Bewildered

Simon Peach ‏@SimonPeach 1m1 minute ago .@Prowsey16 has committed his future to #SaintsFC. Confirmation expected shortly.

https://www.facebook.com/FSSrbije Has it been announced by us? I can't see it on the OS, nor is it mentioned on the club twitter.

Getting closer to the exit it seems.

Saintsweb journalist of the year Alex Crook says it is not true, so we may never know if RK can get him firing again, despite his unimpressive scoring record outside of Holland.

Portuguese teams always put stuff like that in player contracts. Unimpressive record since leaving the Eredivisie, but if anyone can get a player firing it is RK.

2-1 ghana

Article was posted 22:30 24/1/2015. Looks like Cork has just over 30 min utes to sign the contract.

Yes and if the club has decided to cash in on Cork (which is understandable if he has said he won't sign a new deal), we will need a replacement for him. Doesn't mean a striker won't come in, especially if Long is going to miss at least 6 weeks.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/jack-cork-handed-48-hour-contract-5036326 Sunday Mirror reckons he's been told he has 48 hours to make a decision and if he turns down the contract we'll sell and try and bring in Tonny Vilhena as a replacement.

Club had better make a decision quickly.

Blackmore says possible broken rib for Long, off to hospital for x-rays

When he was asked about Guidetti on Thursday, he said the didn't want an attacker. Either he changed his mind or the board said no. Of course with Long now injured, club may have no choice if Long's injury is bad. Rodriguez isn't going to be back anytime soon it doesn't seem and who the hell knows what is going on with Gallagher.

Gardos Injured?

Sounds like the midfield is not controlling the game at all. Also sounds like Bertrand is having a stinker.

http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/calciomercato/inter-osvaldo-could-return-to-the-epl-qpr-interested/ Joey Barton and Dani Osvaldo in the same team? What is the worst that can happen?

Midfield need to toughen up a bit second half, Sissoko in particular looks as if he can run through them at will.

Not the most exciting game, we played well within ourselves there.

Blackmore says we are playing 5-3-2 tonight, Bertrand at CB, Tadic playing just off Long.

Morgan out for 3 weeks then

Rested or injured?

Summer 2016. If we want anything resembling a decent fee we will have to sell in the summer unless he signs a new contract, which looks unlikely.

It will be very difficult to keep this going right until the end, but I think the team are capable of doing it. What is in our favour is that most of the sides that could beat us to 4th have been so poor defensively and they all have to play against Chelsea, Man Utd & Man City who you simply don't get anything from if you can't defend properly.

http://www.sportsclubstats.com/England/Southampton.html Some statistic based analysis, according to them 76 points or better gives a 100% chance of top 4. 73 - 75 points gives over 99% (99.2% with 73, 99.7% - 74, 99.9% - 75)

Scout at the game and previously linked to one of the players that had played. Abola (the Portuguese paper they got the news from) made no mention of who was being watched, just that we (as well as other clubs) had a scout at the game.

Excellent win, an amazing away performance.