Dr. Kucho

To everyone who is going on about Tadic’s great stats, remember he is playing in the Eredivisie. Yes he is a good player and we could do with him right now, but his stats are quite flattering as Ajax have the best squad in the league by a mile. Besides that the pace in the Eredivisie is much lower and players get way more time on the ball. He gets the time to control and play the ball with someone like Van Dijk crashing in to him the second the ball gets near him. I do hope Ajax win the league get to play Barcelona in the CL final. They have a great squad with some very talented players. We won’t do bad to go over there and have a look at how the club and scouting is run.

Wasn’t it someone from Ings inner circle that said he found the training here like a holiday camp? (When Hughes was still around). I think a full pre season under Ralph will give us a good indication how good some players actually are.

If this is his way to force a transfer, I am fine with that. I hope he gets his transfer and never sets foot in Hampshire again..

According to some Feyenoord fans I spoke to recently, Clasie has mostly been poor for them. They don’t see why the club would want to sign him. The only good thing is that Clasie and his family want to move back to Holland and he might want to have his contract terminated.

Body wise Van Dijk and Vestergaard have very little in common. Both are indeed tall, however Vestergaard is more what we call an ectomorph (low fat percentage, struggles to build muscle and generally skinny), whilst Van Dijk is leaning towards body type mesomorph (low/medium fat percentage and musculair). If Vestergaard and Van Dijk were both to do weights with the aim to build muscle, Van Dijk would become huge whilst Vestergaard would really struggle to put on more muscle. However if both were train for a marathon, I would put my money on Vestergaard. That said, Van Dijk is quite a freak when talking about athletics and injuries, the guy is hardly ever injured (except when Vardy stamped on him).

I can understand the club wanting Ralph to try and get something out of Boufal, Elyounoussie and Carrillo. We paid big money for them after all.

H It won’t be long before he overtakes Pochettino as our best manager in recent years imo.

I like this line up, good luck lads and fellow Saints fan!

Grealish

Besides his odd selections, Crooks only picks players from teams that have won their game.

Good read! It’s hard not to like this guy.

If we win our game in hand we are just 2 points behind Bournemouth. Let’s go em and the south coast is ours again..

I thought they were best mates? Is Watson the problem or is Forster being pain? And LeG one final question, as you and a few others are ITK, hows the atmosphere on the training ground?

Burnley - Liverpool tomorrow is a tough one. I want Burnley to lose, but don’t want Liverpool to win either..

Well this is just typical. I watch the first half and we are rubbish, start watching the second half and we keep missing good chances. I start noticing I am going all ‘Alpine/Glasgow’ and decide to go out and walk the dog. Come back and just see the replay of JWP’s free kick going in... So relieved and happy now.

How about Amazon as a new sponsor? Jeff Brezos their CEO is the richest man on the planet and currently in divorce with his wife. Maybe someone can persuade him to invest his money in us, so his wife cannot get to it.

Congratulations to the ref.. Shame we lost but a massive performance from us and I am very proud of the players today.

Our topscorer this season?

I am expecting a reaction after yesterday’s game, let’s hope it’s the right one.. Why was Gunn playing over McCarthy? Missed why McCarthy was dropped.

I think Brighton might be going down, they have been poor for ages.

His misses was robbed last weekend whilst on her way home from a night out. Having watched the Hasenhüttl interview on YouTube last night I have to say I am impressed with him and believe he is the right manager for us. The results against Burnley and Cardiff were disappointing but he is in a new league. Klopp and Guardiola also needed time to settle and get to know the league. I think we will be safe and Cardiff or Brighton will go down.

Give them a horrible time in the sun Ralph. Players shouldn’t be on a Spanish party island but training somewhere in the cold Belarusian countryside

When you add this all up you wonder if Cardiff City knew of his plans and why they didn’t forbid him to board this aircraft. Maybe Derry might know, if the plane was having troubles, should the pilot have sent an mayday message to the nearest control center?

Don’t know if it has been said earlier in this thread, but why was Stephens marking Crouch and not Vestergaard? Both are more or less the same height and Vestergaard could have been more of a nuisance to Crouch. Shame about the last minute equalizer, but still unbeaten in 2019 (in the league).

Let’s hope they stay up and Hoedt does well so they decide to purchase him at the end of the season.