richard

We might even be first on MOTD! Surely?

That reputation of being good for youngsters is what keeps our academy churning out superb talent. Don't knock it because it makes millions for the club and we'd be poor without it. I doubt he will come here because there is so much interest from the top table, but would love to see him turn out for Saints even if it was just for a couple of seasons.

Summary is technically incorrect, but thanks for posting - I hadn't seen it.

Nice one.

Possibility for a retrospective ban?

Obviously this guy is a bit of an idiot. All fan bases have them. Not worth getting wound up about.

I'd be swapping places and standing myself if someone did that. Totally out of order.

Jay Rodriguez is in a worse state than the club are letting on, it seems. According to this article: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/dec/19/southampton-everton-match-preview he is all knee? Going to be a bit **** at football for the foreseeable then, no? "Injured Cork (ankle, Jan), Gallagher (26 Dec), Hesketh (26 Dec), Rodriguez (all knee, Jan), Tadic (calf, 26 Dec)"

I was wrong about Mane, big deal. I had just woken up and in my head I guess he is becoming a £4million player. All players have strengths and weaknesses. I don't expect RK to list them in interviews because it would help the opposition. I'm looking forward to seeing what Reed can do tomorrow.

What do you want him to say, "Reed is rubbish at stopping counter-attacks so I couldn't play him."? Maybe there's a reason he doesn't want to say why he didn't play him?

nice

We paid £4 million for him.

It is really disappointing when the other sides still in it would be beatable by the team that we had playing for Saints a month ago (possible exception of Chelsea but anyone can have an off day).

Agreed, and it's exciting waiting to see when / if he will make the grade. I think that youth development tends to happen in fits and starts rather than suddenly a player is good enough and they play all the time. Ward Prowse was in and out of the team for a while. Same with Chambers. I wouldn't be surprised to see Harrison get a run of games and then have a break for a while too.

Les Reed did build Harrison up a bit by saying that he was the best academy prospect he has seen, since when we have hardly seen him play. You can't really blame people for wanting to take a look at him.

So depressing. Going to cheer myself up by catching up on The Missing.

Targett off? Weird.

Can't quite believe how poor we have been in the first half. Can only get better in the second! COYR

Mane desperate to get sent off.

No thanks, I like Koeman. I liked Adkins too, but that was then and this is now.

You made that quote up. There's nothing in the article that supports even his/your loose interpretation of the word. The first line says that Saint's famed academy continues to produce premiership class players. Well doesn't it? Is it not well known for doing so? Nowhere does it claim that the academy is the best. The rest of the article talks up Hesketh's attributes. Do you disagree with that? Someone writes a positive article about our club, and instead of being pleased some our "supporters" act like we've got a team of liars writing articles for the press. Weird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism

Don't get this at all. Where is the jingoism in that article?

Anyone know if there will be streams available for this game? Is it being shown in any other countries?