saintstowin

I've heard that he reckons he could play in any position and be the bestest in the whole world.

I'm still annoyed at that terrible team Puel put out against them years ago. It even had Jack Stephens in it.

I think he knew the ball was moving and just wanted to give Manning a whack for all the times he's not at left back when he should be. So very accurate.

I propose scrapping the traditional draw. The Friday and Saturday 5th round teams play each other from this stage on, separate to the Sunday and Monday 5th round teams who do the same. Winners meet in the final with the Sunday Mondays getting a head start.

I thought every aspect of his game was good today - saves, kicking, distribution, claiming crosses. He's also clearly a good motivator and teammate, for example today he came a long way from his goal to encourage and support Scienza immediately after his bad miss.

I just watched the end back including two of the worst non free kick awards I've seen. From a distance at the game I thought they were bad. On 97 mins in the corner Azaz gets shoved over and then Edozie literally thrown over! If they'd scored from that.... I thought the ref didn't give us much. I also think that chant is terrible ('you're just a .... with a whistle'), I'm more of a 'the referee's a ......' or even better a simple 'you don't know what you're doing'. Probably my age but it's not a good thing to hear sung with such volume.

On the way home. Great result great support. I thought everyone played their part with special mention for the back four and GK. They had loads of the ball and we didn't panic and were on it all game. Lovely.

I didn't realise that about the yellow cards so that's good. Yes it'll be a good day and I'm behind a pillar so if it goes wrong that'll be a bonus.

I hope we field a strong 1st team based side (sensible avoiding suspensions aside) and Tonda's FA cup mind games aren't in play. The "one or two changes" v Leicester didn't turn out that way. And his comments about going strong and it looking a little different could be interpreted a number of ways. I would not be surprised with lots of changes.

If it's full of druggies I'd have hoped the snow was pretty good.

Like you say I think they've left it too late and/or already made the decision not to sell to Saints fans. Maybe there'll be a late announcement but logistically looks unlikely. I guess Fulham decided not to bother, based on their sales, and we either didn't get access to them or made the call ourselves not to buy them all up. I'm sure we could have sold 1000 more. Hopefully a late surprise. I'm sure the ticket office would give you a final answer.

I've heard he's ok to play under the new rules, but I've emailed Fulham to remind them Maik Taylor cannot take the field of play.

Even though the world is ending I'll be really annoyed if we don't win today.

Why I have sat through forty minutes of Wolves v Villa I'm not sure. Awful game. And they won't pass to Adam.

I am a big fan of correct grammar and would of thought everyone else is.

A handful made it to members at 1230 but not very many at all so I'm sure we'd sell out the bigger allocation.

Really happy with that. It was a bit worrying when we sat back, slowed down (so frustrating as it appears self-inflicted for the most part) and they came into it. The goals came at exactly the right times to give us the confidence that we were indeed much better than them. When we speed up the build up just a bit and take a risk or two we're so much better. Due to the scoreline I even didn't become too stressed by Manning's walkabouts to areas of the pitch he seems to fancy spending time in nowhere near LB. Very odd!

I thought he was good and I wanted him to have the whole of the game to build up fitness, find a goal his performance deserved, and not risk Stewart.

Looks like we could have the whole Putney end seeing as Fulham are moving any ST holders from there. Caveat being if somehow they sell in high numbers elsewhere in the ground they'll then make that bit of the Putney end available for home fans. That seems unlikely to happen for this game. So hopefully the remaining part of that end will be made available to us once we sell out the 4,200. Hope so. Both clubs can hedge their bets a bit during the first selling period. We'll know by the end of the week.

We're twice as good as them on xg so it's all ok.

Really nice to read that. I'm glad he's got good memories of playing and life with us. I'll welcome him back.

I think we're a better squad with him in it but it's hard to justify giving him a starting place every week. Maybe that's reason enough to sell and I expect he was up for the move. One or both parties were looking at a future away from Saints last season too. He's played really well at times, best season the last champ one of course. And for a while this season looked like he was returning to form as a CF until the whole team turned rubbish again. I wish him well. And I'm saying that with no idea whether he's been disruptive etc. I've never picked up any of those vibes from him on or off the pitch.

The Wayne Thomas trophy could go either way. Who wants it more? Probably Stoke do.

Well. Could have won. Maybe should, having taken the lead. 2 x double subs in quick succession felt strange and didn't help. I think the 2nd lot was coming even if Scienza hadn't been injured, an odd plan. Despite being quiet, with hindsight keep Azaz on, he'd just done something brilliant and the game might have opened up later on. We needed the substitutes to add to the game and only Charles and Fellows contributed. Stewart didn't get any service. Robinson anonymous really. On another day we get a first half goal and who knows. Disappointed with the last 20 minutes. No possession and no ideas how to keep the ball moving. I like no VAR but don't like handball goals. Peretz was fine in my opinion. Not just the goal but all round. Kicked well and commanded the box. Defence not exactly watertight but definitely better with a 4 and very committed.

Tough half and was always likely to be. I think we've done ok with the pressure. Bit too much space for them at times in midfield. Not sure about this route one(ish) stuff. We have looked a bit dangerous when we've got it wide but haven't done that consistently. It's played like a derby.