JRM

Could end up as Willy being the number one start of the season, i keep forgetting about him .

Your statement highlights to me why it was so important to bring in a more experienced keeper, McCarthy looks poor and could be out of favour, we're taking a big gamble that he can raise his game from league one. Livramento was a cracking player last season but your mistakes at right back can be covered and guided by senior pros around you, not so easy when you're the keeper. Let's hope this one pays off. Not against the signing but seems a lot of money for someone so unproven

I'll take that with a pinch of salt, International football selection and performances aren't accurate guides to ability, I mean Hungary battered England last night with a young Barnsley lad in midfield shall we buy him as well? Fact is Gav played 4 times for Shamrock Rovers in a minor league, Man City took a punt on him and invested a tiny amount (£400k) , never played him themselves , farmed him out to another minor league - league one (Relegated with Rochdale, mid table with Skates) must be laughing getting £12M plus add ons! This is one for the future I'm sure, he could come good, but certainly not expecting him to be a Premier league standard keeper from the start.

Made me laugh that, Gav has turned out for Rochdale and Skates and is getting the next Van Dijk predction!

Wasn't he Sheff Utd p)ayer of the season and also the year they got promoted? always looked a top player when I've seen him, Sheff Utd finished 9th winning many low scoring games thanks to his saves, been wasted at United but still played for them a few times. Banzuna has never played higher than league one has he? If we'd signed a player from league one for £12M people would think we were nuts.

If Forest get Henderson will be a great bit of business for them. Proven talent at this level.

Bazuna was playing in league one last season so that sounds like nonsense wind up

If we do lose Broja, Long and Armstrong there's quite a bit of work to do filling our forward positions.

And he scored against Everton I think, plus he keeps the boys entertained with his guitar on away days

Coming from Man City doesn't really mean anything, like you say we've had Gunn from them and that was a waste of money

Agree he was definitely offside, not even mentioned on the commentary and ref surely saw that when looking at VAR, I must be missing something.

Can you share some of your research on here?

We usually play someone at home the week before the season starts, often Spanish or German. Might be a bit different this year with the season starting early and the fact St Mary's is being used for the women's Euros group stage so they might need more time preparing the pitch.

I still play this every morning as my motivation for the day https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/shane-long-sings-southampton-end-7980891

Looked like we'd sold about 2500 so could be right, thought our support was good at Brentford despite the football so hopefully same again.

Fuck sake looking forward to out annual defeat at Goodison again next year then

Ha 😆

It's probably the perfect message to send, doing a lap of the pitch clapping empty seats. Think a number of our players realise they're not well liked by the fans, bad atmosphere at St Mary's with little rapport between players and fans

Ralph out

It's the sort of line up Liverpool would put out 3rd round of the cup against a league one opposition

Spineless Saints sounds about right, Did my usual bet once we'd taken the lead on Liverpool to win. After a long tiring season Liverpool would have been hoping to avoid a high energy game, we've obliged them drifting along

I thought Minamino was lightweight last season , shoots like he's wearing slippers, so probably a hat trick for him tonight

Have our players really been allowed days off for a foreign short break just a week before they'll all be jetting off on holiday anyway?

I'm sure the half and half Scarf sellers will do a good trade.

Game sold out over 3 weeks ago, but fans can return tickets and season ticket holders list theirs for sale, about 5 tickets available at the moment