James

The 2004/5 team was significantly better than our current side IMO.

Yoshida is miles better than Hoedt. If anything it should be him and Jan IMO. Hoedt has been a bit of a disaster.

Klopp’s probably told him not to bother and not get injured because Liverpool will “need” him more next season.

You and 32,000 others. What an inspiring “captain”...

Agreed. At least some of those players tried. These pansies couldn’t give a flying f*ck.

Absolutely pathetic. Please erase this horrible Saints team from my memory. Just dross.

It was obvious from the Spurs away game on Boxing Day that he thought he was too good for us and he’s been a disgrace since then. Two woeful performances against Newcastle and WHU which have really hurt us and he gets a recall in a glamour semi final. Poor decision really, just rewards chronic underperformance and lack of effort. An absolute crime that JWP hasn’t been rewarded for being one of our best players this year with a start whilst Lemina gets in. Get rid ASAP, preferably to someone less “glamorous” than Liverpool.

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.