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Who said we needed another ‘keeper? Just kept us in this match after a number of poor clearances.

Maybe Fraser doesn’t care how he’s remembered as a footballer and just wants to rack up the cash for his retirement seeing as we are paying him a massive wad. Seems a lot of footballers are happy to see out remaining years not playing football and just collecting big pay cheques. If it were me, I would want people to look back at me in twenty years and talk about me how I were a top-class goalkeeper and try and make the most of playing at a top level while I still have the ability to, such a short career football is. The SPFL isn’t fantastic, but Celtic usually do well in the CL and will win trophies and he could make himself a cult hero with millions of fans up there, he’s already loved by them after some heroics last season. Who knows what his mentality is, but I doubt he’s going to get a game with us again, if it’s the playing he’s interested in he’s going to have to move on. I hope for Saints sake he will take a pay cut and we aren’t going to subsidise his moves for the remainder of his contract or it’s just going to hamper us for the next few transfer windows yet again.

JWP. Was it ever in doubt?

Aw man, that’s harsh on Bernarek. Just typical luck we have against Watford for this to end 2-2. Hope that changes today, damn.

Going to be an awful transfer window this summer at this rate of scoring! Plenty of suitors for a Ings I’m sure. 1. Would he want to leave us? I’m hoping he’s happy at his boyhood club. but 2. Could or would the club turn down a massive offer? We love a wad of money.

Kristoffer Ajer “to leave Celtic in the summer” Personally, think he’d be great for us if we could get a deal regarding Fraser or Ely.. https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/5378251/celtic-news-ajer-agent-definitely-leave-summer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=scottishsunfacebook&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1584004870

Nothing more satisfying than seeing Spurs go out, we were far superior in the last round, nevermind, water under the bridge now. Have a strange sympathy for the way Poch was axed, glad to see they’re reaping what they sow with Mourinho and that wee arse Dele is still waiting for the trophy they “deserve”

Absolutely not going down. We win against Villa and we’ll all be looking towards Europe again especially If it ends up paying down to 8th this year with the Man City fiasco.

Both those BT Sport pundits, Jenas and that woman are gonna go home and have a chug over the win and the penalty. Big dirty smirks from them both when it was suggested that Spurs were going out to Norwich next round. How can you get a true reflection and analysis on the match when you’ve got Spurs a**e lickers giving their biased opinion and nobody propping up the Saints side?

That woman pundit on BT Sport used the words “no doubt it’s a penalty, he’s made contact” It shows a close up of Gunn brushing his hand over Son’s knee.

This. All the hype about wiping out diving and the VAR check allows the dive for a penalty, it’s incomprehensible, it’s really clear, is it not, or is it just me?!

The fact that VAR allows the dive, as there is clearly no contact, loses my faith in the system and I was a supporter of it.

Disgusting goal. GET IN!

Oh great, on comes the diving p***k , Dele.

Aw s**t. I hope JWP isn’t injured as much as this looks!

We still look great, far better than Spurs! Some lovely passing going on!

Awful luck. Fantastic tackle by Stephens and the shot wide deflected in, damn. What a chance for Ings, man!

Probably will come up short eventually, but how good do we look, impressed, well played boys.

Whilst we still have big earners on our books that we cannot yet shift, not spending on transfer fees and still trying to reduce our expenditure/wage bill is evident in some sense that financially we are being sensible. The club will definitely spend money in the summer, of course we will. But, whilst we are in a somewhat safer position than anyone envisaged us to be at this point in the season in the league, I’m more than happy not to see us throw another £20m at a deadline day flop. I’m optimistic that this is the summer (and it’s been a long time coming!) that we can finally cut ties with the many players (out on loan absolutely everywhere) we all want to see the back of and see us able to invest some of their transfer fees and freed up wages on players that can actually contribute to our first team squad. Like has been said above, it’s not that we haven’t tried to buy and strengthen in these past few windows. We HAVE and DID buy and in some case spent a small fortune on, unfortunately, utter garbage. We wouldn’t be complaining so bad if all our purchases from the last two or three windows all turned out to be Mane’s or Van Dijk’s. it’s just frustrating to see that we’ve spent so much and almost none of those signings are anywhere near our club, record signings playing elsewhere, leeching our wage budget and stunting our progression and there lies the blame with those in charge of recruitment these past few years. Money is only an issue because we have so many flops on loan, leeching away at our budget. Until we part company, hopefully for some sort of fee, we can’t look to acquire more expensive acquisitions. In that respect, I’m hoping that’s what we are doing now, cutting down our expense and waiting until the summer, offloading more of our deadwood out on loan before we buy, that would be my definition of well run.

Agree with you on that. Makes me worried that as soon as Ings undoubtably gets his England Euro 2020 place with everyone else crocked, our eyes light up from another big shiny paycheck. Being a Saints boy, I’d hope he’d want to stay with us.

Trying to be optimistic about this transfer window and the upcoming Summer. The more we’ve been accumulating the wins this month and pushing away from 18th, the more I’ve been content on not disrupting the side and spending needless money in January when prices are stupid. (I’m hoping that’s the sort of thinking Ralph and the board have agreed on lately, but maybe I’m just trying to be too positive for a Saints Web poster) We’ve got a long list of players that need shifting this summer again, but, being optimistic, it looks like this could be the window that we free up some much needed wage budget what with; Yoshida not getting a game Cedric gone Long questionable to stay for another year Adams no doubt wanting a move by then for game-time Ely looking like a bargain for Celtic Forster seems happy up at Celtic too Boufal drumming up some interest and not getting much game time here Vestergaard not really cutting it and interest back in Germany Hoedt & Carrillo, god knows, hopefully some sucker might give us a couple of £m I know that’s a long list, but I’m confident we could get rid of a good six on there. Question is, is Ralph going to be backed with some extra cash on top of the sales, or just a piddly £15m/£20m to play with from those moving on, which in terms of teams around us and what they NEED to spend in this league to keep competitive, is such a farse. I hope we see a good window, making a good £15-£20m in sales and Ralph given £30-£50m to improve the squad, everyone else seems to have no problem splashing a little cash, hopefully we’ll see a little well placed expenditure this year.

Well, I’m deflated. Shouldn’t be at home, 2-0 up and ending the game with zero points. We’ve played well the last month, but to lose from that position at HT is poor.

All set up for a Che Adams winner? Wouldn’t that be nice!

Ah dear, I’m gutted, but I knew this day would eventually come. If we take nothing from this game now I’ll be devastated.

Pinching myself. Where have these performances come from?! If you’d gone into a coma at the end of November, languishing in 19th place with 8pts, around 5 points from safety and woke up mid-January a handful of points off 5th with 31pts, you’d have think you’d died and gone to heaven lol.