John B

I was at both Nottm Forest games at the Dell and White Hart Lane and the 6 0 thrashing of Middlesborough where Kirby scored a hat trick He was one of my all time favorite Saints players along with Osgood who did not play in that 1962 fixture he started playing for Chelsea in 1964 when I was at Uni in London he was a wonderful player despite breaking his leg badly

Well he thinks Forster is not as good as Hart and I agree with him Hart is probably the only World Class player in the England squad Mind you Forster is a pretty good deputy

I think Spurs are a big club the first English club to win a European trophy who have under performed for over thirty years Not unlike Chelsea and Man City who in my opinion are not as big a club as Spurs In my lifetime they have the following honours League First Division/Premier League Winners (2): 1950–51, 1960–61 Second Division/Championship Winners (1): 1949–50 Cup FA Cup Winners (6) 1960–61, 1961–62, 1966–67, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1990–91 League Cup Winners (4): 1970–71, 1972–73, 1998–99, 2007–08 European UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Winners (1): 1962–63 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League Winners (2): 1971–72, 1983–84

I agree but if they dont win the League but qualify for the CL he still will have done a great job far better than I expected.

I think you make a good point and why would he want to move to Man U or Chelsea if Spurs are in the CL and they are not

We never seem to do well after a two week break hope we can do so in this game

Maybe something do with Liverpool's history in EUROPE

I am surprised to see Jackson Bird in the Australian Test Team v NZ after his lack lustre performance with Hampshire

and to think he was loaned out to Essex last season he did bowl well for England A v Pakistan

Three red cards in one season surely deserves at least a five game ban cannot remember how many he has had whilst playing for Saints

You obviously have not read the Daily Mail Article Southampton will be without Victor Wanyama for six weeks after the FA confirmed his red card against West Ham will mean a five-match ban. It was the third time the 24-year-old midfield man had been sent off this season, adding two extra games to the three matches for his horror tackle on Dimitri Payet. and Window Cleaners Post http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?56025-Post-Match-Reaction-SAINTS-1-0-West-Ham-United&p=2305687#post2305687 Clattenberg had already warned him at least twice...but he just couldn't control himself.

That is not true he has been banned for 6 weeks because he has already had 2 red cards and is irresponsible and loses his cool from time to time

One of the major problems with football is that managers do not respect referees nearly always blaming them when their teams loses so it is not surprising that players have no respect either Just compare this with Rugby where there is so much more respect and very much less gamemansship

I think you are talking about Bob Crowe who died recently but his union is not affiliated to the Labour Party In the 1960s the chap who was the union leader of the dockers in Southampton lived in a non council house next to us in Bitterne Manor

Have you the evidence for this if so please can you post it because I doubt it is true

I doubt if sick note Austin will start

Where Hunter was probably in the right then

No it was David Burnside

Surely a great mind like yours can see there is a possibility though very remote because of the above that West Ham could get in the CL if they do they will need extra players so they may have Mane on their list of possible new players I am sure that SFC also have a list which the Brentwood Gazzette or whatever it is called are not interested in because many of their readers are West Ham supporters

If they get in the Champions League they will have deep pockets so it is a possibility

I go and see Ipswich once a year when I visit a friend in Suffolk

Channon made his debut for Southampton as a 17-year-old in 1966, scoring in the match against Bristol City I was there

I agree not helped by them losing to Chelsea

Pretty incisive analysis

I think that our squad is possibly the best we have had for sometime now that we have Austin and Soares and Romeo Claise are starting to play well. The four summer signings have proved to be pretty shrewd signings the old hands Davis Long Wanyama Fonte Bertrand Tadic and Forster are playing pretty well and Targett and JWP are beginning to show more than promise I always thought we had a good squad and it is a shame we had such a bad run at the end of last year but the starting XI seems more settled now after RK's little tweaks