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I actually think now would be a great time to bring players in. Have half a season to ease new players in, getting them used to our style, then come roaring out of the blocks next season.

Agreed. So Brown won the ball. By that reasoning Gaston subsequently won it back before Brown clattered into him. Should have been a foul and a red card.

Do you have to have one adult for each child? Trying to buy online, one adult one senior and three under 11s but it won't let me. Seems a bit stupid, what happens if a dad wants to take his two children?

It tells me that it's the FA Cup this weekend and several of them will be playing for the first team.

It's interesting in hindsight to look back at all the good publicity we've got in the press for the past few months. It always seemed a bit odd that, after years of ignoring the media, Cortese had gone on a charm offensive. If it's true that he handed in his notice in October, then it was clearly all a calculated attempt by Cortese either to put pressure on Liebherr or to raise his profile and help him get a new job.

On matchdays there's not a lot of difference at the minute between getting the bus and walking across the bridge.

I took my older son to his first game when he was two I think. It's his 7th birthday today, and he's had a season ticket for the past 3 seasons. Haven't taken the younger one yet (who is nearly 4) but I think I probably will the next time his brother can't make it. We sit in the family enclosure and don't have any problems with bad language etc. I'm probably one of the worst culprits to be honest....

Let's be honest. Less than 750 homes nationwide have so far been bought through this scheme. He came to Southampton for a couple of photo opportunities, the other was at the Vospers site in Woolston which is being redeveloped. How many of those 750 homes will have been in Southampton? She may well be the only one they had to choose from. The fact that she's quite attractive and has a cute little daughter will have also helped.

My boy calls him Banana, so maybe that was it.

Is Johnny Heitinga any good? Stronger than any of our current central defenders? http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25568426

Mauricio Pochettino: "The team put in a great effort tonight. I think they did very well. I can't fault my players. We tried as much as we could, but it just wasn't to be tonight."

The will be loads of empty seats in the family section tonight, my son has a season ticket but he won't be going as it's a schoolnight.

I saw from twitter that Jeremy Clarkson was there with Tiff Needell.

Don't understand this. If we don't want to sell and it's just because players want to leave us, why would it take a large bid? According to your logic, if we have to sell because a player is forcing our hand, surely a club can offer however much they like? Shaw for £1m anyone?

In general I agree with what you're saying, and it's the reason why I very rarely attend cup games these days. However I'm surprised that people are talking about it as if it's a new thing and that it's because we've decided we're a big club all of a sudden. How many times have we played our strongest team in a cup match in the (8?) years since Redknapp was manager? I'd be surprised if it's more than 2 or 3 times (JPT cup final?). Even when we were in League 1 we played the reserves in an FA Cup match at home to Premier League Blackpool.

Not sure this is a suitable subject for point-scoring Trousers. Also, if I'm right, this is effectively the old Vospers jobs that are going isn't it? How many Southampton people went to work in Portsmouth when Vospers moved there? Portsmouth doesn't actually have much of a history of ship building in recent years prior to that, I think they've always been more in the maintenance line.

It was pretty clear which games were included. I hadn't even considered going and I knew Stoke wasn't included from reading this site. From the OS: All sales dates are subject to remaining ticket availability. Please note that only games that have been played prior to the first on-sale date above – Tuesday 29th October – will count as credits for this fixture. For the avoidance of doubt, these games are: West Bromwich Albion (17/08/2013), Barnsley (27/08/2013), Norwich City (31/08/2013), Liverpool (21/09/2013) and Manchester United (19/10/2013). Read more at http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/arsenal-ticketing-information-1128297.aspx#J3chxhSIHzaev3RG.99

People were saying that if you refused a place in the Europa League you ought to get banned by UEFA. That link shows that if you don't think you are ready for Europe you just don't bother applying for a licence. So not only do UEFA not punish you, they have a process in place which makes it easy to avoid playing in Europe no matter how well you do domestically.

But he was American, so I think you're proving Barry's point.

I'm not sure that the use of the word abduction precludes this also being a murder. The fact that there is no body means that an abduction of some sort has taken place. That may take the form of a kidnapping, a kidnapping followed by murder, or a murder followed by the disposal of a body.

I go in there before games and noticed they'd changed system recently. The picture quality is much worse than Sky, it was like watching a video game. Blurry, and the speed just looked 'wrong'.

Heard someone suggest on the radio the other day that it should be free to gain your coaching badges, at least at the lower end. Makes sense if they really want to get more people qualified.

Didn't we already try something vaguely similar to the post-match pub idea? They used to keep one of the concourses open for drinking and watching Sky didn't they, maybe they even still do?

That wasn't aimed as a criticism of Liverpool, don't be so touchy. The link you posted was for a massive redevelopment of derelict docks next to the city centre wasn't it? Have a look at an aerial shot of Southampton, 95% of the shoreline is taken up by active docks. The Mayflower Park area is tiny in comparison. I also don't understand who you imagine would be doing all this redevelopment? You talk as if it's the council, but that's a ridiculous idea. This type of scheme has to be performed by private companies. As we've already established, property in Southampton is expensive. So you'd have to spend a fortune buying loads of people out (assuming they want to sell), then spend another fortune knocking everything you've just bought down, then a third fortune building the new development. It's a pipe-dream, it would never happen. My point was that if you have a bunch of derelict land going spare, you're already a long way down the road to accomplishing a grand scheme. I'm not really fussed whether a city is attractive to tourists anyway, a city should exist for the people who live there day in day out. That means decent houses, employment, recreational areas. I lived in Portsmouth for years and despite the fuss people make about tourist attractions (which the locals very rarely visit), Southampton p1sses all over it for quality of life. I know it's upsetting that people keep mentioning it, but if people want something out of the ordinary there's this little place called London up the road........

Difference seems to be that Liverpool would appear to have loads of derelict areas, such as those in your links and the streets upon streets of empty houses they show on TV. Southampton is still a busy working port, there simply isn't room for a scheme like that. It's a blessing and a curse I suppose, it's great that Southampton is such a busy port but then you get people moaning that they can't access the waterfront....