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Schneiderlin got relegated from the Championship. He obviously grew a lot as a player afterwards but I wouldn't focus on that. That said, no idea whether he is any good or not!

Yeah, that's how it has always been, which is why the ref made an error. If you kick, with the top of your foot, the back of someone's leg who is running away from you with the ball you will get booked unless you have denied a goal scoring opportunity and then you might get sent off. If they don't have the ball you will get sent off. If it goes beyond a robust trip/knock on the back of the leg and is a studs-up / two footed / dangerous etc. you will get sent off. I'm not saying it's correct but if that red card had stood it would have massively blurred the lines under the current way the laws are applied. There is a case for introducing some sort of "orange" offence perhaps, which brings a sin-bin or some other sanction over and above a yellow, for "cynical" fouls but with the prevalence of shirt pulling and general sly behaviour in the game that would cause all manner of refereeing issues, I expect. Under the current interpretation of the laws, the ref had no business getting the red card out.

I'm sure he'd rather be playing. I've met him and he seems like a decent and sensible guy. He's not flashy or a Billy big-balls and I bet he's gutted over how the last couple of years have gone.

Do you promes?

Exactly correct. Perfectly said.

Can't agree. Stephens is out of his depth. He's not a good enough defender at all.

This is clearly what it was.

Silva is probably better than MPell (a turd in a sock would be) but long-term I wouldn't want him here.

This is precisely the point. The bottom half of the league is rubbish. We can easily climb the table with some decent management.

We don't need any signings, we just need some competent management. Have you seen how crap Swansea, Brighton, Huddersfield, Newcastle, Bournemouth are? We can easily stay up if we get a decent manager in before the next league game.

Was at the Huddersfield match. FACT.

Expect us to lose but fancy Hoedt to score for some reason.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/3925722/southampton-jack-stephens-signs-contract/ This article works out at almost exactly £48k per week. Mental money for a League One standard defender.

Has anyone got David Comlay's email address? I need to rest some money from overseas in an account for a short time and am willing to bestow great honour and financial reward on someone for provision of most kind assistance.

A number of rooms have been booked at the Ibis Budget this weekend.....

This is true and, really, he only bought Saints in order to deliver the long-awaited Mayflower Park redevelopment.

Anyway, for the record, I was obviously correct. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42610243

That's Nanjing_Saint. He posts on The Ugly.

He's got a perfect name for some of our legendary songs too. You see: - Oh, Guido Carillo! Oh, Guido Carillo! - Guido! Guido! Guido! - Les Reed went to Europe to buy a Fiat Doblo. Instead he bought a striker, his name is Carillo, Guido. - Score a goal Guido Carillo, we will love you more than you will know. Whoa, whoa, woo.

In fairness, there's nothing to contradict that yet. There's two weeks left to sign players this window. Looks like we missed out on Walcott but that may simply be because Everton were prepared to offer a financial package to Arsenal and Walcott that we felt was not good value. In fact, if you look at last summer there is evidence to support the view. We only moved on J Rod and we signed Hoedt and Lemina. We didn't sell VVD. Of course, that was before Gao, so who knows what the current situation really is

Yeah, there's definitely nothing at all dodgy about what's going on at Everton. Definitely not.

Whilst we're having a dreadful season, that's just nonsense.

You're asking the wrong person.

Hi Jack!