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Arguably, Holmes could be our best winger but he does spend too much time in the treatment room.

Bannana!

Suspended for getting booked in every match.

Oh yeah, he sounds like a right gimp. Maybe I should have gone instead.

This is a shame, I was hoping they would go into admin, but at the end of the day this is not really of any great interest.

I note Connolly is not in the squad. I think it's a fair opinion that he is arguably, when fit, our best striker but it looks as though he might be paying a visit to the treatment room instead today.

Yes.

Typical oblique bull-sack from all concerned. Grow some you feeble gimpaloids.

"vision", seriously? You must be easily impressed by predictable and formulaic cross-field balls to the opposition full-back.

Thanks!

Think I might go to bed...

Amanda Knox. ****ing awesome.

I've been more impressed by Butterfied than Richardson so far. Holmes did a couple of blatant foul throws that the ref didn't care about!

Look, I quite like that Banksy piece so I would have preferred it if it hadn't been amended, but that is my purely subjective relative viewpoint on the two "works". The fact is - and this is correct and if you don't agree you're completely missing the point - Banksy, or any fans thereof, have no moral recourse whatsoever against whoever defaced this. Banksy makes his statements on people's property without warning or endorsement. If someone chooses to make a statement on his works then that's just tough luck. End of story. As for the comments about Southampton, this isn't the first time a Banksy has been defaced and it won't be the last. He is from Bristol and his work on Park Street in Bristol has been splatted by blue paint.

Bit slow in coming but here's my tuppence worth... Really enjoyable game that Saints dominated for the first half from about 8 minutes onwards. We set oursleves up to combat Brighton's preferred tactics and it worked a treat but we managed this without compromising our own attacking possibilities. We should have had a penalty and so were bloody unlucky not to be ahead at half-time. Unfortunately the contact was on the blindside of the linesman which presumably is the only reason we didn't get it as he clearly wasn't shy in flagging (apart from for offsides). I think Brighton managed two efforts from outside the box in the first half and that was really it apart from a couple of corners. Only some heroic defending stopped Lallana from bagging one. The accusations of time wasting against their goalie are ********. He wasn't deliberately time wasting he just didn't have a clue what to do for the first 60 minutes as we took their preferred options away from them. At the start of the second half we continued in much the same vein and should have scored when Richardson set up Lambert. He really should have buried his header - it was the kind of chance you would go mad at a lesser playing for missing the target from. Very frustrating. The tone of the game changed a bit when Brighton stuck on a bigger striker and started to play direct. A few of our players started to look a little ragged and the game opened up. I've seen Poyet claiming that they eventually opened us up with their passing. That's nonsense; they created a few chances towards the end because they managed to finally pick up some second balls from their forwards. The pen looked like the wrong decision, FWIW, but thanks to Super Kelv it didn't matter (although it did make the Lallana incident in the first half more annoying). We had a great chance towards the end when Lallana tried to play Guly in having broken from midfield; IMO, and it's easy to say after the event, but in the goalscoring form Lallana is in he should have shot towards the far post himself. So, all in all, I would say we were unlucky not to win; we should've had a penalty and we created the clearest chance of the match when Lambert headed over. I think we really need to press on form here though, and a minimum of 10 points from the next four games has to be the target if we're going to claw ourselves into the top 2. I'm not an advocate of dropping Lambert at the moment because he is still a dangerous player and did contribute last night but he really has lost his touch in front of goal - I think the main target for Jan has to be a striker to make him compete for his place. Realistically we're not going to start with Barnard and Connolly (who will probably pay a visit to the treatment room sometime soon, whilst arguably being our best forward), and Guly is not doing enough to justify starting ahead of Lambert.

LOL!!111

I didn't make it on Sat. Interested to hear how Holmes approached the right wing role - did he cut in a lot or did he go outside and use the right boot to cross it?

Seriously? That would cripple them unless they got to the Prem, surely, even without interest?

Why don't you go and live in the forest somewhere then? Build a little shack, catch your dinner... nothing's stopping you. Maybe you actually quite like "civilisation"?

I am confident.

Great band.

Annine Bing.

Doddsy.

Back them all on an accumulator and I guarantee you at least one of them will mess up!

Agreed, he handled Soderling's power game expertly earlier. I still have my doubts that he will ever win a grandslam but then he's unlucky to be playing at the same time as Nadal and Federer.