EBS1980

removed, it posted twice sorry.

Funny how about a month ago people were still wanted Bart to play instead of Kelvin, now after one game, people don't want him to play for us again.

You always assume people would choose playing over just picking up a wage, but if clubs pay someone silly money then they are perfectly within their rights to just pick up money for nothing. Least when Bridge signed he was first choice, they just brought someone better the season after. Forecast has never been near to playing for us at all.

If JT is guilty then he is gonna have a nice long holiday too. Only way to stamp it out in my opinion. Wonder where that would leave him as England captain again too.

without wanting to be baised towards english players i can only think of Bale and Ramsey that i would want in the starting 11 from other countries. I hope we don't just pick token NI and Scots to show its not just english players.

Good to see the FA handing out a decent punishment for racism ,although no doubt will be reduced on an appeal http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16186556.stm

Bolton

It was on the paper round up on ssn this morning that Wigan Leicester and us are in for Sharp for £3.25m

IF we were in for him it would be a strange choice to pick a team 19th in the table over a team 1st.

Best ability is Lallana, but most important to us is Lambert. When he doesn't play i don't feel confident we will outscore the oppo.

Does anyone know the new song out at the moment which is to the tune of the fresh prince of bel air tv programme?

Cork had a dead leg, which is why he was the one that made way at half time.

Last season 43 points would have avoided relegation, we already have 42 and it's only November. 47 more points to win the title (based on last season points) 27 games to get them in, less than 2 a game! Bring it on!!!

Add the fact the year before they made a £11.8M loss and £6.5M loss the year before that. I don't think they can afford to lose Maynard for nothing in the summer and surely would have to cash in on him in Jan?

Just seen the goals on SSN, Great cross for Lallana's goal, simple head in. Also says we had 70% of the possession!

think we should have gone 4-5-1 with Lallana and Guly wide to support Ricky with the midfield three in the middle.

was it a 4-4-2 in first half or 4-3-3 or 4-5-1?

opening post said 10 points from our 5 games and would still be top, however that would depend on how many points WHU pick up in that case.

is it 25 league games the record or just 25 competitive games?

depends on west ham too

Thats why we're top of the league!!!!!

A lot has been said about players that use twitter and the trouble it gets them in. However, used correctly i think it is very beneficial and i think Saints are seeing the benefits of the players using it. Steve De Ridder, Jack Cork, Richard Chaplow and Jos Hooiveld all use it and the banter between them is quite funny. Surely them using Twitter in this way improves their togetherness which can surely only be a good thing and benefit the results on the pitch creating a bunch of lads wanting to all work together.

Seems Cov fans think he is off to us. Just added him on twitter and city fans wishing him well with us and thanking him for his goals and effort.

With the news about Thomas Cook and their shares currently dropped from 30.32p to only 10.77p is it worth picking some up?

It's an interesting decision regarding Jos. I think he's been great for us so far, so do we try and sign him in Jan, extend the loan? Another consideration is IF we go up, would we be able to poach better players from the teams that go down? Scott Danns and Roger Johnson both left after being relagated last season and both in danger of going down again.