CB Fry

It's the hope that kills you. A very good performance but this is now a tie jam-packed with if-onlys. Let's hope we don't live to regret those missed chances. One clean sheet from Wembley.

"You have been loaned out. You have a meeting with Eric Black in the morning."

What. The. ****.

Shane Long coming on so that means goals goals goals.

He's written "Tap up Bertrand" on that piece of paper.

He's written "equalise" on that piece of paper. Fu ck.

We're a hipsters dream right now.

Cedric should have at least let J-Rod balloon it over the bar.

It finishes two nil, we all start booking hotels near Wembley.

Come on Saints, keep it tight until quarter time.

Yes, but only after extra time in the second leg.

Can't argue with the side (Fonte aside). Do us proud.

I cant think of anything else that has made me angrier in over thirty years of following Saints.

Not quite. Only other people saw Trump as a joke candidate, he thought he would win. Corbyn’s name came out of the left-wing candidate tombola and he won almost by accident. He has absolutely no desire to be Prime Minister, which is fortunate because he never will be.

Pretty expensive for a player who is available for £13m.

Yeah but yeah but Steven Gerrard.

Or, you don't know the first thing about him.

Not sure he said that about Jose. Fonte could well be a Jack Cork style flogging now Les has said he is available to anyone who pays the fee we want and we have a replacement.

If you're back on this forum I'm definitely going to defect to Bletchweb. This time I really mean it. Setting up my fake email address as we speak. The next new member of Bletchweb will be me.

Very good.

So, just to be clear: you say our record of cup final/semi-final success is "embarrassing in itself", but when the opportunity arises to get to, and progress from, a semi-final you recommend we throw the matches and give up because of "prioritising". Here, have some cake. And hey, eat it too. Certainly not rocket science.

Always think that it is ridiculous to have an away goals rule for domestic matches (to be honest I think it's stupid for European games this day and age). An away goal domestically should not be counted twice, it isn't worth that. But if it works in our favour, I'd take it all day. Clean sheet at home - something we, until very recently, were pretty good at, might get us to Wembley yet.

I've never said he's never mentioned Champions League football, but I have said before never talks about it without also talking about what we will and won't do - we're going to do it our way (not competing financially with the big clubs), and he always talks about as being best of the rest. He said all that in the longer version of that interview that Saint-Fred links to but all anyone wants to see is the words Champions League and then get into beating Les with the stick. You can all reassess what he said yesterday versus what you think he said before, fill your boots. But I fear certain people will be repost that link to that BBC article for eons to come.

I think you're struggling here. Take a breath and calm down. It started with Batman saying Les expects 6th this season - that quote from yesterday shows he doesn't. If Les comes out tomorrow and says he expects us to be L1 (why?) then we can assess that on its own terms, and yes it negates everything he said before. If Les starts talking about just avoiding relegation or whatever then we'd all reassess, I certainly would. I've no doubt he has been more specific yesterday and talked about ninth, eighth etc because he's getting a bit sick of people using previous aspirational statements as a stick to beat him with. But obviously for some that's not enough so let's just do the yeah-but yeah-but yeah-but he said it before. Heaven forbid anyone would want to put that stick down.

As long as it doesn't impact Plymouth on their primary purpose of taking up one of those three all important automatic promotion spots...