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Six clean sheets in a row and still Alpine thinks he is a better manager than Ron! Excellent performances from one and all again. Up to 6th only one point of 5th. COYS!!

Ron thinks the squad is the strongest it has been since he got here. At the end of the day, his opinion is the one that matters most!

The bit in bold is exactly what I thought at the time. Glad I wasn't the only one.

Oi, my thread was created one minute before yours!!!!!!!! Excellent, 5 clean sheets in a row. FF yet to concede a goal this season. Outstanding display by all our players today; except, perhaps, ne moment of madness by you know who.....

Thank fook for that. Yoshida my MoM.

Happy with that.

Just seen that the match is still going to be on Sky. Happy with that.

Hope this is true. Will be very happy with that!

I had the exact same thought when reading the article.

That must be a downright lie! Our resident experts told us that no way would he return to playing this season!! Oh, yeh, right then..... I agree, it's great to see him back playing again!

Martina - why the feck was he signed? Complete carp and waste of a squad place! Schlong - lets sell him and reinvest the money. Completely useless! Fonte - been good, well past his best! Classie - why the heck did we sign him? Not fit to lace Morgan's boots! Wanyama - completely useless, with his head in north London! Etc, etc, etc..... Even better, go look at the match build-up thread; especially AFTER the starting line-up was announced! All in all, an excellent match and a performance which was always on the cards. Maybe a few player selections were enforced, but such occurrences are rife in football. Classie was my mom until he was forced off; Shane gets it with his (non) hat-trick and strike against the post. And Martina currently has my goal of the season. Well done to Koeman, his staff and all players involved!!

Skates at home please! Really don't want us to get Eastleigh. Save that for the final.

Bring back Nigel Adkins!!!

Only just seen this thread. Haven't been online much this week. My Russian isn't great (survival level - I generally rely on my wife and daughter to translate anything important) however, I can confirm the above translation; with the addition of saying that the second set of asterixes (translation for the word - sukha) is a word for a female dog.

I thought something very similar!

How long did it take him to get to that level though? It certainly wasn't after only 3 matches for us. This. Good post.

More than any other player yesterday, I was desperately hoping he was going to hit a last minute 25 yard screamer, into the top corner, to win the match. It would be nice to see him given a start on Wednesday, and a chance to stake a claim in the match day squad if not the first 11.

Cheers for that Jamie.

So, back in July, Leicester Saint posted this: And here is Clint Brain Fry's response to it: Jump forward a mere three months and Clint posts this: So, genius, were you wrong then or are you wrong now? Also if, as you apparently now believe, our only fit keepers are so sh it who is going to want to sign them and pay their wages? I mean, it's so easy to ship them off elsewhere right? And yes, the drivel keeps coming...... True to form, instead of answering a simple question you try to evade the issue. This is always the way when someone knows they are full sh it. You do not know Kelvin and have no way of knowing exactly what went in reference to the proposed WHU move. You tried to pass some things off as fact with a quote that in no way backed up your assertion. Quell surprise! Oh, and as it happens, I do know a bit more as a relative of mine is a close friend of Kelvin and his family. However, I will never betray their trust by passing on anything I hear to the likes of you. As for not my not wanting Paulo, please point out where I said that. All I said ws that at present there are many other keepers who I would rather we had between the sticks on a match day. Players such as Cech, de Gea, et al. Do you disagree with this? Do you still think, as you did in July, that we don't need to sign another keeper when the opportunity arises? Thanks Vectis. So, you do seem to believe that = for a short time at least - Kelvin was our number in the prem. But, wait, that would mean Clint Brains was wrong. Surely not! Nick, are you saying Clint Brains was wrong too? What is happening here?? Is this Max calling for a 5th keeper in our 25 man squad? Surely not? Clint Brains said no one has done that. He couldn't be wrong again could he? What say you Clint? (Sits back and awaits more drivel........)

No where in that article does he say THE MAIN REASON for remaining at Saints was that he didn't want to be a number 2. His exact words were, "The decision for me was between the opportunity of first-team football at Southampton or the chance to play Premier League football and I have made my choice to stay at Southampton," Nice try though. See below. Thanks VK, I'm glad there is someone else out there who sees things exactly as I do. To add further, for the benefit of LLP, we have 4 senior goalkeepers on our books. We are paying their wages. This eats into our FFP allowance. It isn't as easy as saying, 'I don't player X here any more. I'm going to ship him out somewhere.' Do move someone on there has to be (a) a club who wants him and willing to pay his salary and (b) the player has to agree to the move. As I mentioned before, 4 of our 25 man squad are goalkeepers - it would be insane for that to be 5, or 20% of the squad. (Not that we could sign another goalkeeper now anyway.) The pragmatism is simply looking at the facts: all four of those keepers were given contracts by the club; those contracts are still running; either no one has tried to sign any of them or the players didn't want to move; our first and second choice keepers were injured on Saturday - I have yet to see proof that we wouldn't have signed another keeper even if Frazer had been fit to start the season. 1. Thanks for reminding me - corrected above. And yes, there were those who were calling for us to sign a fifth keeper in July/August. I just can't be bothered to go and find the quotes. 2. Yes, well done, we did sign Kelvin when we were in the Championship. I didn't state otherwise. It was you who said that he has never been the first choice keeper at a premier league club since Sunderland. That, I dispute. Are you stating that he has never been our first choice keeper since we returned to the premiership? 3. As above, Kelvin was quoted as saying that he chose to stay at Saints. Please show me where he said he didn't want to be a back-up keeper and that that was his MAIN reason for staying here. 4. Was he our first choice keeper or was he 'playing second fiddle' when he signed the new contract in 2013? 5. I am fully well aware that clubs transfer and loan players all the time. Additionally, far more proposed transfers and loans don't go through due to lack of agreement on fee, salary, player not wanting the move, etc. Rather strange that you don't get that! Oh, and I don't WANT Paulo Gazzaniga to play for us in the premier league; I would much prefer de Gea, or Cech, or Forster, or Stekelenburg, or any one of dozens of other keepers, but I would prefer him to play if the choice is him or Kelvin. Such tedium.

I think you're in the wrong job. You should, surely, be the chairman of some top football club. You have all the answers and know how easy everything is. Yes, it is EASY to make someone with a nice big contract at a premier league club go out on loan to a league one club (who, presumably, could EASILY afford to pay all of his salary) or, even, to sell said player to a lower league club. I mean, he obviously would be more than willing to forego his nice fat salary and earn far less just because you don't want him around any more. EASY! So, it is a fact that the MAIN reason Kelvin didn't go to West Ham is because he didn't want to be a back-up keeper is it? Wow! How do you know this? Where is the quote that says so? Are you a friend of his? And, if he didn't want to be a back-up keeper, why did he sign a new contract with us knowing he was only going to be a back-up keeper? Oh, and you are obviously definitely wrong with your last sentence. One premier league club DID want him as their number one keeper after his season at Sunderland - SAINTS! Yes, it is easy IF another club want him AND are prepared to pay for all (or some, if Saints agree to the percentage they are willing to go to) of his wages AND the player agrees to go. If you read all of my post you would have clearly seen that, no, I am not happy with our goalkeeping options. Nor would I play Kelvin ahead of Gazza. However, I am pragmatic enough to see why we are in the situation we are in. As opposed to some (not necessarily you) who have their heads so far up their own ar ses that they can't see anything except their own over-valued opinions. Quite simply, there are some people who are only happy when they are unhappy and slagging others off. You know the ones, the big girl's blouses; it's EASY to spot them.

When we signed Stek on loan the club were telling us that they hoped Forster would be back at the start of the new year. Therefore, to my mind, Stek was signed to play for the first half of the season and to then be in competition with Forster for the rest of the season. (i.e. No 1 and 2 goalkeepers.) So, maybe, just maybe, we would have signed Stek if Frazer hadn't been injured. Can you prove otherwise? Thank you. It is so reassuring to see another sane, non-knee-jerk reactionist, on here. I'll come back to the first bit later. As for the 2nd, I must have missed the bit about Fulham paying Frazers salary this season...... Once again..... Thank you!! Jamie, before you changed your user name you used to occasionally post something interesting/worthwhile. Since then everything seems to be just to get a rise out of someone and to increase your post count. Seriously, I know you're not as dense as this particular post makes you look. However, just to humour you (and to give you the buzz you were looking for) do I really have to point out the difference between having 5 players for 1 position and 6/7 players for 3 positions - especially when extrapolated over the course of a season - taking into account injuries and suspensions - different tactics and formations - use of subs - etc, etc?? How can you possibly compare the fact that you don't rate Kelvin to the actions of an insane Iti-Argie? It even took a lot more than just him assaulting a team-mate before we managed to get him off the books. It really isn't so simple to just off-load a contracted player. And, if you consider last season to have been a failure I will be happy for us to fail the same this season. 7th me up baby! Yes. Yes, he is! Newsflash - Yes, expecting the club to have five senior goalkeepers on the books is exactly what many want. Newsflash 2 - They also don't care how much it costs the club (so long as that extra expense isn't passed on to the fans in any way, and doesn't stop us signing any other players, well, apart from those who they deem not good enough after 20 minutes on the pitch that is). And, in other news, do you believe there is a poster on here who - in the same thread - stated that both Kelvin and Gazza are sh it and who then believes it would be EASY to move them on to another club. Presumably this would be to a club who didn't realise how sh it they were!? (Told you I'd get back to the earlier bit....)

My point is that we can't just write him off of that list. He is our player. We still have to pay his wages (which counts towards our FFP total expenditure). In August it was still being reported that the club were hopeful he would be back in the new year. Like many others, I feel this is highly doubtful; but I am not a club doctor, and doubt any of the posters on here are either. We have 4 'keepers on our books. 4 from a squad of 25. I cannot recall hearing us turning down any bids for Kelvin or Gazza in the summer. We can't just cancel their contracts without due reason (see Osvaldo). So we have them on our books. Therefore, I never expected us to sign a 5th 'keeper. Any who did is simply not looking at the bigger picture. Do you think it is reasonable for a club to have a fifth of their squad to be for one specialized position? Can you point to any other club where this is the case? The fact is that yesterday we had our first two 'keepers out injured. Just because one of those is a long term injury doesn't make it any less of a fact. Therefore, the one who played is our 3rd choice. I fail to see how anyone cannot understand such a basic point. What I do agree with though, is that I don't think Kelvin is good enough to play in the prem. I would love for our 3rd choice to be far superior in quality. Indeed, I personally feel that Gazza is better; but then, I'm not the England goalkeeping coach who sees them both in training every day. I guess he should know better than us, don't you think?

To all the posters above: Here is the official 25 man squad (well, 24) of Southampton FC for the 2015/2016 season - 25 Squad players (*=Home grown) Alves Soares, Cedric Ricardo *Bertrand, Ryan *Caulker, Steven Roy Clasie, Jordy *Davis, Kelvin Geoffery *Davis, Steven Fonte, Jose Miguel *Forster, Fraser Gerard Gardos, Florin Gazzaniga, Paulo Dino *Isgrove, Lloyd Jeffrey Jimenez Lopez, Juan Miguel *Long, Shane Patrick Mane, Sadio Martina, Rhu-endly Aurelio Jean-Carlo Pelle, Graziano Ramirez Pereyra, Gaston Exequiel *Rodriguez, Jay Enriqus Stekelenburg, Maarten Tadic, Dusan Van Dijk, Virgil Vidal, Oriol Romeu Wanyama, Victor Yoshida, Maya How many goalkeepers can you see named above?