Sour Mash

So just build roads, houses, schools and hospitals to cover an area the size of Southampton every year?

Come on, stick up that list of country's population density you're so keen on then.

So you'd recommend a reduction in non-EU immigration, fair enough

It's not the only thing we can do. We can leave the EU. Or reduce the numbers that enter from outside the EU. I am glad to see you think one of these things should happen. That population density list

Why won't you post up a list of countries above us in terms of population density to support your key point? Strange. So you agree that the current immigration rate isn't sustainable, so everyone agrees on that anyway.

Why don't you list the countries above us in terms of population density to illustrate your point? Not to mention that most of the UK's population is crowded into England, particularly the south and east. Net migration of 250k per year isn't sustainable.

What if some people think they should be getting more than the living wage and it doesn't cover their needs? I doubt Saints employ many/any staff on minimum wage anyway.

Loads of Saints do England aways. For France '16 there will be ridiculous amounts of English going over full-stop, too many really, such an easy journey.

This. Fonte definitely for me.

Good point to be fair. They are excellent defensively, the best back 4 in the country and very good in the air, you're right the only weakness might be pace. The fact that Koeman took off Pelle on Weds night suggests he might be looking at alternatives, but I don't really think Long through the middle is the answer. Maybe Mane up front, with Djuricic, Tadic and Davis threading through the balls, but that's quite a big change in our playing style.

But real wages have fallen across the board. Whilst property prices increase exponentially. Regardless, 250k net immigration isn't sustainable, that's 1 million people every four years, 2.5 million people in a ten year period, the majority in the South and East of England.

How much time was added on for Sunderland at home this season, compared to West Ham at home? Obviously the Muamba incident added on loads of time to that game.

He's hovered around the keeper after originally going to close the ball/make the keeper pick it up a couple of times, not really a big deal and not the cause of 90% of time wasting. Both the West Brom and Palace games the opposition were time wasting from the start, used to be the last 5 or 10 mins maybe, never seen it as systematic from the start as that. Big compliment to us though.

What I never get is there is so little variance in the time added on at the end of games, basically always 4 minutes pretty much every match, regardless of time wasting, injuries, goals scored, subs, only really goes up if there has been a really long stoppage. Never just see "2 mins" added on or "7 mins" held up by the 4th ref.

Which one is it? If you significantly increase the labour supply (city the size of Southampton each year) you need a huge amount of increased demand to stop earnings being suppressed.

Cheers, makes sense then as a couple of days away as a team more than anything. Certainly across February and March no-one can complain about us having too many games to play.

You've missed the point. Immigration continues to happen year on year, and so therefore does wage suppresion (as well as increased demand for housing etc). Your theory would only make sense if immigration had stopped outright.

Anyone know what they've actually gone away for and how long? Couple of days team building stuf or proper training camp for 4 or 5 days?

The atmosphere was good in the 2nd half, or a section of the 2nd half, wasn't great in the first half, plenty of moans and people shouting "shoooot" every 2mins, hilariously.

That is a quality back 6 when we've got everyone fit and available, can't ask for much more than that away at Chelsea. I'd go with that line up, but either Djuricic or Long in for Elia and keep Pelle up front, he's our best striker.

Why is the game even stopped in the first place? What is the law, or the interpretation of the law that dictates that needs to happen?

No way was West Ham's support better than Palace's this season. Yeah, they sing bit of an orchestratedset list, but they make more noise getting behind their team than most. Were good in the cup game as well.

I can't stand the whole Ultras thing, but their support last night wasn't any of the Ultras stuff, decent range of songs, loud, better than we've been away from home this season.

Agree on both those points. What has become ridiculous generally this season is teams kicking the ball out of play or the ref stopping the game just because a player staying down injured, even when its not life threatening or a head injury, it's now just used by teams to disrupt or slow down play at a time convenient for them.

What was the actual quote? Huge amount of time out of the game if he doesn't play again until August.