Lighthouse

Leicester's title defence going well.

Fair enough, I was going by the average ticket prices being about £40-50.

Not sure how I'd feel paying £100 to watch a 0-0 personally.

Like the look of that team although Tadic will be missed.

Yeah, me and my big mouth.

Utd vs Arsenal early kickoff on Sky. Always entertaining.

It's all about the contract and the players motivation to stay or leave. Dortmund just sold Bundesliga's player of the season for a lot less than we sold Mané for. They've also sold Gotze and Kagawa for less and lost Lewa and Hummels on a Bosman so Klopp's statement seems a little at odds with reality.

Woooooooooosshhhhh.

Here we're are all desperately hoping Liverpool players are injured. Meanwhile on RAWK, they're all praying Shane Long is fit.

Yoshida has looked easily as good this season and Fonte isn't getting any younger.

Our last 5 were Man City, Leicester and Hull away and Burnley and Chelsea at home. The only easy fixture in that one we won, convincingly. Getting a point away to Leicester and City is decent in anyone's book. A lot of teams will take 5 points or less from those fixtures this season. It's not relegation form. The time to worry is when you're shipping 3 and 4 goals against average mid table sides, like Hull, Swansea, West Ham and Sunderland have.

Or he knows he doesn't have it in him to play 3 games in a week and knows he is going to miss out somewhere. He may well have wanted to play at the San Siro but I can't imagine he was all that excited about a trip to Be'er Sheva. Luckily he is a professional and is unlikely to throw his toys out in such a manner. Nobody better than Saints will be looking to sign him.

We are competitive. Not competitive would be Sunderland or Swansea. What you are referring to is chucking a load more money at the team in the hope we can do what Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool failed to do last year.

Sounds nauseating.

The one fixture in this group I wanted away as I live 5 minutes drive from their ground. Hopefully Olomola can impress and make an impact on the first team.

Why? Nobody is going to give a sh*t if Fonte is cup tied.

We pretty much 'stayed loyal' to Lundekvam and Dodd, look how that panned out. He needs replacing next summer.

Decided my arse. Utd aren't going to buy a 33 year old who is arguably the third best centre half at Southampton.

Not to mention having played 5 of last years top 6 away already (if you take out Saints). Hull was no different to Norwich away last year, Burnley the year before, Cardiff?, QPR I think before that. Basically somebody crap usually beats us, then gets relegated. Even going back to the Championship and League 1, the likes of Bristol City and Swindon beat us on their way down.

We are better than Sunderland, Burnley, Swansea, Boro, Hull, West Brom, Bompey, Leicester, Palace and West Ham. Probably Watford and Stoke too although they have looked decent recently. We only need to beat 3 of them to stay up and we will comfortably. Even the games we didn't win, like Hull, Watford and Sunderland we were the better team. Nobody is too big to go down but you can be too good and we are.

Also, should we sing the Lumberjack song at Dejan, or is that taking things too far?

First of a Souse double-header at St Mary's. I missed the boat getting tickets for this one, probably a good thing. Would it be too much to hope Mané, Firmino, Coutinho and Sturridge get their heads kick in on international duty? The last two always score against us.

Berahino who has a sh*t attitude, 4 goals last year and 0 this? Sign him up.

We aren't going to sell the club captain in January and Utd barely give a toss about it anyway.

I'd say the difference between our 02/03 defence (best outside the top 4 I think) and 04/05 defence (worst in the League) shows how influential Svensson was. There were other factors admittedly but the defence looked hopeless without him.