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Surely Ally Orr desereves a chance Hodgey.

Maybe a bit harsh on Fortuin,Wood and Howell, but Currie and Turner certainly had days to forget.

Looks like the bowlers are having a collective nightmare and Turner is a total disaster. Zac Crawley is far too good a player to not take advantage of such a poor bowling performance.

Difficult to know if 177 is a winnable score,have my doubts, but the bowling has been superb up to now, heres hoping. Prest has to be taken out of the firing line,his confidence is beyond shot to bits, a go in the seconds to hopefully get some form back, is surely on the cards now.

Well played tonight Hants.

Has anyone told RM that coming second in Scotland is a total and utter failure, if you are manager of Rangers FC.

Ron Davies in his prime would have been worth an absolute fortune in todays game. The only downside would be there is no player in the modern game to touch Terry Paines crossing ability. The only player to have come close since TP,was the brilliant John Robertson at Forest. What the club would give now to have Davies and Paine.

Did not see that score line coming, but delighted at the same time. Only seen brief highlights [ will watch bbc highlights tomorrow ],but how wonderful to see brilliant fearless attacking football from such a young vibrant side. Doue and Yamal at Barcelona have the footballing world at their feet, I hope they are not enticed by the Saudi millions for years to come.

That is a very good post Steve,but as you say yourself -[ we have known that the top order has been fragile for years ] and nothing has been done about it for years. I accept that the club were caught unaware by the JV situation, however they have dithered for years in putting it right [ even when JV was here]. What was the point being taken over if we still cannot compete for the top players available. We just might have beaten Surrey to the title in either of the last 2 seasons,with a top middle order batsman.

Nice one leesaint88. I thought SE was going to be a pro golfer at one time.

I am sure that Jones and Thierry Small will not get the best receptions at SMS next season.

As an aside I know that Prest and Albert are out of form and low of confidence,surely the only way to change that is graft and fight,aside from time in the seconds,3 of their 4 dismissals in this game were down to attrocious shot selection. As for the Stoneman experiment it is just not working, is their anyone at the club able to forcibly tell the players it is just not good enough ? I doubt it. Not replacing Vince,even for this one season,was another awful decision.

Total disgrace,very well summed up in the above 2 posts. [ Dawson, Middleton and Brown are the only 3 batsman,who come out of this game with any credit ].

Great for Sunderland,my second team since the mid sixties,due to Jim Montgomery. [ I remember Monty being on loan to Saints in 1975, for a month [ 4 games ]. Also great to see Aberdeen win the scottish cup.

Saints hammered again and Hants to be hammered by their near neighbours.

Good luck Will Still,you are going to need it in the mad house that is Southampton FC.

Another collapse imminent ? Simpson might not be stylish,but he is sure effective,might help he is left handed [, obdurate like Jack Russell,but I doubt any of our batters will show such resilience and fight to keep their wickets intact. Would love to be proved wrong, but just cannot see it.

In the provisional under 21 squad for Euros in june. Well done Ronnie.

Michael Mandron scores goals in the scottish premier league Chez,the same player who was at Eastleigh and Hartlepool. If we cannot do better than Shankland we are in for a really poor season. [ Which we will any way,unless we get rid of the great piles of deadwood and get in some decent players who really want to be at the club. ]

Perhaps with Sean Ervines brother Craig as his test captain, Brian Bennett might consider coming to Hants next year [ I know he will only be 22 ]. However with Giles White in charge is that ever likely to happen.

You would have thought that Orr would have been well motivated to play in this game. Perhaps Ron [ Weston Saint ]can tell us the reasons why he was not picked in the next day or two.

BBC cricket site says Dawson and Albert got terrific deliveries,however another shit show against a promoted side,who are minus Robinson their best bowler.

Shankland is not good enough, like Kris Boyd he has scored plenty of goals in Scotland and that is his limit. If he was any good Rangers or Celtic would have signed him. In the championship in England Boyd scored 1 every 3 games and was loaned out by Boro. If we sign Shankland it would more than likely be a total disaster,assuming the rumours are true,of course. Would like to see Sargent and Sainz or Rudoni,as a sign of intent.

No changes and another top and upper middle order batting fiasco.

The yanks are not just satisfied with trying to run the world,they want to run our national game as well. [ Boehley, the Glazers and the Liverpool owners would love to scrap relegation from the premier league ] . What a total bunch of arrogant c--ts.