Wolves 0 Southampton 6 !!!!!!!!!

I'm a believer again!! Whilst annoying to see what saints can do and think where we should be in the league, I again believe we can still make the playoffs. Saganowski got a majestic hat-trick, Surman finished brilliantly from a great ball by Wright and it was nice to see Leon Best finishing off a brilliantly worked move by Surman and Dyer. At the back the goalkeeping was brilliant, if he plays half as well against Luton, then hopefully Davis won't get a look in. Roll on Luton!!

Can't be bothered to describe much more when the video does it so much better. Watch and enjoy!!

Wolves 0 Southampton 6 !!!!!!!!!
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Comings and goings

David Prutton completed his move to forest today, joining on loan til the end of the season (when his contract finishes). Arriving at St Mary's today was Marek Saganowski, on loan from Troyes. Hopefully he can add some experience to the young Saints attack. He wasn't signed in time to play against Wednesday, but he will be available for saturday's big game with Derby.

Team news for tomorrow is that Rudi Skacel is back and Dyer should also be available as the midfield injury crisis seems to be starting to ease. I don't know why Claus didn't play in the cup game (any help??) but hopefully he'll be back. I fancy saints for a comfortable home win, maybe 2-0.

Other results in the championship tonight were pretty damn good for saints. Apart from Derby who managed a 1-0 win at home to burnley, all Saints rivals who played failed to win. Preston went down 1-0 to colchester, birmingham lost 3-1 at HOME to southend (they seem to have the measure of the big teams, but noone else). With Stoke and Sunderland also failing to pick up maximum points. So a win for saints tomorrow night would lift them to within one point of third place preston and second placed birmingham (who have two games in hand). So this really is an important one to win, we really need to capitalise.

Loan season

It's been confirmed today that Saganowski is on trial, with the possibilty of a loan move being considered. Leon Best who has been shining during his loan period at league one side Yeovil, scoring 7 times in 9 starts, and there is a possibility of his loan being extended til the end of the season with Burley encouraged by his progress. Saints veteran keeper Kevin Miller has gone on loan to struggling torquay. On Balewatch today, the daily echo reported that apparently the bookmakers thought it more likely that Wycombe would beat Chelsea, than Bale starting next season with Saints. Sadly, this probably isn't far wrong!! Lets just hope we keep him til then at least.

The reserves returned to competitive action tonight for the first time in two months. The game marked the return to action of Nathan Dyer, who successfully came through 45 minutes, and gave useful run-outs to squad players (Bialkowski, Cranie, Makin, Lallana and Prutton). But it was two goals from the younger players which provided the saints second string with the 2-1 victory over Brighton. An early header fron Cedric Baseya and a fine individual goal from Jamie White. The win continued the reserves 100% season.

Bale rumours rumble on.......zzzzz.....

This Bale thing really is getting a bit boring (and nerve-wracking!!). Lets hope its sorted once and for all, so we can get back to worrying about the promotion push (and maybe FA cup run). Rumours were widespread in the tabloids today as the "race for bale" hotted up. The Mirror reported that Spurs were in talks with Bale after having a £10 million bid accepted, but the Sun reports that the youngster still has his heart set on a move to Man Utd. Whilst the Mail reports that the Arsenal are still interested. Maybe arsenal would be a favourable option for Gareth, giving him the chance to link up again with one of his old friends from the Saints academy, Theo Walcott.

There was a piece in the guardian today about Bale, taking over two-thirds of page 3 of the sport section. There was a short story about the battle to sign him, and a nice article about why he's just so damn good!! See below, click on it to enlarge it (should be big enough to read).

In other news, Nathan Dyer is hoping to make his return tomorrow night for the reserves. The match against Brighton will be his first since the end of december, after damaging ligaments in the 2-0 home win over leicester.