Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan

Really liked his runs in behind at the weekend, seemed to work well that he moved the ball forward then bombed on past it. Particularly clear for Brooks' goal when he runs past, drags the defender with him and leaves a big space for Brooks to work into. More of that please.

Not me personally, but in March 2020 we lost 1 nil to Newcastle at home following Valery letting Saint-Maximin score. A chap a few rows in front of us threw his plastic card season ticket onto the pitch in anger, and then the rest of the season was played behind closed doors anyway.

Agreed, as poor as Charles was on the ball, he was getting into the right places when we were defending most of the time. Smallbone definitely can't play that role. Downes truly is crucial to this system.

Same defender who sent Edozie flying by bodychecking him- which gave us the free kick we got the third from

The raw talent definitely seems to be there, both times I've seen Meghoma play I've been impressed with the burst of pace he still has late in the game. Doesn't seem to tire

Looking more likely to be Gazzanigga at Girona at the moment.

Not sure he'd want to go, seems to be having a great time in SA at the moment, and probably being paid more for the privilege

I still think the squad would do well to have a Hampshire player (Dawson for this tour) but very happy to see them do so well. Stokes showing his captaincy again, great resilience from the squad (the sort of mental toughness Saints have only just rediscovered).

Shame to see that the next FA cup round is at Silverlake Stadium instead of St Marys. We had 14,000 for the Arsenal game, I would think we'll easily sell out Eastleigh

Poor thing having to learn from Xabi Alonso too, he'll learn nothing about playing football there and come back a much worse player

Makes sense to me, unless we sell Adams. He's back to being our starting striker it seems and we play a hybrid of 4-2-2-2 and 4-3-3. I'd expect Adam Armstrong to play with Adams, but floating right, and Fraser wide left. You then have a midfield three, where one splits right if Armstrong moves higher and more central (or KWP fills in). So with Aribo not around, and Stu not able to play 90 in every game, we need options. Charly seems to not be trusted still all the time, so Rothwell is a good addition to keep things fresh. He can play in rotation with Stu, or be an upgrade on Smallbone, with Downes the constant presence in the centre.

That would fund it and then some from an FFP perspective because he's home grown so that is pure profit, same reason they sold Lewis Hall to Newcastle

Hopefully we take confidence from the performance against Arsenal in the league cup. With the right setup, we can trouble them for sure

Could easily have finished about 8:2 with better finishing. Fraser was the best player on the pitch by a mile, made about 20 runs waiting for a ball through that never came and looked quicker than everyone else. Impressed by Meghoma, seemed to be running and running, quick and direct with his runs and passes, and a decent cross on him too. I’m not sure he was tested defensively but he looked more Luke Shaw and less Jake Vokins to me. SAA had a quiet game but we seemed to work a lot more down the left than the right and I’m not sure he had much help from Holgate going forward so was often facing two men. Glad Dibling and Bragg got minutes, happy to see Dibling take on players with ease and get some shots away. Bragg didn’t seem to take more than 2 touches anytime he had the ball, could probably come in for Smallbone and you wouldn’t notice

I had expected the three to be Bednarek, Armstrong and Armstrong personally. Stu has found form that seemed to abandon him for 18 months, Adam is back in the goals, and Jan is now a key part of our defence.

Lowest three in the premier league last season were the relegated teams' goalkeepers, so it does mean something, and it isn't made up, they don't just pluck the numbers out the sky. It is less made up than XG against for example.

Not only should we try it, how about we try and stop it too. Two similar goals have cost us 4 points now, 2 against Rotherham and 2 against Watford. Long balls up, not dealt with, and a shot from outside the box beats Bazunu because he's in no mans land in the box not able to make a routine save. Shouldn't happen more than once but he's let it.

Not sure what impact it had, but Pompey's starting 11 featured 3 players who played for us last season, so they'd have good insight into us, moreso than when we beat them to win the title 2 seasons ago. They've kicked on since then, and are top of their league, and now can be promoted without winning the same playoff we had to as two teams come up. If they're promoted and we don't go up, we'd likely get a game at St Mary's next year.

Top of the Spanish League with Girona! Played all 16 of their games, only kept 4 clean sheets, but has a save percentage of 75% which is in the top 3 in the league. Not the keeper we had, but maybe the one we expected him to become when given the chance and years of maturity and experience.

Doesn’t seem we’ve been picked for TV so I’d expect this to be 3pm on the Saturday

In my eyes that makes him nothing less than a hero. Choosing the hardest decision, in the knowledge he’d help strangers, doesn’t get better than that from a person. The club should try and recognise him and what he’s done there. Maybe a plaque on his seat (if he had a season ticket) or something in collaboration with the family

Durham have a good squad but have more central England contracts this year that might mean the star players aren't present. They're due to have Boland and Ackermenn with them this coming season who are both very good cricketers. I think our squad is strong, we're relying again on bowling over batting this year I think

Probably about half of their first choice 11 and the rest on the bench, most of whom came on. Every single one of them has international caps so a very strong team still. I haven't done the maths, but I would assume given the age of our squad, the Arsenal 11 will have played comfortably more international matches, than our 11 will have played professional games.

Sold over 12,500 tickets, the final last year only had 19,000 so clearly a big deal! Sadly I do think a large number will be wanting to see some of the Lionesses, rather than necessarily the under 23 lionesses we have, but if it inspires a new generation of Saints fans then that is a great thing.

We played a National League team in the third round in 09/10, but not sure they're a minnow given it was Luton, now a league above us