Crouchie's Lawyer

I'd be happy if the players can just stay on their feet in the second half rather than appearing to be shot down by a sniper every time a Forest player comes remotely near them and in the process, giving the ball away. Is it also not too much to ask for a professional football player earning on average per week what most earn a year to pass the ball to a player on his own team? My 7 year old daughter seems to have a better pass completion rate than most in this team.

Yup, sadly this comment seems to be quite frequent at the moment. How many 'worst halves of football I have seen' are we likely to get this season. Just when you think you have seen the worst, they go and do it again!

Ordered my tickets on the 6th but still not received them in the post. Anyone got their tickets yet who ordered on or after the 6th?

Anyone else not able to see the games on there today? The Liverpool game earlier on wasn't and there is no listings for the games today?

SSN saying there was rumours of us looking at Welbeck but that looking unlikely now

I genuinely believe that given the number of games he has played, I could probably score more than Shane Long has in the last few years!

I assume it is possible to buy tickets on the door for this game on Saturday? I am not a member or season ticket holder but would like to take my little boy to watch a game and thought this would be perfect. Don't want to turn up to find out we cant get tickets though... Thanks in advance!

We need someone who can make an immediate impact, not a 'Southampton Way' Manager who will have Les' hand so far up his @ss like Pell did. A contract to the end of the season with decent pay and a mahoosive safety bonus if we stay up. We can then review it in the summer. I know Silva didn't end up fairing too well at Watford but he hit the ground running with both them and Hull. He is an impact manager. I don't care if he ends up dwindling out down the line, if he gets us firing on all cylinders for the first 8 games, that will see us safe and that's all that matters. He only turned sh!te after Everton expressed their interest in him. You can pin point Watford's turn in form this season to pretty much that moment. Failing that, Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane combo who would command respect and get the squad trying again

Mods, can we have another new poll now please?

Wondering how much money I would win putting a bet on that Conte will be fired before MoPeyD1ck will be? Knew we would get a draw this evening and had a feeling Bournemouth would do Chelski too. Maybe I should start betting against Saints, at least there would be some silver lining to our sh!teness!

Regardless of whom you would prefer to be clapping, I have been told by a current player I bumped into a couple of weeks back that VVD is first choice, period. This is because the club are looking to sell him and he needs to be in the shop window. Hoedt and Yoshida to be rotated for the second position. Assuming all are fit that would suggest it will be Yoshida and VVD to face Everton in the next game as Hoedt played against Liverpool, Yoshida against Burnley and Hoedt against Brighton.

We won't bring in anyone if VVD goes, we already have his replacement in Hoedt. Two from Hoedt, Yoshida, Stephens and Bednarek is probably deemed sufficient by the club. We also have Gardos and a couple of youth players who could be called upon if needed. That's my opinion of the way the club view it by the way, not what I would do. I'd bring in another CB who could walk into the first team and either play him with Hoedt/Yoshida in a central pairing or play 3 at the back with Bertrand Cedric as wing backs, Lemina and Oriel in front of the back three, and Boufal just behind a top two of Gabbi plus Austin or a new striker we should bring in.

"In 25 minutes against Burnley we played well but I know it will be difficult and tough – we are playing a good side" Wow, a whole 25 minutes we played well against a Burnley side, at home! What about the other 65 minutes, you know, the MAJORITY of the game?? I'm not a big fan of churning managers every 5 minutes but I think old Les fecked up appointing this bloke, he just doesn't know what he is doing.

I have it on good authority (from a current first team player I bumped into a week ago) that VVD is only being played because the club want to sell him and he needs to be in the shop window. Yoshida and Hoedt have been told they will rotate for the other CB place which is why Hoedt didn't play against Burnley. I doubt he was sold in the summer because 1) allegedly no bids came in for him 2) having made such a stand on the 'we will not sell any of our best players' policy this summer, the fans would have turned big time on old Les had he gone back on his word.... again 3) Liverpool were the only club to allegedly be interested yet they had their hands tied due to the tapping up and could only make a move if we invited them to which we wouldn't as per point 2. If an acceptable bid comes along in January my opinion would be that we would sell him then. Not ideal I know but having spent such a large amount of money on Hoedt, I can't see him being happy sat on the bench one week on, one week off for the whole season so rather than end up with two Dutch CB's who are ******ed off and wanting to leave, they may just cash in on him in January.

Jim White said a lot of Saints fans have been texting in to say they would love him back. He then went on to say "Do you think you will ever return ...." and was going to say, "to the Premier League" but before he got there Nicola said "no, no I don't think I would..." before Jim White finished the rest of his sentence. Nicola then said "never say never (about returning to the Premier League) after something got triggered". Looks like he is coming back to the Premier League but not with us.

Trying to use sportsnationhd on my ipad to watch the game but it is saying I need to download adobe or clear my cache? I have cleared history and data in the right way but it is still saying the same thing? Anyone know how I can watch the game on my ipad? It worked for villa vs Newcastle earlier but not anymore???

I was able to watch the United WBA game so it isn't due to location restrictions. It just isn't showing on the channel guide?

Anyone else using Star Sports not able to get the Saints game today? First time one of our games hasn't been on there??

Game week 24 was won by 'Saints and Winners' - please could the owner of this team contact me as per the instructions on the forum of the Power Mortgages League. Guys, a lot of you who are in the Saints Forum league have joined the Power Mortgages and there are about 5 or 6 of you who have won gift vouchers but haven't given us your contact details so I haven't been able to send them out to you. Please, if you are in the league, go to the forum in the league (on the fantasy football site click the 'league' tab then select the Power Mortgages league, in this league at the top there is the 'forum' tab, click on that and check the 'weekly winners' and 'monthly winners' threads. You could have £10 or £20 in gift vouchers waiting for you! Even if you haven't won, please email me your team name and contact details so I can send gift vouchers out straight away when you have won... it's becoming a bit of a pain trying to chase people who haven't given their contact details, you're losing out on free gift vouchers! Thanks!

Sorry to bump this again guys but there are a few people who are in the 'Saints Forum' Fantasy Football league who are also in the Power Mortgages League who have won gift vouchers along the line but haven't given me their contact details. Please, if you are also in the Power Mortgages League can you go onto the forum section of the league and check if you have won, please then contact me (my email address is in any posts on that forum) with your name and address and I will send out any gift vouchers you are owed or store your name/address for if and when you do when so I can send them out automatically. Still not too late for people to join (league code in posts above), we give away £10 weekly prize for the highest score of the week so you can literally join in the last week and still stand a chance of winning! No cost to enter either!

Anyone got any initial news on these? It's rumored Lovren has broken his leg which will be devastating to us if he has. I have seen a picture doing the rounds on Facebook of the exact moment that ginger **** caught Gaston too and his ankle is full on 90 degrees under Brown's boot. Wouldn't be surprised if that is a break or something similarly as serious too. Shame as Lovren as we know is class and without him, Jos or Yosh don't fill me with confidence and Gaston, to me, has looked positive each time he has come on recently. There is every chance he would have won us the game had Brown not chopped him down. How the ref didn't give that is beyond me. Hopefully both wont be out long but I fear we may not see either of them for a while.

Was that before or after they made the decision to go large on their McChips and Coke?

He averages over 14.5 per day actually, that's an extra 1.5 'Gashton's sh!t@' posts you've missed there Charlie