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In fairness I don' think that article is surprising in the least. There is a clear underclass of laborer in the middle east and they are essentially slaves in the worst cases. Maybe shining he spot light on it will improve their lot, that or it will suppress it further and make things worse.

Not one single dig at NC and good praise for Saints.... Hope this is a sign of the future!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24284247 Also, I don't think there is much showing of Lambert matching last seasons goal scoring form under Mopo sadly.

Agree, i can't stand fans that moan about our players when they cba to even watch the matches. Lallana has had numerous chances this season, had the ball in the net once, hit the woodwork twice and keeps getting in good positions. Not to mention assist for Liverpool goal.... In summary of Derry - yup, lets drop lallana

Palace have come up and spent hardly any money just like reading, who they are a similar size to. Hull are the most like west ham, with an experience premier manager who has signed some experienced premier players. Cardiff are just like us, sadly a bad comparison since we didn't play ourselves last year, although we did give plenty of points away due to our own errors. If you were to compare them like for like with the teams that went down.... QPR - Cardiff (Foreign owners with Money innit) Wigan - Hull (manager looking to make quality bargain buys) Reading - Palace (spent sweet FA!)

Bowsers, please post stuff of this ilk here:- http://www.southamptonrumours.co.uk/ there are numerous reason why lallana may be getting subbed, protecting him, fitness, tactical? Motivation or general squad rotation? The lad is still club captain and is playing better and better.... we certainly don't need this kind of negativity after a great away win.. Are you also aware that there is a lallana article out today which is an interview of him praising pochettino and the team on a job well done and tactics instigated brilliantly - hardly kicking up a fuss? In addition. we have had to kits featuring yellow since NC was here.... one of which we wore for 2 seasons... We also don' tend to play in yellow away every season... so we have had a pretty decent of yellow kits since 09/10? I dread to think what negative crap would come out if the club hadn't gone up 3 divisions in 2 years and wasn't now looking to knock on the door to europe having signed Italy's number 9 and 2 other champions league quality signings. Some of the rubbish is bad now, i dread to think what would be worse...

So essentially we agree. I think on our day, this team and poch's tactics is capable of beating any football side. We have the luxury at the moment that everyone underestimates us i.e. liverpool fans expecting a 3-0 or 4-0 score, and only one draw being predicted (no defeats by their fans pre-match... They also all believe that they had an off day and don't grasp that just like at sms it was our tactics that forced those mistakes (just like city and just like chelsea last season. We are the only team playing this style in the premier and until these teams get used to us we are going to pick points up at these grounds. At the moment, and after this weeks fixtures, i also think that united away is there for the taking! (i won't be disappointing with a defeat provided it is a valiant one, I will not tolerate a **** poor performance however!). But Like i said, and as you concur, we have an issue with our attack at the moment. We struggle to break bus parkers down. I think Johny Depp is starting to show signs of acclimatizing, Its refreshing to have a player who is capable and who looks to turn his man and get a shot off, and i think he has the skill to be very very good. Hopefully he will achieve this! I don't know how you can say that for sure? and I don't agree. I think a draw wold be the more likely outcome, both teams had further opportunities, notably us with mignolets treble save and ossi shot that was again saved and lallana getting through 1 on 1. Ultimately we got stronger as the second half went on and it was noticeable that Liverpool were the team that tired. When we become more effective on the attack we will pose a serious question to any team. As it is, we have somehow become set piece experts to make up for stokes demise. Eitherway, I feel more confident of us getting a win at liverpool, chelsea, man utd away than i did at beating west ham or sunderland at home. It was the same last year, beat city, beat chelsea, beat liverpool footballing passing sides) and lose to qpr and strugle with sunderland and stoke. Give poch a passing side to beat and he can do it, what the team needs now, is an effective way to beat direct and defensive sides, if we develop that and remain injury free then we will have a very very good season.

It always astounds me the number of saints fans that underestimate us. The Liverpool pre match comments are the latest in an incredibly long list of examples. I honestly felt we had the beating of them all day long. Our first 11 is stronger than a lot of people give it credit for, and that will be shown in a fair few games this season. We just need to learn how to beat teams that don't try and play football.... i.e. west ham, and sunderland at home, and norwich away.... we have an issue breaking down teams who sit back and hit direct passes up field. You can't press teams that can't pass in the first instance!

Quote from: Johnnyboy1973 on Yesterday at 04:58:47 PM Fair play to Southampton. The ugly truth is they were better, much better. Not only that, Brendan got out managed as he did at the Dell last season. We had no answer to their high press without taking into account the woeful decision to play four center halves or the decision to push Sturridge wide to accommodate the inadequate looking Aspas. The midfield of Gerrard and Lucas was for most of the game nothing more than a liability and oh for a Wanyama. For those that slate Glen well now you can see how intrinsic he is to how we play. Hopefully a bad day at the office as the team and staff were as clueless as they come today. What rubbish. I thought Wanyama was their worst player by a distance. If Cork had started in place of him, they might have dominated us by more. He's awful on the ball and his teammates were reluctant to pass to him.

Wanyama cost more and is far far worse....

Wanyama just first cut it I'm afraid. Any game which requiress good touch and passing under pressure and he is a liability that deep on the pitch.

We are going to win!

FFS people, we are going to win! Why don't you believe this?

Rainbow laces to be worn?

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Bale and Le Tissier are at least on a par with him, and that is without even trying? Also that much praise for a man with his track record (especially with women, ba fights and hush hush court cases) needs some serious questioning... Or perhaps you agree and would like to let him sleep with your woman? Also where the hell is your passionate defense of our team??? You've spent the last 2 days banging on passionately about the rights of gay men and anti homophobia... but another team, with widespread injuries, missing players and who got spanked at sms last season, dismiss us as "no challenge" and you think that is "about right".... Seriously support the team! Or do they need to wear rainbow laces to get you interested?

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Found some beauties on the Liverpool pre-match forums:- "Best player I've ever seen playing for Liverpool, at one point he could have played for any side in the world. I've never seen one man carry a club as much as he has for the past 10-12 years. It's a disgrace that the club never gave him enough support to win the league. He's probably the best player to play the game that's never won the league mad" - about Stevie G "He's just my hero tbh. Would actually gladly let the guy fck my woman. My favorite player that ever has been and ever will be." - About Stevie G "Went for 3-0, would have gone for 4-0 but it wasn't an option. think we'll finally have a good game, and Rodgers will get them putting in a decent 2nd half this time" Suffice to say that not one of them has us down for a win, and only one credits us to score in a 1-1 draw (also the ONLY prediction that doesn't have us winning). Note I have also corrected several spelling errors and translated to provide a comfortable read for you all - couldn't be bothered with them all no. On the back of this, and my general dislike of liverpool fans that have never been to a home game (let alone seen them play) I will go for 2-0 saints, with Lambert to get his 199 and 200th (league?) goals for saints. Another joyous piece of good news, cunhtino is injured, and of course no suarez, they look mighty toothless to me unless we gift them a goal)... yet they are predicting 4-0 and 3-0 wins. LOL.

You are the 3rd person to say that on this thread... great minds think alike! Lets hope we can include Poch in that bracket!

For example, the recent FA campaign against spurs fans to stop them racially abusing themselves by chanting "Yiddos"or "Yid Army" etc? Please dude get a grip. I have been going to football matches for 20 years and I have never heard a homophobic chant, in fact I have never seen homophobia in any walk of life, be it at Uni, down a pub, with friends and certainly not at work.... you are making a massive issue out of very little, ****ing off a lot of people in the process, and essentially implying that people aren't capable of defending themselves... People don't need to have their hand held to come out, and it is no societies place to tell someone that it is okay to come out... its a non issue, and the sooner people grasp that the sooner we can all move on with life... I am far more concerned about the level and intensity of swearing that occurs at football grounds around children than I am over something that doesn't frigging happen.

Holy Clyne fonts lovren shaw Cork Morgan Lallana Lambert Ramirez Osvaldo Must win game for me, sit next to a Liverpool fan at work... Before you ask, he's never been to anfield :-)

Well that's clearly BS, because the bed wetters would have had us believe that we would never return to the premier, then never return to the championship, then never survive administration. The only ones who are set in stone are the bedwetters - the ascent to the premier pretty much proves this... every year the same posters moan about the tactics, or the team, or the results like we are getting relegated, regardless of the fact that we went to Wembley and won 2 promotions. They will never change.... in contrast, for the past 4 years the happy clappers have a much higher accuracy in what they have been saying.... ergo, saing that the bedwetters/realists (rofl call ourselves what you will) will always win is ridiculous. They are wrong 99 times out of a hundred, possess an abnormal and annoying stamina to keep going, and will eventually get one right. Meanwhile they **** off 90% of the fanbase. I'll take a happy clapper anyday, at least they can revise their expectations downwards once in a while.

I don't think the club need to jump on this particular band wagon, I'm actually quite comfortable that we are not.

Still no goals from open play (am I allowed to voice that as a concern yet), 2 goals all season.. and the best team we've played is Norwich. Plus 20m spenton mmidfield an attack with Wanyama looking worse than cork by the game. Still. Today was always going to be ugly. Coulve easily lost against another team we can't break down. We have more points than we had from these fixtures last season. Just. And the true market will be anfield

Luke Shaw is on 25k a week as far as I know. The person who said 9k above... Lol Wtf. No chance he would stay here for that.

Are you not concerned that we don't seem to create or convert many chances? In 3 matches it has taken a penalty and poor defending in the dying minutes? That wont happen every week... We will at best get 10-15ish god a season from those means. Meanwhile the players don't seem to know where the target is!!! This needs to change, and soon, or we will find ourselves in trouble. Plus 1-0 wins are **** to watch :'(