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    Seedhouse the Unrepentant wrote:
    Strasbourg Saint wrote:
    Seedhouse the Unrepentant wrote:
    Strasbourg Saint wrote:
    Seedhouse the Unrepentant wrote:
    Top headline writing Gordon.
    Pity Shaw hadn't been the hatrick hero, then Gordon could have written, "Saints make 'shaw' start to pre-season tour of Switzerland".

    Mind you, the 'tour' actually consists of one match before crossing into France for the Evian match on Saturday. So, it could just as easily have read, "Saints make sharp 'end' to pre-season tour of Switzerland".

    Anyway, nice one Billy.
    You've missed your vocation Strassie!

    Sounds like a good match and nice to see the youngsters are featuring and doing well. Looks like the plan is coming together, if the team do well it will be so much easier to keep them at the club.
    True.

    Yes, sounds like a good match. I would have loved to have gone. Alas, it's a fair drive and my mate in Geneva is away. Furthermore, I had to work until 4.30pm and have to start again at 7.30am tomorrow. Saturday's also out as I'm on Eurostar home.

    There's always next year when, on the Swiss tour, we'll be billed as Premier League Champions :)
    So during the season you are in France and can't get to games and then when the Saints come to you, you get on the train home. Sounds skunty to me!
    Friggin' annoying, that's what it is.

    Still, I've planned the autumn around several matches. All I need now is to creep nicely to all those lovely ST holders I know and see if there's any way of getting tickets. **** nuisance selling out every game. I hate success. Can't we play in League 1 again?

    I suppose (whilst there's time) I could always take a trip down to Goldsmith Avenue. Anyone got a spare bell?"
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Saints make Sharp start to pre-season tour of Switzerland

BILLY SHARP BILLY SHARP

Billy Sharp staked an early claim in pre-season after firing a hat-trick in a 4-1 win over Swiss side Etoile Carouge.

Saints overturned a half-time deficit as they opened up their summer tour with a resounding victory against the Geneva-based side.

It was Sharp, one of nine substitutes for Nigel Adkins ’ team at the break, who stole the show with an impressive treble.

The striker faces stiff competition in his position this season, with Saints boasting an attacking corps that also includes Rickie Lambert , Jay Rodriguez, Tadanari Lee and Guly do Prado.

But his performance last night will have done his chances of winning a place in the team no harm at all.

Saints fell behind in the 38th minute, as Jos Hooiveld headed a cross into his own net.

But, following a mass of half-time changes, they were soon back level, as teenage star Luke Shaw, playing in an advanced role, curled in a right foot shot nine minutes after the restart.

Sharp put Saints in front with 20 minutes left, converting James Ward-Prowse’s free-kick from the left.

He added another with a smart finish six minutes later, before completing his hat-trick as he slid home after collecting Calum Chambers’ pass late on.

Saints: Davis (Forecast 46), Butterfield (Richardson 46), Fonte (Stephens 46), Hooiveld (Seaborne 46), Fox (Harding 46), Schneiderlin (Hammond 46), Ward-Prowse, Lallana (Chambers 46), Puncheon (Chaplow 67), Guly (Shaw 46), Lambert (Sharp 46).

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