The Kraken

Puncheon, learn your lesson. Another stupid foul given away in a dangerous wide area.

No.

Correct. From wiki: Seven companies have sponsored the club, thus appearing on the player's shirts, over the course of its history. The first company to do so was photocopier manufacturer Rank Xerox who sponsored the club for three years from 1980. Air Florida briefly sponsored Southampton in 1983 before Draper Tools, who have a large factory in nearby Eastleigh sponsored the club for nine years between 1984 and 1993. Millbrook based company Dimplex, who produce electrical goods such as heaters were the next brand name to appear on the club's shirts and merchandise. They began sponsoring in 1993 before the deal ended in 1995. The Sanderson Group PLC took up the mantle, for four years from 1995, also sponsoring Sheffield Wednesday at the same time. Investment company Friends Provident were the final sponsors of the club's time at The Dell. Their deal began in 1999 and was renewed shortly before the naming of St. Mary's Stadium, to which they also bought the naming rights. However they chose not to renew either deal in 2006, after which budget airline Flybe.com stepped in. On 2 February 2010, Southampton announced that they would be without a main shirt sponsor for the 2010–11 season for the club's 125th anniversary. Nicola Cortese said Southampton could do this due their strong financial position. In the summer of 2011, Southampton agreed a three-year deal with aap3 to become the main club sponsor; the partnership with the Southampton based business and IT solutions provider started at the beginning of the 2011–12 season and run until June 2014.

OK. One slightly dodgy one that went out for athrow, otherwise decent enough. Gaston's two corners have both been atrocious, proper laughed at on a sunday morning type standard.

I thought Guzan played the ball. Originally that's what I thought the pen was for, looked fine on the replay.

Good take Art.

Yep, not a very good one either (well, good enough to con the ref).

Blatant dive.

Really? Blimey...

What a waste. Great ball from Lambert, JRod didn't believe in himself.

1 corner and 1 great free kick position, both wasted with dreadful deliveries. Can we really not get this consistently right?

Don't like the look of our 442, I'd prefer more midfield numbers. Villa coming through us a bit too easily.

A less than convincing start by us; look very nervous.

Could be a great opportunity for SFC if he gets some proper game time and gets some match sharpness so that he comes back to us as more of a genuine option.

Mayuka wouldn't have been an option for today anyway, he's not played on the left for us at all and has been left on the bench before when de Ridder has played LM.

I must have been watching a different game. The de Ridder I saw was lively without really producing anything of note other than a well taken corner (which tbf Fonte should have scored from).

Hopefully we'll see the introduction of Dan Seaborne in the forward sweeper role.

Come on Diggers. Its true enough in fact that they played in League 1, but saying "its half a League 1 team" is disingenuous at best. Lallana was the subject of a multi-million bid from Fulham when we were in the lower leagues, we turned that down by paying him a massive wedge of cash. Fonte dropped down from being a revered member of a decent enough Championship Palace side to play League 1 for us, I'm sure he didn't do that for the challenge of it. Schneiderlin is only 22 now and was always tipped for higher things (signied when we were in the Championship and he was 18, don't forget). Even Puncheon has played on loan at Blackpool and QPR in the PL before getting there with us. Lambert is about the only one you can say who was an established League 1 player who has improved through the ranks (typified by him being the one that many wrote off on both pre-seasons of our successive promotions).

A concert venue/ice rink/basketball arena, kind of like a mini O2 or like the Ricoh Arena, would be rather good (if it would fit) Plenty of US indoor arenas combine NBA basketball teams with NHL hockey teams. Add in the ability to convert to a modern concert arena with bars and restaurants and it could be a real added attraction to Southampton; the Guildhall is hardly an iconic and built for purpose venue.

Bless.

Norwich seem to be doing quite well again with their half league 1 squad including the likes of Russell Martin, John Ruddy, Grant Holt, Wes Hoolahan and Anthony Pilkington.

Have you got an Artur Boruc shirt for sale?

That's the thing with Rodriguez; its not that (IMO anyway) he's a bad signing now because he's a poor player. And its not because he was overpriced; we paid the market value for him, and we had to agree a fee the fee we did for him in order to outbid other clubs who were willing to pay a similar amount. So we didn't get swizzed or anything like that. I just feel that, in this season, there were better options that Rodriguez for a club like us. We needed someone who could hit the ground running, and indeed the club were looking for someone who could challenge and replace Lambert straight away. In this season of consolidation I don't feel we should have taken such a risk and taken on a player who needs developing to such an extent. If we stay up then it becomes a better looking acquisition, as we should push on a touch and solidify our PL position (you'd hope, anyway). But until then I feel we lack a true alternative option to Lambert (as Villa have with Bent, Benteke and even Weimann in addition to that, for example).

Finished article? Behave. Even the most ardent Rodriguez fan will tell you that he has a long way to go before he's anything close to the finished article. Right now he's a youngish lad with a bit of promise who is starting to adapt to life in the Premier League, but still not worthy of a first team place and has a long way to go yet to prove that he can be a consistent hit at this level.

I'd walk through broken glass just to have her tuck me in. She's so pretty it makes me cry.