Chez

it's brilliant. where's me picture of of a hand grabbing at a bundle of straws.

sadly you are right, but let's enjoy the win for two minutes before our feet come back down to earth. Also check out the table, a lot of the bottom half sides still to play yet and only chelsea in the top half.

Unbeaten and one defensive error away from two straights wins since Cork Ramirez and Shaw came back from injury. Well done Nige. Well done Saints.

Yes. But despite that many didn't doubt Adkins, didn't think he needed to be vindicated AND don't think Cortese has interfered.

nothing to do with getting Cork, Ramirez and Shaw back from injury and perhaps Adkins realising that we need to protect fullbacks? Nah, it's all down Cortese taking a back seat from team selection. Just enjoy the win

What does Adkins do? He likes to show faith in players and give then a run of games, but he'd gone up a blind alley with the keepers. Is anyone convinced by the other two?

4-4-1-1 again looked good. Ramirez quality allows us to do so much more going forward without having throw every player forward.

the overplaying tended to be because chances fell to the wrong foot of players so they passed rather than gamble on their swingers. With the quality if keepers at this level I don't blame them.

he played pretty well, lots of interplay, we just needed to sure up the middle a bit more as QPR were coming into it. It was the right sub. I'll say that again. Adkins made a very good substitution, maybe a match winning one. We got control of the game again and the rest is history.

Shaw is the real deal.

I notice we've only played Wigan villa and QPR in the bottom half of the table, and we've only not played Chelsea from the top half.

tremendous. Could not be happier.

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssss

not sure my nerves can handle this

Puncheon is having a stormer

I'll tell you what Shaw looks better with every touch

come on Dean, Ferdinand getting a piggyback off Lambert there

davis coming on for ramirez

how did we not score there

good play cork and puncheon again

if we keep the ball as well as we did in the first half then opponents won't have the ball, won't create pressure and there is less chance of our defenders making mistakes. Hopefully QPR will continue to keep giving it away and Ricky will grab another. Ramirez is a class act, but his mere presence just seems to encourage others to keep the ball better too.

easy now. QPR can only get better after the break. They were terrible. We need to step our game up too. There are loads more goals left in this one for me.

you called it this morning. Don't what ever you do lose the faith. So was it a nun in the crowd or what? My stream is pants

top performance right from the off. We have kept the ball well and not done anything silly.

hoilett looks a handful but Clyne ding well so far