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With a red sash...

Myself and my Dad will be stopping off in Beaconsfield for lunch and a few drinks before getting the train direct into Wembley Central. As I have two days in Bristol on a Work training course starting on Monday I may need to be a little more sensible than I would like to be. Needless to say, I doubt I will have any voice left.

I see Take over Thread favourites Riquelme and Ronaldinho are offering to come out of retirement and play for Chapecoense...

Long's all round play is still good. He links well, chases lost causes and is a general pain in the a*se. The goals will come, as he keeps getting in the positions to score. JRod, unfortunately I am not too sure about. He does look short a yard and I do wonder whether the injury is in the back of his mind. However I also think that the way the team is set up doesn't necessarily play to his strengths. Against Inter he was making intelligent runs behind but we weren't picking him out. Maybe a loan where he is playing week in, week out would be beneficial. Gallagher should stay where he is for the rest of the season and try and bring him into the fold next year. In terms of the season, if you had offered me Semi final of the League Cup with the chance to qualify into the last 32 of the Europa at the start of the season I would have been very happy. Factor in that we are sitting mid-table with a number of winnable games to come, we should be confident going into the next stage of the season. The Hull City game was, in my opinion, one of those games. I think Puel is learning and probably would like to bring in another striker in the transfer window but normally there isn't a great deal of value.

Seems not...Tim Sherwood just announced as Director of Football

A couple of points from last night... We've got Van Dijk, but for how much longer? Has to be one of the best CB's in the league, I can't think of anyone who is close at the moment - if Stones is £45m, VVD must be £60m+! Hojberg had a strange game, gave the ball away a lot in the 2nd half but was good at driving into the opposition. Tadic seemed to disappear a little in the 2nd half and obviously it was a poor penalty, however he was instrumental in both goals and created a number of chances again. Maya was great last night, best performance from him in a long time. McQueen again excellent, although did get caught out for their goal. JWP in the 2nd half was brilliant, although 1st half I felt he didn't get his head up early enough. People have mentioned JRod being poor, but he was making himself available all the time, making good runs into the channels but wasn't being picked out. It was the right move to replace him with Austin as he started to hold up play, drag CBs creating more space out wide for Redmond. The biggest change in the two halves was ironically Inter. First half they stuck 10 men behind the ball and let VVD make his way to the half way before putting any pressure on. 2nd half, their front three began to pressure Yoshi and VVD when they had the ball creating space in behind, this was where Redmond and in particular JWP found some joy and started to really become big influencers in the game. VVD in particular when he started to stride forward was immense! Unlike with other CB's and even midfielders I am not concerned he will get dispossessed. He just looks so composed and knows what he is doing. I do enjoy our style of play, although do think we miss another CAM or Striker - maybe Boufal can be that difference. Brilliant night, barely had any voice this morning and enjoyed striding into work with a very smug look, particularly when the first person I saw was a Utd fan! WTFILN!!!!

I heard that there were a group of lads over in Milan using the football match as a cover for an audacious gold heist. They were last seen heading towards the alps in a bus with a convoy of mini coopers behind them...not been heard of since. Wonder if they made it?

I remember turning over to Grandstand and Final Score to see the result, I was only 12 at the time and I remember jumping around the living room at home as the reports came in. The Monday morning at school was probably the best moment I had as a Saints fan up until the Cup Final in 2003. Growing up in Gloucester, I was the only Southampton supporter in my year and one of only three in the entire school. (Shane Bradley, who played a couple of games in the late nineties for Saints but was released and ended up at Mansfield I think). The 98/99 season Great Escape et al, we weren't bottom at Christmas. I am sure it was Forest, Charlton and Blackburn that ended up going down.

What was the name of that Argentinan from back in the Wigley days? Arias? Didn't he have a really stupid nickname like torpedo?

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True there is that danger, but personally I would love us to have the chance to beat them with an u21 side. "We beat you with kids, we beat you with kiiiiiddddds, f*ck off Skate B*st*rds, we beat you with kids"

I think it is almost guaranteed we will get grouped with Portsmouth....this could end up being very very funny!

From what I have seen of Nagy he looks a very tidy player. Skillful and quick. Would add great strength in depth and imho would be a very good addition. Interesting to see what the fee would be, sure I read that Marseille were offering €1.5 million.

With absolutely no grounding in fact or reason I am going to stump for Yogi Loew.

Pelle along with Bonucci up there for Man of the Match. He was awesome!

I am not unduly worried. Find all this nonsense quite amusing really. If the unthinkable does happen, I am confident that we have the process in place to replace RK - but I will be very very suprised if he isn't our manager this time next year.

I assume that the two 45 min places are now gone but I am sooooo tempted to just do this!

My Great Grandfather fought at Jutland. He joined up on his 16th birthday (14th August 1914) and was still classed as 'Boy' at the battle. Brave men and boys who helped win the war, although not obvious at the time. The blockade ensured that Germany would always sue for peace.

Isn't Ron in Portugal... http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/673431/Newcastle-transfer-news-Andros-Townsend-spotted-plane-Premier-League-gossip-rumours 2+2 = 5 probably, but maybe not as obvious as it would appear...

Vardy has to start centrally with Kane. Alli, Drinkwater and Dier in the middle. I would play 5-3-2 allowing the wingbacks to bomb on and means Dier can fill in if needed. The only problem is that Hodgson is only taking three CB's!!! And one of them is John Stones (who is a a walking mistake). Love how the media have started to build the idea that Alli has an aggression problem. The 'foul' given against him in the second half was a joke, but both Tyldsley and Glenda started whining on about it. Personally think we will do alright in the Euro's. Yes our defence looks flaky but I do think we will score goals. Can easily see us getting to Semi's due to the expanded nature of the tournament and we could play our way into confidence. Although I am an eternal optimist. Already looked to see how easy it is to get to Solna in May...

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As a once in a lifetime opportunity type thing would absolutely love to be involved in something like this. I was lucky to play against Saints Legends at Andover in 2011 and that was incredible! I remember reading about the last time this happened and was very jealous.

Looking to go to this and take my Dad, I need a membership number (someone who has bought a ticket this year). Anybody want to help?

Guess you weren't at Swindon in the first year of League One then??? Seriously guys get a grip FFS! Yes it has been poor and I do question the tactics, but I am not writing off us as relegation fodder just yet. Even for this site tonights thread is pretty ridiculous. I will be gutted if we go out, but on to Sunday and Norwich and we start again. We keep VW, we keep Mane and we bring in the extra couple of players (CB and creative midfielder) that we all agree we need.

Spoken to a few of my Chelski supporting mates and they all say that he is a good player, who should have been given more of a chance after his injury. But since Matic has come back there wasn't really any place for him, plus he was a AVB player which apparantly has been an issue for some players since the 'Special One' returned. One of my mates did actually say that is pretty difficult to track who is doing what and where sometimes due to the sheer number of players on loan. 23 according to wiki!...with a further 26 in the u21 or reserves (inc. Romeu)