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Just us, West Brom and Cherries with no televised games. Doesn't worry me. Though I think Sky and BT will be embarrassed by the end of Jan when we're in the top four and they've ignored our climb

Presumably they assembled and trained in Paris before flying out to Africa. Remember that Senegal is a former French colony

Oh dear, according to the African Football site, Mane is hurt. "Sadio Mane could miss Senegal’s opening 2018 World Cup qualifier, with coach Aliou Cissé sweating over the fitness of the Southampton striker. The Lions of Teranga will face Madagascar in Antananarivo in the first leg of their qualifying tie on Friday and Mane is a major doubt after sustaining an ankle injury in Paris." http://africanfootball.com//news/584661/Senegal-star-Mane-a-doubt-for-Madagascar?

Decent pricing: £18 for adults and £10 for under-17s

substitutes: K. Davis (GK), Clasie, Fonte, S. Davis, Tadić, Martina, Seager.

JWP would be our most reliable penalty taker

We're going to see much more of an improved JWP this season than most posters realise

here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3187212/Violent-scenes-Arnhem-Southampton-fans-clash-local-supporters-Europa-League-tie.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Man Utd Chelsea Man City Arsenal ---------- Spurs SAINTS ---------- Liverpool West Ham Swansea Stoke Everton Palace Newcastle Aston Villa Leicester West Brom Norwich ---------- Sunderland Bournemouth Watford Prem finish: 6th Europa: First KO round FA Cup: 4th round League Cup: Semi Final PotS: Pelle

Brilliant, thanks

All these stories are coming from PA / Simon Peach

Great, he's already confident enough to be interviewed in English. Nice smile too.

Yes Cedric is coming. We'll have a fantastic Iberian trio with him, Juanmi and Jose. And well done Jose - a fine bit of targeted recruitment.

hmmm, if the green makes our players blend in with the grass, is that bad because it'll be harder for them to pick out team-mates for passing and crossing? Or good because we can make stealthy runs without the other side spotting us? I imagine that our sports scientists have worked that one out.

This story from the Express is a classic of the genre http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/583502/Southampton-Ralph-Krueger-Nathaniel-Clyne-Morgan-Schneiderlin-Toby-Alderweireld-futures The headline reads Southampton DISCUSS futures of Man Utd, Arsenal and Spurs targets Clyne and Schneiderlin Then the first line of the story states the exact opposite: "SOUTHAMPTON chairman Ralph Krueger has refused to discuss the futures of the star players at St Mary's."

I'd put Newcastle near the bottom. Away fans are so high up in the clouds that we need binoculars to follow the action

Relax everyone. This doesn't sound like someone about to leave: http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150602-jose-fonte-southampton-europa-league-2479067.aspx?

If you look at the entries for the other clubs in that Guardian piece http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jun/01/premier-league-transfer-window-clubs you'll see that most of them have an estimated transfer kitty in the £20m - £30m range (and of course the 'big six' have more)

Yes all 8 candidates are brilliant http://social.saintsfc.co.uk/ Keep changing my mind. Morgan's might have won if they'd shown all 41 passes against the Mags but in the end went for the quick, simple beauty of Long's against Villa.

Andrew has overall responsibility for all pitches, including training ones. The new guy/gal will be specifically in charge of the playing surface at SMS.

The Szczesny we saw gifting us two goals on new year's day?

You won't have to stay up late -- we're first on Motd

They seem to have a few new injuries http://www.stokecityfc.com/news/article/hughes-sweats-on-defensive-duo-2408153.aspx

There's an inherent unpredictability to recovery from an injury like this so no one - not even the specialist treating Fraser - knows. It could be just 6 months, could be more than 12,

If you really don't know, think of Spurs now banned nickname