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Jake Flannigan just joined Bognor on loan from Havant. As a season ticket holder, it will be interesting to watch him down at Nyewood Lane. Shame it hasn't worked out for him so far in his career. Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk

I think they are probably getting a lot closer than that. Interesting watch this :- . I didnt realise Hawk-eye were doing it.

4 youth players in the starting lineup and 4 on the bench. Absolutely love that!!!! Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk

Stopped being a season ticket holder at Saints 2 years ago. Used £200 of the money saved to get a season ticket at my local non-league team. Drinking beer whilst watching, decent burgers, not awful standard of football and chatting to the players in the bar afterwards! Not sure you will ever get me back to a top flight game again!

If it is a loan deal as described, does that mean he can't play against liverpool this season?

I am not so sure. Would we have picked up 8 more points over the last season had he been in charge for the whole time? I would think that performances since he got in would suggest that he would.

Probably in a significant minority, and I hated him as a player, but I do enjoy listening to Joey Barton.

No restriction of trade here though. He can start to "apply his trade" the minute the clock hits 11pm on thursday. As Tom28 says, thats up to him. We are just restricting him from applying his trade elsewhere, as per the legal document signed just a few months ago. If he went to court, and won, then football contracts will no longer be worth the paper they are written on. Players will be able to push for a move to another club even when the valuation is not met. The transfer system will completely breakdown and clubs will go to the wall.

To be fair, MP was asked if he had been training with the first team which is when he said he has had a virus the last 2 days and so has not been training. I dont think he ever actually said he was not playing because of the virus. Cant imagine anyone thought he might play tomorrow.

Seems to me that he is just being very pedantic. In his talkSport interview with White, he specifically said he had not put in a WRITTEN transfer request. He was very keen to be that specific. I feel that he probably did a VERBAL request which is what Les is referring too. However, I would be royally hacked off if one of our new players spent so much time discussing his previous club!

So 40pts has been enough to keep you safe in all of the last 10 years? Pretty good benchmark I would say. Unless we wanted a benchmark of what would get us relegated, but I guess no one wanted that!

Romeu is more of a replacement for Morgan which is what we missed last season. Our system does not require a Big Vic type destroyer which helps us turn defence into attack in an instant, as was displayed yesterday. I do get the feeling that Romeu also loves being here. I honestly could see him seeing out his career with us. Vic was always going to leave, and will leave spurs the second he gets an offer from a bigger team. For me, Romeu all day long, and thats not just because Vic has gone!

7:10am thursday morning from gatwick to bologna, then train into milan. Coming back saturday so hopefully missing the chaos!!!

Really surprised we have let this happen. England have already sent our first choice back injured, it makes no sense to then send them our second choice. This could come back and bite us!!!!

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/20160711-graziano-pelle-announcement-southampton-shandong-luneng-3178958.aspx

Vomit inducing? disgusting? its a red and white kit!!! I get it that it might not be your favourite but if that makes you throw up, surely every saints stripe kit does!! Seriously don't get it. Its ok. Its not a fashion accessory, its a frickin football shirt!

Exactly that. Cant remember who first said it but it means stay as wide as the pitch will allow. All those old enough will remember the lines on the pitch being made from chalk or lime and had the effect of making your nice black winfields go white!

Probably because if it doesnt work for whatever reason we end up having to pay a shed load of money to sack him.

But have they refused to sell? Sounds to me that the player decided to stay rather than go to Arsenal. They were given permission to speak to him so it would seem from that they would have sold him had he wanted to go. Very different to our situation I would have thought. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nothing needs to be in his contract. We are within our rights to accept offers from whoever we like. Man U and Chelsea have been doing it for years. They refuse to sell key players to league rivals. If we have a player that Everton want to bid for, I am sure there would be other clubs after him. We just accept their offer over Evertons.

Fdb or AVB for me, as I just cant see Pellegrini happening. Not sure about the love in for Emery though. His away record in the league last year was appalling!! P19 W0 D9 L10 only scoring 13 goals. Cup runs are brilliant, and he can obviously put out a team to win one off games, but there is no way anyone on here would accept that league performance. In fact, he would get the sack before the Europa league final. 9pts away from home all season!!!!!!

I am confused, You seem to be comparing a fully fit, all players available team from the past with a team missing 2 first choice centre mids, a first choice keeper and a first choice left back. Before we spent £110 million a team missing those first choice regulars would not have got a point at Newcastle or Watford and certainly wouldn't had got past Vitesse.

The problem as I see it is that we, like west ham, qualified through the back door. Having to qualify for the league stages has clearly put way to much strain on our squad so early in the season. Starting our campaign so early has meant less time on the training field to integrate the new players with the added problem of not having full weeks in between matches to sort out any problems. Had we qualified directly to the group stages, we would have only played 3 games so far this season and had considerably more time knitting the team together. We have to accept Europa League qualification is our main aim for the season, but we only want it if we can qualify directly.

Going for your No2 choice because you cant be bothered to wait for your No1 choice to become available doesn't sound particularly bright either!

Totally agree that we need to score to totally put the tie to bed. Of course, if we do then they would need 5 I think.