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I haven't purchased any tickets this season, and yet was able to purchase tickets for this match, which will be my first for the season. There isn't much left but yes, phone the ticket office, they might be able to accommodate you.

I don't recall Tadic doing anything of note against Huddersfield. Redmond may have missed a few opportunities but at least he was involved.

I don't blame him for being annoyed tbh. Hope he starts against Watford.

Bertrand starting for England Let's see if he manages to smile

Boufal could be off to Spain (the transfer window is still open there) http://lionsdelatlas.ma/20965-sofiane-boufal-veut-quitter-southampton-pour-l-espagne To sum up - Doesn't have confidence in Pellegrino. He promised him playing time but hasn't had it. He's asked his agent to find him another team in another country. Villarreal, Valencia and Sevilla are interested. Saints don't want to sell him. Boufal wants a loan move. Some Ligue 1 clubs were interested but Boufal is refusing to go back to France.

Something tells me that Dopey Darren won't be returning

We didn't sell any key players, although I have a feeling there may be a bit of a defensive exodus next summer if Bertrand and Cedric still want out. But who knows, we might win the league or qualify for Europe and they might change their minds. I personally think we're an attacking player short. Still, there's January to sort it out if it becomes an issue.

Defences win championships, as they say.

4-0 now! The only good news for the Dutch is that Sweden are losing, so 2nd place *might* be up for grabs.

Even The9 wouldn't start a thread this early

Meanwhile, a Portugal defence containing Fonte has conceded a goal from the Faroe Islands...

Defensively they've looked reasonably solid, but attacking-wise they've been dreadful. No idea why Sneijder is playing, he is past it. Surely they have some good young attacking players they can play????

Reintegrate him, but give him assurances that he'll be sold (for an acceptable fee and not to the bin dippers) next summer.

Griezmann sort of lured him out of his defensive position and then the Frenchman ran in the area where he should've been. It was more intelligent play by the French rather than poor play from him though.

Glass half empty kind of guy by any chance?

Just popped onto POL. They seem to be discussing Bournemouth more so than us. Some of them seem to think they might be in financial difficulty...

I've spent most of my summer blocking idiots like that so they don't appear in the #saintsfc timeline. Would help if people actually paid attention to sources and didn't repeat them here too.

Away from the transfers, a few Saints players are involved in matches in the coming few days. The first are Hoedt, who starts for the Netherlands against France tonight, and Cédric for Portugal against the Faroes.

RAWK have created their own deadline day bingo

So, I've just noticed on SSN that they have a mugshot of VVD, wearing the current kit. I suppose that means that, at some point, he has done a photo shoot wearing the new kit.

So now we have held firm, the question moves onto: will he play for us again?

Oh good, an ITK from Reddit, of all places, has posted this

I only really started hearing the 'victims' tag, especially on social media, after their actions following the Suarez/Evra affair.

Just reading that thread back... they're reading this thread a lot. They don't seem to like being called victims.

This quote will do... They're reaching POL levels of delusion