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The sash kit was my favourite Saints kit ever, and it marked the start of our renaissance but that's exactly why I don't want it to become the norm. Stripes is what I grew up with, but I'm not as attached to them as others on here. Red shirts is fine but they're not unique to Saints. They need some sort of design, or more white, to make them ours. But not with that horrible gold lettering though. Yuck. Quarters is too "rugby" IMO. The best of those options is the Rank Xerox kit. It would appease the stripes fans and is still a majority of red. Does anyone else have it?

Lambert looks boss in his suit. Could be the first Scouse James Bond. No Shaw is perhaps telling, and I'm not so sure Lampard will go either.

Isn't Chris A poster on here? GeorgeWeahsCousin I think? Needs to be bigging up Hooiveld and Gazzaniga! :-) Cant fault Davis for his commitment though, top player and professional and, if Lallana goes (touch wood) our future captain.

As that article states, as Smalling and Jones can both play right back, Hodgson may choose another midfielder or forward instead. So, what about a midfielder who can play right back... Someone like Jack Cork!

Someone linked this on Facebook too, and it's been pulled down. RyanAir getting their way?

Same team as Saturday please. As much as I'd like us to try something with the youngsters, it wouldn't be fair on the fans paying money to travel and see the game. Let's wave the academy in front of Utds noses on the last day, and try to get points with a strong team against Swansea.

3 straight wins and we beat Utd to 7th by a point after Giggs does a worse job than Moyes and loses their last 4 games.

Albrighton tries to insert it, but Luke's too quick!

Teach them the Southampton way, so they're crap when they go anywhere else! It's the future...

Jon Forte?

8. Had big money signings Ramirez and Osvaldo done the jobs well that they were brought in expensively to do, then arguably we could have reached the next level already that Everton have aspired to. Still, it's good times to be a Saints fan, whatever happens in the summer.

A kick up the arse from a right foot hurts just as much as a kick up the arse from a left. IMO.

Keeping Pochettino IMO helps us keep the players. However, if it had to be one OR the other, then the players staying put wins every time.

INsanity! So much for not encouraging home grown youth in this country... :-)

Keeping Pochettino is obviously job 1. Ok, he wants to see the season out, fine, but the second that full time whistle blows against Utd, hand the bumper contract to him and give him a couple of days to decide. If he wants out, it needs to be sorted as soon as possible and a new manager found ASAP. Sorting that out before player ins/outs is key. I hope Pochettino stays, IMO it's our best chance of keeping most of the jewels, but whatever happens, Flash is right, it needs to be done swiftly. Please God don't let this become another summer of turmoil...

Ive said it before, but if selling just one player means we can keep the rest, then IMO for the money we'd get for him, that player would be Shaw. In an ideal world we'd keep them all and strengthen but as long as we can hold on to Lallana, Morgan and Lovren it'd be a result.

Mmm, table of how happy fans are of their home kit? We must be near the relegation zone in that one! (Cardiff bottom.)

Is there any kind of table that would have us in 17th place? For Dalek's piece of mind. Perhaps the most foreigners used since November 23rd 2013? :-)

Gary Neville has it spot on IMO. Would JRod make the bench though I wonder?

Pronounced wrong in French class and you could be arrested... :-)

Krischelle, Maxim and Lydon. What happened to naming kids with normal names? #gettingold

This thread reminds me of when we lost our family Golden Retriever 'Max' in 2002. We'd had him from a puppy in 1990 when I was 9. Such a lovely dog, so placid, so loyal, so obedient that he became a PAT dog for the elderly. Aged 12 though the vet discovered a massive tumour which was too big to operate on so he had to be put down. The night before he was scheduled at the vets, I slept on the sofa next to him as he could no longer climb the stairs. I fed him some sausage roll, which he ate despite not having eaten anything for a couple of days. Eventually I fell asleep. I was awoken the next morning by the front door smashing open against the wall, and my dad running into the lounge in floods of tears before burying his head in my duvet. Sob after sob after sob. I'd never seen my Dad like that before, he was a Police Sergeant at the time and I'd rarely ever seen him show his emotions, aside from a comical lighthearted demeanour. Max had gone. Naturally the female members of the family were distraught but I hadn't expected it from my Dad. I didn't cry. I was sad, sure, but it was nothing compared to what my Dad went through. It was weird that he reacted in a completely different way to me. He was always so closed off with his emotions until the day that dog died. This situation repeated itself this year when we lost Max's replacement Oscar to the vet's needle, Dad inconsolable and me largely unfazed by the incident. I can only think that I'm more detached from the dogs than he. (Although in Oscars case I hadn't lived there for the last 5 years of his life, but I was still a frequent visitor.) Perhaps it'll be different one day if I get my own dog rather than it being a family dog.

We're talking Saints, not Pompey! FWIW I think we'll finish 8th. Newcastle's run in is tougher than ours and they're bang out of form. And, we're just a bit too far ahead of the other two.

Simple question, where do you think we'll finish in the league? 8th, 9th, 10th or 11th? (Or 'other' if you think Utd will capitulate or Hull will win all their 5 games...)

If that's the most we can get then it's fine for a player that has very little future at our club. However I think Saints will be holding out for more. £7 million could fund a decent replacement striker. Some transfers are hits, some are misses. We don't have a good record of buying expensive, we seem to be better at buying bargains.