VectisSaint

You didn't see the Arsenal game then "Away keeper Fraser Forster was superb, making a string of impressive saves, including two to deny Mesut Ozil" [bBC]. True, other than that he made very few saves. 13 shots on target during the whole of February tells a story.

Yes thanks, probably more than you. But your usual rude, having a personal dig that's unwarranted misses the point. Point was that Juanmi is really not much more than an under 21, and really still needs to be learning and building his confidence. He really lacks the confidence when he gets a go in the first team, it was so obvious on Saturday. Gets in good positions and makes decent runs, showing he has a good football brain but then doesn't have the confidence to know what to do. As a result Ronald does not give him more opportunities. Needs to be playing more, and at the moment he would do well playing with the U21s who are basically at the same level as him in terms of development. Its not ideal, but the alternative is to get him out on loan to a Championship side, and that's not going to happen this season. I think he's a decent little player, and was really willing him to do something Saturday but his lack of confidence is holding him back at the moment.

Guess the 7 months that separates Juanmi from an under 21 must have more to do with the development of a player than anyone had ever imagined.

They are both officially Under 21s for this season (Born after 1 January 1994 is the qualifying date).

Southampton v Bompey is a derby because we're from the same area (Hampshire, or County of Southmpton if you prefer). Just because some idiot politicians changed the county boundary in 1972 makes no difference.

I didn't call anyone a c*nt, guess you just assumed thats what Cbeeby would be referred to as. C'est la vie.

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Pelle tapped it in. Should not have been disallowed, ball came out of Fab's hands into face of Fonte. Moss got it wrong (surprise).

Maybe. Sun Dream Team currently has Toby on 98 points from 32 games, Virgil on 95 points from 25. May be laughable as well, but the stats are beginning to show that VvD is at least as good as Toby this season. DT is also laughable in some respects, for instance they gave Pelle 7 rating today.

Yoshida was fouled. Replay (NBC) showed clearly.

He can however deliver a cross that should have been buried by Long [he can also do all of the things that you claim he can't, but agree he is not best suited to the position]

Hope he stays for a while, 5th place opening up nicely due to his continued incompetence.

Nope

I wouldn't necessarily take anything that Keegan says in an interview as gospel, he had a habit of shooting from the hip :-) But that ties in with what I said. The Northern Ireland games were early August 82 (2 matches, both won by the way, Ballymena and Linfield). They played Armenia Bielefeld in Germany about 9 days later (14th August) and won 2-1, including a Keegan brace, so it must have been after that KK departed. I guess that was his last match in a Saints shirt.

I wonder why. He'll probably meet up with a few scammers where he is going.

Adam Johnson is in the news. Should we all buy? Perhaps he no longer counts as a pro footballer.

He wasn't. Struggled for first few minutes after he came on as sub (was quite a surprise for the kid to get called on, and so early). Looked a class act. Has been on the radar for a while now, was quite a star in the Milk Cup last season.

Thank you, was trying to work out who it was.

AskRupert@saintsfc.co.uk

From what I understand Keegan fell out with Lawrie in his second season, because he felt that Lawrie should have strengthened the team defensively, which Lawrie failed to do (in KK's opinion). Which when you think about his managerial career is a little ironic.

Its only the OP that said 40 years, it was clearly 36 years ago. The Club were just recognising it was on this day (yesterday, the 10th) that he signed. "Former Saints manager Lawrie McMenemy speaks to Southampton's official YouTube channel about the day he completed the famous signing of Kevin Keegan from German club Hamburg" Of course what everyone is remembering is when they heard the news (the press conference), which was not the same day as when he signed, which as Lets B pointed out was a Sunday while everyone heard about it on a work/school day.

Signed on the 10th, I realise I put it was announced, didn't mean that.

10 Feb 1980 he signed. That's 36 years ago today. He didn't actually join until the summer though, first game against Shamrock on 23 July 1980. Bit odd to be making a lot of this today.

Jake Vokins, looks quite decent considering his age. Was quite a star in the Milk Cup last year.

Just a note but he has a career record of better than 50% clean sheets, 148 out of 292 in all competitions. Admittedly a lot were with Celtic, but it would seem it is not simply him being behind a super defence at Saints.