Saint_Ash

A mere scratch!

Great news. Be a decent option on the bench for the final 3rd of the season.

I agree with all this. Tadic is getting some unfair stick imo. Was no where near the worse player in the pitch in fact in the first half I thought he was one of the best players. I sit 5 rows back in Itchen central and his work down the line was excellent. I couldn't really see too much of him in the second half but he didn't seem to have as much of an impact. I think we were pretty good but need to find that killer instinct in front of goal again.

Thought he was excellent, I'm really liking Reed, not a replacement for Cork but a replacement for Morgan when he moves on in the summer. Some of his tackling was great and he does nice simple passing.

Double faceplate? When one faceplate isn't enough?

Monk, I sit just to the right of the dugout and Monk had a go at him and Bertrand was shouting to Monk that he got the ball or went for the ball. From where I was sitting both players were going hell for leather to reach the loose ball but Bertrand had his eye on the ball the whole time and unfortunately when he slid in for it Barrow came out worse. If Barrow wasn't hurt and just got up it'd have been a yellow or nothing at all. As alluded to earlier on this thread though I watched them having a spat earlier in the game but they made up pretty quickly. I doubt we'll appeal for fear of the additional ban for frivolous appeal.

God knows how we'll cope after selling ronaldo to Swansea. He was our best player apparently so we're bound to lose.

I'd go with this. If we have academy products coming through who can go on to be better than Cork (maybe) then they will be given a chance and Cork can move on elsewhere where he will get his game time.

Ashley Williams may be out which is good for us as he's probably their best defender and in midfield they've lost Sigurdsson, Ki Sung Yeung and Routledge who are 3 first teamers. So looks like 4 first team players could be out but we're without Toby, Morgan, Vic, Long, Rodriguez and maybe Mane so I think we're worse off.

I think we're on an upward curve now, JWP will hit 150 games and more I believe and I hope to see others do the same if they're good enough. Reed could be another one, maybe Targett? We're in a better place than when we sold Lallana, Shaw and Chambers but also selling them made us stronger. We'll always sell the odd gem, can't be helped as we're not at the same level as Chelsea, Man U or City but I believe some of the new talent coming through will want to stay if we can keep up our ambition in the league.

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150130-james-ward-prowse-new-contract-southampton-2235707.aspx

To be fair to him I think he picked it up. Gangrene in the arms! would love to see that.

And? That means nothing with regards to JWP signing a new deal. Are you going to view every new contract with cynicism in case they still move on? I think you'll find that Lallana and Shaw were the ones who wanted to leave as well.

He's doing well to pick up a ball, they must be heavy.

Excellent news. Keep all the people whinging about flogging off our young English talent quiet.

Indeed. I would say reed is ahead of cork already

I meant for us!

Bargain if so.

I heard Shoot have a 100% record with regarding signings 30% of the time. http://www.shoot.co.uk/category/news/saints-want-holland-star-to-boost-top-four-hopes/

Not sure what English has to do with it to be honest. We're going to bring players in to play in the middle when the summer comes be it Clasie or Martins Indi or whoever. We will be signing players better than Cork and have a decent number of players coming through the academy that can play midfield.

Could Sneijder walk into any starting 11 of any teams in the Prem that are better than us or more attractive? I'm not sure he would. Even if it's random bullshiv of crapppy websites we have to make it happen, even if he doesn't want to!

Apparently this site says it's official and done. Or something. Not sure of the validity of the website, probably some 12 year old at his gran's house. http://www.tuttomercatoweb.com/europa/ufficiale-southampton-in-prestito-dal-mainz-ecco-djuricic-640154

Do we? Is Pelle injured?