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Compare the level that Heskey and Lambert spent their careers at, does that make saints fans clueless because we would all take Lambert.... I think Deano would have fitted into a relegation battle squad, and is a detirmed leader who works hard and does the simple stuff well. Nothing beyond that and with the exception of leads at home last year... nothing flash. Davis is a different type of player in all honesty, and quite frankly, when we are playing 4-2-3-1 he is behind cork and morgan, and in all likelyhood behind/Fighting for Gaston for the forward CM. I still think Davis is a good player and useful to have, but he is the 3rd choice simply becasue Morgan and Cork are a top defensive Premiership CM pairing in the making.

How dare he want first team football.....

Well great result. Only interesting thing is that Ramirez is worse than guly. Who knew:scared:

Guly is having a bad game. Nice goal by Lambert

I would change "country" to "tories" which i suppose results in the same thing. In short, I agree... completley

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This - do it so the rest of us who could be arsed to ignore him don't have to read his wind up drivel. Why do we have MODS on this forum, it has just about the worst troll control I have seen on any forum on the internet...

Ey, PO1 and PO6 - its happening already! Remember skates "your sons will wear are shirts"

Well, why are there so many QPR fans in Southampton.... they are second to us in half the areas...

Personally I am a fan of photo 1/24 and photo 2/24... Puncheon thinking he's got away with something, but then wait, uh jason, you've been spotted!! They are on to you!

Its all thanks largely to two men, one of them has died and we seem to regulary have certain fans bemoaning the other two. What fickle fans we have ^_-

Very well said. I have noticed this season that when we are confident of a win - we throw it away - the prime example was sunderland after a 2 week rest. When we expect to get hammered we do ourselves proud more often than not - Stoke, arsenal (H), Man Utd+City. People seem to have completley forgotten are abilty to not win games.... fulham, swansea, man utd and tbh city were actually there (somehow) for the taking! We are still at a point where we have to play well and the other team **** for it to be anything other than a fight. And if PL lets villa play like that against us then he'll be sacked afterwards. Will be a good game, and we CAN win it... But my god do not go there expecting a walkover unless the team are on fire and well motivated! We are missing Adz, maybe clyne, maybe GR and definetly Fonte. Not brilliant in my honest opinion!

Daniel sturridge or Ramirez.... I can't understand how the potential signings of this brazilian lad and Astori are bad for the club. both are class players in positions we need to strengthen. why moan at a chairman who uses his knowledge and experience to further the club. You would prefer that he did nothing perhaps? At the end of the day. Our scouting network identifies players, we clearly have a presence in italia.... they are good players.... chairman has contacts.... we use contacts to sign these good players..... SHOCKER!

Yet it adds up to less time than lallana in 2012? He looks an interesting player, but from the videos his final ball/shot is poor half the time. And Inter loaned him out so he can't yet be top premier class. That said he seems to fit the mold of player we go for in the young and exciting "will increase in value" sort of way. I feel sorry for puncheon but this lad is a class above. Although in the videos he seems to be running down the left or middle. Not the right. Ads on the way out perhaps? Surely not, but we aren't going to drop Gaston now are we...

This discussion is puerile at best, the original posts states confidence in The Don, but then says he is worried.... this is followed by a variety of other nervous posters who can't look at what who, what and why we have signed. You only have to look at the transfers of other clubs that got relegated and see what fees you can demand for good players on long term contracts... jarvis, fletcher etc. Our lot are young and tied down for years on good contracts. The club have been prudent, with a 3million net spend to get to the premier. People quote the 7th highest spenders on the continent this year as a reason why we are risking it all. But if you think about it, Italian and spanish football is broke ( literally excluding real and barca), you then have psg and a few eastern clubs to worry about. Even german football is not that wealthy as whilst they have the crowds and merchandising there is no chinese tv deals paying them £3bn. The other point massivley in our favour is that we are in a very strong financial position.. the majority of premier league clubs are swimming in negative bank balances, certainly those we are competing with. So we went to the premier on the back of a low net spend, backed by billionaires, run by a swiss banker for a family that have NEVER borrowed or traded run a business into debt as a family policy. And people are worried about us as a football club... If we are ****ed then good luck to the rest of the premier. Unlike a lot of people who put this then add a caveat about fecked if we go down.... I totally trust the Don. Every press release has alluded to us being comfortable and having under-spent against projected outlay, i doubt those projections included selling the ox either. If we go down we will cover our losses anyway, £10mil for gaston, similar for AL, £7m for morgan and cork each? that is far from unreasonable and we would never have to sell them all, with that squad you could as good as guarantee coming back up anyway. The you have clyne? worth 5mil, shaw is anotehr £10-15mil. I mean seriously, if we went down, and sold them ALL. we would cover their transfer costs and have to pay wages for one year on the back of all the TV money.... sounds like a loss making idea to me Hold your horses and stop being dell sized dimwits! and for gods sake, enjoy the ride and trust Nicola!

well, never mind ey. Rather a saint thana chelsea fan anyway. At least will turn it on against villa now. Thought the ref was **** but chelsea were good today

This... Horrendus commentary. and half time..... generic **** head going, "southampton were the best side for the first 10min, unfortunatley there is another 80min to go.. (pauses with smug smile)... it's going to be a 4 or 5 one-er...." Hope saints show him, bloody ****stain. Remember guys, Chelsea have never one an FA cup game vs saints when we have both been top flight.. 4 matches, 3 draws, and 3 replay wins to saints. thats played 7, won 4, drawn 3, lost 0!!! We can do this!

You can dream all you want, you can discuss dreams all you want. All I know is that in another life we would have this as our attack.... Striker - Walcott/lambert AMC - Bale/Gaston/lallana RW - Oxlade LW - Bale/lallana For a spend of 12m. People said theo was the last one, then they said bale was.. but out popped the ox, now we have jwp and shaw, with a whole host of other talented youngsters and I don't just mean hoskins and reeves. The longer we keep these players, and they have all come top European players, the better our team will become. In the premier we will keep them for longer, and the ones we sell we will sell for more. If gives us more time and money to build a better team and retain more youngsters. That is the clubs ambition, you'd be a fool to not consider the potential outcomes with our track record of producing talent. When top british clubs bow down and praise our youth setup as something to learn from we must be doing something right. And we clearly have money behind us and a good player investment strategy. Enjoy the ride, and see where it takes us. But don't dismiss europe as never more that a dream. We can definitely expect to aim for europa league as an ambition for the next 5 years as a minimum. We may never reach it ofc. But honestly, a premier club with our setup and momentum that doesn't at least target that has no place in the league at all. FFS look at stoke and newcastle in recent years. And don't pll the old chestnut about newcastle having a 50k attendance out the bag, attendance revenues pale in comparison to tv revenues - which are set to increase still further next season. With new ffp we are in a prime position to move forward. We have the best youth setup in england/bar utd and a young squad full of potential. We are going places! Lets just hope that its not the the county ground in the league next season ^_^

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People saying this happened to both teams have blinkers on every week imho. Every single home game our players stack it. Clyne is the worst offender for this particular incident. The opposition hardly fall over at all, but ours seem to love sliding around on the backside, typically 5-7 times a match as a rough average guess. It ****es me off every game I go to. Biggest one I can think of is Clyne vs Van Persie but there are far to many to count. And the thing is, we do do it more than the opposition, but we should be used to the pitch, they shouldn't. Therefore, someone fix the fecking boots!

Wow, so in 16months Oxlade has ruined his career. Do you honestly think that. He left saints, and in one move went from league 1 (3rd tier) to playing champions league football in around 6 months, got in the england team, and is becoming an england regular. Yup, HE HAS RUINED HIS CAREER!!!! In comparison I offer you Kerian Dyer, Alan smith or Wayne Bridge. All made big money moves, and all went backwards and now play in lower leagues.

Shhs! .... He said no names As for the game. Only thing to havit better for me was guly not scoring an own goal. He works so hard to appease the fans then it all goes. wrong and the same few beat him mercilessly. I thought tactic were good.. we shut then down! And all players were superb bar boric... Still has sum work to do for me. Morgab. Gran, GRam, cork or yoshi for MOM

May be unpopular, but I would drop Rickie for JayRod.

Behave, look at the position of the Arsenal youth teams, and the injury record for players under their world class coaching. Honestly what a pile of BS. Are you a Gooner? Or maybe a skate?

Not Really... Man City and Man Utd we came from behind to lead, we then threw it away, everton we had the lead and threw it away, etc etc etc. What you should have said is "we will struggle to win the game" - lets be realistic