and carefully written 'Non' next to 'Schneiderlin?'.

.................. Gazz ........... Patsy Font Jos Yoshi ................... MS ............... Chaplow ..................Llalana ................ GRFG ................ ............RL ...... JRod........... Subs KD Fox Cork Davis Mayuka Lee JP That shoud do it, 2-1 Saints.

Saw it on a stuttery stream and it didn't look great .... just seen it in glorious technicolor on MOD and it was chuffing awful. KD could have done better with 1, 2, 3 and 6. Looks like a complete rabbit-in-the-headlights. Never seen Gazza but he can't be worse can he?

whoosh!

DiCanio?

Come on everybody, I've just done mine, it's only a couple of clicks with PayPal. Let's get to the £1000 and reward Dr Who for his sheer persistence! Enjoy tomorrow!

Thanks for sort-of clarifying it but as you say, it would be nice if the club could think it through before the event, then communicate accurately what's happening, then follow through in terms of displaying the points gained etc. While we are all having a grizzle does anybody else think it strange that home games are dribbled out one at a time? What possible advantage is there for the club in selling one home game at a time? Obviously for the three or four super-gold games they may well want to put a points tariff on so that they can sell the most in-demand games to the loyalist (sic) customers first. I've got several friends/colleagues who have asked about coming to a game (those fabled premier league fans who are prepared to travel 150 miles to see Premier league football, not every week but two or three times a season possibly). Somebody said 'Fulham' last week, they just want to go to a game, not glory hunting big games, and were astonished when I said tkts weren't out yet! We will struggle for 26k-27k for this game and I've just turned away 3 or 4 sales. People have a life outside footie and people will make alternative plans for their time - IMHO we are verging dangerously close to MLG country where demand is artificially capped by the percieved, or in many cases actual, difficulty in buying a bl**dy ticket!

Where are you getting that from? I thought ST's got points for turning up, and why wouldn't they get the points if they bought another home tkt in their name? I assume that non-STs get points for buying home tkts? Therefore there are nominally a set number of points to share out each home game? I have 3 STs and have just bought 2 tkts to Villa, I am expecting to buy somewhere between 1-3 extra tkts for quite a few games this season and was expecting to spread the points over our 3 ST I will be pretty miffed I buy 20-30 'extra' tickets over the season and my points remain the same as somebody who doesn't buy any. They seem to be making this up as they go along!

Weren't they called 'unit fines' or some such? Judge/magistrates took your living costs off of your income and then fined you a fixed tariff of your disposable income. Predictable Daily Mail headlines when (rich) people were fined 500 and 1000 for littering or other relatively 'minor' offences. Policy lasted a matter of weeks if I recall. Shame, in my opinion it was the way to go (I always chuckle when footballers are 'fined' X amountfor their various misdemeanours, it's the equivalent of fining an ordinary Joe a couple of quid).

Hated it when it came out but no issues with it on the pitch, a kit's a kit, more interested in what the players are doing than what they're wearing. After two games I'm not even noticing it's not stripes, I quite like it in a one-off sash sort of way. Does look tacky up close though, although I have to say I've seen several female types who wear it very well!

TBF if Cortese spotted (or was tipped off about) Waigo and Gully as League1 players he's got a pretty good eye (or contacts) for a player. Does anybody think Waigo or Gully were scouted directly by Pardew, or Read, or by anybody else at SFC?

Thank god for that! Just voted blind for Morgan and glad to see he is winning by miles .... maybe we'll have less of those 'but what does he do?' posts this season. Really tough competition today from JWP, SD, AL and RL, but MS looked the real deal today.

Geoffrey you have email.

I have one spare on for Man U today due to v late drop-out. Back of Block 39. PM me on here or leave email contact, only available in the next 40 minutes (till 10-45) £35, meet at turnstiles.

Did anybody link this yesterday from the Guardian? Decent read, mainly from their perspective but it shows how we've punched above our weight before ..... and we can do so again tomorrow ... 2-0 Saints! http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2012/aug/31/joy-of-six-manchester-united-southampton

Anyway, in a Kevin Keegan stylee, 'we'll score one more than you', ..........................KD ............................. Patsy .......... Jos ......... Yoshi ..........Fox ................ Cork ........Morgan ................ ....Myuka .........Gaston ..........Lallana ..... ........................SRL ........................... Nice! Gazz Fonte Davis Gully Lee Rodriguez At last. A game-changing bench. Happy days.

Are you sure? Looks decent to me and appears to have a bit of 'edge' about him, I wouldn't say he has looked lightweight at all so far.

Sorry to hear that, hope you're back on the bike soon.

Fantastically sensible buying .... pretty much all of these players will have a good sell-on value. All of these players are of a good age and have plenty of growing to do. We get the use of decent players in the here and now and as circumstances change (up or down) they will maintain their value. Win/win!