SaintBobby

Well, that draw persuades me that I'm probably more interested in the FA Cup than the League this season (barring a massive upswing or a massive downswing in our form in the league)

Amazingly, the skates are about 14/1 to be relegated and still as short as 16/1 to be promoted! I'd say the 14/1 on relegation is worth a punt - looks more like 4/1 or 5/1 to me.

I think the quaintest, cutest thing is folk on this forum imploring us to "concentrate" on a particular objective. The implication is that if we all think about "not being relegated" this will somehow be more helpful than "dreaming of Europe". Bless.

The fact is that league position matters the most, but at some trivial levels (8th or 10th) it doesn't matter as much as a cup win, or even just getting to Wembley. This isn't hard for any reasonable person to grasp, surely?

They are dropping like a stone. Could well drop out of the league.

Good result. Lambert, Lallana and Rodriguez superb in the 2nd half.

utterly majestic....looks even betetr than it looked live!

Mental. Utterly mental.

Don't know much about him - but does seem to be just the sort of player we could do with.

In other news, the skates are getting very close to being dragged into the relegation mire in League 2

Everton 2 -0 Stoke

It's a pity. There's a real flicker there...but it just don't seem as though it is ever truly going to catch light with us. He has the ability to develop into a really good player...but probably not with us.

Arent the ten nominees on the shortlist tehre by public vote/email or something? If so, how many votes are needed to squueze into tenth?

Beyond cretinous

Is Clyne the most underated right-back in the league? Seems like the "nearly man" at the moment. Just below the radar.

Gees. Thank feck I have Turkish on ignore. Please stop quoting him. People who think they are (a) funny and (b) clever and are, in fact, © neither are so damned boring. For me, it's a close call between the Norris goal for the skates and the Pires goal at Cardiff. The former was damned annoying. The latter killed my mental dream that I'd see us win the Cup. Also, looking back...it was all down hill - for several years - after losing at the Millenium.

Please don't lock this thread. It's made my day. Also, LOOK AT ME. PLEASE...PLEASE LOOK AT ME!!!! Thanks.

Micah Hall ‏@engagePompey 16 Nov Thanks to all with positive feedback on the beamback, really appreciated! Reply Retweet Favorite Expand [*] harvey sinden ‏@HsindenPFC 16 Nov @engagePompey Micah did you break even on the beam back, I went Reply Retweet Favorite Expand [*] Micah Hall ‏@engagePompey 16 Nov @HsindenPFC thanks for going - hopefully by the time all the takings are in we will have broken even yes.

Agree with those who say "drop the oldies". Lampard, Gerrard and Cole would not be in my squad. They'd be in my team if I had to win a one-off match for my life, but - as others have said - we aren't going to win in Brazil. We'd be lucky to get out of the group stages, so may as well blood the youngsters. As far as Saints players go, I'd take Lallana and Clyne. I'd probably take Lambert because we are so weak on centre-forwards. I might take Shaw. I wouldn't take Rodriguez. I'd also rather have Schneiderlin than Carrick and Fonte than Cahiill, but that argument has been done to death elsewhere.

Don't get the question really. Well, I don't get the "as it stands" part of it. We either have a better team than England or we don't. I'm not expecting either the England or the Southampton squad to change greatly in the immediate future. So, the question will probably be stood in about the same place in a few weeks and even a few months time. "As it stands" there are 3 players who play for Saints and for England, which rather complicates matters, I guess. Assuming these players could be replicated and be in both squads, I think Saints would just edge it.

If the choice was "keep Puncheon" or "let Puncheon" go, surely the former is preferable. My disappointment was I assumed his departure was to pave the way for some amazing new signing, but that was probably just me being greedy.

I'd rather we stuck with Southampton FC as our official name. But I'd prefer our abbreviation to be "Saints" rather than "Soton" in league tables or on scoreboards etc (if Southampton has too many letters in it). Wolverhampton and Tottenham seem to manage this, they aren't abbreviated to Wampton or Totham, but rather to Wolves and Spurs. Much classier.

This. I just suggested we should consider this a double "must win" on the other thread ;-) For the optimistic gamblers amongst you, I'd suggest - rather than betting on Saints to win at Arsenal at 6/1 - backing Saints at 250/1 to win the league. Were we to win at the Emirates, this price would probably fall to 40/1 or 33/1 very fast on panic buying. Were we to draw, it would probably fall to 100/1 or maybe 80/1. You could then choose to lay off the bet on betfair. Have been trying to track down Glasgow Saint - is he still offering 500/1 on 1st place and 350/1 on being runners-up? If he is, put down as much cash as (a) you can reasonably lose and (b) you think he can reasonably be expected to pay out. Current title odds here (as I type, fewer and fewer bookies are offering better than 150/1 on Saints) http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/premier-league/winner

Lose this one and a relegation scrap beckons. As some of the Arsenal fans are saying, it's a "must win" match. If that's true for them, it must be doubly true for us (as we are already 3 points behind them...and to fall six points behind might be tough to overcome in our remaining 26 matches). Must, must win.

It's getting absurd now. Has Cortese actually bought up the entire British press in order to not have to bother with PR officers? It'll probably turn nasty when we lose 3-0 to Chile with the Saints players scoring 4/10 or less...:-)