beatlesaint

plenty of options from the bench if it all goes wrong. When was the last time we could say that ?

No, he just acknowledged the crowd whenever his name was chanted or he came over to take a bloody corner !! There was no geeing up involved.

I understood, many years ago now, that the ref had to live at least 60 miles away from the town/city that either of the teams he was officiating came from. Unless my geography is all to pot that doesn't apply in this case by a long stretch. So was that rule scrapped ? Will we see the Liverpool/Everton derbies ref'd by a Scouser or a Utd/City one ref'd by a Manc ? I think not.

Very true - I have unblocked 19C cos i cannot wait to see his reply to Daren's post - "Take a small provincial club, take them to be genuinely competitive in the top flight, take them to wembley, win at Wembley, play in Europe, sign Europes' player of the year, finish runners up to probably one of the greatest English league teams ever, compete pretty much at top ten every year he was in charge. Or gain promotion in League 1/Championship with the backing of one of the richest chairmen in the country. And you wonder why people mock your footballing knowledge? Oh, and as an aside. Nigel Pearson, last season championship winning manager and this season vying for another. Jan Poortvielt, joint bottom of the Dutch second division with FC Eindhoven. Case rested on that front... Seriously, people can perhaps question McMenmy's activities off the pitch since moving out of football but how can anyone question his record at Saints? It is absolutely, completely and utterly, the most moronic footballing argument I could imagine..." Come on then 19C.....give us an intelligent response to this !

your irony is terrific but lets not go too far - heh heh

He's good isn't he ?

Steve Williams was quite simply one of the best midfield players ever to pull on a Southampton shirt.

Elimentary my dear Watson

The Quality Street advert ? You mean to the tune of Thankyou Very Much by The Scaffold. And sorry its not brilliant

Oh yes........hope those words are rammed down his thorat Saturday afternoon

Thats not old, I remember watching all of them Old must be before 1970....surely ?

Best thing would be for Preston to keep doing well

People cannot seem to grasp the idea that we are no longer a selling club, we have no debt whatsoever and ML and NC are looking to build this club up into a Premiership side again. Lallana will only go IF the deal is right for Southampton - which would mean a very large amount of money - and/or if, when his contract is up, he decides he wants to leave. As there is no evidence he wants to leave all this talk about him going in January is ridiculous.

Well you can't fault his honesty.......how their assistant manager can call us long ball is beyond me.....did he not notice the number of times Lallana and Antonio, in the second half, ran at them from the half way line ?

He has been left standing quite a few times, not so much recently admitted but in the first few games of replacing Thomas.....its probably helped that his positional play has improved in recent weeks, another plus mark for the coaching staff I suspect.

Quite agree......it does worry me what will happen when he comes up against a flying winger or overlapping full back for the reasons you state. But at the moment he isn't really being tested in that department and as you can only judge him on what happens and not what might happen he is playing well.

Well he certainly wouldnt have been able to carry on if it had been a break.....i would guess at brusing........besides you dont run and score with your arm do you ???

No surprise...to me Ince has put together a team in his own image - niggly, whingey and not very pretty. Glad he didnt come here as manager in the summer.

Only if they can catch him Hope we can extend this loan.....just imagine a winger playing for Southampton who actually does what a winger should - beat the full back and get to the bye-line....incredible !!

Supposed to clear up early afternoon though......sun out, too late to do anything else....why not pop down to St Marys I do hope if it is a big crowd we dont do the old trick of going to pieces and being crap !

I would think Dellhurst............we had fans everywhere that afternoon....I would think we had more there than the "official" figures

You mean Thomson not Thomas don't you ?

Agree with that. The fact that this club had become so divided in every possible way that even supporters were fighting amongst themselves.

Its all very well saying "get rid" but if nobody wants him he isnt going anywhere. The only chance of him leaving in the near future is for someone to want him on loan.....but they dont appear to be beating down the door in a rush to get him.

I thought that.....same happened when Southend equalised last week.....we didnt crumble on either occasion and that in itself is very encouraging.