VectisSaint

This^ We have no choice about how many tickets we allocate to the away team.

What about his injury? We know he lives locally.

We could play Aaron Martin, filled in well for Fonte last year. :-)

As said they were very good against Arsenal, I didn't see the game yesterday but assuming he took some, I wonder whether he was instructed to take different type of corners given that Lambert was not playing. His corners against Arse were some of the best seen this season, quite a revelation.

Only problem I have with this story is trying to understand why Rickie would fly to Newcastle, when Newcastle were down south the following day. A quick drive along the M/A27 and he could have met up with Pards and not aroused any suspicion.

Odd thread, that cannot be answered.

Which may be what is happening if Lallana is out for longer than was thought.

Well yes, NA is keeping quiet about transfers. Self evident really. He may surprise us, then again he may not. He may even be surprised, but maybe not. Its fun isn't it, not knowing what is going on or if anything is going on, or not.

I reckon between your prediction and mine lies the truth, I just hope its a bit closer to mine than yours.

On the other hand 2 defeats in 10 puts a different complexion on it.

Its not a huge gaff by the Club. The number of tickets for away supporters is governed by the FA, 15% if I recall correctly, as opposed to 10% in the PL. Where they sit is governed by the Hampshire Old Bill. Now, if you are talking about making this different in the future then I agree. But this was discussed before and many were against the obvious suggestions such as moving the away supporters to the Kingsland/Chapel corner because "it would ruin the atmosphere", in any case the OB would never agree. In my opinion we should organise for the home support to relocate to the Chapel en masse, it should have been our Kop in the first place. Maybe in time when we expand we can put the away supporters in the top tier of the Northam.

Predictable

No-one (well no-one that I have noticed), the post was about Chung as well you know. At least I think you know, never quite sure with you.

I think we will get 21 points from the next 7 league games. Easy this prediction stuff. We may even get a bonus point for winning 7 in a row.

No, no, no. He is not good enough for the PL and will be out the door in January. Have you learned nothing from the experts on this forum?

I think you'll find that is rubbish. We have played 11 at home, as have Wigan and Newcastle and many others. Half of the teams in the league would have played 11 at home after 21 rounds of matches. The only team that hasn't played 10 at home is Arsenal because they wimped out of their Boxing Day match.

Sounds like it was a pen in that case.

Apart from Chelsea twice, so do half of the other teams in the league. That's how leagues tend to work.

We didn't play our best team, but we still played Fonte who we could not afford to lose. Stupid by NA if you ask me.

I said the other day the player that we should rest was Fonte. We could not afford to have him injured, no proper backup at the mo.

I thought we played them the other day.

Is he Turkish?

J-Rod. If he hadn't scored they would not have equalised.

Everyone up to and including Wet Sham are in a relegation fight. Newcastle are a fair bet for relegation based on their current form, depends what happens post Ba.

Usually I jump up and down in my Santa outfit and ginger wig, foam hand in the air, shouting "take that you Skate bastards (whoever we are playing) and then I do a little Gangnam Style to round off the celebration. I get some disapproving looks from some of our "fans" who believe no-one should enjoy themselves in an inappropriate way that might harm the reputation of Southampton but i don't give a toss. [Anyone who really knows me will appreciate the irony of this post]