VectisSaint

Think I might take Petr Cech as well

More likely that Jason McCarthy will be backup than Valery at the moment I would imagine. With Pied seemingly back to fitness we are overloaded with decent right backs (assuming Cedric stays). We also have Caceres who by all accounts is better as a RB (albeit in a 3) than he is at CB. Would think Martina's departure is guaranteed already, hence his lack of game time even in the u23s.

I wonder if Koeman really is interested, or whether this is just a 2+2=5 link by the Star. He was Erwin's signing anyway, out of contract and frankly not good enough. Lots on here thought he was the dog's dangly bits though. Nice bloke and gave his all, but won't be too sorry to see him go, as expected.

He was clearly fit when he played for the U23s. He just hasn't been needed because Stephens and Yoshida have been excellent. You don't drop players who are playing well for the sake of it.

or not...

Was decided long before Fonte left. He actually wasn' t the obvious choice which is why Davis is now the Club captain.

It was a goal kick wasn't it? You can't be offside from a goal kick(or a corner or a throw-in).

Sad indictment of this Forum that more people think Leicester will be relegated than Middlesbro. That would be the same Leicester that are 13 points above Middlesbro, eight above Swansea, and one point behind Saints.

Only if Hull also get a point at Man City.#falsefacts

He is actually (misreading the most recent results), but you are right as well, and I can see why he might be confused. I hadn't noticed that all the away results in November, December and January (except Bournemouth) are the wrong way round, but all the results before then and since are correct (as far as I can see). Odd that no-one noticed before, or maybe it just shows that few really read the programme these days. [Couldn't reply earlier as my 3 posts had been used]

Hopefully you realise that you are mis-reading the results. Home team first For the EFL Man U were designated the "home" team.

It doesn't say much about us, but illustrates that when you are at clubs like Man U or Chelsea, there is not the support there to help your improvement. If you are bought by clubs of this ilk you are expected to already be the complete player, managers like Mourinho are not particularly talented at coaching young, inexperienced players, they don't need to be, they get them ready-made. Shaw made the move too early, as did a few of the others who jumped ship, they get the money at the big clubs but not the development that they still need.

The most notable thing about him is that he is a yard or two quicker than he used to be. He used to be ponderously slow, and since he did not show too much technical trickery he was often completely ineffective. He is now noticeably quicker, and able to show a bit of trickery and hence he is getting into positions where he can influence the game. He is also able to commit himself more and get into scoring positions where before he was chasing hard to catch up. Think much of his improvement stems from this apparent increased mobility. This and the fact that he is playing further forward, his defensive abilities are still rather ineffective. Well done to the guy (and probably our coaching staff) for putting the work in to improve.

What a load of crap. Unless we end up getting relegated VvD will be here next season as he has agreed. For once we have a player who is a man of his word but some people cannot understand this (partly due to the Club selling anything that moves for the last 3 or 4 years).

You have to be completely thick to think there is no chance of us going down. Quite sure we won't, but there is clearly a chance. Win tomorrow and things will look much better.

Whatever happened to just enjoying an individual game? Really find this idea that it is all about the season and how we finish a bit odd. We never used to worry about the season, as long as we avoided relegation. It was always about going to see an exciting game, goals and hopefully 2/3 points. It's why I have not been happy this season. With a couple of exceptions, dull football, lack of wins, no real passion or excitement.

Looks fine in the training video.

Apparently had to have surgery.

A very good save, not stunning (thought it was in real-time but not when I saw it on MOTD replay). You couldn't fault him yesterday for lack of saves, he saved one shot they had on target (Davis cleared another one off the line (BBC think it was JWP), I don't recall the third). Anyway praise where its due, he did make a good save. He was still awful when it came to his punching (though at least he did come for a couple, more than he usually does), almost wiped Stephens out with one of them.

Where is Yoshida going?

I heard we were going to get Teletext on the Isle of Wight soon, perhaps I will be able to keep up with the Echo reports then [Note as I don't live on the Island and haven't done for over 40 years the cracking joke was a bit wasted, and coming from Shroppie in Shropshire ]

Maybe its just me, but I think it is the spit of Shane Long (rather than Quinny). Perhaps we could transfer it and set it up when Shane retires, somewhere near the touchline and in an onside position.

Oh **** me the pedant is at it again. If you look at the report it was published 15 hours ago, but guess now this is when it was last updated rather than first published (given there are comments from Tuesday). Don't see or get the Echo (only looked because it was linked on here). You really need to try to grasp the concepts of humour, banter and fun (as well as defensive midfielder), may be try to get out more.

Posted it on here before the Echo article. Pure speculation based on the reality of Maya's return journey from Japan. Nice that the Echo follow my theories https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?57827-Mamadou-Sakho-thoughts&p=2474802#post2474802

Where are these attacks? Certainly not much evidence on this thread. Really you have apparently made it up. There are some odd posters who seem to think any criticism of a player should not be allowed, even in a light hearted way. Really very simplistic view on being a supporter of a football club.