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At least Townsend is injured or he truly would tear Foxy a new one! I had a bet on saints 3-1 with jayrod to score first. Not that confident now.

Yoshi should have closed down but what a strike. Great finish!

Get in Ossie.Stick that in your pipe Alps and simply shut up your whining!

Lovren gave the ball away, Cork gets it back and gives it away again. BUT again Yoshi is to blame as he watches the ball soar over him. Still more goals to come yet though.

Got a couple of quid on 3-1 Saints win. Think if we get one we will get three, need that first one early though, pen hopefully.

One silly mistake by Yoshi and we are one down. Other than that we have been all over them. Major disappointment this evening has been some of the trolling w##kers on here tonight. This used to be a good footballing forum, not simply a site for some loser to get their pointless kicks.

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Like it or not, we are in a title race. To be sat in third, three points off first, after 11 games means we are involved. I agree that we are lacking depth outside of the first team squad, highlighted at Sunderland in the cup. BUT we don't have to play twice a week against Europe's finest as the other top teams do. Arsenal have Marseille just a few days after us, Man City have Bayern Munich a few days after us, Chelsea have Basel just before us. They will need to rotate their teams too for all theses games. I can understand why some fans are struggling to get their head around what is going on here. I have followed Saints since my first match in the early 80's and experienced games being given away and endless disappointments but I cant recall a Saints team with such a positive mentality or amount of ability. The days of chucking away three goal leads and gifting 90th minute winners are gone. This new team believes and so should we. I remember the headlines on the back page of The Express in 84 after we beat Notts County 3-1 with Steve Moran getting two. The headline read.. SAINTS ARE IN THE ELITE ! We are back there now, lets enjoy it!

Very poor form Big Vic but would rather he makes that mistake and learns from it when we are 3-0 up. Time to turn it on again now.

I think we could well go on to get six! Other prediction is Curtis Davies red card.

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Do you need to tell us this several times a day? You don't like him or rate him. Fair enough. Can we not just assume that this mindset will remain until you inform us otherwise.

Think this will be a stroll today. 4-0

I am not disappointed and I did watch the whole streaming game. I was mainly thinking: a) None of our important key players can get injured b) Look how far we've come from the days of Jos, Cork, Lee, Fox, Yoshi, Kelvin D c) The club doesn't feel that this is the primary focus for this season, I'll trust them. d) It would have been difficult to win the cup with Chelsea in the next round and Man City, Man Utd still in the draw. e) We've got a lot of attention seeking drama queens on this forum!

Chelsea in the next round with a second XI consisting of Mata, Etoo, De Bruyne, Ramirez, Mikel, Willian, Cahill to name but a few. Great chance for the final, thats arrogance!. I think this merely shows how far we have come from having Jos and Fox and Cork as shoe ins for the first team. Not fussed at all by the defeat. I think judging by the team put out it its clear to see this cup wasn't NC and MP's priority. Maybe they have got slightly grander ideas else in mind.

I am sure those travelling up were aware of the possibility it may not be our first team on display and still made the decision to travel. No need for sympathy, only admiration!

Reasonable first half,not looked too troubled. Chambers good, Reed promising. Seem to bit the long diagonal to lthe left wing quite often. Not bad considering we've got our 2ns XI versus their first!

Would love to see Gaston have a blinder tonight just to show the whinging few that he is a player.

The OP is quite a dull sort. If he was a Spurs fan no doubt he would have been writing Bale off after a short while seeing as they never won when he played. Ronaldo took a few seasons to be the real deal at United. Drogba took a season at Chelsea. But oh no, as we are Southampton our signings don't have to adjust or adapt. I'm just glad we can attract Italy's number 9 and Uruguays playmaker to St Marys. Stop yer whining!

I would rather we finish seventh than sixth. Basically I don't want the Europa league after seeing what it did to Newcastle previously and to a certain extent Swansea. Our squad can't cope with that many games and we can't and shouldn't expect our younger players to play fifty games a season.

A good victory despite being under the cosh for a fair bit of the game. I was hugely impressed by Boruc and the confidence he inspires in the defence,finally found a new Niemi. Overall I thought we were pegged back and spent a long time defending against a decent Swansea side. The way they exploted Fox at left back was fairly predictable and a problem that will keep occurring every time he has to cover for Shaw. Quite simply he isn't good enough for this team anymore and has been proven that he is not even good enough to be a back up. His positional sense is appalling and he never seems to tackle, merely accompany (not jockey) the opposition winger to their crossing position. Was very impressed with Morgan today and thought he worked well together with Big Vic, who's passing still beggars belief at times. The front players were fantastic for the first twenty five or so minutes, plenty of interlinking and movement, creating a number of opportunities. Lallana put is a performance worthy of the captains armband today and seemed back to his best. I I do think that a couple of injuries to the spine of the team would hit us hard but while everybody is fit and healthy the future is bright. Personally, as a lifelong Saints fan I am not getting too carried away with talk of 4th or Europe. Lets just get to 42 points as quickly as possible and then enjoy whatever happens.

Willian has just scored a blinder for Chelsea.

Nice to get the 2nd. Now lets get to the final whistle with no red cards.

Up to 3rd as Nawwwich equalise!

Fox needs to attack the ball rather than constantly running back towards the touch line. If Dyer skins him, then fair play to Dyer, but dont just let him have a free cross.