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Won some money on that. Cheers Saints! Hope these young players come good in the next 10 games. We're scrapping to stay up this year.

I'd buy him a pint if I ever met him.

Fantastic to see this sort post before our season has even begun. How many times last season did I read 'We look like the only team capable of scoring' minutes before conceding a goal.

I haven't watched a boxing match for nearly 20 years. I seem to recall the pundits at least understood their sport. But you could be right. I think I should be aiming my ire mainly at British sport coverage rather than specific sports.

I saw something online about how Michael Owen has just reviewed the 10 films he has watched in his life and I tried to think of another sport that would employ a man who is quite clearly an utter moron. I couldn't think of one.

It's such a contrast when you hear american football pundits. Maybe one day we'll have such erudite and coherent pundits.

1-1 and I'm putting my money where my mouth is.

Without further transfers in I'll be a bit worried, we've added no one to the first team that finished last season so dismally. And it finished really dismally, sorry to remind everyone. A lot hinges on keeping VVD as this allows the midfield a bit more freedom to venture forward. Yes, I know it'll be Boufal's and Hojbjerg and Redmond's second season and they should be better, I bloody hope so.

I wish they had all the multi angle cameras back then. Many of those goals, especially at the Dell, I've only seen from one viewpoint unless I was there which fortunately I was for a few. Would love to see behind the goal views, close ups but alas 'twas a different time.

The wheels have come off the dinghy

yep, not getting forward much though

Flanagan looks a beefy fella, not sure about his football but a big lad.

Can't dislike the fella and 12 years after our relegation he's still doing a job in the top division. It still laugh at his answer to, I'm half-remembering it, 'If you weren't a footballer what would you be?' 'A 27 year old virgin'

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/66/b1/ec/66b1ecb1ce8b1b64717ae4da446fe544.jpg He should be forced to take penalties in this attire

by tattoos I mean biceps and hair and eyebrows. if he gets any tats then it's a sure sign he's off to Liverpool

Quite a few sites linking Tadic to Liverpool for around £12 million and I'd be very happy to see him go. Though he can have an occasional barnstorming game I don't like the cut of his jib. He's the sort of player I begrudgingly accepted we'd sign when we came back up to the Prem. A sulky, petulant, skillful, diving, pouting, roll around on the ground, imaginary card waving East European that can't score a penalty consistently. Would be happy to see him go and young Sims given more run outs. I'd offer to drive Tadic up to Liverpool myself, but I couldn't stand being in a car with him as he seems the sort of bloke that would demand to play his awful taste in music but spend the entire journey staring into his phone or at the reflection of his tattoos in the wing mirror. Dusan: збогом Ливерпул је на тај начин.

I'm not a bed wetter by any stretch and found talk of us being drawn into the relegation battle this season ridiculous. However, if we again sell 2 or 3 of our best players (VVD, Bertrand, Cedric, Romeu) this summer and replace them with similar standard replacements we found last summer (Boufal, Højbjerg, Redmond) we could well be following Sunderland into the Championship. Granted Redmond hasn't been terrible but he has blown hot and cold and is no Mane by any stretch.

This http://oi66.tinypic.com/2a0hzeu.jpg

that Guzan spill gets stuck in by Gabbiadini, but he's up in the ducking stands.

http://www.vipbox.bz/soccer/399073/1/middlesbrough-vs-southampton.html

I ummed and ahhed about keeping Gabbiadini in my fantasy team. Figured he'd probably get 20 minutes in one game and 60 in another. Puel has really wound me up this time, unless we win 3 or 4 nil.

Only 2 other games kicking off at 3 p.m so unfortunately there'll probably be a stream for it.

That shows why we've been so boring lately, playing since Fonte was sold with a center back pairing that can't defend unless its got 3 defensive midfielders sat in front of it for 90 minutes.

Tadic to Liverpool for 20+ million in the summer please Les.

Hopefully we can get everyone bar Gabbiadini behind the ball and not muster an attempt on goal in 90 minutes and then knock one out over our great defensive performance.