Pamplemousse

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42108500 Hmmmmmmm I'm inclined to agree with him for the moment, and I don't think we'll be involved in a battle (although if we lose to Everton, that will change). But we should be higher in the table, lower mid-table isn't good enough.

If Lemina is fit, that would be massive for us. The one positive in a very underwhelming season.

We were three points off the Champions League in May 2016. Maybe we got complacent, maybe a bit arrogant, who knows. A lot of people worked very hard to get that close, and perhaps there needs to be some sort of examination behind the scenes as to where it's going wrong. The big concern for me is where the next gem from the youth is coming from. Sims is injured at the moment, he's probably the most likely. Targett needs regular game time and with Bertrand here he won't get it, Gallagher's progression hasn't happened, it doesn't seem like there is anyone at the moment.

Good point I guess, although more referring to the fact that, given Everton's position, we are the heavy favourites to win.

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/who-the-heck-are-we-going-to-pick-as-centre-halves-on-sunday.100582/ Everton fans seem happy

The only 'Southampton Way' I know is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. 0-3 loss incoming

Hesketh has to, at the very least, be on the bench. Should start really. Or start him at Man City for the surprise factor.

So Everton play tonight and then have an early kick off on Sunday. Not nice for them, good for us though.

It doesn't affect me negatively in any way so who cares? If Saints did it I would neither be bothered nor outraged.

I wonder if Mr Gao has a SaintsWeb account?

Of course it will, but we'll see if it lasts. Man City we can write off really, it's a free hit for us. Didn't Pellegrino's Alaves beat Barcelona last season? And we drew up there last season (Redmond goal!!) so who knows what will happen.

Jim McCalliog Gordon Hobson David Armstrong Paul Rideout Andy Cook Alan McLoughlin Barry Horne Iain Dowie Neil Maddison Egil Ostenstad Kevin Davies Neil McCann Jermaine Wright Paul Wotton Jason Puncheon Guly Do Prado Gaston Ramirez Sadio Mané Charlie Austin Some of those are way before my time so I have no idea how they compare. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-southampton/rueckennummern/verein/180

Paul Wotton and Neil McCann are up there as well

Also very interesting that K Billy is very much against sacking the manager. Some sort of ITK good cop bad cop strategy??

Burnley stayed up, so who cares if they had a dreadful away record? When in the last four seasons your lowest position has been 8th, the objective is somewhat different.

First season back, when we went to QPR and beat them 3-1. The media dubbed the match 'El Sackico'. I think they were 20th and we were 19th. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/20278600 I guess there were perhaps a couple more after that, but that one sticks out in my memory as being a massive game for us at the time.

Oh dear, a 2-1 defeat at the Posh. Their play-off dream takes another big hit.

Strachan doesn't have a big enough reputation apparently for our international mega stars

Bosz would be excellent for us. Fits the black box criteria, the only box he doesn't tick is that he's currently employed. Once he's sacked, he'll be top of the list surely.

Kevin Friend is the ref

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/4232308.stm Dennis Wise starred for Southampton in a match that was delayed for 40 minutes after the floodlights failed. Southampton boss Harry Redknapp: "I've never seen a team create and miss so many chances. If we still had Peter Crouch and Kevin Phillips up front we'd have won by seven. "It was not a great point. In fact it was very much two points lost so far as we are concerned. "We should have won comfortably. We played some tremendous football and three points were for the taking." That must have motivated the players...

Now trending in Southampton. It's a good start I guess. Maybe we should do it at 3-4am next time though.

We're 7th in the table for goals conceded. Assuming that there is roughly where we are aiming to finish, the defence is doing OK. Attack is the issue that needs fixing.

Under Mauricio Pellegrino our win rate will drop below 4%. Analysts predict relegation so #PellegrinoMustGo This reply to a Donald Trump tweet made me laugh

Sadly, two tweets a minute probably won't make much of an impression