Greenridge

Abductor strain

Pochettino got crucified for not playing our best available 11 last year....just saying.

Daily Echo reporting positive news on the injury. 3 - 4 weeks out potentially missing only 2 Prem games. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/11721485.Injury_boost_for_Saints_star/?ref=mr

The Sun, see post #37 (don't shoot the messenger)

I see on SkySports in the Paper Talk section The Sun are claiming Jack is set to leave after turning down the contract offer.

Sorry if already posted but an interesting report on Sky Sports of some of the top Prem clubs total wage bills. Saints being at less than a quarter (or so) of Man City Man Utd and Chelsea. No surprises there but shows how much we are punching above our weight in relative performance terms. http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9642781/premier-league-chelseas-wage-bill-rises-to-1631905m-a-year-but-is-still-lower-than-manchester-clubs

Another striker is the main criteria. Wouldn't be surprised if Koeman looks to the Dutch league for someone, even if it is on loan, to give us cover till the end of the season. I'm assuming J-Rod is still some way off? Is he back in 'full' training do we know?

Good news. Might not be a first choice pick but adds depth to the squad and is more than capable.

Great confidence booster going in to the Xmas period.

It's more that an unproven youngster with only a few minutes pitch time is suddenly going to be our saviour in our hour of need.

Threadbare.

Who's fit / available for the Everton game?

Just a seat required

So what would the positives be?

The positives being? We have / had a tough run but within that we've had Villa and Burnley. The rest of December is not going to get any easier and confidence appears to be shot.

Indeed. The trend however is not a positive one.

Glad to hear that, shame with the injury and the timing but he's obviously done enough to convince the one person that matters.

At times I thought someone had put the wrong air pressure in the ball. It was bouncing off us left, right and centre. It reminded me of the old boy who used to sit next to me in the Chapel who turned round to his mate and quite genuinely asked why Beattie's second touch always seemed to be a tackle. Anyway a drop in performance levels was always likely to happen and December is no doubt going to be a tough month but we'll be OK.

If you're lacking confidence playing in a team with the best defensive record in English / European (whatever the stat is / was) then that's not a great sign.

He does the spoiling part well. Ps meant to say Davis was not much better as opposed to much better.

Shame as he would have been a shoe-in for Wanyama who was awful and Davis much better.

A disappointingly poor performance and a pretty scrappy game all in all. After similar at Aston Villa hopefully we can get back on form sooner rather than later.

Amen to that. Oh and a Saints win....please.

I have to admit I thought he might struggle this year without Lovren alongside him - not the other way round as has so far proven to be the case! Been 'triffic' this year.

Apologies if already posted but seems pertinent here...