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It hasn't happened before and allthough our away support has grown significantly since relegation from the prem I can't see it ever being the cast that every away game sells out let alone sells out to just season ticket holders.

We only did it as European rules required the name and number be on a solid back ground not stripes, our home kit at the time was stripes front and back so for Europe we were forced to wear a shirt with a plain red back.

the real question is CHDAJFU?

The trouble with leaving the St Marys in is the sponsors don't like it as all the TV people etc abbreviate it to St Marys (which is exactly what used to happen) and they don't get there ton's of advertising on the BBC etc. Personally I could really care what the stadium is called or how many logos the players carry it's what happens on the pitch that counts allthough it is sad how money has changed the game almost beyond recognition.

Why does he need to appologies to the fans can't remember him doing anything to us! Sure if he wants back on the bus he needs to appologiese to Adkins and who ever else he has offended within the club but I can't say I would expect an appology. For me if he comes back appologises and gets his head down I'd have him back in the squad he would be a usefull backup that could hopefully mean we never see Guly wasted on the wing again and he's reasonably proven at this level.

If we want to get promoted the important figure is being 1 point ahead of the team in 3rd at the end of the season. If you average out the points tally of the teams finishing third over the last 7 seasons you get a figure of 80.6 points so we should be targeting at least 81 points so another 51 points from 32 games or 1.6 points per game. I hate to say it but I'm starting to believe and at this rate will be disapointed with a play off finish which certainly wasn't in my thoughts at the start of the season!

Given that he played for the under 21's as recently as last season to say he isn't still on the radar as one for the future would seem a little short sighted. He has represented France at every level upto the under 21's and captained most of them so the French establishment clearly see something in him. Of course he may not make it David Prutton was once the highly regarded captain of Englands u21 side but I doubt they have written him off yet.

We need cover for Lambert there is nobody at the club who can fill his role.

really who cares, life is far to sweet at the moment to worry about something so trivial!

another midfielder and an unproven one with a terrible injury record to boot. No thanks.

Corrected for you

I second that much as I love England if Harry becomes boss I will become a supporter of 'Anyone but England' and happily cheer us to defeat until such time as someone removed the saggy faced, tax avoiding, brown bag swapping git from office.

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Wally an employee of Southampton Football club not NC? So surely he has reached an out of court settlement with Southampton Football club not NC, I seriously doubt NC has had anything to do with it the legal department will have handled the whole thing with an agreed budget. Brinksmanship is common place in all sorts of cases the number that are settled just before the case is ridiculous and a total waste of court time personally I'd fine Wally for wasting the courts time. I'm not convinced it's MLT using that twitter account it just seems weirdly out of character, wish they'd kiss and make up though MLT is Southampton football club to me and it's such a shame for him not to be involved anymore.

It's funny really because a career ending injury would actually be the single biggest justification of his decision to move. The insurance pay out were that to happen would now be considerably larger as he is a multi million pound player earning big wages in the richest league in the world, he would no doubt be setup for life. Back on topic I'm Pleased for the lad, I always keep an eye out for ex-players I've liked and hope they are doing well. I was made up when Kevin Davies made his England debut and even though I want Totenham to loose every week I was pleased to see Bale tearing up the champions league last season. Life is too short to be bitter.

Well one from 2-3 years ago has just rocked up in the championship at Reading. they have just announced the signing of Cedric Baseya who looked like a decent prospect when he left us interested to see if he is still on track!

It's not nonsense, skint is relative. When trying to justify spending money it's difficult to justify spending it on a mediocre product like championship football but perfectly possible to justify spending it on a premium product like premier league football and the associated glory. Much like nobody can find a tenner for a pint on a monday but they can find 150 quid for a stag do on saturday. That and the glory fans who only watch the big games!

Are you seriously saying you would rather davis hoof 90% of the balls he recieves long down the pitch giving the oposition a 50/50 chance of getting the ball back? Good football sides don't play long ball we have defenders who are comfortable on the ball and a midfield packed with some of the best players in the division I'd hate to see us by passing this massive advantage and giving the oposition possesion. Back on topic, brilliant result amazing start to the season I can't believe how good it is to be a saints fan at the moment long may it continue!

His general point is right though, most posters seem to have taken a balanced view point and are saying that he looks ok and has already improved from his debut, I've not really seen one 'ringing endorsement' as you put it. There are then one or two posters thatchoose to pick up on the negatives in his performance and judge based on those alone, for example someone points out that he completely lost track of where the ball was ONCE during the game like this is some terrible crime happens to everyone from time to time especially a centre half wh has hardly played in 12 months. If it happens regularly it's an issue once it's not worth comenting on.

Might happen but probably won't like 99% of paper talk, either way I'm not too fussed just happy to be a saints fan at the minute it's nice to see us in the transfer gossip column not the going out of business or down the swanny section.

I'm not his biggest fan and was always annoyed by his appearence of running through mud (lots of effort but no speed) but he clearly wasn't and isn't as bad as many of you are making out he scored plenty of goals in our relegation season playing for a terrible side in his first season as a first team regular. Yes he maybe a bit of an idiot but lets be realistic at least. He'll struggle at Wednesday though, Megson has no idea what he's doing there and I think even Messi might fail to make an impact!

He was proper garbage I remember a game aginst Newcastle where we were 2 or 3 goals down very quickly with all of them being directly atributable to that waste of space and to think someone got him in to replace Benali, ridiculous.

Shame his career seemed to fall apart very quickly, a couple of injuries and some over exposure under the Dutch duo took what looked like a promoising upper championship midfielder and seemingly turned him into a non league player. Hope he does well and finds his way back into the football league soon.

Going to be a tough game I'm sure but I'd like to think we can turn them over at home going for a 1-0 win. Hopefully Richardson will be back and the defence with an extra weeks training together and a game in the dutch lads legs will be more together.

When exactly was he poor for us? Made his Premier league debut out of position at left back against Chelsea then got dumped at right back. The few games I remember seeing him actually at centre back like the Championship play off second leg he was outstanding.

Stupidly harsh on Claus nobody who is that crap would have appeared in as many premier league games as he did, seemes like the writer wanted to use that quote because it's classic Strachan so stuck him in regardless of ability the same is probably true of Carlton Palmer. The list is terribly written and misses out on one or two spectactular disasters that cost far more than our Claus, how about Sean Dundee 2 million quid 3 liverpool appearences no goals, Erik Meijer a fans favourite at liverpool despite managing 2 goals in 24 appearences or Ibrahima Bakayoko 4.5 million quid and 4 goals in an Everton shirt.