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Excellent display against an in form Liverpool. Yes they were poor in the first half, but we were good too. Lots of great passing moves, skills and free flowing football. 4-1 at half time would not have flattered us. Rodriguez really should have scored and Lambert must have been gutted not to do more when clean through. My only citicism was our slightly gung ho attitude at times. We leave ourselves wide open to the break from our own corners. We need to learn from that as we have been caught before. We have played well in a lot of games this season and not got the resukt we deserved. Swansea, ManU, Wigan and Norwich hould all have been beaten at our place. This is not a shock. We are not half bad. Happy days. Boruc 8 one great save and some solid handling an decent kicking. A couple of time he played it short and put us under, but put a stop to that quickly Cylne 9 pretty faultless display Yoshida 7 got tight to Sturridge and made his life tricky. He has to do that more. Thought his assing was better today as well. I have to say though that cnetre back looked our weak point, but not surprising as the movement from the Liverpool strikers was sensational. Jos 5 might have been a blessing as I thought he got caught napping a little. Hope the injury is nit too bad as he has been great in recent weeks. Shaw 7 possibly his worst game for us. At times he went astray big style, but he still showed why he is regarded so highly. Great pace in both directions and powerful running to go with it. Just waiting for him to be a little mor egreedy and just run and runa nd then shoot rather than pass. Lallana 9 outstanding game. My man of the match. Involved in everything good. Morgan 8 another solid game Cork 7 a little quiet compared to the last few games. Not bad, just not as great. Still pushing for player of the season for me. Ramirez 7 Very good first half. Very tough to take him off, but bottled a tackle in front of the magare in a period when Liverpool were dominating. Thought he showed why we paid a fortune for him. Lambert 8 lots of great stuff. Lead the line well and a greta out ball. So glad he got his goal. Should have scored when through. Rodriguez 7 worked his socks off as usual. Thought he should have scored in the first half. Actually would have subbed him just before his goal as I thought he looked tired, but his straight running finally got its reward. Font 7 decent display. Given a tough time by their strikers but did enough. Davis right sub at right time. Tight control and passing just what was needed. Not sure why some don't like him. He's hardly had a ppor game all season.

any Englishman that enjoyed 1994 world cup more than ones that England qualified for is a complete and utter liar.

If we sold Morgan for less than £20m I'd be dissappointed.

did you ****. You highlighted Morgan because you tried to suggest both players didn't score goals or create chances but you forgot that Morgan had scored goals this season. If you were trying to suggest a worker had scored more you would have said so at the time. If you must talk absolute ******** then get your facts right, Four league goals. Not a huge difference, but accurate unlike yourself. Laughable to think that Dembele woud have left Fulham to join newly promoted Saints or Lloris leaving Llyon for Southampton. Suggestions like these make you look like foolish. Ramirez set up Morgan for first goal by the way. Love it. Happy clappers get to clap.

Excellent 50 minutes, but MP sacrificed his talent to solidify the middle. Great decision by the manager.

Established premiership side Newcatle with their 50k attedances couldn't keep Demba Ba, but he'd jump ship for newly promoted Saints. What a mug you are.

I classified Morgan as a worker along with Cork (i.e. we had them already so thats why we needed to spend big on a flair player), so why highlight him in a discussion about a flair player? Trying to stegthen you opinion? Not doing a very good job especially as Morgan has four goals this season and been a lot more involved in things further forward. As for Ramirez he has 4 goals in 17 starts. Not prolific as a striker, but for a midfielder not terrible. As for assists I don't read much into those statistics. Fox was lauded on here last season by some mugs for having loads of assists. It didn't make him a great player or even indicate that he had played well. An assist is only granted if you had the last touch before a goal is scored. A proper assist is if you played the key role in the goal. I'm afraid I don't record that stat. I actually used the term`chances'. You must factor in the quality of the finisher. I mean who created the chance at Norwich that Lallana blasted over the bar? I don't know and nor does the stat man, but a chance was created and that's what flair players are brought in to do. Returning to Ramirez I'm certainly not saying he has been a world beater, our best player or anything other than good in some games. But when he plays well he carves teams apart. He won that Villa game at our place. He was on a different level to anyone I'd seen at SMS for a few years. He has tremendous talent, a great first touch, stength, pace, guile and a wicked left foot. If we stay up he coulod become a great here. I'm sure you can come up with a huge list of players we could have bought that would have been better. I'd be interested to hear them.

actually yes. I was pretty happy with the transfer activity in the summer, and I'm still pretty happy wih it now. We signed two keepers, 2 defenders, two midfielders and 2 strikers. Some have worked out better than others, but that's always the case. I recall many saying it was the best ever transfer window. Before it started did anyone think we'd spend so much? Stop ****ign crying all the time and enjoy it.

what exactly is the PST HNW split coming to these days? With £11.4M owed to the players, won't they really own the club?

the concept of a fight is so outdated it's not true. To stay up you need to creat echancres, score goals and win games. IN teh trenches Paul Watton's don't keep you up. Quality players capable of coping with pressure and doing the right thing at the right time is what is needed. We have players that work and run in Cork and Morgan. We needed talent in attacking areas to compliment Lallana and Ricky and that's what we bought. Ramirez was exactly what we needed IMO.

Lets buy Chamberlain back off them and play him in the right position - right midfield in a 4-4-2 running up and down that line all day.

it's not his quality I'm debating, it's your use of the term **** to describe a player that did a very good job for your football team. I disagree about the 6 games. He had a decent season full stop. Even on instant return from a nasty injury at Palace he was outstanding. Our best player that day. The interceptions and off the ball runs helped us no end last year. You need runners as well as ball players. He played an important role. He certainly lacks the ball control and passing ability needed at the Premiership level, he's a woeful passer in fact, but this is a guy that helped us go up.

Ramirez was knackered and needed to come off. I think Appy was saying a knackered Ramirez was a better option than JWP, but not better option than a fresh Puncheon.

what a thought provoking post that is.

good point. How bad was he up at Leeds? Since that game he has been given the cold shoulder

****? No good enough maybe, but ****? Chaplow did a great job for us last season helping us to promotion. No idea why players like him are are spoken of in that way on here.

badly need to have a striker on the bench IMO. On Saturday Jay Rod was absolutely out on his feet and there was no natural replacement. We have lots of options for the in the hole role, but very few running beyond Ricky. Mayuka must be performing pretty poorly in training to not make the bench unless he's injured of course?

he's had a few bad games (who hasn't), but equally he's been outstanding in others, all be it 60 minutes max in most. He does things with the ball that others will never be able to do. A little more patience is required and I'm pretty sure we will have one of the Premiership's top players on our hands.I'm still more than happy we spent the £12m on him. You need players that can undoi defences at this level not lots of workmanlike players.

France could do worse than call Morgan up.

fed up of these PL prices. Add the £1.50 booking fee and you start to feel like a proper mug.

what is the brown wedge? Are all the businesses located down that neck of the woods leaving?

Cheltenian 25/1 e/w in the first. Looked great in the bumper last year. Tough step up in class, but likes the hill. Overturn is a free bet IMO in the Arkle. If the race is quick, Zarkandar in the Champion Hurdle. Lovely horse and there seems to be new winners every year these days. Can anyone beat Quevega in the Mares? Doubt it, but you won't get rich there though. Silviniaco Conti in the Gold Cup. Hasn't put a foot wrong all season. Sadly every tom **** and harry seems to have tipped him so the odds have shortened a little. Should still get 9/2. Union Dues in the Bumper, which is Willie Mullins main horse in the race.

don't understand the Fat Ricky Lambert song. Crap Ricky Lambert more like it.

no.

thought the substitution was right timing wise, but Ward Prowse should be used to cover Cork and Morgan not our two flair players. Puncheon would have been better. Worrying that we have no striker on the bench.