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I believe he held on to the very last minute in the hope there would be some money, A CLUB(!!!) and a contract.... there was and he turned around. Don't dress that up any differently. You only have to look at his quotes at the time when he could see the "save our saints" collections and his appreciation at the fans pitching together to help keep the team and club going.

Despite certain posters claiming otherwise, I at least have never encountered it at a saints game although I will a knowledge that we must have closet racists as fans, simply a fact of society.

Lol Max, Shurloch (oh wait, just realised he's spelt it with no capital letter) smashed off the park in one simple sentence. I'd tend to ignore shurlock guys, very prone to taking offence and lashing out in kind. The other week I was accused of being a plastic for not going to the Chelsea game despite having a season ticket and having played on the Dell's pitch as a nipper.

I really don't think you're listening.... Nobody should look forward to a trip to Liverpool

He will play in the prem and do a good job for someone... Our fans have spoken though... the same ones who wrote of Mane

Don't thinl i've seen you make a positive post and all you do is spam sarcasm, negative ballarks or spout sh1te about ISIS. Welcome to the ignore list. (You're not Bazza or glasgow in disguise are you?)

Quite

Dont think that true or fair tbh. The best u18's get promoted to the u21's resulting in an u18 team that is normally one of the youngest in the league with 15 and 16 year olds playing. In addition, our nippers join when they are 7 or 8 years old (e.g. hallet, shaw, chambers etc), if their 18 now then they joined in roughly 2005 to 2006. We didn't go tits up for another 2 years. Not to mention that two of our star academy kids are in this age group in Sims and Seager

I dont think people really appreciate that cross or the quality of Chelsea's play. Costa starts on the outside of the area and runs in to the end of that cross during the balls flight. Its doesn't hang in the air as some say. Its kicked and Costa is not there. He then runs onto it and attacks it into the back of the net. Our defence and keeper had no chance. The cross, timing and quality of movement were inch perfect. From the second that ivanovic kicked it and costa started running it was a free header on goal. Watch it again, look at costa's starting position and watch how he just runs into the spot its going. In comparison our defence push in and then out to track the play. By the time they know where the ball is going costa is already has the momentum and position ahead of them. It is always easy to blame the keeper, but this was not his fault. That cross was perfect as was costa's movement. If you want to blame anyone then pick any of our defenders who failed to read the cross as well as the oppositions key threat and left him unmarked for the header... because seriously, the oppositions only target man getting a free header is the defences fault before it is the keepers. But if you watch that section of play and almost psychic play between hazard, costa and ivanovic I find it hard to blame davis for being slightly out of position and the losing out to an already set Costa. Most pundits I've read seem to agree that Forster couldn't do much about it also.

Best Goal - Not going to be a common suggestion..... but Dean Hammond vs Leeds in the opening game back in the Championship.... It was an emphatic finish and we never looked back from that kick onwards!!

Whenever I watch the u21 highlights he seems to be played as a mixture of CB and RB tbf

I saw JayRod in The Lamb in Nomandsland on Saturday... Whislt he was out and about driving/walking he had a very noticeable limp on him which was giving him difficulties. I doubt we'll see him any time this season tbh, not an expert on these kind of injuries by no means, but if he is having trouble walking I can't see him running.

That is harsh, putting Pelle on actually helped to relieve the pressure to a degree. Before he came on we were camped in our box, once he was on we started to get at their goal on the break. I agree whole heartedly that playing with speed suited us today, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't put Pelle back in necessarily. your comment shows a lack of tactical appreciation from a "fan" determined to knock one of out own despite a great team performance and giving no credit to the impact of pelle what so ever. The irony being that Long has a longer goalless streak (according to sky)

Wow in addition, we have a fair few footbally connections with Seattle Sounders.... who knew http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Gabriel

Further review of seattle sounders and their colours leads me to believe that it could actually be them (maybe Southampton saints is to be a new NFL franchise ) Interestingly, the sounders are the best supported team by a long long way in MLS.

I assumed it was portland timbers... Ralph has managed them previously. who the feck are seatle sounders?

"I want, i see i get" "You should be glad to be my friend" etc etc, both found within 2 min of looking at his posts..... Says a lot about the lad frankly

Maybe this incident will make her more appreciative of little old southampton Its a shame he is a psycho, he'd be quality in Koeman's tactics.

Sorry Nick I disagree with you completely. Lovren was decent but always committing risky tackles and gambles in matches, for me it was a combination of MoPo's tactics and the two DM's made his style of play look good for us... but we've clearly seen how important he was by improving the defence in his absence without missing a beat... and that is with a back four or clyne, yoshida, fonte and bertrand.... not shaw, not chambers.... Toby doesn't feature in this tbh as he has missed a few games and we are still solid as a rock bar worldies... As for Toby... watching him play makes me feel like he is the best CB in the league... his presence, control of the box, leadership of the team etc etc... the guy is a class act completley. He is the best player in our team; better than morgan in CDM and the best CB... No slight on anyone else, but he is simply that good for me. Stands out a mile when he is playing. Haven't seen a player of his standard defensively for saints... ever.... Would love it if we could sign him, but as stated, we are more than fine with Fonte, yoshi, bertrand and Clyne, and they have had morgan and/or vic missing in front of the a lot recently! Lovren was not that good, and it took people until the tottenham debacle to realise it. Yes, he did a great job for us, but the stars of that team with those tactics were morgan, wanyama, lallana, lambert and jay rod (tip of the hat to davis and shaw).. We miss lovren about as much as liverpool do when he isn't in the side.... who would put him above our current 3 best CB's atm? seriously!

You're ruining the OP's moment man!

I have to agree, couldn't make it down last night but the atmosphere and support given to the team was cracking. The chap on the stream kept on criticising the boring affair that was the first half and never once mentioned the great support and noise of the crowd... this really annoyed me.... then we scored and i was happy

I'm confused, i defo remember him playing right wing vs liverpool with overlaps from clyne and a nice backheel to set up the first goal

23 shots, 3 on target..... We need some serious work. No surprise that Pelle went off and we score by my book. Looked much better with Mane Tadic and Long on the pitch. Actually have an end product

Better than ruining the current league structure for me.