Lighthouse

A good point but I do think it's entirely subjective to the particular team. A team with a water tight defense would want to sign Gaston a team with a leaky defense would want to sign Samba. QPR's defense has looked decidedly leaky recently whilst ours hasn't. It's easy to imagine Gaston not being a relegation dogfighter because he is young, foreign and a bit of a flair player. However his class could be the difference between us and teams like Reading and Villa. His skill was central to us beating Villa and it should have been the same against Arsenal but that lino had other ideas. In short. Becuase we've got Jos, Yoshi, Fonte and Forren I wouldn't want to sign Samba.

Carroll cost £35m and used to play for Liverpool Sturridge cost £12m and plays for Liverpool Welbeck plays for Man Utd Rooney plays for Man Utd No way Rickie will get in ahead of that lot, even if his goal record is equal to the first 3 put together.

Agree. For me it's an extra reason for not wanting to go down. If we do Prem teams will be all over the pair of them but I want to see just how good they will be in 5 years time when they are both, theoretically, at the peak of their careers.

2 minor points. 1. Forren hasn't played because he is recovering from a minor injury. Hence he hasn't even been on the bench. 2. Don't talk to Dalek. Watch, I will show you how it's done.

We aren't losing games either. 3 League defeats in 3 months and 2 of those were at Anfield and Old Trafford. Draw every game any you will get 38 points. That will almost ceratinly keep you up this season. We are picking up points away from home. Keep doing that and getting the odd win and we will stay up. Look at our remaining games. Home - Liverpool, Chelsea, QPR, West Ham, Man City, Stoke, West Brom. Away - Reading, Spuds, Swansea, Norwich, Nouveachateau, Sunderland. There are points in ALL of those games. No more trips to OT, Emirates, Etihad, The Bridge, Goodison etc. There are only 2 away games to teams in the top half and they are Spuds and Swansea. Anything can happen there if they have an off day.

I'd just like to bump up this thread in a desperate attempt to add some sense and possitivity to the evening. Thought JRod was excellent today, lots of great running and a superb assist for the second. He's not Usain Bolt quick but he's definitely got a turn of pace and can run in behind players. Thinking about it, today he actual got 2 very good assists, jumping well for the first goal. Starting to look well worth his £7m price tag and the goals will start coming soon. If he can get 10 in all competitions by the end of the season, that would be an excellent return. Maybe a bit ambitious but that should be his target.

Why do people try and support their argument by pretending to be too be really thick? You know what I mean. We battered them. No we didn't get the points but we were by far the better team. Answer me this. How many Wigan fans will be walking home from that game thinking, "well Southampton are defintely going down."? If we had been hopelessly outplayed at home to a team like West Ham or Norwich and scraped a draw, would YOU be saying, "West Ham are definitely going down."?

To be fair he has looked decent at home (when he plays in the middle) but we shouldn't start him away from home. Sadly we will. If MP left our big money signing on the bench he'd be right behind Adkins on the M3 Northbound. He is young and tallented. He might not come good this season but let's give him time.

Yes. We are going down. Not the team 3 points below us who we've just spanked in their own back yard. Don't be such an old woman. We should have won this game, we shouldn't have won at Villa. Swings and roundabouts, that's still 4 points away to the teams below us in the last couple of weeks. Keep picking up the draws away from home and get a couple of decent wins and we will be fine. Wigan will not overtake us playing like that. Newcastle and Reading results were a bit of a bummer but there is nothing we can do about that. We played well, we got mugged. I still think we will stay up.

We can win this, Wigan really aren't anything to write home about.

Can see why these 2 teams are at the bottom.

He's not, unless he has travelled up with the squad but not included in the matchday 18 but he won't be playing today.

Lets just hope Reading and Villa have "scored too early" like we did at OT. Oh and the Skates are level.

Hahaha! Pompey 1-0 down already.

Feck off Everton.

IF we can win today we go within 2 points of Norwich with a better GD. I'd like to keep them within reach if possible, they aren't safe yet.

Perfect result for Saints.

Le Tiss going for 3-1 Saints on SS. Good lad.

Since BBB has just nicked my first choice.

The being facebook friends or the raving?

Not really if I'm honnest. Had a brilliant 2 minutes against MKD but the rest of his time, even at that level, was completely forgetable.

He accused one of our resident mods of being Brett Ormerod in the same game. For that reason alone, he is awesome.

Spends most of his time raving I believe. One of my more random friends on Bacefook.

No idea why people love to hate him so much. He really hasn't been any worse than some players who have had regular game time. One of those players who comes on for 20 minutes at the end of a game and is no worse than anyone else, yet people on here talk about him as being by far our worst player because he didn't turn the game around on his own. I haven't seen anything more from say Mayuka this season, yet everyone is insistant he just needs more time and will come good. Double standards. Hopefully he gets some decent game time (which he has never had here) and proves him worth. Maybe he will come back afterwards and prove a few people wrong.