Lord Duckhunter

Nonsense. Letting Fox go is a no brainer, you don't need a replacement for him. We have centre halves to replace Lovren, they may not be as good but our squad consisted of 4 centre halves, plus Victor could fill in. We have enough cover for GR , as we're strong in that role and he didn't start anyway. That just leaves Osvaldo. Why not use Sam G as back up to Rickie, with JRod able to fill in? When Clyne was unfit, Chambers stepped up to the plate after being give a chance. Who is to say Sam G wont, the signs were promising on Tuesday. I'd rather that than another Carlos-kick-a-ball whose only here for the money. Why do we have to scramble around and get ripped off in the Jan window, its nothing to do with being tight we only got Foren in last Jan and look how that worked out? Unless there's someone we wont, have tracked and is good value, lets promote from within.

Imagine you're a foreign billionaire looking to invest in English football bazza ,maybe Chinese or from Qatar trying the break into the premiership,. Would you giving a flying fig about the league cup runners up ( following the mighty Bradford), or would you be more bothered about a clubs chances of survival and buying into a guaranteed premiership side. Imagine you are the latest bazza-kick-a-ball , star striker interested in plying your trade in the premier league. Will you sign for a side that finished ninth , played some great stuff and were never in danger of relegation. Or the runners up in the league cup who flirted with relegation all season long? I don't get all this "good day out " shiete connected to cup finals, its only a good day if you win it, and if you think Sunderland will beat man c bazza, you're deluded. So no, I wouldn't swap places. Not in a million years.

Top top performance for all but the first 10 mins of the second half. Gave them an absolute run around first half. Outclassed and out Arsenaled. I've seen them harried and outmuscled before, but not had the **** taken out of them like that. Wonderful, and with the spine out. No Lovren,no victor and no Rickie, amazing performance. That said, a couple of soft goals cost us, Jrod really poor for the first one and the left flank badly exposed for the second. Great for Jose, a real popular goal that one. Midfield superb, and I thought chambers was fantastic tonight. On Monday Neil Warnock said on Alan brazils show that Clyne is the best English right back in the league, its touch and go if he's the best right back at Southampton , let alone the league. Without a shadow if a doubt thus is the most exciting side I've seen since lawrie's day. I feel so proud and privileged to be there to see it.

It's a real shame the war came to an end so early, 10 years would have been a fantastic achievement.

Where would it be if Brown and Balls were still in charge? Where will we be if Labour are given another go, where France is heading , seeing as Milliband hailed Hollande and said "This new leadership is sorely needed as Europe seeks to escape from austerity". When people come to cast their vote in 2015,luckily they can look around at other places that have tried the Labour remedy. France for economics and Wales for health.

I've always regretted the fact that a world war didn't break out in 1976, it would have been nice to have pinched their record. Still I live in hope that it may yet happen, and now I'm in my 50's I won't get called up. That's a win/win

So the two flops were down to Nicola, and the two success's down to Reed, who was the insider who gave you this information, Reed?

I thought we just went through the motions and were really poor. Good save from Kelvin at 1-0, had they got that one it would have been different. MoM , Clyne IMO, thought he got forward well and showed good energy. Yoshida's passing was woeful at times. Moved from the Kingsland to the Northam for this one, and some of out yoof in there are complete and utter idiots. Not funny, not original and seem incapable of stringing 3 words together without using the F and C words, trying to taunt Yeovil fans is pretty pathetic as well, one bloke kept shouting "go to your home games", whatever that means. One was so intoxicated he kept walking to the wrong row every time he went for a whizz and another kept calling Yoshida, Fonte (obviously a regular lol). Spoke to my mate afterwards who normally sits in there and he reckons there were a lot of strangers today and it's not normally that bad. I was really ready to do an Osvaldo to some of them, but my lad kept calming me down.

What if Man City offer £75mil, do we say "no we promised our fans we wont sell anyone"? Everybody has a price. Shaws price will be higher in Jan, but if clubs want to pay that premium and not wait till summer nobody, will turn that down, even Cortese.

So on the one hand we have a guy who stepped down a league to sign for us, who has been nothing but class and professional since signing, who has been with us all the way on our remarkable journey, who let a previous manager screw his wife (joke), who has never acted too big for his boots, or given anyone any reason to think he's a billy big bollards. And on the other hand we have a bloke who has punched team mates at least twice, who just got himself suspended for getting involved when he had nothing to do with it, who has been pulled away from confrontations a couple of times this season, who runs off when we lose with no acknowledgement of the fans, who was hated by the fans of his last club and who plays like he's doing us a favour. I know who I think is to blame. I hope the whole of SMS give it one big "Jose Fonte Baby" if he plays tomorrow, cause he's one of us. That Carlos Kick-a-ball aint.End of *Post written after a few Tanglefoots.

Jose stepped down a league to sign for us, was clearly a class above the standard we were at and has been with us all the way on this great journey. Never once has the bloke ever acted big time and has been professional and classy every step of the way. For some big time Charlie to come along and do that to him, makes my blood boil. I just wish that KL had the money and the will to tell him to **** off, sack him and sue him for the transfer money like Chelsea did to mutu. It'll be a sad day if that twt wears a saints shirt again.

If mlt is going to put himself up as a pundit then his views should be judged as a pundit not a great player. As a pundit, what he said is horse shyte. Had merson or some other clown said the same he'd be crucified on here. Its crap, cortese did a great job, him going is not "one less problem". He's quick to point out that it wasn't his money, therefore he must have been accountable to the purse holder. What does matt think , that Nicola could just take as much money as he wanted, when he wanted. Course he was accountable to someone, it was someone's money. Matts takeover involved the CEO being accountable to his mummy. Matt le tissier was a better football than Nicola cortese will ever be, and Nicola cortese a better CEO than matt le tissier ever will be. They should stick to commenting on their area of expertise.

I can't see rates going up pre the election, I know the BOE is independent, but just can't see them wanting to rock the boat yet. Even if the unemployment trigger is reached, the recovery is too fragile. I suspect they'll be another caveat around average earnings before rates go up. I am with nationwide and have been for years. Because of the length of time I've been with them im on their BMR which they guanteed would never be more than 2% above base. This used to be their variable rate, but now they call that their SMR, which has no such guarantee. They keep trying to bribe me to switch , which indicates they're not expecting rate rises soon and if there is a rise it won't be high. Lenders may try and bump up their SVR's to increase margin between the base rate and their borrowers rates but if I was a betting man I'd back a tiny % rise at worse by the next election.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/01/podcast-benefits-street-vs-the-left-camerons-euro-mission-and-our-1964-expose/ Some real common sense on this podcast from Frank Field on the show and the problems of the benefit trap.

Muddy Mildred have you forgotten about Warbury Warriors?

What if this runreekers bloke takes over and does a man city, are we going to rename it Wang stadium?

Even "without trying" to win league, they were better than Yeovil, Fulham, stoke, west ham and crystal palace are now.

Didn't we beat man city, Chelsea and Liverpool and draw with arsenal without lovren last season?

I'm meeting family in Ealing beforehand and coming back via a few beers in Covent garden. Any real ale pubs on route from Ealing Broadway that anybody knows of?

I presume you have to get underground on top of this. Does anyone know is it cheaper in advance or buy day ticket at waterloo. I normally pay extra and get it added to overground, but the terms of the £10 offer clearly state SW trains only. Anyone coming up from the west, there are no trains from brock that day. If you're coming via Bournemouth , there are buses stright to parkway,.which are quicker than train to brock then bus to Central.

According to Andrew pierce she's claimed house of commons expenses to travel to the lilo tthat was her chosen charity. As its in the same road as her constituency office, he claims the amount she billed the tax payer for was 90p.

It's nothing do with "tugging the forelock" its to do with my opinion of the tackle. Which was shared by the referee, Alan shearer, Michael Owen, Steve Mac, David James and according to Blackmore ,MP and the players.Perhaps we're all wrong and saints posters on a saints forum are right. If so, the referee will be stood down as mike jones was this weekend. How come some refs get stood down for mistakes but this one won't, it musdt be an anti saints conspiracy !!!

Was the ref a clown as well, what about the saints manager and players are they clowns. What if the pgmo don't stand down foy , are they clowns?

I'll take the pundit and the professional ref's view over people with red and white coloured spectacles on. My opinion is saints supporters are concentrating on the outcome and the fact they don't like Brown, rather than the tackle. A tackle shouldn't be judged by who made it and for what side the injured party played for. Most neutrals and certainly most people involved in the game (according to Blackmore , this even included Saints players and Manager) thought it fair.

It was every single pundit from the BBC and from BT sport. People on here are hardly neutral are they? Lets see if the ref's board give Foy a break next week for missing it.