Jack

The atmosphere was pretty good from the start, and obviously got better and better through the first half. Went a bit flat for a while in the second half when Wanyama got them back in the game, but was good overall.

Completely agree. That got going with both Davis' on the bench. It's sh*t and really not funny. The Artur Boruc song however...

Decent day today! Great results so far. City losing messed up my acca, but I had a free £5 from Paddy Power which I stuck on Sunderland 1-0 at 22/1. Rooney 2-0 or 2-1 would be the icing on the cake!

This.

Best performance by any Saints player this season. Where the hell has this yard of pace come from? Class today, and looking more like a captain at the same time.

You know, er yeah I'm loving it, you know?

Would be mad to play anything other than a front 4 of Lambert, Lallana, Rodriguez and JWP, assuming they're all fully fit. They'll all be raring to go out and continue to impress. Team picks itself tomorrow IMO: Boruc Clyne Fonte Lovren Shaw Schneiderlin Wanyama Lallana JWP Rodriguez Lambert Davis, Yoshida, Chambers, Cork, Davis, Ramirez, Osvaldo 1-0

Or he struggled when playing with those not up to his level? He was absolutely class last season, consistently.

Plenty of room in that squad for some of our other Englishmen. Johnson, Walker, Cleverly, Milner, Henderson... Plus the few that may need a walking stick by the time we get to Brazil. Bet Woy still plays the old guard through fear of the media. It's great for our lads but I f*cking hate the England setup.

Yep. Anyway it'd be wrong to give the youngsters and fringe players the chance until you face a tricky game, then let the first team take over. If we'd won tonight, I'm sure we'd have put out a similar XI against Chelsea anyway and got battered. It's good experience for some of the younger lads, and positives to take from it. Another 2 debuts, and they were saying on 5live that Harrison Reed had a very solid game and looks mature beyond his years.

Should've been a pen according to 5live extra

For a strong-ish Sunderland side, they've got some really sh*t players.

Just had a glance at Skybet: Sunderland 15/8 Draw 12/5 Saints 11/8 Decent price for a Sunderland win

If any mods see this - could be worth changing the thread title to 'SWF running thread' or something along those lines?

I'm in for Gosport now too, I'm looking forward to testing myself at that distance. I ran 13.1 miles on Sunday to get the miles in my legs - 1:57:30 and felt pretty good at that slowish pace. I think I can shave at least 10 mins off that. The only thing that does concern me is the boring route and the fact they've reiterated no iPods/MP3s when the race numbers were sent out, due to traffic and being able to hear marshalls. I always have my headphones in for long runs, could get a bit boring out there. Good luck Keith, hope it's another good run.

It'd be great to turn up there with 11 changes and turn them over. Can't see it, but I'm sure it'll be at least competitive.

Class act, crazy that he's only 18. Hope he stays free of injury, seems to get a lot of niggles.

I'm with Bearsy. Too ugly for the current regime IMO.

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Expecting to win due to current form is completely different to arrogance. I think that's lost on some. I expect us to beat Hull next weekend, probably with a clean sheet. Am I arrogant? No.

Double post FFS.

I thought he was. Came on and got dispossessed when we were committing men forward a couple of times in the first few minutes through dawdling on the ball, picked te wrong pass a few other times rather than just keeping us moving up the pitch. A couple of decent touches here and there but I thought we completely lost out attacking intent when he came on. Yes, part of that was J-Rod going off, but GR just doesn't seem to know how we want to play. There was one point he dropped off to pick up the ball, gave it short (to Morgan I think) then made a run back towards the ball out towards the right and just seemed to get in the way. Best bit of closing down I've seen from him but not really what we looking for as we were in possession. I know he's got some ability, but I just can't ever see him getting it right for us.

Good performance, lacked the final ball though. Wanyama immense, Boruc unlucky. Gaston changed the game for us, we completely lost our attacking shape when he came on. Too slow on the ball, again. Trying the really tricky pass every time, again. Frustrating in the end, but still 1 defeat in 10. Win at home next week and we'll still be flying.

Have a quick browse at their forum. You'll find they're not confident, they're unfit, the atmosphere has been awful at the Brit, and bar turning up for an hour at Old Trafford, they haven't been very good. Was just saying what I saw.

Not really.