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From being a better team than Stoke! :-) G'aaaan Swansea!

Whoever wrote the Orange website report for the game says that Woy revealed he's close to picking Clyne for an England call up. After yesterday, I reckon he'll soon be swayed! http://web.orange.co.uk/p/football/match?game_id=695007&competition_id=8

Never made it into The Dell either, nobody else in my family is a Saints fan so as a youngster I never got taken there (except for a couple of trips to the club shop which I loved despite its size), and by the time I was old enough to go myself I'd developed a mild case of agoraphobia, which made me nervous of being in places with large groups of people. (I partly blame Reading's old ground Elm Park for that, which I did visit in the 90's when we played them in the FA Cup, 1997. Anyway my first live Saints game and first time I'd been in a stadium full of people. Did not feel comfortable.) I soon got over that, but by then we were at SMS. :-(

I noticed that. I yelled Italian at the screen. Argentinian born, perhaps, is what the 'tater would argue. Benali was made a pope? Looks like Murray Walker IMO. :-D

As the only Saints fans at work, I'm getting a lot of back-patting for Southampton's performances and results this season from colleagues that support the "big six" and...........that's just fine with me. :-D And these are the same colleagues that laughed when we got relegated in 2005 and made me feel sad. Southamton - definitely a club that affects your mood! Right now? I couldn't be more proud. Ward-Proudse even, you might say!

I think Ramires tripped before he's even got to the challenge. And I say "tripped", giving him the benefit of the doubt - otherwise it was a dive. Terrible refereeing, denied WBA fans a victory. Surely the bigger teams have a monopoly over the refs... OK I only watched the highlights, but Chelsea look poor at the moment. There for the taking... :-)

Keys and Gray would have a field day with this thread...

Saints related?

It sounds like the England players really stepped up their performance levels today with Woy watching, and I include Clyne in that! :-D We should get Woy watching all our games...

For us poor bastards that had to work today, how did JRod play? Lambert scored and got two assists, Lallana scored a worldie and got MOTM but I haven't heard much about JRod, especially playing in front of Woy...

What the one about you predicting Pardew as first out? ;-) Hughton got lucky. Besides Leroy Fer's goal, they still over-rely on set pieces to score their goals. The penalty shouldn't have been given and then there was the free kick which was harsh. (Jussi wasn't great today either - the handling for his penalty was poor and he was too far over for the free kick. I wish he'd played as dodgily against us!)

I wonder if the England trio's call ups will alert the French to Morgan's obvious class. IMO I think if Morgan was playing for a top club that plays in European competition, or any French club, he'd have been called up already due to both having more exposure...

2-1 Norwich now...

2 or more points from these two games would be a cracking result. Two draws would continue the unbeaten run, but I'd take one loss if it meant beating the other. Losing both would still not be the end of the world, we've given ourselves an excellent platform to build on for the rest of the season. I bet neither of them are particularly looking forward to playing us... Beat both?

:-) Lose today and IMO he's a goner. Underachieving. The wife (Norwich fan) agrees.

Wow. I was so busy at work telling irritable customers that there's no through Piccadilly Line service from HEathrow that I completely lost track of time. By the time my colleague told me the score, we were already 3-0 up! Wow. I wish I'd watched it - I'll have to wrestle the Norwich supporting wife for the remote control when Football First comes on. :-) 3rd in the table. Got a nosebleed. I know we may not be there after the weekend, but at least we know Chelsea have fewer points from the same number of games! Sadly, after the Chile game, the world will know the name "Adam Lallana".

My guess is his family don't even call him Mauricio Potchettino. :-) I'd shorten it to give him an English name. If Wiki is to be believed his full name is Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero, so MRPT, or Petey for short. A nice anglicised nickname. Far better than Morris.

The winners from this deal, I'm guessing, seem to be BT subscribers, the teams that qualify for the Champions League (I can only assume they'll get even more money) and pubs. Unless Saints do qualify over that 3 years, I'm not too concerned, although I'll miss watching the games on ITV when there's sod all else to watch.

Cortese and the Liebherrs walking away from the project would also worry me, not that I think it will happen any time soon, but as people have said before we are debt free up until a point and Markus probably set up some sort of trust for us should the worst happen. And that's not to say we wouldn't be an attractive proposition for another investor, because we would. My biggest concern is assembling a brilliant team and seeing is disassembled as players decide they'd rather go to a "big" club. Again, not that I think it would happen any time soon, but it could happen in the not too distant future. As it stands though, we're safely back in the Premier League with little to no chance of relegation with the current squad - I think relegation is a very distant worry for us. (Touch wood - weirder things have happened...)

"Lallana picks the ball up on the right, Oooh a lovely deft touch nudges it past the onrushing Chilean defender, he plays a one-two with Wilshere, sees Rodriguez in space on the left, presents a perfectly weighted cross field pass to Rodriguez, Rodriguez controls it on the outside of his foot, he pushes it forward, he's running at the Chilean right back, he's still going, still going, still going, they're backing off him, he's pushed to the bye line, he looks up and sees Lambert rushing in....LAMBERT!!!!! OH WHAT A GOAL! He continues his England goalscoring exploits thanks to the hard work of his Southampton colleagues!!!!" This will be the actual radio commentary on the night... :-D (We hope...)

Hypothetically, was Jay eligable to play for Spain?

Congratulations to Mauricio Pochettino! Fully deserved this month, but there are a tougher couple of months coming up. Staying in the top six by Christmas would be a remarkable achievement, but I'll be happy as long as we remain within touching distance.

To me at least, Lallana is priceless on current form. Virtually irreplaceable unless we're extremely lucky, and any "known" player that is as good as Lallana at what he does would almost certainly cost more than £15 million. That's IMO of course, I'm sure Cortese has other ideas.

The only way our players leave is if we get a bid the club accepts or an unhappy player tries to force a move. So far we have no unhappy players, and no bids that the club have accepted. I can't see any player becoming unhappy, now that it's been proved they can achieve international status from within this club. Only a lack of a trophy or medal could perhaps in the future make one or two wish for more succesful climes, or a club like Chelsea paying "silly money" for wages that we simply cannot match. These are positive times to be a Saint for sure.

Watched it last night! Same channel. TBF they glanced over his Saints career, aside from praising the Saints for giving him a chance and interviewing Burley a bit.