Another 0-0 draw and another missed penalty (ingoring it wasn't a penalty obviously). If there is one thing we have got to sort out, it's having a penalty taker who can actually score. I guess having Le Tiss followed by Lambert spoiled me a little. Heck, even Beattie did well.... I won't mention the championship years. :P

Tadic isn't the man, Austen, I'm not sure but I think Ward-Prowse should be it. He's a perfect dead ball taker and there is no reason why he can't do the same from the spot and just bash it into the top right or left every time, no way the keeper can get those.

In!

Personally I'm extremely happy. I think it's simply unfair that of your 17 opponents you play 12 only twice while playing the other 5 four times. How is that fair?

Also some more good news for Dutch football today: captains of 12 of the 18 Eredivisie teams want a ban on turf.

Also some sad news, Dirk Kuyt announced his retirement yesterday

Ka-pi96 said: Premier League finally introduces retrospective punishment for diving. Too bad it's only succesful diving and is only a 2 match ban. Bet they'll still be plenty of players that think it will be worth it...

Successful diving is a weird thing. Surely they are the same regardless of the result of your dive?

I know one results in a penalty plus may change the result of the game but both versions should have a 2 match ban, so those caught in game get a yellow... plus the 2 match ban.

The fine bit especially and has to come from the players, not the club. Make it personal because the club have had an advantage, they may have won and game and the result won't be changed so fine the player, make them aware this crap isn't on.

So... discussing something with you guys. I'm a Southampton fan as you know and there are rumours Puel is leaving. I actually don't think it'll happen but it seems media and other fans (both saints fans and of other clubs) don't have the same mentality as I have with Saints.

We are looking to finish 8th, need to win the last game of the season to set it in stone but with that (and if Man U win the Europa) we will get into Europe. We made a final for the first time since the Johnson's Paint win and before that the 2003 FA Cup. This has been a good season but many don't think so, they seem to think we should be banging in 2 or 3 goals a game, pushing the much bigger and richer clubs for the European places instead of just getting the left overs because Man U got into the Champions league via the back door.

I don't get this. They say over and over "they can't keep selling players and staying as they are" but we've done it for 3 seasons now. Our scouting buy new players who we develop and they get better, help us progress and be stronger. We have a great youth development which have produced numerous world renowned players and this will continue to do so. I used to sit every season wondering if we would be relegated (like most years in the prem before we did) and then we had a dark age being bankrupt and in League 1. We returned and I cannot believe how well we've done.

We aren't rich like the teams who finished above us (seriously look at them, they are all richer and more succesful what player wouldn't want to move to them on twice the wage?), we don't have the fan numbers of West Ham or Newcastle. But we are doing well every season in the prem so far. It's amazing what we are doing. Do people really expect our club to pass up the opportunity to sell a player for £35million when we purchased him for £12 two years prior (Mane), he's done our club proud and moved on to a bigger club that can afford first of all to buy him and then pay him 3 times what we can even afford.


Yet, I wonder what people truely expect from us?

EDIT: Internal gripe of the day over. :P

It's just rumours at this point (would be on BBC if it were true) but if Man u win Europa, 8th place, in Europe and a cup final? When we had some of our best players out for a good section of the season is pretty good.

I understand what you mean by push further, many people go on about it, yet I like the idea of finishing higher, like the idea of winning trophies they are the high end. If we won a cup, any cup. That's amazing. Saints don't win things, so any win is great. Yet if we just get near that good too because we did well. Looking at Arsenal, they are about to have a 'bad season'. Finishing 5th in the prem and in FA Cup final, heck they win that final and it'll still be seen as a 'bad' season. What is that? If saints got it, it would be a dream, just being there is an honour and shows how we have 'pushed further'. So we didn't beat the 7 richer clubs than us in the Prem, so what... they have most of our players anyway (aside from Man City... come one you are lacking, time to buy Van Djik).

What? That makes me sad now. Oh well, we don't have a strong enough team for it anyway, didn't last year either.

The great Keeper rotation is the summer is yet to happen. Thing is, I'd have Hart. I think Joe Hart is great, if we lose Forster, I do think Pickford is the most likely replacement though. Hart may go to Liverpool. Pep and his ways huh? If de Gea leaves Man U, they will need one, Everton need one, Liverpool need one. Pickford will leave Sunderland, can Cech do another season at Arsenal? The keeper thing will be fun to watch when it happens.

You mean Johan Cruyff and his ways. You guys are 25 years behind in football R&D.

Harry Kane is ridiculous. 29 goals in 28 appearances in the league.

Could have had a 40+ goal season in all competitions if he hadn't missed over two months