Charlie Wayman

How does that work if you want to end up with 18 teams? Surely 4 would be relegated as two get auto promotion, so it's the 5th bottom who would join the playoffs of 3rd, 4th & 5th from the Championship

Isn't it only until the ned of October. Presumably they will review after that.

...and you wouldn't have believed the vitriol on here towards this "useless player who wasn't fit to wear a Saints shirt"......

So how many England International's are in our team now, I make it 6.

Stick to your guns and ignore the pedants.

Probably but he won't be eligible for the Everton match a week later

16th

All the bitterness and hatred dissipated at a stroke. Now time for gushing obsequiousness.

Never a truer word....

Beggars cannot be choosers.

Our speed and energy seemed to take them by surprise. Two nicely taken goals from open play confirmed our overwhelming superiority. We are very good at beating very poor teams....

Romeu has comprehensively out-performed Ward-Prowse this season so don't just assume that it is Romeu's place at risk.

No player seems to have spilt opinion on here more than Sofiane Boufal; his time at Saints will be remembered by many as one of sadly unfulfilled potential for whatever reasons and that wonderfully unforgettable solo goal against WBA that lit up St Mary's just a few short seasons ago. Only a spiteful and malevolent few will say "good riddance" which in itself is testimony to the uncertainty surrounding his departure bearing in mind the opprobrium heaped on the hapless trio of Carillo, Hoedt and Forster. By all accounts Sofiane seems to be a lovely lad who fits in with his colleagues more than with management. I doubt we will ever know the full story of why he was so frequently out of favour. That seems to be behind us now so we should all wish him well in his new career and thank him for being a loyal uncomplaining Saint these past few years. Thanks for the memories Sofiane and bon chance!

Hasenhüttl doesn't change a winning team usually however dire the circumstances of that win, so it's a pretty safe bet that Vestergaard will play. Anyway, Stephens needs to up his game a bit to justify selection, he was asleep at the wheel on numerous occasions against Spurs.

I like the idea of the Bindippers being a feeder club for Southampton. They've got an Egyptian bloke who looks like he could be of some use to us.

He didn't seem very happy today did he, a bit edgy and disengaged. Certainly not his usual confident, bouncy self. Maybe suggests things are not going to plan.

There is certainly good old fashioned honest money floating about even in the UK. ASDA has just been bought back into UK ownership from US retail giant Walmart by the billionaire Issa brothers in a £6.8bn deal. Our Brexit supporting local Oil billionaire has b*gg*r*d off to Monaco (EU?) so we can't keep our hopes up of him being interested.

Is that a hunch or do you know something? What's afoot? 0/10 for anybody who says 12 inches

Looking ominously familiar. 4 days to go.

Pathetic.

Part of me is hoping that all the rumours of him leaving lead nowhere and that he stays for a further year. If Djenepo continues to play as he did on Saturday then he is not the chosen one that we were led to believe he was. Boufal was never that bad in a single match and as many have said Tella may have a future but he is not the present and the present is what we need right now. Djenepo is a Hasenhuttl signing is he not so that's another potential concern. Don't get me wrong I want him to be a great success, just imagine if we could get him and Boufie firing on all cylinders.

Hasenhuttl has very strange criteria for assessing players like how many sprints they can do in 15 minutes and their 25 metre sprint times. On that basis he would've loaned out Le Tissier to Worthing and offered him on a free. They also have to have a name that can be made to sound very chummy like Prow-sey, Ing-sey, Redders, Bertie. Poor Sofiane has no chance.

Ah! Not another one like Jorde Classé comes to mind? Not sure Heerenveen is where we should be looking. My son lives in Amsterdam and his reaction was 'tell me your kidding!"

Great wisdom from hindsight of course. Fact is my friend we were appalling simple as that, no amount of polishing will turn doggy-poo into an ornament.