beatlesaint

Just out of interest is Yoshida injured ?

At the moment, after 4 leaue matches no. Will he be after 24 league matches ? That will be the test.

Having had to miss the Sunderland game but having seen the Real Sociedad friendly I was looking forward to seeing Wanyama yesterday. After about 30 mins I found myself asking in what way he was worth 12 million or better than Cork. Looked to me like at half time someone told him to start passing the bloody ball forward and he was much improved. I will be very interested to see how he develops over the next few months.

No its not you, I said that to the old man yesterday. Truth of the matter is that high energy pressing game died a death after a while last season too. We only seemed to play it against the top sides like Chelsea. Man City and Liverpool. When we were told that it was a fitness issue and that MP was doing a quick fix because there were certain things he couldnt introduce until pre-season I'm afraid I totally bought that. I dont know why its vanished, I thought and hoped it was the way forward. Perhaps it will make a return at Anfield on Saturday as its the first top team we have faced this season.

You can say that again. The Jay Rod one in the first half was terrible, it was like a four year old seeing how far he could kick it in front of him ! Osvaldo must wonder what the hell he has come to !

Why drop one of those two ? Why not Jay Rod or Lallana ?

Unfortunately i have to agree.

Can narrow it down to three but if pushed would have to go with this one as well.

Wasn't Roger Johnson always accused of being a skate cos he always wore blue shirts when he used to do the sport for South Today ? Ridiculous.

If you only watched or judged the second half performance that is true. If you watched or judged the first half performance there is absolutely no way you could come to that conclusion.

He hasnt physically been banned from Staplewood, just told he wont train with the first team.

I think Danny Fox lives in Bournemouth so he's quite close to me.....probably closer than he ever is to the guy he's supposed to be marking during a game

If he wants to play football he will take a pay cut whilst on loan surely ? IF he cant live off half that amount a week he has a problem, I would gladly live off 10% of that a week !

Carlton Palmer, Neil Heaney and Keith Cassells for me

Quite interesting actually, lets hope those figures for MP get better.

Yep, forget about him then, pity.

They may well do but did Espanyal when he was manager ?

I don't think we will get anyone with pace to play out wide and I think the reason for that is MP wants to play like he is still in Spain where the build up is more sedate and precise. And that is my concern cos I'm not sure that will work in The Premiership.

As Wanyama is travelling to Kenya for internationals it will be interesting to see if Cork is selected ahead of him against West Ham given Cork will not have had the travelling etc. I bloody hope so anyway, put the partnership wuth Morgan back together again !

Dont see the point having t wo full backs on bench when Cork or Mayuka could have been better options.

No Cork !

I'm just struggling to see how someone who had info about a former manager moving to Swindon after he had left Southampton can be in a position to get the inside info on what is happening at Southampton nearly 10 years later

This wouldnt be related to the hush hush medical before Osvaldo would it ?

That aint half bad at all

Agree with that !