VectisSaint

Redknapp talking ********, whatever next...

He lost his front teeth in the early days at Dirty Leeds playing in a reserve match, probably 12 or 13 years before he joined Saints. He earned his nickname Jaws as a result, likened to the character in the Bond films. Still I guess the income he received from Heineken adverts went some way to paying his dental bills. A more appropriate image:

The counting of chickens is going well. The same was said about J-Rod.

Really hard to believe that some people are seriously suggesting dropping Davis, after his recent run of form (or even regardless of that, just that he is key to our game). He is nailed on to be a starter in this one. Can't really see anything other than a straight swap of Vic for Romeu, assuming everyone is fit. I do think we will see Reed on the bench though.

New Adidas "Emperor" design. Not just Laceless.

They had 3 against us...

Ronald just said we don't have a player like Vic, so we can't go like for like (but I would expect he will be picked). At least now it is very unlikely that they can be suspended for the same game.

He met up with quite a few of my friends as well. We must have some friends in common I guess

Those high notes are a killer...

Its not a myth that the ones that are designed and made to be associated with and raise money for the British Legion, will always have the leaf at 11 o'clock (if they have a leaf). Therefore it is perfectly clear that these are unofficial knock-off items that provide no support to the Royal British Legion charity. You may like to own one, but it just would prove that you have not supported the charity in any way, and nor has the person selling them. Red Poppy item designs are copyright of the RBL, this one is not to the official design and is therefore a fake (in my opinion). There is also nothing in the link that you provided about the leaf, only the way they are worn, this refers to the often mentioned and discussed opinion of whether they should be worn on the left or right. There are myths that women should wear them on the right, but these are myths.

The pattern was the same, just that we were only 1 goal up. we backed off and let Man U back in the game. They were desperately bad that day but we managed to encourage them so much that they were able to score 3 times (IIRC they were their only shots on target). The only difference with United was that we suddenly woke up with a few minutes left and managed to sneak a goal that mad the score look better.

Not only are they knock-off jobs but they have no connection with the British Legion. If the people who had knocked these out had any understanding they would know that the poppy leaf should be at "11 o'clock" as were the official Saints/legion ones for sale in the MegaStore. Don't touch these EBay ones with a bargepole.

I assumed it was Kelv...

Long back in full training. Fonte also training and Cedric seems at last to have been able to dispense with his eye plaster/bandage. No sign of J-Rod. Video on Twitter.

Don't know, whatever he was smoking maybe? Davis had the armband from the start of the half. Seem to recall it was even announced, or maybe that was on MOTD2 or SNF or something. Just checked on MOTD2 on iPlayer, around 27.53, skippers armband clearly seen on Davis left arm (just after Stanislav's shot deflects off Yoshida)

What about if we play like we did in first half against Bournemouth and like we did in the second half against Leicester? I think we'll win this by not scoring in the 1st hakf.

Davis

Sometimes think it would be a good idea to delete all the history on this forum. Then we wouldn't get turnips like Chief Mong digging up posts just to pick an argument with decent posters. Some people just seem so dense that they cannot understand that something that may have been true at a moment in time can change, and hence opinions change. The forum thread history just seems to give dullards like this the opportunity to pick an argument and make this forum ever less pleasant. seems to me that FF's post was quite reasonable and his later updates to the thread more so, but unfortunately one of our less enlightened brethren can't deal with this.

But the point is, they did threaten us, but their threat was woeful because they could not get any of their shots on target. We were just very fortunate that we played so badly, letting them overrun us and giving them opportunities that even a moderately decent team would have taken advantage of, but we got away with it not because of any great stuff from us but because they were so poor in front of goal. Letting a team like Bournemouth have 16 attempts on goal is amazingly inept. It would only have taken a lucky deflection or something to have put us in trouble.

You beat me to it ART...

Never been a problem with Saints players has it?

Not that many "Brits" in the current Southampton team (outside of the Academy). At least most Brits don't waste their time and potentially harm their teeth with the overuse of whiteners like some do stereotypically.

The concerns about our debt seem to be somewhat over egged, as it seems that we are owed £55m by other clubs for transfers (and remember this does not include Morgan or Clyne's transfers), though of course it also does not include what we have paid for the likes of VvD and anyone else we brought in after the end of June.

This bit was interesting: This might feel like an unrealistic aspiration for Southampton, but it is clearly in the long-term plans of the club’s hierarchy, as chairman Ralph Krueger outlined: “People tell us it’s not possible, with our budget and our infrastructure. We believe it is.” Executive director Les Reed was equally bullish, “We’d like to think we have the structure to (reach the Champions League) in the next five years.” When Cortese said we planned to reach the Champions League he was laughed at by some on here and we were told that it was impossible for our club and that we should be satisfied with being also rans in mid-table. Ralph and especially Les think it is a reasonable aspiration within the next 5 years. Apart from allowing a few more years than Cortese the goal is the same.

OK then, lets not worry about how crap we played and how we seem to be consistently now playing like this when we have a lead. It will all be alright on the night.