Convict Colony

yes am loving this and this season I hope your 17th prediction is right :-)

At least all 4 of us have the same team

Southampton team: Boruc, Clyne, Yoshida, Hooiveld, Shaw, Schneiderlin, Cork, S. Davis, Rodriguez, Lallana ©, Lambert

Had exactly the same feed and 100% agree, Andy Townsend emphasised the point about us not letting them play about 10 times and called the pen appeal 100% if it was a big 4 player going down. Not sure what Don Hutchinson added in value though.

Am looking forward to the man city win next week we are due some luck. Thought we pressed well today again, the players did it for a whole game this time now to work on set pieces and if an Argie defender can sort out our defence then no one can, we need his box of dirty tricks. Boruc hardly had much to do, Punch didn't do enough for me to stay on the entire gamem he slows down the game and opportunities with his dribbling, this isn't the playground you can't dribble round the entire team, get your head up and look for a quick pass or cross. Cork and Spiderman were fantastic, was impressed with cork and his ability to get himself out of tight spaces with fancy footwork, did it numerous times in the game even at right back. Davis again came on and provided energy like AL and the closed down well, didn't create too much but were solid. Ricky and Jay were fantastic in my opinion you don't want your strikers to be creating the chances they should be on the end of them. Onwards and upwards, tomorrows another day and we owe city who in my opinion are average without Yaya who is happily here at the moment so I am praying IC beat Nigeria tonight as I don't want to see him next week.

With 1 I think we could be ok and thus improve our attack to create better chances, with 2 we could be exposed and the system not wok, it will be an interesting first 20mins

hahahhahahaha you don't know the VMAN

I'm looking forward to seeing how Gaston and Punch adopt to implementing the press and creating triangles after witnessing the excellent 2nd half from the bench.

It is to that charity and he didn't have to do it.

I just love how this gesture today of all day's is going to make all other signings (mainly QPR's) look like money grabbers. Maybe a precedent will be set and more uber rich footballers set aside money for Charity and not just as a tax dodge.

Fairplay donating his salary to a local charity in Paris, can't see anyone else doing that. Top bloke

Not sure if I am being simplistic but why don't we move the ball fast when counter attacking or interception etc occurs and when we build up from the back retain possession and work triangles to move it forward to exploit space. Currently we pass it 3 times and then hoof it up field.

Am I the only one having to listen to Gary Birtles, he is shocking, he has no idea and is of the football punditry of "good old plucky southampton", I wish us foreigners could listen to Gary Neville not these idiots who turn up to only praise the big team. Don't think we have played well but we can improve, Utd are playing well already.

****ing hell i go back to the previous point who the **** lets a goalkeeper take a pen. Jon Obi must feel like a ****.

goalkeeper ?

get in

Some day either Africa, Asia or the US will get their **** together and smash all the powerhouses of football.

Fair point playing some of the best in the world helps **** the super eagles

TP Mazembe are a decent team, seem to remember a guy who was wanted in Europe going there because he would get more money. Congo is full of rich guys, normally they are called the government.

This is what i like interesting idea's on the poor performance of african countries. I'd love to know where I read it this week but I read an interesting article that covers the last 10yrs which stated apparently most of the players in Bafana Bafana came from the Cape Flats. Players like Pienaar, Quinton Fortune, Benni McCarthey, Shaun Bartlett all came from the Cape Flats and it got to a point the Xhosa and Zulu's were not fans of the team as most of the team were cape coloureds rather than being from their tribes.

Can i also just add i think this thread will double my post count which in itself is sad as its a **** game thus far. Hang on I've just seen my first 5 posts are still the same #186

hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha i wouldn't let him take my temperature

Yeah that's an interesting point, every now and again someone comes to play a friendly in London but your right people were going nuts in Zambia a couple of weeks ago as a Norway B side came over to play them in Zambia. But how does that explain teams like Chile or Uruguay, they don't really travel to play outside S.A but especially in Chile's case they really work a system 4-3-3 to their advantage. I want to agree about Drogba but i keep remembering 1 night in Barcelona when he was awesome tracking back to the half way line, defensive headers etc he was a perfect team man. In normal circumstances he was a ****.

Plus I wanted to buy some tickets and after 1 visit to the website i put it in the too hard basket. Would like to go to the final though.

I used to like it when they brought in a rule banning teams having their witch doctors cast spells before the games. That was when it was proper decent and the Rashidi Yekini was the man RIP