Baird of the land

I'm enjoying their struggles, especially city's. Sure arsenal and Chelsea will qualify anyway.

Really don't see it, unless Jrod breaks down and we need cheap cover. Once fit jrod gives us another option, and if we are forced to cash in on him we'll have money to invest in a replacement. Plus if Lambert leaves liverpool I assume it'll be to play regularly.

Can see the job he does for the team, even if his finishing isn't perfect. The fee rankles rather though, but maybe that's the tight part of me that doesn't want us paying that much over the odds.

My gut instinct thinks Toby is only going to be here for the year. Either he'll go back and play regularly for Madrid or someone bigger will buy him. Still a short term great deal to get someone as good as him who felt he wasn't getting the game time where he was. Would love it if i turn out to be wrong and we buy him in the summer. Can't see Bertrand having a future at Chelsea. If we've got option to buy in the summer then happy to wait till then.

Wouldn't mind seeing Cork coming on about now.

Agree, thought him and Quashie vastly improved our centre midfield. Problem was that Harry never sorted out the defence.

I'll be interested to see where he rocks up next and how he does. Think he's got potential to be a very good manager. I wasn't against the notion of him at Saints if we weren't able to attract someone of the calibre of Koeman.

Swindon fan i know has been very complementary about Stephens. Turnbull seems to have settled ok but not made same impression.

League cup is below fa & league top 4 for me. Still excited about winning it but happy for it to be a proving ground for youngsters like targett too.

can't see that happening.

Really hope he signs a new contract. If he does'nt I guess we'll have to though. Losing him for 15m would be gutting, especially to Spurs.

I'd like to see Reed get a runout in this game.

Get in. Great win against a tough team. 2nd in the league again. Nice.

This is a game which is fraying my nerves. Wouldn't mind us getting Long on now.

Mmm maybe time to bring Wanyama on.

Still believe Shaw is amazingly talented and will end up shining. I believed at the time he'd have been better off staying with us one more season at least, rather than moving for financial rather than footballing reasons.

Only change possibly mane for long. Personally prefer balance of midfield with cork in for home games over less fluent but with defensive shield of wanyama.

Time to give Reed a run out surely.

As a N.I and Saints fan i'm happy with this news. Slightly surprised at the length given his age but guess he wanted the security of a last long contract. As others have said, now sort out a contract for Cork.

Was in Athens too. A truly great night. Delighted for Reeves, worked hard when he came on and hope he'll get many more caps and have chance to show abilities in more attacking areas of pitch in other games.

Think the way he acted was totally shoddy. Can't see him mending bridges he burnt anytime soon. Still think he'll be a success at Liverpool if used right but now to me he's just some skillful mercenary that used to play for Saints

Morgan's going to leave obviously. Jrod's i guess dependent on whether he signs a new contract and whether he comes back the same player in January. Then you've got the likes of Wanyama and Clyne who i'd hope the club would stand firm on. The main thing i'd say though is that any sale's can only be allowed to go through once Saints have a replacement in place. We don't want a repeat of appearance of turmoil, where players are leaving & waves of negativity surrounding the club.

Am/was heavily anti the 39th game notion, where the notion of everyone playing everyone else at home and away once was abandoned by adding an additional fixture. If they decide to go the NFL route with one fixture from the regular schedule played abroad etc i'd view it as not great but acceptable. There would have to be fair way of choosing rota for who loses a real home fixture and compensation for season ticket holders who lose out on one home fixture.

Agree its crazy to possibly lose someone as good as Cork, especially given the Morgan situation. We could end up having to spend large amounts just to get replacements of similar quality. Interesting to read Morgan's side of events. Glad his professionalism overruled his initial understandable disappointment. Shows how important the fan reaction to the crazy decision to sell Chambers was too. Otherwise we'd have likely done a deal and lost Morgan.

Very poor display imo. Hope we get back to previous standards after international break.