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I'm watching Israel-Belgium in a pub in Brussels. Toby's having a stormer...

Don't think we'll see him before Christmas... mate of mine did his patellar. Takes time.

I'd bring Boruc back if he'd come. He's good enough, and I love having at least one certified nutter in the team.

Seems a v long time for this kind of injury...

All the best to Fraser for a full recovery.

Sam Gallagher played really well - put in a proper shift

MANE IS A JOKE

We are never going to score.

Goooaaaallll!

Get the Fook in!

Thanks Aziz, I appreciate the humour. Must be a foreign thing.

Three out of eight MOTD goal of the month contenders were scored against us. Pretty much sums February up. F*ck it. Let's move on.

Beaten by a wonder goal in first minute but were the better team throughout. WE HAVE BEEN UNLUCKY, its not that our players have suddenly become sh1t overnight. Pelle's hit the woodwork 6 times, we've been denied clear penalties by sh1t refs, and not given a lot of other decisions. "Twas ever thus" with Saints over the years. It doesn't even out over the season, if it did Man Utd wouldn't have won the league as much as they have. BUT, we have the best manager and squad for over 30 years and on Tuesday night we have to roar the team and manager on to a win. Negativity and pessimism spreads like a cancer and does no-one any good - just reading this thread is proof of that.

Sorry I'm not falling in line with the mood of slating everyone and everything but that has never helped us in the past and won't help now. Pelle needs his confidence back and we know that if the fans really get behind him (not on his back) he'll get back to his best, as we've seen before when he finally got his first goal, then rest came quick.

Yes, we lost, but win on Tuesday and it all changes again! Have a great Saturday night all, see you at St Mary's on Tuesday!

This. Thank you. Off to the pub, and watching MOTD in the morning.

Just to qualify my earlier statement I've always defined a key player as someone who would immediately impact our short term ability to perform, there is not 1 player who I would class as key, currently I would class Ronald and Les Reed the singular most important team influencing people in our club.

When Morgan's on his game, I'd say he was key. We just look so much less likely to lose. But we'll have to learn to live without him.

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Can anyone tell me when Morgan last delivered for us in a match? I'm struggling to think when he last was the player on the pitch that we all think he is.

I know others have already risen to this, but are you f*cking serious? Maybe you're on a wind-up and I can't really be bothered to check your history but he's our best player by a country mile. Even when he was struggling in League One I thought he was mustard, and he just gets better and better.

Should be fully 90mins game fit for West Brom and on - if we have him Viv and Toby firing on all cylinders hoepfully we'll give all the billy big bootses a run for their money.

Yeah - we'd have massively overpaid for the likes of Austin or Ings in the January window, but sometimes you have to speculate to accumulate - either one could have pushed us on into the top four. Long way to go, but it feels realistically like that's gone now.

What else?

- Why are we turning into Arsenal - a squad packed with attacking midfielders who want to walk the ball into the net? Shoot, for ****'s sake, shoot. Just occasionally.

- Rodgers is an A class cvnt and it's really ****ing annoying to lose twice this season to Liverhampton. But at least Lovren looked sh1te.

- Roll on the next game - and knowing this team we'll probably go and win at Chelsea too.

- Still hoping for 5th but not sure we'll finish above 2 out of Manure, Spuds, and Pool.

- Also means Morgan and Clyney will probably get prised away this summer - more rebuilding to come.

- Still remember where we were a few years ago though.

COYR

Always wondered if the plan last summer was based on Reed - tell Morgan to get his head down for one more year and then he can go. Because we've got Harry coming through. He's not Schneiderlin yet, not by a long way. But he's a f'cking huge prospect.

Agree with a lot of what's been said:

- Shouldn't have taken Harry off - left too much space there. A Shelvey goal was grimly inevitable.

- Pelle did well trying to hold up the ball, chesting it off etc, but his problem seems to be positioning in the box. He was never in quite the right place.

- We'll be a lot stronger when the three injured are back, and we should definitely try Elia and Mane each side of Pelle for a full ninety mins. But we really do need another striker.

- I'm usually a glass-half-full fan when it comes to Saints, and we're still 4th for now, and we have plenty of winnable games to come. But this did feel like the weekend the stronger bigger squads laid down their markers for the rest of the season. We've only got one competition to focus on, and I still believe - but it's a big ask to stay in the top four from here on in.

- Any kind of European place would be a massive achievement - and will go a long way in determining who stays and who goes in the summer.

- Never dull being a Saints fan.

COYR

Good grief - i didn't realise this was a linguistics class.

Graziano's been excellent for us - just what we needed after SRL left. He's become an Italian international, he's in the top ten goalscorers in the league this season, and he gives it his all.

Is he world class, like RVP and increasingly Costa? No, he's not. No-one said he was.

My brain won't go back a whole year, but my favourite December moment was Toby going ballistic when Big Vic lost Dann for Palace's consolation goal in our 3-1 win.

We're 3-0 up, in the 86th minute, away, in the Premier League, and we f*cking hate messing anything up. We've arrived.

Sh1t game, sh1t penalty, sh1t goal, sh1t performance.

Morgan out for three and a half games so far - 7 goals conceded, no points. That is key.

Ings so much more direct than our lot today ...

Made for Shane Long this game - get him on.

I thought the back four were as good as ever. Just one f*ck up by Fraser misjudging Agbonlahor's pace and tired legs/minds in the final third. But overall we were so much better than them it was laughable. Definitely needed a better option off the bench though.

Fair play to everyone who went. And to those who tried but didn't make it. I f'cking hate the M6.

Let's hope he doesn't nut Graziano in training.

Sublime from Mane. Lovely stuff.

Tadic looks very good (didn't think the penalty last night was that great though?).

I think Ospina dived way too early and Dusan had the composure to place it down the middle. Doubt if every penalty will look like that.

(He'll still have to go some to be in Rickie/MLT territory though... )