Jimmy_D

That's never the reason he's gone down, but Valery silly to give him the chance to do that.

A few sloppy moments aside, that early goal has done us a world of good in terms of giving us control of the game.

Gerrin!

That might explain the Covid cases they had...

Newcastle

Unfortunately looks like it might not be on iPlayer, can pick it up on 976 on Freesat, 978 on Sky, or 684 on Virgin Media though. EDIT: Restark pointed out it looks like you can change your location on iPlayer to view.

That was the Hotelgate match wasn’t it? That late goal was a proper limbs-flailing-everywhere-oh-right-I’m-only-in-my-living-room moment Reactions from both sets of players and the crowd at the end was a sight to see too.

Asymptomatic doesn't mean they haven't tested positive, just that they're just not showing any ill effects. Unfortunately with Covid, that doesn't mean they can't spread it.

Unless he decides to kick up a VvD type stink over leaving (which I actually would be genuinely shocked by), with 4 1/2 years left on his contract I think that the price we'd be willing to sell at is a lot higher than what anyone would be willing to offer.

Not really. https://www.who.int/ith/2016-ith-county-list.pdf

Swapping one season of Ings for at least 2-3 seasons of Armstrong, at least 2 seasons of Livramento, and 1 season of Broja was one of the better deals we've done. If we're able to get Broja longer term with this takeover, that'd be an excellent start.

"We're in a better position than yesterday" is probably as far as you're going to hear about any plans from any sensible new owner, regardless of actual plans, especially in a transfer window. We'll just have to wait and see. Takeover not being a leveraged buyout is excellent news, though.

Officially confirmed. Southampton FC on Twitter: "A new era at #SaintsFC 😇 We can confirm that Sport Republic has completed the acquisition of a controlling stake in Southampton Football Club." / Twitter

It'll be interesting to see what sort of owner we're getting. Could go either way, considering we're going from essentially a completely neutral owner who didn't put money in or take money out of the club. Right now I'm cautiously optimistic that we'll at least have a bit more clout in the transfer market and in keeping hold of players.

Those infections aren’t even higher. The aim for a long time has been to balance keeping life as normal as possible and avoiding putting too much pressure on the health service. With Omicron turning out to be milder, they’ve been able to push more towards fewer restrictions. Like I said yesterday, we’re not out of the woods yet with Omicron, we might well still end up needing further restrictions. In any case, I’m certainly not claiming it as a ‘win’. It’s literally a no win situation with no perfect answer. However, it does appear that the answer chosen might well be one where we don’t lose as much.

It’s almost like the minimal restrictions put in place and the booster campaign are working as intended so far.

That exchange doesn’t in any way suggest that the likelihood of scenarios where action needs to be taken isn’t being taken into account. Looks to me like like the journalist assumes that if a scenario isn’t modelled, that means it’s not considered at all. In reality all the scenarios where no action needs to be taken (which are numerous) will largely be considered in the same bucket, with an estimated level of risk attached to taking no action.

So… the government were given a worst case scenario if restrictions weren’t put in place. They responded by putting some restrictions in place, people also responded further than those restrictions given the information available, a massive booster campaign was successfully rolled out, and it appears we’ve been lucky with the severity of illness caused by Omicron. As a result we didn’t get the worst case scenario. None of this is contradictory, indicates that the government took the wrong actions, or that the modelling was wrong. It should be seen as a good thing that we’ve avoided those numbers so far. We’re not out of the woods yet. We’re still seeing record numbers of Covid infections, and hospitalisation is rising too. Omicron being milder is obviously fantastic news for any individual unlucky enough to be infected, but a combination of massively increased infectivity and complacency due to it being milder could still lead to it having a massive impact on a health service that’s already under massive strain.

Not so sure about that. There’s a difference between clubs representatives meeting players representatives that happens all the time, technically within the rules, and VvD being shown around the stadium and taken out to dinner by Klopp, being told the team would be built around him. Liverpool actually put out a public ‘apology’ if I recall correctly. Can’t remember that happening for any other tapping up.

It was only 2016 that a few of this Liverpool team finished above Liverpool with Southampton! Think it was Klopp’s first season? Still annoys me every time I see VvD in a Liverpool kit after they cheated the way they did to sign him.

That was a great game, both teams obviously knowing a draw wasn’t really enough.

Yeah, think he was extremely lucky not to be sent off, especially with VAR.

Technique for Chelsea’s first goal was ridiculous.

Meanwhile Newcastle didn’t play today and no-one could tell the difference

Tip my hat to that one Saints, Great result! Rode our luck slightly that second half but we deserved that luck. KWP was immense, second half especially.