SaintBobby

I put £20 on us at the start of the season at something like 680/1. My more serious bet was £100 on Spurs at 16/1. Thinking of cashing out - or at least partially cashing out - as I’ve doubled my stake.

The bottom four are still looking hopeless against the top 16. Played 25....Won 0 Drawn 3 Lost 22...For 16 Against 54 Points per game = 0.12 In the unikely event that this dismal form continues all season, the bottom four will each pick up 3 or 4 points on average against the top 16 over the whole season.

Pity....mind you we still needed two more results to go our way to stay top...always a long shot

Yawn.

Yawn.

Ok, we’re on fourth tonight. Guess that’s fair enough as the match is over 24 hours old and it’s not called Match of Yesterday. However, I’ve watched the title sequence several times and can hardly find any representation of Saints. Redmond appears in the background right at the start. Other clubs have their emblems front and centre as the title sequence unfolds. Where’s the Southampton iconography? It must be there somewhere, what have I missed? Where have I missed it?

It's a nightmare. Problem is they can only seemingly use VAR to enforce the exact laws of the game. If your armpit is offside, well, you're offside. It's not like a penalty decision, which can be subjective (although I recall hearing that the technology is only accurate to a certain %, presumably if that's 1cm and you're 1cm offside, they count that as onside?) My preference would be to only use VAR to look at the position of the feet. If your head, armpit or knee is offside then it's down to the linesman/ref to call it. If they don't, VAR will only look at the position of the feet. I think that would eliminate most decisions which, while they may be technically correct, are enfuriating and seem to go against the spirit of the "doubt favours the attacking team" principle.

Never understood what that meant. What’s an urban challenge in contrast?

Can't believe I'm cheering on Man Utd. Feels dirty. In a good way. Man U now 2-1 up v Everton.

Would be great to still be top tonight. More generally though - and without any belief that we can “do a Leicester” - I’ve started cheering on the strugglers against the big teams. Usually I’d want the bottom 5 or 6 to be losing to the better clubs in order to aid relegation worries. I’m now thinking top six is a real possibility and relegation really is not. So I consider, say, Spurs and Leicester to be our rivals this season not Burnley, WBA, Fulham etc

We are about 120/1 to win the league and 66/1 to go down. Not sure when our odds to win the league were less than half of our odds to go down? (unless both were mathematically impossible).

Pick a lane....

Great performance...I was so nervous just because I wanted the "top of the league" thing to happen. JWP MotM for me, but shout out to Stephens....who played at left back FFS. We would have been better with Bertrand, obviously. And Djenepo - in front of him - also had a good game. But to come back into the team and to give a solid performance in an unfamiliar position was tip top. A 7/10 there is sort of worth a 9/10 if you see what I mean....

It's amazing. Too much to take in. I'm now mainly worried that we will do a Deportivo - end up missing a penalty in the last match in the last minute which would otherwise win us the league! Nice worry to have!

When was the last time we were 12 points clear of relegation zone after 7 matches? Ever?

Are you potentially fit to start against Newcastle?

So, the record of the bottom four against the other 16 teams is now: Pld 21 Won 0 Drawn 2 Lost 19 Points 2 GD -33 Points per game is 0.095

Well, we started the season about 8/1 to be relegated and Villa about 3/1 I think. Even now, Saints are odds on to finish in the bottom half of the table.

The bottom four look truly ropey - disregarding the matches they’ve played against each other, their combined record against the other 16 teams is: P 19 W 0 D 2 L 17 GD -29 Points per game - 0.105 Maybe Derby’s all time low points record of 11 is under serious threat this season?

Agree with the positive comments about Adams. So glad we persisted with him. The combination with Ings is excellent and having a front two who link up that well makes the total greater than the sum of the parts - Pelle/Tadic, Beattie/Pahars come to mind.

I’ve been a defender of PPV. But gees, if this Burnley v Spurs game had cost me £15, I’d be suing to get my cash back. Would be interesting to know the take up rate - maybe 20,000 or so payers? Wild guess there...

When the fixture list came out, I guess quite a few people would have had this down as a six pointer. Just not at this end of the table. Saints are prob marginal favourites? I’d start with an unchanged team. Theo from the bench if we need him.

Really good case to give Romeu a new 3 year contract. He’s been excellent this season and we are hardly overloaded in the central midfield department - if he doesn’t stay we will surely need to sign someone else. Bertrand has been great for us too, but with him being older it gets a bit trickier. He will be 33 at the end of the season? I’m guessing we might offer him one more year but he’d probably be tempted elsewhere if he was offered 2 or 3 years by another club.

Absolutely top stuff. Romeu our player of the season so far, but everyone was impressive today. One of the least impressive was Redmond. He was okay, but nowhere near MotM

The price is hardly the same as going to the game itself. Sure, the experience isn't as good, but it's way cheaper. About half price even if you're the only viewer. £7.50 per head in my household. For a family of four you're looking at £15 rather than around £150, depending on travel costs, higher food drink/costs etc