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Not any particular match, but I miss the old routine....drive into Southampton, drop the girls off to go shopping.....park up at the Police Club......a couple of drinks.........off to the match, Dad in the East Stand me in the Milton......back to the car for the sports round up and the drive back home.

Agreed for now, I think it is all getting to be just too much for him this season. But overall I still see Lallana as a great prospect. He reminds me so much of Channon in his early days - who I remember taking loads of flak because he was weak, kept falling over, and couldn't shoot.

The trouble with Jake at right back is that he is liable to play great for 80 minutes and then have 10 minutes where it all goes wrong. I'd rather see Imudia come in, especially against a fast winger, and replace Lallana with Thomson.

It looked like a certain penalty from Block 5............and even more so looking at the clip. Still a deserved victory - perhaps our fortunes have changed earlier this season this would have been two points lost.

It looks like it. Bad news for both Bounemouth and Jake. He could do with week, in week out first team games somewhere if he is ever going to make it. Still, if Saints continue with the current wingless wonder formation I can see Thomson getting a few more games as sub to give us some width.

Good Luck Jan. Loved the vision, sorry it never worked out

Somebody else with enthusiasm, honesty, and integrity leaves the club - that leaves about 2 or 3 good 'uns to go eh Rupert You had to go Jan, but all the best to you in the future.

Don't forget Nick Holmes. We had a team of stars in those days, there were very few players that weren't internationals and most people thought Nick Holmes was there to make up the numbers. Until it slowly dawned on people and myself included, that it all fell apart without him. A great servant and a star himself in his own special way.

Underrated because he was played out of position at the start of the season, and he had to come into a young team, with next to no experience at the top level himself. What's impressive is that he has taken loads of flack, been dropped from the team, and come back in to give some decent performances. If he keeps improving he is exactly the the type of player we need - a young Nick Holmes perhaps?

It does mean that it looks like members will get something back for the tenner (or what ever it was exactly) they shelled out at the start of the season.

Sums it up well. Charlton were dangerous in the first half but to be honest the only time that I thought things looked really dodgy were once when Davis caught a cross, then got bundled over and dropped the ball - but he was up again quickly to save the shot brilliantly; and secondly when Rudi handled in the box for all to see except for the referee an the linesman. Other than that Charlton rained just the types of shots in that might be hard for some keepers to deal with but Super Kelvin seems to find easy. Saints really turned it around in the second half and started playing some great stuff, although as usual without that final cutting edge. BWP had a couple of chances and was so close to breaking through one on one at one point but he seemed to slip over just at the wrong moment. I thought Charlton looked like a good team and should be climbing the table soon. Meanwhile Saints are so close to being really good, but they really need to be out of the pressure zone at the end of the season with all these youngsters. Good performances from all the team, decent support considering most people were frozen at the end of the match, and nice stream of constant abuse at Nicky Weaver for most of the second half which if fairly obscene was amusing.

Good link on him http://youngguns.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/the-sad-story-of-ryan-smith/

They can pump all the money they want into their academies but there comes a time when young players need competitive games to see if they can turn potential into realisation. Boro have a decent record recently but personally I can't see why any decent young player would want to be at any of the others. Manure, Arsenal, Chelsea, and probably City now are probably the last places I'd want to be simply because to get in the team you have to be a £5+ million player so unless you're a Theo why move.

It's a great pity that this countries 'nanny state' rules mean that Sky are probably going to have to blur out 90% of the Saints team faces to protect them due to their very young age in future televised matches

well the mystery man looked pretty good whoever he was

Well it looked like Matthew Patterson to me - but maybe he's got a doppelganger (Iwas wearing an old pair of glasses)

Good 2-0 win at Sparrows Lane. First time I've seen them this season and they are starting to look pretty useful again. A few new faces and lots of growing up from last year means that this may not be completely correct. But standouts for me included Kayne McLaggon who was too much for the Charlton defence all match. Surprisingly good in the air against much taller defenders his real strength is that he turns defenders just about every time he gets the ball. Great goal as well. Worked well with Matthew Patterson who also remains a real prospect and could and perhaps should have scored a couple of times today. Callum McNish in midfield scored the other pouncing on a moment of dwelling on the ball in the Charlton defence to take the ball through and smacking it past their keeper. Personally I rate Jeffrey Imudia who has real pace and was alongside a giant called Ryan Tafazolli in the centre at the back who I haven't seen before. The full backs were Ben Reeves who looks good on the ball but has some growing to do and Lukas Stiklakis on the other side who looked pretty good and linked up well with McNish and Garyn Preen. Saints looked worth their lead in the first half but spent large parts of the second half under pressure and were lucky not to concede a couple of times - although they could have wrapped things up once or twice with breakaways. A really good game on a boiling hot day, free parking, free entrance, London Saints who didn't make Donny really should have been there.

If you've only seen him in the first team then I can understand why everyone thinks he's fast and nothing else. But in the U18s he always looked like he had tons of skill and players often just couldn't get near him when he was on the ball. Watching him at QPR his control was OK on receiving but almost every time he went to beat a man he looked like he had lost the ball - before somehow winning it back again, a weird player to watch. Well he isn't great now, but Opposing teams obviously don't like playing against him As soon as he is on the pitch, they re-organise and have to double-up to try and cope with his speed Things just seem to happen wherever he is on the pitch His presence usually forces the game into a new phase - he is a great option as a sub As frustrating as he is, I reckon there is a lot to him now. And still lots more to come but it's all down to self confidence, can he learn to just do the simple things most of the time, and can he learn to get to the line and cross the ball consistently.

Really good keeper whenever I saw him play. Does anyone know why Saints let him go?

Stupid goal to give away, and then a totally unnecessary sending off left Saints with far too much to do today, but they kept playing decent football throughout the match. Saints are almost a very good team but everyone needs to hold their nerves over the next few weeks otherwise this might all end in relegation. If we can see this season out and keep most of the team together this team could be great to watch for years to come. McGoldrick and Lallana had good matches and are both starting to look pretty special, Super Kelvin kept the score down. And at last Surman is starting to get back to what he was at the early part of last season and seems happier with Dyer ahead of him. Yet again we wasted every free kick and the they ought to be forced to watch Gareth Bale videos every training session until they get it right.

Definite yellow card, unlucky to get a red I thought. Very late, but not malicious and no way a leg breaker. I thought after a dodgy start Ollie was starting to look pretty good.He'll be back.

I followed the link and then noticed there was a further link to Southampton FC which opens to 'My Life as Polluted Pond Scum (Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle) By Bill Myers List Price: £3.99 Price: £0.85 ' beaten to the post by Wally f**!!ing McDoogle eh Lordswood - can't win them all I guess. (coincidence I think not, methinks our Skate friends may have someone on the inside at Amazon:cool:)

didn't notice anything at the end of the match, people were disappointed but the team didn't get any slagging off where I was in Block 4. The players that went around clapping the crowd (Mcgoldrick and Svensson) got a pretty good hand all in all.

At the match: Rubbish referee, and the Itchen linesman was a joke (although thanks for flagging every time Blackpool got the ball in the net up at the Northam End). Blackpool chopped our players down three times and the yet the first booking was when a Saints player mistimed a challenge. Blackpool wasted time throughout the game and bent all the rules to ruin the flow of the game - aided by the referee who persistently called the game back to retake free kicks from much the same place as they had already been taken. Their keeper flew out to beat Jamie White to the ball then collapsed in a heap when he wasn't touched. Hammill collapsed in heap to waste time in the second half when he could have rolled over one more time and been sitting in the Kingsland with a burger and coke. Watching it on Sky Plus this morning: The ref actually got most things right. Saints bookings were fair enough, the penalty was fair enough, The Itchen linesman called most things right and was in the right place to make the important decisions. True the ref lost control around the time that Hammill was substituted but on the TV you could see his view of the Numbers board was rubbish. I don't know what to take from all this other than it's totally different being at a match, than from seeing it on TV when you've got slow motion, action replays, and you're not 100 yards from the action. One thing the TV did get wrong was the booing issue though - and this time it was them that were '100 yards from the action'. Blackpool were booed for time wasting and feigning injury. They were booed for 'professionalism' which I fear we may see again this season as our young team take on many teams that know they can't beat us by just playing football. The referee was booed for losing control at one stage, for pulling play back and breaking the flow of the game. And the linesmen, particularly the one on the Itchen side, for what looked like some terrible decisions. But I never heard anyone where I was sitting have a go at the players. Sure there were a few groans as passes went amiss, when 50-50 tackles were lost, and as Svennson and Perry lost out in the air again and again. All in all though, I reckon the crowd was fully behind the team right to the end and will remain so.

to the Vierra tune I presume? Lallana whoooaaa, Lallana whoooooa, Always taking the p iss He thinks he's Matt Le Tiss Adam Lallana whoooaaa, (the Adam's a bit hard to sing the first time round OK now) Lallana whoooooaa Always taking the p iss He thinks he's Matt Le Tiss .........repeat for 15 minutes