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What is this feeling? Feels weird. Happiness? The Rabbitslayer promised that his teams will give absolutely everything for the cause, and you can't argue that he wasn't true to his word. Fantastic effort. Lots to work on, lots to improve, but at least there's some fight back in the lads. COYS Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Promising signs. Not defensively, obviously, where we're an accident waiting to happen, but we looked a bit like a football team that half. It'll take more than a week of training to undo the damage Hughes has caused - I suspect our lack of fitness will be a problem in the second half. But at least we've got something to cling on to. Great headers from Ings, but Redmond has been the best player for us. COYS Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Got your timelines wrong. We sold Chambers long before we sold Clyne. And we could only have kept him for another season as he was running his contract down (as he did at Palace) and would've walked on a free. Can't see us bringing him back on a permanent deal (we already have a Liverpool player on loan, so another is out of the question), though he has always been a better player than Cedric. I imagine our focus will be in more important areas of the team - retaining our PL status isn't likely to come down to us having an inconsistent right back. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Nathan Tella, Enzo Robise and Alexandre Jankewitz in the training photos. No sign of Bertrand, Cedric, Ings, Long, Gallagher. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

We were linked to Selke a few years ago. The club probably just haven't gotten around to deleting his name from the black box/football manager database. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I thought the suggestion was that it was easier/quicker for the club to get a last minute loan deal over the line with the transfer window closing, rather than haggle over the staggered payments and various particulars required to get a permanent deal signed off for all parties. Either way, a non-negotiable commitment to make the transfer permanent at the end of the season, for a player with four major knee injuries under his belt who has barely played in two years, sounds like the kind of negligent swivel-eyed madness that is Les Reed's super power. We could be a Championship club, desperately trying to cut costs, while being forced to pay £20m on a player setting up residence in the treatment room. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

There's no good answer from our current squad. RB: it's either a half-assed Cedric, a green as anything Valery, or an out of position Stephens. Going younger, Kayne Ramsey is captain of the u18s, but doesn't look any more promising than Valery at this stage. (Cedric) LB: if Bertrand can wake up, it's a no brainer. Targett is worse than McQueen, who we loaned out, and Vokes, who is highly rated but very young. CB: oh boy, here's where it gets ugly. Vestergaard is a write off - whoever sanctioned that transfer should never work in football again. Slow paced, slow witted, cumbersome. Worst of all, he doesn't even compensate for his basic shortcomings by using his ridiculous girth to dominate physically or in the air. Yoshida gets better and better every time he's out of the team. He was approaching world class status a month or so back. As soon as we starting picking him again, however, reality reminded us that he's utter dreck. Sadly, he has no remain in contention because he's the only CB we've got who can run. Stephens and Bednarek - flip a coin. You'll get roughly the same output from them; some moments of promise interspersed with dismal calamity. Bednarek probably has better positioning, while Stephens is the more rounded player. Neither is particularly good, however. Hoedt is awful. And, occasionally, our best defender. This is the hell in which we reside. He's capable of doing some good things, but is frequently undermined by being weaker than a sick kitten, with the balance of an inebriated ice skating pensioner, all wrapped up in with an air of thinking he's above all of this and we should be thankful he's deigned to slum it with us for a while on his journey to footballing immortality. I don't know if Alfie Jones can be recalled from his loan, but he's another classical Southampton Way production: tidy, but almost unbelievably slow. Of the kids, Christoph Klarer (18) looks a decent prospect, but from what I've seen lacks mobility. It barely seems likely we're going to throw a teenage CB into a relegation battle, but things are getting desperate. Allan Tchapchet looked a unit for the u18s the other day, but he's only 16. Bednarek/Hoedt. (maybe - it's kind of like asking how you'd most like to be tortured to death) Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Wouldn't help. Klarer is yet another of our "prospects" with poor mobility. Our scouting and recruitment team have royally soiled the bed in recent years. The best young centre back we've brought through of late is Alfie Jones, on loan in Scotland. And guess what? He can't run either. We must be the only club in the country that thinks pace and power are unimportant attributes in English football. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Got away with that - it's a 0-0 drubbing at the moment. Each of our back four have made at least one terrible mistake that should've led to a goal. It feels like it's only a matter of time before Cardiff - who are not special in any way - capitalise. Targett's the Ward-Prowse of defenders: nice technique, but slower than coastal erosion. Valery won't last the game, one way or another. His winger's got him on toast. Why do we have so many improbably slow players on the books? In possession, our movement has been interesting and a little bit different, but who is creating from this line up? We've not looked like opening them up in the slightest. Looks a filthy day, weather wise, so that's probably contributing to the poor quality of the game, but we'd snap your hand off for a point from here. Only one winner. Which is true of any game, I suppose, but you know what I mean... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

He's not registered in the 25 man squad, so can't play. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

He's not wedded to one particular formation and has said he trains his teams in 4-2-2-2, 4-3-3 and 3-4-3 and adapts the tactics to the personnel available and the opposition at hand. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Bertrand's 29. He's at his peak, and yet playing worse than ever. No-one with £30m to throw at a full back will be looking at him when there are younger, better players around. He might think he's better than us, but I think he's pretty much our level and can only move sideways now. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

It's the hope that kills... (Jardim is about to sign for a Saudi club, just incase anyone had any ideas that we might bring in a quality replacement.) Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

He's got more mobility than Charlie Austin. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Positives: Redmond, Lemina and the kids are doing all right. This might also be Hughes' final match. And at least it's not a rubbish game. So, not all doom and gloom... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

"Best defender at the club" Yoshida covering himself in glory again... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

An easy cup run where we played a Premier League club in every round and had to win away to both Arsenal and Liverpool? Virtually bye'd our to the final... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Hughes would only go the same way if they replaced the cannon ball with a briefcase full of cash. (Great film, btw. It's a great shame it flopped at the box office as they had a row of sequels lined up.) Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Are we actually hammering our goalkeeper for not saving any penalties in the lottery of a shoot out? How quickly people forget him saving penalties in the previous round. He's played three games for us, kept two clean sheets and we haven't lost a match in 90 minutes. A stupid person might think he's had a very promising start to his Saints career... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

The previous appointment made it pretty clear. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Nicely done, Hoedt. Excellent finish - the difference between their slow lumbering target man and ours is stark. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Just to be positive for a change: we're knocking the ball around quite well, and Fulham's defence is barely even Championship quality - they're having kittens every time the ball gets in the final third. I think we'll score again - it's just a question of whether we can keep them out with our own dog crap backline. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I doubt they'll be able to play an effective counter attacking game with Mitrovic up front, leading the line. He's no runner. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Ings scored a tap in at Everton from a flicked on corner, didn't he? Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk