Tis true. Saints have confirmed the line up on Twitter. Makinson dropped.

If I was Tommy, I'd be feeling a bit miffed.

I think it's a bad call that Tommy isn't playing, unless he's resting on a knock.

Turner is at 6, O'Brien at 7, Meli with Jones and Gardner with Percival. Hohaia at 9 with Robes on the bench (at least that bit is being done properly).

Makinson was in the 19, so he clearly isn't injured.

How do you know that he was named in the squad but was 50/50 fitness wise and hasn't quite proved full fitness?

Because I know. But thank you for your contribution anyway.

How do you know? Or do you just like making things up to support your boring, ongoing, petty, childish, tedious grudge against Nathan Brown and Eamonn McManus?

Ps. Simmons and Gaskell say hi. They miss you too.

Andre Savelio will warm up with the lads tonight.

Yeah, Saints mentioned that on Twitter. Good experience for him.

Warming up with the first team in front of an empty terrace? Could he not do that in training?

Yeah , I used to love warming up before a game. It provided me with many many insights on how to improve my performance on the field.

Good grief, we are really scraping the barrel for reasons for criticism here.

Travelling with and being in and around the first team squad on a matchday will be a good experience for him.

You are very childish.

Did you watch the Sky coverage of the match? If you did, you will have heard confirmation from Eddie Hemmings that he confirmed with Brown prior to the game that neither Makinson nor Howarth was injured.

Hardly criticism but to be honest you learn nothing from warming up on a matchday. I've got plenty I could criticise Brown , this is merely pointing out something is daft. I would hope a prospect like Savelio would be getting a few days a week training with the first team