SaintBobby

I was thinking of spending £12 in the megastore, if I spend £12 on this T-shirt instead, will that damage the club? :-)

Good-ish effort at trolling, but I kind of feel you're losing your touch a bit, no?

I saw a poll somewhere about a year ago saying 1% of Brits support Southampton...so that would be c. 600,000. Maybe 1m worldwide?

Was cursing England until Rickie came on. Knocked over the table and lost three pints of beer when he scored. Roy of the Rovers stuff. God bless a Saints legend.

Blimey. Some real comedy defending.

Nice win. Hope Shaw's not too bad. Defence still looks iffy. How did Lovren do?

I reckon I'm thinking what you're thinking....

Gees. Touchy.....!

Oh gees. This site has hit the bottom. Christ. Moronic stuff.

Top 4 place practically guaranteed now, I'd say.

I'd rather we became the "Saints" as an abbreviation in preference to "So'ton". I'm guessing Wolverhampton fans prefer "Wolves" to "W'ham" too.

A lot. Read "The Numbers Game". The authors agree you can't "solve" association football in the way you can solve a puzzle or croosword, but they sure have some interesting stuff to say.

Is he the oldest uncapped player to have been called up by England?

I'd like to echo the sentiments of those very wise posters above, who express the sage hope that Luke Shaw does not get injured before, during or after the England U21 match. Well said, gentlemen, well said indeed.

Strewth!

let's hope so....

Most tedious draw imaginable - put out the reserve team.

Yeah, I'd settle for that (away) - just down the road. I might even go for a laugh if the tickets are cheap enough.

Right. Well done, Bazza. Top drawer.

There's has been a major cull of Saints players who couldn't really cut it in the top flight. How many have we now got off payroll and/or cancelled contracts for? A lot. Chaplow, de Ridder, Seaborne, Richardson etc etc. Sure, we might disagree with some of the decisions (maybe Dean Hammond "deserves" his chance in the top flight, still?). But it's a brutal and direct cull of the B-list or C-list players. And we have yet to lose an obvious A-lister. Only two notable additions so far - Lovren and Wanyama. But - wow - pretty decent additions. (prima facie, both "A list", surely?) Thanks to the ruthless slashing of the playing squad (killing off good Championship players, who aren't really good enough for the Premier League), we are probably in a position to get in one or two seriously good signings before the end of August. Who should receive the praise for this?

I don't care about this joke competition until Saints are in the last eight (or fewer). As for asking who people "think" we will draw.....???? Sigh.

17th?

Shaw back on his feet. No worries.

Stuart Ripley? Another poor one.

Football finances have zoomed...but I'm not sure they have gone up as much as 200% in ten years?