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Skates throw several coins at Akinde when taking penalty, give ****** signs and abuse to own players at final whistle and their are scuffles as they exit...if Twitter is to believed of course.

Cook: "we don't want to come off at the end to be given abuse from our own fans, that's not what the games about, we want to send our fans home happy."

"It's a fantastic point...and at the end of the season I think we will look at that point as a good point." Yep, those points against teams second bottom are the bestest points.

IMO Titchfield is the real divide. Locksheath and parkgate is saints, whilst catersfield,stub and fareham is more skate. Titchfield, not Titchfield Common, which seems to be a world to itself, has always been a real 50:50 split. Well that's over the last 40 years anyway.

yeah...shall I go on. Bloody bored as hell at work today

Armstrong Court Wilkins Road Peach Road

there are loads: Williams close (Soton) Allen Road (Hedge End) Woodhouse Lane (Botley) Fisher's Road (Totten) Holmes Close (Netley) Wallace Road

if they draw the second game with us, but go on to win the league, would it be an undeserved title?

Will Terry be fit? If not their defence isn't as slow. I was impressed with Baba the other night at PSG and Azpilicueta looked far more comfortable at right back. With Ivanovic moved inside they looked more balanced. That's annoying, as no matter how much confidence they have regained going forward their back four always looked they could concede. For me the big question is whether Mane gets selected. Nothing he has tried has come off in weeks, leading to him giving away possession time after time. No matter what threat he offers you have to retain the ball otherwise you put your defence under pressure. I thought him being dropped was the right decision, but now how to get him back to his best?

I'm with you. He'd sort our right side if we put him back where he did so well for us.

Always had pace though.

Like this against the top sides that may retain the ball against us. Works well for saints. Not sure Clyne quite has enough on the ball to play wing back. So one footed.

Delph offers energy, but instead who, Dier? Shelves won't go unless we get a host of injuries. For me he's a liability if played in a deep role. Touch not good enough and gets caught in possession. He has play further forward and in Barkley, Ali and Rooney we have better options.

It would surprise me. Who would be dropped to fit him in? There would need to be some injuries...

Hart/Butland/Forster Clyne/Walker, Bertrand/Baines, Stones/Smalling/Jagielka/Cahill AOC/Walcott, Henderson/Dier, Barkley/Alli, Townsend/Sterling Kane/Rooney/Vardy/Sturridge Having said that, is Roy actually going to leave out Delph and Milner (he is very loyal) in favour of Ali and Dier? LOLana/Townsend is an interesting choice. Very different players, but both played a fair bit under Roy. I have to say our centre backs still worry me. We should have taken Stones to the World Cup. Jangielka is never international class. Also, forget the recent errors by Stones (and of course putting to one side how good he is on the ball), IMO his positional play leaves a lot to be desired. The number of times he (like Jagielka) gets stuck under a crossed ball is scary. But who else is there?

oh thank **** for that, I was getting concerned we might never see them go up, but now I can rest assured that they will be back in the big time third division come September 2017.

whatever becomes of JWP it's always good to know that the skates won't benefit.

a headline £20 price reduction in season ticket prices is not exactly staggering, but Sunderland's ticket prices were decent to start with. http://www.safc.com/news/club-news/2016/february/season-card-prices-cut

Anyone else notice the Mirror included an article linking Kante with Arsenal just before the Arsenal Leicester game? Perfect timing to perhaps unsettle the player (which didnt work at all I might add) which seems to happen a lot.

From what I've seen Chelsea have got their mojo back. Much more fluent and confident. It will be a far tougher game this time round, although both CBs getting injured might help us.

Liverpool with and without Sturridge are like chalk and cheese. He is a very good player. Greedy, but that's what you want of a striker. Kane is greedy at times too, shoots form anywhere, but they are both full of confidence and you want them shooting not passing.

when we came up against Man Utd on the last day of the season it mattered.

Being negative after a win? You should know that's not allowed on here. But IMO its exactly the right time to question and focus on what is not `quite' right, as you can have a clear head and not be accused of being a bed wetting or whatever. In terms of selection, it does seem a little random, although if you win then RK must have got it right, right? Well he dropped Soares on Saturday and we offered nothing down the right side. He brought him on and we looked a far better balanced side. Perhaps RK intended to keep it solid initially and then open up in the second half, and if he did he was spot on, but maybe he just got it wrong and then corrected his error. His team selections were questionable when we lost games. They can be when we win too, but you must have all the information. Knocks, illness, tiredness, counteracting opponents...etc. With regards to the Pelle selection I am not sure I can complain too much. Austin doesn't look fully fit and Mane has given the ball away so much in the last few weeks, so as needing to be dropped. However, with a high press, high work rate attack seeing us well recently (Mane and Long really do both put a shift in) it feels a step back to go with a big man that needs ball to feet and doesn't hurry any defenders when they have the ball. Attacking wise we aren't firing on all cylinders, but five at the back is always going to limit you. The Swansea game is always a stalemate. Both sides pass it square all day and then wonder why there are not a hat full of chances and goals. But we have created some decent chances in games rather lots of half chances.

working his way back to full fitness? Not sure.

Hope England can play like Leicester. Patient and strong in defence, tenacious but talented in midfield and absolutely breathtaking on the break. They are far more enjoyable to watch than all the square passing stuff between centre backs.