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Certainly looked like he was upsetting a lot of people in the squad photo. Still makes no sense to me including him in the picture and then shipping him out.

I don't think we are allowed to play in the French League.

Daniel Levy.

Bloody daft, if you ask me. We really needed a stronger goalkeeping lineup after last season, so we have replaced Boruc with Forster and still have the same poor backup, and a year older. We clearly have not learned the lesson from last season, just hope Forster does not get injured or suspended, I really hoped never to see KD in goal for us again (good bloke, blah blah), instead we ship out Poland's #1 (or even #2) keeper to Bompey. we even wait until he has been pictured in our squad photo before shipping him out.

So the Scottish Record and the OP don't understand the difference between Twitter and Instagram then. Your link explains why people had not seen anything on Twitter, because it wasn't on Twitter.

Never seen it mentioned before either. Bad taste for someone in Southampton though, not sure the Daily Record quite understood the Southampton link.

Not really early days, after all we have seen several minutes of Florin and Mane has got his work permit and will set foot in Southampton tomorrow for the first time, so clearly they are both brilliant. Toby has played a game. Taider was obviously a massive mistake. But no-one with any sense ever lamblasted Les Read who has been responsible for all of the singings with Ronald K, who again no-one seriously thinks is clown-like. But carry on Turdish (lol at predictive text) with your amusing postings.

Oh FFS, now we are really talking complete lack of taste, ****e in a bottle.

When in Holland (or Belgium). It is not the same as Mayo in this country though. Dutch fries and mayo is not gross.

Whoosh

Funny you should mention the Antelope Ground, but I found out recently that my Great Granddad was the landlord at the Antelope Hotel in 1889, the year Saints started to use it as their home ground.

You could smell John McGrath's embrocation from the back row in the Milton. Not so sure you couldn't smell it as you got off the Red Funnel ferry I only went to the Dell a few times after it was all-seater (because I moved away and couldn't get tickets easily after KK joined) so have very few memories of the atmosphere then, last time was when I took my daughter for the friendly against Le Havre. She is 21 now and season ticket holder but still recalls dancing in the back row of the East Stand to the half-time music, guess she would have been 8. The wooden stand was literally rocking that evening, not due to too many people though, just rotten wood. Atmosphere in earlier days was electric, the Anderlecht game always sticks in my mind amd also the Vittoria Guimares [sp] one , and also one or two games when we couldn't get in, Manure in the Cup I think it was, watched from the student hall tower block that overlooked the ground, but could not see the west side of the pitch, somewhere around 75-77. Didn't even know the girl whose flat we invaded, my mate just blagged his way in.

I guess Spuds' need for some sticky tape was greater than ours. But leaving the club because we had a surplus of stationery seems a little excessive.

Are you trying to make some of us feel old? Shouldn't you be at skool?

Of course we are, oh wait a minute, except Markus would never have been here if it wasn't for Nasty Nic.

Just to be a little pedantic, actually they don't.

Surely one of the jobs of the Marketing Dept/Communications Dept is to communicate on aspects that might involve increasing sales. No-one is asking for Ron to tell us what is happening, but shirt sales could be affected by this player officially being available, saw several shirts with Mane's name on the back on Saturday. Sadly of course having mane on the back doesn't make us as much money as Alderwereledleerledorwhatever of course.

Exeter would be good, or East Cowes Vics

Was his profile ever there? Given there is still not a picture of the new boy Schneiderlin, not sure I would be too concerned if the OS has not yet caught up with the fact that one of our players is missing.

Lallana and Lovren start against European minnows.

40-odd? He played a total of 31 games for us. He had several more games where he was exposed at times, but either Fonte or Shaw got him out of trouble. He was clearly not a liability, but he was overrated by many people who thought he could do no wrong and ignored the influence of Fonte. He was definitely not the same player after he returned to the team in March. Maybe it was due to getting his balls trodden on.

As a few realised last season, especially second half of the season, Lovren was carried quite often and got out holes by Jose. Lovren now admits in the article " I was used to other players leading before" what some saw. yes, you could argue that Pool signed the wrong centre back, but what they should have actually done is sign both. Fortunately for us they weren't bright enough to see or do this, and hence we have sold a replaceable player for way over the odds and replaced him with someone who may turn out to be better, and hopefully if he does we could actually buy him before anyone really notices. One of the few areas of the squad where we have clearly strengthened since last season, not only bringing in Toby but offloading Jos and replacing him with Florian who looks on the minimum evidence available so far to be at least adequate. Our Captain is the key to our defence this season, along with as others have said the strong defensive MFs in front of them.

Try to keep up Art, on here about 2 hours ago, 2 assists as well

Now the daily dribble goes on and on and on from you.