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I f’ing hate VAR even though it was right by an inch. Leicester fans are lucky buggers, they’ve seen their boys win all the majors trophies in England now. Makes me proper envious, yet also gives me hope at the same time that we’ll win something one day.

Well isn’t this just darn nice, two wins in succession and mid-table obscurity. I’ll take that thank you!

I'm still hopeful that he'll sign a new deal having weighted up some of the points you've made (and considered how his Liverpool career went, albeit not helped by injury). The thing that would really frustrate me is if we lost him to the likes of West Ham, Wolves or even Newcastle as traditionally I've always seen them at the same level as us (probably naively as I think they all have deeper pockets than us when it comes to wages). I think it will be a close one in the end, but you're right, there are other nuggets out there for us to find. Whatever the outcome, Ings has been a stellar signing and we'll at least get our money back if sold this summer having reaped the dividends of the last 2-3 years.

The prize money we get from every additional position Ings earns us should be ploughed straight into his contract offer! 🙂

VAR screwing us even when we’re not playing. Definite red and 1 game ban!

You missed out fish fiddling.

As above, this season can just do one now so we can all forget about things and hope that hard work is taking place behind the scenes to correct things.

Another cracking effort from Garth Crooks this week, praising Saints for their performance, but then not picking any of our players and (of course) putting Evans in simply because he scored an easy header. At least he slammed the red card I guess... This was an impressive display by Southampton. It wasn't that long ago the Saints played Leicester at home, had a man sent off and had nine goals put past them. These days this is a very different Southampton. The red card shown to Jannik Vestergaard was so appalling it makes you wonder what the game is coming to. Leicester missed a massive opportunity by not taking advantage of this shocking decision. It took a goal by Jonny Evans, who is in terrific form at the moment, to salvage a point for the Foxes. If Brendan Rodgers does go to Spurs, he could do a lot worse than take Evans with him. I did laugh at the "this is a very different Southampton bit". I think most of us would say we're very similar up until Friday night!

Never heard of him or seen him play. Just kidding, but was merely asking if I’d missed some kind of vote or if he and Henry had been specially selected (both for good reason).

This reminds me of the ultimately futile Newcastle home game last year. We did a half decent job of shutting shop after a red, but then threw away a point at the end. Much better than some of our other efforts though!

There's this guy I know, think his name is Carillio or something...

Plenty of them, can think of Oldham away and Swindon at home (both in 93) and Norwich away (94) off the top of my head.

Am assuming I've not missed it, but Ryan Giggs isn't on the list and I guess that's because of his current circumstances (surely he would be on there otherwise)? If true then this isn't just about football. I personally think that's ok, as personal conduct is important to people in many walks of life. That said, there's a massive difference between (alleged) criminal activity and some controversial opinion posted on Twitter. It's personal preference at the end of the day, but I really hope all Saints fans get behind MLT and put a vote in for him to recognise the incredible contribution he made towards us in those early Premier League years. We could be a very different looking club now if it wasn't for him! I've been shot down for saying this before, but I value MLT's legacy as greater than any trophy we could have won over the years so him getting in would be fantastic for the club and the fans. Get those votes in!

Shearer for sure for his goalscoring record. Can't argue too much with Henry I guess but I personally don't rate him higher than MLT 🙂

How did Shearer get in out of interest? Was he a special pick along with Henry or something?

Can’t wait for this season to end. I think we all need a break from this rubbish. I know it’s the same for every club, but we look in desperate need of time out, to reset, and hopefully return to more familiar match day routines (kick off times, fans etc.). I personally hope we look to rebuild with Ralph still in charge, but I appreciate that view is probably not welcomed. Such a shame after the promising start, but we appear to have blown our load by trying to run a marathon at 100m speed.

I see Liverpool have just posted a cringeworthy apology video. It's a bit like telling your kids that you're going to offload them for adoption and then 24 hours later saying you didn't realise how much it would hurt them. Apology not accepted!

Yup, didn’t bother. I’m sorry if that offends you but I had this strong feeling come over me this afternoon that we were going to be shite so spent time with my little one whilst keeping track of the score online. In different circumstances I’d have tuned in, but the reality is that we went out without any real fight and that’s been us since the turn of the year sadly. We’re in a horrible rut and are lacking in talent and belief and I’m afraid all the enthusiasm in the world was never going to change the inevitability of the result this evening. Fucking depressing but the truth.

Didn’t bother tuning in as had this feeling we’d be abject. Nevertheless, doesn’t mean I’m any less disappointed than those who watched it. 0 shots on target? FFS!

Well despite the debacle on Monday, I'm still carrying some hope (if not expectation) into this game. I think all we really want is to see a fully committed display and one hopes the absence of a notable crowd won't impact that. They could do well to watch highlights of the Watford semi-final from 2003. The current squad is way more talented than that one, in my opinion, but the sheer effort put in by every man that day, for the whole game, should be used as the benchmark for what we expect to see on Sunday. I don't think that's unreasonable really...

That's a bit like saying that Macauley Culkin has proven himself to be a top child actor and could still do a job now 😃

Saving ourselves for a storming win against Leicester clearly

The good old days where a goal scored was a definite goal scored pretty much straight-away. Imagine that goal today, those wild celebrations only for it then being ruled out a few minutes later because Matt Le Tiss's nose was offside or something.

That hat-trick, one of my happiest memories of being at a game. Lovely sunny day, absolute scenes, and then Long scoring a worldy too!

I’m starting to get to the age where I probably look a bit dumb wearing a replica shirt, but do love the retro ones. I live in Exeter so may have frequented said bar myself!