VectisSaint

Guess he would have to get used to not receiving win bonuses nearly every week.

I'd somehow forgotten we had sold Jay Fulton for £200k in 2013/14. Perhaps it was because he never played for us or was signed by us or perhaps I am having a senior moment. Maybe Osvaldo never signed for us either.

LOL. Your favourite (only) subject. Obsessed.

On the other hand having a bug and passing it on to the rest of the team, or having suspected appendicitis (depending on who you are listening to) might stop you.

We would not have ended up in the group. If we had won last night we would have been in Pot 3 (we would have been 34th highest-ranked team). Midtjylland were in Pot 4 (46th ranked club). The draw would have been completely different. If you really want to think what might have been it would be better to use Augsburg fixtures as a guide as they ended up 34th ranked as a result of our demise, so that would have been Athletic Bilbao, AZ Alkmaar and Partizan Belgrade - that would have been interesting and 2nd place would have been well within our grasp. C'est la vie.

Exactly, and getting information like the bit about the u21s helps to piece together that there are issues behind the scenes. Ronald's disposition in the pre-match press conference in Denmark and in earlier ones and this little snippet that most of us wouldn't have seen (unless we were at the game), tells us a lot. There is some serious issue behind the scenes at the moment and while we may not like Ashton it is good that he is doing his job and reporting things that show all is not well as some have suspected for a little while.

Which CB do you think is 19? Stephens is already 21 (January) and Turnbull will be 21 in October. I know people don't like Ashton, but I guess part of that is that what he writes is accurate (while not being mind blowing) and does not fit the agenda of the ostriches on here who think the sun shines out of the arse of our current board and believe the hype spouted by our ice hockey coach.

WTF?

Yep, lets just ignore the evidence and blindly believe that everything will be OK because it was for (the first half) half of last season. Just because something worked well for a while last season doesn't mean its going to happen again.

The Solent/Saints Player link dropped just as Blackmore asked RK about the Wanyama situation. Anyone know what he actually said? Although to be honest, after hearing his analysis of the performance tonight anything he did say I would not take seriously, sounds like the meds for his achilles are affecting his thinking.

This is a bit of a myth. If plenty = 3 then I'll agree. The only games we played well without him were Everton, Arsenal and Villa. There were plenty of games when he played when we were poor as well. Its not so much that we are missing Morgan, though we are, but without him we are trying to play a different way and failing. So we miss him because we cannot play the way we did last season.

We aren't bringing a midfielder in. Need some realism rather than this continued blind optimism, some people need to wake up and smell the coffee.

There is much merit in this reply. Take away Morgan from the poor second half of last season and things are looking decidedly dodgy.

I think it is pretty clear he is not happy, he was so ****ed off in the press conference yesterday. I think there is a good chance he will be gone before Christmas.

Not available in your (my) region :-(

Does anyone have any decent streams?

Oh ****

He's been in training galleries for at least a couple of weeks now. Fitness could be an issue still, but seems unlikely considering how much he seems to be features in these galleries pre-match. Just seems like he doesn't fit into Ronald's plans, yet why if that is the case is he training with what is a relatively small group of players? I don't know why, wish one of these so-called journos at a press conference would ask.

Really, thank you for pointing that out. You really are such a font of all knowledge. Here I was thinking that Twitter was our official team selection tool.

See Romeu's tweet, think you might get your wish.

Vic has eatens some bad spuds, Chambers problem was Arse related.

Stomach upset, too many bad spuds.

You're so funny. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34060123 The Dutchman heads a shortlist of four defenders who Southampton are interested in and the clubs held talks about a potential transfer this summer. I suspect the shortlist of players we are interested in does not include the ones we already have.

Apparently we have 3 backups if we fail to get VvD.

Presumably Sam will not play.