kwsaint

We need another keeper. He was rooted to his line for the first goal. Got away with one in the second half when he was horribly slow off his line, spread himself and got lucky. Simply not good enough for the premier league

Fonte is not fully fit and would not last 90 minutes. Hooiveld manages when we have a decent left back. But having Hooiveld, Fox and Gazzanigga was an accident waiting to happen. At least Hooiveld tries. Fox packed in mid way through the second half

Disagree. Their defence vs. our defence. Gonna be 4 - 3 or something like that with Henri Camera scoring a last minute goal.

Definitely agree mate. I too bought the sash and still where it to some saints games (when I'm not freezing my tits off). The thing with the sash was it was unique. No-one in league 1 (in the football league possibly) had a sash kit. And who wears all red? Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal, Cardiff and us. That's not even including the leagues below.

just a joke at how commercialised football has now become. this and diving are the two things that are ruining the sport (plus a couple of other things that I'm sure people will inform me about).

A sensible solution would be to make say a third of the stadium safe standing and the rest seating or a proportion like that. clearly the whole stadium standing would be problematic (e.g. kids, elderly, those who like their own personal space) but I agree. Racist chanting has fallen dramatically since the 80s. Crowd behaviour, on the whole, is much better, safer and open to more people.

didn't realise **** is now a swear word. what a load of ********

this literally takes the ****. you're effectively paying an extra 12 pounds for aap3 and the saints logo on it. **** take

at least you get the phone case. if it was the skates you pay the 10 pounds and they've entered administration before Christmas

who Eastleigh?

I believe fielding an illegible player removes three points if you really wanted to be anal. Now is it possible?

40K for QPR does seem a touch unrealistic. An SMS size stadium would be more realistic and provide the facilities that Loftus Road doesn't have. It would be cheaper to build as well. It's all very well having grand plans, but these things need to be funded. When Saints moved from the Dell, they got the capacity wrong. Planning permission for Stoneham was 25K. The thought with SMS was that it would only be filled 6-7 times per season as the Kraken points out. However, we ended up averaging over 30K for all the seasons that we have been in the Premier League. In hindsight, SMS should have been around 35-36K, and it's why we keep on having threads about extending it.

To think that we could have played Shaw, Chambers and Ward-Prowse.

Dave Merrington had a huge influence on the youth policy in the late eighties/early nineties. It dipped after he became manager and then left in 96. It wasn't until Strachan became manager and flagged his concern about the youth policy that Rupert did anything about it. To be fair it was then put on a better footing and has been built on in recent years. We are on a roll. Saints now has a reputation for being a well run club and giving youth a chance. Parents will want to get their kids involved with Saints.

This. I had no idea who he was. Why should anyone who doesn't support Pompey have any idea who he is. He's not "cosying" up to him as norwaysaint said. He's having a picture with him because he's a nice bloke.

sadly I was wondering this but I haven't the heart to go on it and find out. rip mandela

Goalkeeping cover and left footed CB who can cover at LB. Let Ramirez go. Think we will need to be looking at a striker in the summer. At the risk of getting shot down in flames, I would have Andy Carroll. He is wasted at WHAM as they play hoofball. His hold up play is actually good and he might actually develop into a really good player with us.

Reality check, but we are neither as bad as the wrist-slitters would have us, or as good as our hype. My guess is that we will finish in the top half this season, but outside the top 6.

Niemi for Boruc Killer for Fonte (what a pairing Killer and Lovren would make) Shearer for Lambert - need someone who can hold the ball up well and Shearer was superb at leading the line

Can't see us getting anything from this game now. Back four have been so well drilled and Hooiveld simply isn't anywhere near as good as Lovren.

He who wants to be first shall be last. So a 95th minute penalty from Lambert to make it 2 0 seems fitting.

Mate wrong thread made me chuckle that

Tbh they do have a fair point in the fact that they don't want to go for a larger allocation as I suppose they are buying the tickets off the opponent and then just recouping the money when they sell them to us. In answer to your question, I assume the speed in which tickets sell nowadays, other clubs can't afford to put aside a couple of thousand seats just in case we sell all our allocation and want more. I agree though it is annoying but something that, nowadays, we have to accept.