That was moving....at the end of MOTD2 they played the Last Post and listed the footballers who gave their lives in the Great War.
Saints v Leicester match thread
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Yep, Shane looked away as he wheeled away and wiped out Liam Moore with a clothesline.
Yep, Shane looked away as he wheeled away and wiped out Liam Moore with a clothesline.
Funny yes but was it completely accidental? Is tthat what you mean by looked away. I really couldn't tell by the few seconds on motd 2
Could there be a charge against him in that?
Fairly sure he was just looking where his teammates were and totally missed more. Nothing will become of it.
Looking ahead at our home fixtures, the next side that might come to St Marys and try to hold out for draw is Crystal Palace, which isn't until March (maybe Swansea will try to hold out for a draw,so that's at the end of January). The next few home fixtures are against sides with lofty ambitions (Manchester x 2, Everton, Chelsea, then Arsenal), so they are not likely to 'park the bus'. Unless, of course, they collectively realise that defending deep is their only chance against us
I disagree
Mourinho will park the bus and try and play us on the counter.
Used to always be the maximum 500/1 or 1000/1. This is progress
I got 2500/1
I'm happy with it. The longer we are not considered a real threat the better. The only one who seems to be taking us seriously is Mourinho.
Just showed Chelsea, City and Saints games on MOTD2...only bothered to talk about us. Keep playing, enjoy ourselves and see where it takes us was Shearer's advice. Said he was thrilled for us. And added that it was funny that managers talked about needing time to bed in, but not at Southampton
This is because nothing fundamental has changed really since Adkins. Its been improved obviously but when you recruit like we do i.e. based on the way we play rather than adapting to new individuals, it is a much easier process.
Having seen that Staplewood video, I am no surprised at what we are achieving (well maybe just a bit).
I got 2500/1
I wish I could congratulate you
, but I think getting odds like that on Saints winning the league will just expose you to more torment than the rest of us. I do congratulate you on showing such faith 
Lets hope Imps did it each way and got four places. Over 600/1 to finish in the top 4 now thats a bet!
Andy Walker, talking about Scottish football, said that teams are reluctant to pay top money for players who have done well in Scottish football. Cited Wanyama's move to Southampton for 12 million as an example, saying he was in and out of the team. Bad example, we are more than happy with Wanyama, but we have choices here and he is used tactically by Ronald. Yes, Victor isn't always first name on the team sheet, but there is no way anyone is disappointed in him. Shows how you can see things when you only know a little of the story...suggests we should be careful about opinions on other sides.
I've got bets on us to win the league at 750/1 and a couple more at less extravagant odds to finish top 4 and top 6. Plus Koeman to get manager of the season. If we finish in top 4 and koeman does pick up the award, it'll pay for a family holiday
Good luck...you deserve a reward for such faith. You have a decent chance because, if we finish top 4, Koeman would stand an excellent chance of manager of the season.
Mourinho talking a lot of sense. Says he can see Chelsea as title contenders, but dismisses talk of going unbeaten. Says that is hard to do in the PL, but if Chelsea lose, he will just move on because Chelsea are a stable side. That could be applied to Saints...we know we have a good defence and can score, yet we could lose (after all 1-0 wins could easily be 0-0 or even a 0-1 loss), but we must remain certain that we can dust ourselves off and carry on again.
mourinho is the most pessimistic interviewee ever. he only does it to humiliate everyone he does better than.
Robbie Savage was quite generous on Saturday's 606 [our NOT namesake radio programme..! ] when he declared that, in his opinion, if Saints finished the season in the top 4 that would be the greatest achievement of the Premier League so far, in its two-plus decade existence.
I can see what he means. Only last week, Kevin Keegan suggested that if Saints were to make top4 it would be a bigger achievement than anything from the Saints of the 1980s, and that's probably true. The gulf between the bigger clubs and smaller clubs is much wider these days, which makes it a much harder task to overcome, although I think both Savage and Keegan are forgetting that Saints aren't exactly paupers these days, and where we can't develop the player from the Academy, we have the resources to buy in a very capable one from outside.
Saints real strength lies in professionalism from top to bottom and from being smarter than other clubs in all departments. The media have got an idea how the success of the last 5 seasons up until now has been achieved, but the pundits still don't seem to grasp that it is no miracle. Just doing exactly the right things to fit the philosophy and an acute attention to detail to provides Saints with an edge over the other clubs.