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Probably because this is how Pelle is, a couple of decent performances and then back to normal. We more often than not play so much better when he is not in the team, and we have the options with Long, Mane, J Rod and Charlie now.

Will that be before or after Chelsea?

Not surprised at all, think its fairly obvious that not everything has been sweetness and light in the camp this season. Does it cause me any concern, no not really. Surprised that the article didn't mention Cedric, Vic, Juanmi and even Gaston for that matter. Ron comes across as an abrasive character sometimes (witness his press conferences) but the players mentioned need to look at themselves first, Tadic, serial moaner, and upset at the slightest thing, gets more game time than he really deserves.

More like the early 70s David. No animosity that I recall in the 60s when I first started going. Many people still went to Saints and Pompey games on alternate weeks in those days. I went to quite a few Pompey games in the mid 70s, though to be fair I did usually go in the away end. The animosity then was reserved much more for Spurs - my dislike of them remains to this day.

No one is going to buy him. He is a free agent. But you asked why we still get posts about him, reason is quite obvious, he remains our player, and while he does people show an interest in how he plays.

And in other news bears have been found ****ting in the woods. He's not going to sign a new contract until after the end of the season.

Maybe its because he is still a Southampton player. Only for a couple more months.

Theory is bunkum. If contract on internet is genuine (and it appears to be) the next payment cannot be triggered this season. Only Premier League starts count.

He wouldn't have carried on playing during the week if it had been serious. He is only a doubt for Sunday, Koeman hinted that he might still have a chance of playing, but wouldn't know until Sunday. If there were 24 training today (includes 4 keepers) and Long wasn't that means Gardos is available, as well as Austin and JRod.

As Mrfahaji says it is a rose, a modern stylised white form of the Hampshire Rose, which can be found in red, gold or white, and used to form part of the badge and is a part of the Southampton (City) coat of arms. The reason why Hampshire uses a Rose (or roses) is a mystery, though the most often used theory is the related to the Houses of Lancaster and York. The other theory is that it is based on the golden rose of Provence used by Henry III (the Southampton Coat of Arms has two white roses and one golden rose on a red and white shield).

Nice typo that, or perhaps it was deliberate :-)

If you mean Lambert, he never played non-league.

Vardy was playing for Halifax in the NPL (7th tier) at about the same age, he is 29 now. I really don't think Bentley will be good enough to step up to the PL, but who is to say he could not make it in the Football League and make a decent living as a professional. By the way, i was reading this article earlier today, does anyone actually know when he was with Saints academy, and is there any record of him being there. He refers to playing with Bale. Bale was primarily at the Bath Satellite academy until he was about 16 (while he was still in school in Cardiff), of course he would have played at Southampton before then. Just wondering when Bentley was actually on our books as I have no recollection of him as a scholar (not that it means much that I don't remember him).

... which hardly counts as supporting the club does it.

Could help to develop the Indian market: http://www.niviasports.com/ quite a good shout Or did you mean Nivea? Think the Bin Dippers have that wrapped up.

Tripped by Skrtel for the 2nd penalty. Skrtel seems to have it in for Saints players in the box recently. Injury doesn't sound too bad, played for 20-odd minutes from when he was injured until half-time. Maybe a doubt for the weekend, but could be OK beyond that. We have JRod and Charlie back in contention for the Leicester game, don't we?

How odd, but you're entitled to your opinion of course. Seems to me Van Dijk is ideally suited to the way the Dutch want to/used to play (not how they play at the moment). Very good central defender, but also very good on the ball, and excellent at playing out from the back. Reminds me in many ways of Koeman. One of the least limited (most complete) central defenders around from the experience of watching him at Saints. Not even sure that CB is his best position, could be developed into a midfielder.

I reckon he meant the first game for Saints at WHL in Division 1. It was end of November when we played them. I'm feeling very young here, this was the season before my first game (3-5 at home to Chelsea, Big Ron (2), Mick C the other, Chivers' last game for us, this was after we had beaten then 6-2 at Stamford Bridge).

England doing a Saints.

Correct, confirmed when the stadium was built (and many times since). Only the Itchen is not designed for expansion.

You should never rely on "averages" to determine whether your demand is greater than the current capacity. We have sold out several matches this season. Our average has been affected in a major way by two factors (1) 3 home games against unattractive opposition in 7 days in January and (2) the oddity of the West Ham game (why only 29k, did we think Fat Sam was still in charge?) in February. Otherwise we have been close to actual capacity (as opposed to the advertised capacity) in almost every other game since September. Average attendance is an odd stat, because of course you can never have a bigger than capacity attendance to boost the average, whereas one or two low attendances can have a significant affect over 14 or 15 games. Suggests to me that we could in fact sell more tickets for a substantial %age of our matches (including a higher away supporter allocation), but probably not enough to warrant a new tier on one of the 3 extendable sides, hence the club's understandable reluctance to expand.

Don't panic, a draw will be enough to ensure our survival.

Of course you did

Bertrand withdraws from England squad due to injury. Maybe more serious than it first appeared.

Well done. I effectively did the same as you. Of course its not going to happen. I was a bit concerned to post, because I knew it would confuse CB Fry and make him think that I really believed it could happen and then he would misquote me for ever and a day