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Got to go with this one, right behind the goal as Beattie headed it in right through Howards hands, Immense.

First I do not believe Clyne made his decision on a comment made by Carragher, it is purely a question of ethics, and yes we have probably tapped up players as well, all I am saying is that Carragher over stepped the mark, end of.

It would frankly, Carragher on sky sports news on line angered me, stating on there that after a game at St Mary's he told Clyne to sign for Liverpool and how pleased he was about it, now I am not stupid enough to think that this does not happen, however, he is paid by Sky T.V. as a so called pundit and supposedly give unbiased views, he then and presumably because of his own arrogance decides to tap up one of our players for Scousehampton, totally unethical and frankly should be reprimanded over this, it is totally disgraceful and feel that he should be banned from St Mary's, or am I on my own here.

I noticed today that Reading have been fined 30,000 pounds for the loan they took out with Rabic(sorry that may be mis-spelt), i noticed we had a loan with this off shore company as well, is that what the extra money from the owner is for? perhaps one of you better informed guys could help me out with this.

You find words and sayings being followed all over the place now, our wonderful Right Honorable leaders do this frequently, for example, Robust and Hyperbolic, both of which will be closely followed by so much Bull Sxxt it makes me gag.

Lovren and Lallana know that Ricki will only get a cheer from Saints fans tomorrow, whereas there reception will, shall we say be less so.

Thanks for that Redslo, that clarified those two points for me, with reference to fair play though, do you not think that long term it could be the undoing of the premier league in its current format.

Therefore if we qualify for Champions league or Europa then this could be us next season, I do not wish to sound negative and would love for Saints to qualify for the Champions League, if only to shove it up the axxe of the so called top six and there media buddies, what worries me is our premiership status and maintaining that alongside the CL/Europa league plus our league and F.A. Cup matches as well. We have seen how we have not been as effective when key players are out, so with all these extra games combined with the travel can Saints cope with that? Therefore would the club invest in further players to ensure that we had adequate cover, as said I would be delighted if we qualified but it does raise a lot of questions. There is no doubt in my opinion that we have embarrassed and upset the boards of the top six, they must hate the fact that we are even close to possibly gaining a CL place, in essence Southampton football club has out smarted them and they must resent it; even the so called "financial fair play" which is specifically geared to ensure there top six status has been shown to be flawed, the FA of course will say that it is there to ensure clubs do not overspend and do a Pompey, only one answer to that and that is Buxxshxt, if they wanted fair play then we would all have the same budget on transfers and wage caps, then the playing field would be level, still that is enough from me, I would love to read other forum users views.

Just had a look at the gallery on the saints site, it shows a photograph of Elia getting a boot in the attachments, the next is him on the deck clutching the said area, however, it is the third that made me laugh with him looking down the front of his shorts,( to check if everything is where it should be I guess)that has to be a candidate for a caption competition, shouldn't laugh really of course just could not help it, poor guy.

Nicely put Hutch, to try and take what RK has achieved for Saints as his own, is nothing short of theft.

Calmed down now, it did race though when they put up an extra 5 minutes to play, did I miss something, I know Fergie was watching so I suppose they felt obliged to add Fergie time.

Thanks Sarniasaint, a good in depth view of the Saints, if anyone views that in a negative way then they are a few sausages short on the barbie.

Good analysis Canada, mane's game I thought had improved, but I just put that down to getting used to the premiership, however, putting together the picture the way you have does make sense, long may it continue, no pun intended.

They make me laugh, what do they want? My conclusion is a premiership league with Man U, Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool and of Course Arsenal being the only teams in it; most of there fans feel that they have the God given right to win everything just because they can spend big bucks, when a team like Saints come along and spoil the party the resentment is massive and I include some pundits, apart from Mr. Cottee who got it spot on today.

Had it been Arsenal playing villa, he would have wrote the following, They should have won the game easily with that sort of domination, they just struggled a little bit in the final third, but as we have all seen before if you play badly and can still get a result then that says a lot about the team, and history shows us that they will probably go on and win the premiership.

Our first game back in the premiership, superb tackle, great timing and of course no yellow.

Police have now found his car at least.

It seems to me that none of the so called big clubs can do anything for themselves, all they do is poach players and staff to bolster them up, total Wxxkers

Have to agree with this, however, on a much smaller scale we did when we were in league 1 and the championship, were we not known as the Man City of league 1 for a while, although as Ohio wrote we still brought on the young in house talent as well.

I wonder if he remembers saying that, if he does I really hope he is choking on them.

Congratulations Nick, another win for Saints.

Great speech from Ralph, no auto-cue either, very impressed.

Said the same thing to myself when he said that, mind you time does play tricks on the mind.

away to sheffield

Nothing, had a camera down mine