I hate these early kick offs...having a couple of bottles of Bud before our lass drops me off near the ground.. Ha'way the lads...
Just got the bairns scarf on. Will be at the ground in half an hour. Anybody know what sort of crowd we are expecting, and are Southampton bringing one mini-bus or two to this game?
Sunderland make nine changes with only John O'Shea and Fabio Borini surviving from their 2-0 defeat against Hull at home last time out. Ignacio Scocco makes his debut with Sebastian Larsson and Lee Cattermole making their 100th starts for the club. Sunderland starting XI: Ustari, Celustka, Dossena, O'Shea (C), Vergini, Cattermole, Larsson, Giaccherini, Gardner, Scocco, Borini Southampton also shuffle their line-up with Victor Wanyama and James Ward-Prowse coming into midfield and Kelvin Davis in goal. Rickie Lambert starts up front. Southampton starting XI: Davis (c), Clyne, Yoshida, Hooiveld, Shaw, Wanyama, S. Davis, Ward-Prowse, Lallana, Guly, Lambert.
I like the look of Scocco upfront with Borini and Giaccherini on the wings, interesting. I worry for our full backs today..
Same, as he's got nothing at all to his game. No pace, no positional sense, can't get forward, can't cross, can't defend. He's just ****ing awful
Links to stream. Don't ask me which one works you need to find one yourself as they're all usually **** for me. http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=245161&part=sports
For a stupid kick off like this I wouldn't expect many saints fans up here. There were 12000 ish sold on Thursday. I'm on call with work until 12:30 but will be watching on bt. Think a lot of us have said we'd rather lose than draw. I want to win but a draw could be terrible fir us.
To be honest mate, I always want to win games. With this one I'm kinda thinking 'so what' if we lose this. I don't think we've got the squad yet, to cope with the extra games this could bring. The league has to be our priority now, we already have a league cup final to attend and this could be an added distraction. Plus you always have the risk of injuries, suspensions, fatigue etc.. That could impact our league form.
