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With a little more experience he would've chipped the keeper with his first good breakthrough on goal. The keeper had gone to ground early and he shot straight at him. But he then took his next opportunity well so I'm hopeful that with experience and confidence that he can score at top level he will prove to be a handful to the opposition for many years and he has the right managers to take him there.

Van Dijk scores.....

Manchester United will either make or break a manager's career. The last few have all been broken. I doubt Hasenhüttl will even be thinking about it. He has a fantastic opportunity to build his reputation here and achieve European football over the next couple of seasons and build his stock. He will not, as a relative unknown want to wreck his managerial career by going too big too soon. A couple of good seasons at Southampton and he no doubt will go on to bigger and better things but for now he will do a job with us.

Ranieri is their new manager.....

This is more embarrassing than anyone could dream of. Southampton professional football players getting in each other's way, not making blocks, not making tackles, missing the ball, passing to the opposition. For all the bull**** posted on the OS of training it appears the players have never actually met each other. An absolute disgrace and the club, players and management should be utterly ashamed and embarrassed of themselves. I cannot conceive that a football club is so blinded and aloof that they continue the same mantra and business model that is so obviously a failure. ****ing disgraceful and I can't believe that the club is getting such an easy ride to failure from the fans.

He also managed to say 'Nathan Redmond' and then immediately say 'Rathan Nedmond'.

2 nil up and looking comfortable. Brighton not really competing. But the half time talk was better for them than for us and we dropped off, let them play and invited pressure which ultimately led to them playing with confidence and giving them an easy goal to boost their play and their belief. An absolute balls up by the team and the manager to allow them to come on to us and not have any ideas of how to deal with it. A draw that feels like a defeat. Simply not good enough.

It's bad enough now in the build up. I swear Radio 5live have had wall to wall coverage of Liverpool supporters for the last three days. The annoying accents and the harping back to former glory mixed in with the fawning sycophantic reporters is enough to induce vomiting. I drove home from work last night and had to switch yet another interview with a plucky scouse fan making his way across Europe off and when I left for work again this morning it was the same bloody thing. Absolutely fed up with the w@nkers now and I hope the ex Southampton contingent fall on their arses spectacularly and I xan enjoy the sight of them crying over their losers medals.

The thought of annoying scouse accents all over the media for the foreseeable future is enough to make me want Real to win. It was bad enough tonight on 5Live with the evening sports programme full of previous match interviews with the loveable scallies and their phlegm filled squeaky noise.

There is no way the team and the fans should ever have been in this position. Reed's method of money making for the club almost cost him dear. His last two managerial appointments have been mind boggling, doing things on the cheap and hoping for the best. His persistence with Pellegrino when all at the club and city could see months ago we were heading for relegation was an absolute farce. He was too arrogant and stubborn to sack the bloke who was clearly out of his depth and wanted to avoid the pay off and Pellegrino who didn't want to resign to miss out on it was incompetence of the highest order. The way his face was all over the place when things went right and the fact he disappeared to God knows where when it all went tits up and was conspicuous by his absence was disgusting. His position in a normal club should be untenable due to the mishandling and absolutely ridiculous way he has dealt with this season. The has been no statement of intent by any of the owners or directors and I don't believe any of them truly know what to do. I hope the bloke never disgraces the club with his presence again when the season is over. He and his smug arrogant face can disappear up his own arse as far as I'm concerned and be replaced by a director that can see that success will earn money more than flogging off the talent on the pitch. I detest the man for overseeing such a cock up of a season and his cowardly behaviour. F**k off Les you rat b@stard.

Well done for taking my post so literally. It's just a hypothetical scenario that I have absolutely no idea will happen. I made no reference to throwing it away, I hope the team win the cup and stay in the Premier League. However, right now I would prefer three points in the league.

League. Sod's Law says we beat Chelsea in the semi final, play Spurs in the final and then hand Pochettino his first trophy. The media will be creaming themselves over Poch and how he beat his old team to hold aloft the FA Cup. It will be a media vvank fest over him and Spurs and I don't want to see that at the expense of Saints.

More curious to know when Lewis Hamilton signed for Saints....

You're entitled to your opinion of course as I am mine but you can make it without the assumption I'm weird or the other insinuations you appear to make about me. If any person who disagrees with hunting thinks that it is about getting kicks out of killing something you are very sadly mistaken. It's about the experience. It's about spending hours in the bush on foot alongside the wildlife. Sometimes you get a shot, sometimes you don't but to focus on the end result is missing the whole point. But I guess unless you have walked in my shoes you wouldn't understand it or get it. Many animals are culled by employed rangers and as a result they are processed and that's the end of it. Hunters pay for the experience and generate much needed revenue and food in places well away from the tourist areas and we do the same job as those rangers who are paid to to the same thing as I do. The fair fight argument is ridiculous. The animals don't stand around waiting for you. You have to put in a lot of work to get close to them. Animals whose instincts are ingrained over thousands of years to avoid dangers and be aware of predators, animals that have superior senses and alert to anything out of place. It's not driving around in the back of a land rover among animals that are accustomed to people and vehicles like in the Kruger or other places that people visit and believe they've had a taste of 'real' Africa. I will also make the point that when you sit down to your Sunday roast or eat a meat pie at St Marys that I doubt very much you have the faintest idea or really care where your meat comes from. As long as someone else has done the dirty work so you can eat without second thought it's absolutely fine. I expect the leather on your shoes or car interior came from animals that committed suicide? When I sit down to my evening meal today it will be from meat that I harvested, butchered and cooked myself. Sustainable and organic meat that I know everything about. Now when you sit down to your meat product of unknown origin, think about it.

What does being a licenced conservationist have to to with it? It's the same old story, misunderstanding based upon misinformation and a lack of understanding on the principles of sustainable conservation. My cash goes straight to the place it is needed, providing wages and money that is used to the greater benefit of the indigenous wildlife. I had a very interesting conversation with a vet in Namibia this year who was incensed that the Western and European societies are poking their noses into and trying to tell everyone what is best for everyone else in the world, especially all the do gooders who love to get up in arms about things they don't understand and try and change the world according to their own principles. Do Africans tell us how to manage our wildlife? No. So why do we persist in trying to tell Africans what to do with theirs? It is arrogance of the highest order. Everyone can sit wringing their hands about an animal being culled but I would suggest not one person bothers to find out why. Anyway, this thread is about Under Armour and the fact they have provided hunting clothes. It's not a secret but apparently it's only just dawned on folk this side of the pond. Shops in the U.S. are stuffed full of their cammo gear and have been for years. It's not news and I find it a little strange that suddenly it's a big deal for football fans in the U.K. to discover their team's kit is being supplied by a massive company that has made it's name by manufacturing hunting clothes and equipment and somehow everyone is now shocked by it after being so happy when the kit deal was announced.

There is an awful lot of misinformation about hunting. I have read the comments here and it is plain that no-one recognises or understands the concept of sustainable conservation. It's knee jerk reactions based upon social and mainstream media propaganda. I hunt in the New Forest and also in Africa and am being judged by people who don't know me or understand principles behind hunting it and the benefits that result from it. I am not going to engage in a hunting debate on the forum as it's the wrong place but I can assure you that Under Armour were making clothes for hunters a long long time before they ventured over here to provide sports equipment so it's a little ironic now that after securing the decent kit sponsorship everyone wanted, it's now something to complain about.

From Red and White Kop forum by a moderator: Dejan Lovren « on: Today at 10:27:59 PM » I hate that I feel the need to post this, but I can foresee the bloodbath of the post match topic. Lovren is a Liverpool player, and will be treated with respect on here. Any crowing, jubilation or celebration of his injury will lead to a warning / ban.

I guess Lemmings can't see the irony..... "To refer to an individual as a lemming thus became synonymous with calling them a follower of a large group--a community on an unthinking course towards mass destruction." Or...... "lemming A member of a crowd with no originality or voice of his own. One who speaks or repeats only what he has been told. A tool. A cretin."

Good synopsis from ESPN: http://www.espnfc.com/club/southampton/376/blog/post/2442482/spineless-southampton-in-danger-of-ruining-good-work

Main strength: Fetching the ball from the back of the net. Main weakness: Letting it get there.

Pah! You can't win anything with kids. Apparently.

This from the Telegraph after tonight's result: "It was described as a ‘dream’ transfer for Rickie Lambert last summer, but of what type? One from a David Lynch movie, perhaps? Maybe Lambert will wake up at a different club at start of next season and consider the past year a hallucination. When he starts on the bench and Mario Balotelli imitates someone with no concept of football as a team sport, it does beg the question how poor the ex-England striker has been in training? What could Balotelli be doing to keep Lambert in reserve? The Scouser said when he signed he had not moved to Liverpool as a cheerleader. He has a point. Mascots know they’ll be needed every matchday.". Can't argue with it really.

Pelle man of the match without question. Best game he's had in ages and two goals as well. Davis had yet another shocker. He's gone from a dependable squad player to looking like a rabbit in the headlights. Suffering a lack of confidence lately but hopefully he'll bounce back from it. Not if he continues to shoot though. I felt Kelvin Davis should've done better for the second goal. To get beaten from that angle at the far post is not good at any level. Can't fault him for the first. It looked like a deflection off an arm which could've gone anywhere. Mane was an annoyance to Spurs but mainly they were annoyed at him falling over. I can sympathise. It was getting embarrassing and I hope Koeman has a word in his shell like. Shame to see Morgan go off. I wonder if we'll see him in a Saints shirt again.......... Good effort though and if Fonte's header had been a couple of inches lower and Davis' shots had stayed within St Marys it could've been sooooo much better.

Gallagher just scored a screamer! 2-1 Saints.

At the start of the season there were four games every Saints fan wanted to win above all others. Liverpool home and away and Spurs home and away. So far we've failed in the three games we've played against the above. We must be due one win in four. It's my straw and I'm clutching it.