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Cheers for the heads up. That's one I'm particularly interested in. But it's around £80 a ticket from Euston as well.

Thinking about booking away travel to other upcoming away fixtures, where do the televised fixtures take us to, end of March or beyond.

More tea vicar?

I like the Portsmouth nippers that turned to Saints. That's good. Would hate it the other way around. Just shows what double standards I have.

Toure?

Two injury ravaged sides. A deserved win. Ok maybe lucky with the penalty. Actually definitely lucky with the penalty. But luckier still that they have an inexperienced caretaker manager and we have Koeman. No contest. Excellent substitutions, again. Would have been tougher had Pardew been there.

A deal with Arsenal or another club would explain Schneiderlin's abrupt change of heart about leaving. The deal that may have been brokered need only be conditional upon Arsenal qualifying for Champions League next season if that's what's important to him. He might consider that even should Arsenal not qualify next season they have a better chance than Southampton of qualfying in subsequent seasons, and he'd be right. In the meantime he can think of the readies.

It seemed like the intention was to keep Boruc as back up but he's gone on loan and we haven't replaced him. So in simple terms you are right. Given the injuries to outfield players you'd think it would be a replacement for one or more of them that we'd sign this window, and Koeman is suggesting we don't need even to do that so I can't see a GK coming in. I agree, the GK situation is a risk that would need addressing in the summer at the latest.

I assume it's a conditional contract or there's adequate insurance available because he is not fit to work and no guarantee that he will get to his previous level. All this talk of clubs wanting to buy him seems odd to me.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2866643/Manchester-United-title-race-Louis-van-Gaal-Wayne-Rooney-Michael-Carrick-thank.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 Contrast with his article here after United fluked a win at St Mary's. It's about opinions fair enough, but there has to be a degree of consistency,fairness and objectivity in what is written, especially if your being paid for doing it, or people will stop reading. I certainly won't bother clicking on any more of his articles.

Hand van Breukelen on 5 Live now talking about the Koemans.

Enjoyed that. I watched in a local pub up here in North London. Big cheer from me when Tadic scored and absolute stony silence throughout the rest of the pub. Three points closer.

How did he ever keep a clean sheet?

Remember when Saints had Crouch and Poke on the bench.

Bernt Haas - Sunderland.

The problem yesterday was Ipswich dropping deeper second half and Saints slow build up. It wasn't only Long that showed for the ball, usually over the top or down the channels, but also Pelle (to feet) and he often didn't get it either. If you recall, we carved them open a couple of times in the first half (Davis was one) when they were playing a higher line. All well and good blaming Long for not playing like Suarez (who does?), but if we can't play to his strengths then we are relying on his control in tight situations, which as we know, let's him down on occasions.

Any way the wind blows, this forum. We win and everything's great. We don't win and who's to blame?

Bring him home. We could have done with him tonight.

Pelle barely won a header all game.

I Ditto. Two or three youngsters as fresh blood though rather than wholesale changes.

The water bottle's a surrogate teet. Kn@bs and knockers.

Buy quality irrespective of nationality.

I've seen nearly all of our matches this season and that's not what I've seen at all, in fact quite the opposite. His last action was to take one for the team against Chelsea. It would be insane to sell him in January.

Ok, Deooderant.

Odegaard. Norwegian for Deoderant.