Saint Charlie

Lets hope we don't let the ref even it up.

Good to see where we are against a team that is actually decent. Any positive result would be massive.

Both CBs booked too. JWP is a home player, hard to recall a great away display from him.

Not too late to change it. Is a bit odd as he said himself in his presser that midfield is where they are strongest!

We have to start JWP every so often otherwise have no Academy lads playing.

Yoshida not done anything to deserve to be 4th choice and Liberty a hard place for PL debut. Gardos can start on Tuesday.

Hamstring. Says about 10 times on this thread.

Speaking after naming his team, @RonaldKoeman revealed that a minor hamstring issue is the reason for @AlderweireldTob’s absence. #saintsfc

Yoshida and JWP for Toby and Davis. Decent enough lineup, but nothing on the bench attack wise. Hopefully anothee 4-3-3 and not JWP advanced playing off Pelle.

I thought VFTT was a Stokie anyway?

Should he have kept Redknapp, AVB or Sherwood for longer then? Finally he has appointed someone decent that he won't need to worry about.

Why do people think Pochettino won't last long? Best appointment Spurs have made in years. Next summer they will back him in the window (possibly end up with a couple of ours) and they will be a good side. I know we are meant to hate him etc but when he leaves Spurs it will be for a bigger club, not because he is sacked.

Yoshida hasnt done much wrong to be 4th choice. Lots seem very certain it will be Gardos but the Liberty not the easiest place for a full PL debut.

Hopefully not out for long!

Those Chapel "fans" got their way eventually. Poisonous segment of our support, that little pocket behind the goal.

We had better hope Forster stays fit then. We all remember the Davis and Gazza show from last season. Neither are good enough to start PL matches, and have proven so on a multitude of occassions. Great signing for Bournemouth though. If there was a recall clause and we actually intended to play Boruc if Forster was injured then that wouldnt be too bad.

You knew what he meant. Why pull him up on it?

Certainly seen nothing to judge on re Gardos.

Sounds like a debut for Mane in this game too.

http://www.vi.nl/web/premium-promo/ronald-koeman-dit-is-voetbal-zoals-het-bedoeld-is-1.htm?channel=phone Good article. If the translation is right it says there is a boy that shines his shoes each afternoon...! Edit: translated version: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vi.nl%2Fweb%2Fpremium-promo%2Fronald-koeman-dit-is-voetbal-zoals-het-bedoeld-is-1.htm%3Fchannel%3Dphone&edit-text=

Previous form over a lot longer than 90mins! Form over the last season or more which is surely how you judge a player? Surely nobody disputes that we would be stronger if we still had Lovren or Lallana, not that it matters. Anyway, once we have finished rubbishing the abilities of the players we sold to make us feel better, it will be good to get Mane involved, very highly rated player: https://www.clubcall.com/southampton/saints-have-a-ballon-dor-contender-now---french-coach-1740555.html

Form is temporary. Lallana was injured and has played about 90mins in total this season. Hasnt started well and we have been good but he would definitely add to our team, which is hardly suprising given he won about 3 POTS awards last season and someone paid 25m for him.

They obviously would.

Davie - its just media speculation. He probably isnt good enough for Arsenal anyway.

Koeman said after the last game he will be at least 2 and a half months. If we could get him going for when Mane leaves that would be ok.