James

Agreed. Disgrace.

Yep, a far cry from wasters like Lemina who don’t want to be there. Well played Jan.

Not hard to see why. He isn’t trying. What a turd.

There are a mixture of honest hard working players lacking ability and a bunch of players with ability who just don’t want to be there. Would take Lemina off for JWP, total passenger so far.

Completely agree, was also smiling and laughing with Stephens when were 2-0 at West Ham. Totally disrespectful to the fans of the club that have remade him as a player. The fact he is our captain is a complete joke. Our best player but knows he won’t be here whatever happens.

Players have totally bottled it.

Special shout out to Les for assembling the best midfield options in the league and these top class centre backs.

How pathetically 2005 of us.

Carrillo not in the squad again. Good work Les and Ross. What an embarrassment.

It’s the same as last week where we played well...what were you expecting?!

I wouldn't - the guy looks totally shot of confidence. Has to be Austin and play one up top. Long will be a big miss given how well he played on Sunday.

Well said. Good player though Bertrand is, he isn't a leader of men is he? He was laughing and joking with Jack Stephens whilst we were two nil down in the biggest game of the season v West Ham. Ridiculous. Contrast that with Vincent Kompany who almost burst a blood vessel in anger at being pegged back by Man U, despite the fact City are still a million points clear.

Yes and no. We could have had Maguire in the summer instead of the awful Hoedt and we passed up Nathaniel Chalobah when he was available for £5m so we could have signed young English talent if we’d have wanted to but we went elsewhere.

Exactly. It’s Reed’s fault for leaving us without PL standard defenders but 2/3 goals we conceded today were down to Stephens. For me, he’s one where we will look back in 5 years time and he will be playing for some mid table League 1 side and we will think it completely and inevitable that we went down with him as our starter CB. He’s the 2018 equivalent of Davenport, the only difference is that he’s come through our own youth ranks and therefore gets a much wider berth from most Saints fans.

Please do feel free to explain how the criticism is unjustified. He’s not a PL defender and has cost us a lot of goals with his mistakes this season. Hard to blame him as he simply isn’t good enough but today’s game reminded me just how much better Yoshida is than him. Still, if you think people wanting Yosh to start ahead of him is unfair, let’s hear it.

At least Stephens is banned. ****ing dross.

Stephens was in front of Welbeck, he missed it and we conceded. He’s cost us so many points from his lack of ability in the air.

Jack Stephens you are useless.

Jack Stephens is a truly terrible defender in this league. Sure he’s a nice lad but boy he cannot defend in this league at all.

Does anyone think we will here another public statement from Reedo before his (in my view inevitable) departure? Would be interesting to see him give one of his interviews after we've been relegated but I suspect we won't get that.

Would be good news he'd left but, I have to admit, the thought of Les dragging us down and then hot footing it to a cushy new job would leave a sour taste...

He's pretty terrible. Won't be good enough to get us out of the Championship, if we want to go up we'll need better which makes it absolutely crazy that he starts for us in the league above. If he wasn't a youth player he'd be getting a lot more stick than he is. Not helped by playing next to Hoedt, who is also appalling. To think, we could have had Harry Maguire for only slightly more than we paid for Wes...cheers Les.

I totally agree with this - we actually got some decent results in 2005 (Liverpool home for example). We also got ourselves into positions to win a number of other games (Boro at home, Villa at home, Arsenal away, Everton at home). This time around we’ve got a more talented squad (arguably) but we haven’t seen any displays that are a patch on some of those that we turned in during 2005. Had we not conceded one of the late goals in the games I’ve described then we would have stayed up, we will be much further away than that this time around.

Very well put. Arrogant board who believe we do things better than other clubs, arrogant half arsed squad that thinks it is much much better than it is. I feel totally disconnected from the club at the moment, doesn’t appear that the owners, the board or the players actually give two sh*ts about the club and so I question why I should. West Ham was about as poor as I can remember us playing since I’ve supported Saints. There have been worse results sure but the total lack of application, effort and desire given our position was appalling and unacceptable. The players should be ashamed but I know they aren’t, they’ll post something on Instagram and that’s it. Normally I’d have waited until the end to give them a piece of my mind but I decided not to waste my breath and left with 10 mins to go (first time in years). There’s a cancer at our club at the moment, a total complacency and a culture of rewarding mediocracy (Forster new 5 year deal anyone?). Reed is the most powerful man at the club and is therefore responsible for this mess. He simply has to go. The thought of him trying to do it on the cheap or be clever to get us back up from the Championship fills me with dread and will be a one way ticket back to the lower leagues.!

Agreed. Cedric is a terrible footballer, but he does post a good selfie on Instagram which is enough for most of our fans...