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No way he gets sacked before this game. I think they'll give him Leicester home.

We're already down I'm afraid, there's no way this team scores enough goals to have a chance. I thought we played ok in spells last night but still painfully slow moving the ball forward, just makes it so easy to defend against. I'll take no pleasure from Martin getting sacked but it does seem a case of when not if. Fans arguing with each other in away end last night, it's really having a demoralising affect on the fan base, I'm old enough to not be surprised anymore but feel sorry for the young nippers who want to wear their saints shirts proudly and have to put up with shit from the usual premier league glory hunting fans. At the moment we face a season of breaking all the wrong records.

It's about as likely as a Ball / Mcmenemy dream team coming back to rescue us.

Yep although I'd have preferred a day out there on a Saturday to be honest, still should have time for a couple of pints pre match

It's a bit of a joke really. Been a perk for season ticket holders as long as I can remember, tried to get my kids the kit before Lazio pre-season and was told by smug shop manager no longer applies except for designated times of the year in promotions but those were unknown. How much are they really saving? Enough to pay Tall Paul for an hour? Hope they lost enough sales to cost them more overall

He was £40M+ as well wasn't he, they've spent some big money at times Bournemouth, record signing well over ours so despite being a small club in Dorset with league one fan base financially they have more spending power than us.

Having watched a few Bournemouth games this season I sense we're the perfect opponent for them, they like to press and play with energy, can't see us avoiding a silly mistake. Miss the days of the crowd cheering half time score updates at The Dell if the Cherries were winning and having a whip round to help keep the club alive. They still owe us for Neil Moss signing that keep them afloat. Has David Brooks featured for them at all?

That's the real South Coast derby, uptheboatmen 👍🏻

I think predicting us to get to a semi final qualifies me as an optimist. Anyway, I'm actually looking forward to this , enjoy cup runs 👍🏻

Last time we were relegated from the premier league we reached the semi final of this competition so could we be about to see history repeat itself? It's a good draw but I do remember Stoke at home last season being dreadful 0-1 defeat, won't be easy. Game is in school half term would be nice for them to do cheap tickets and get a decent crowd in

I think you're probably right, but assume these other games were against Swansea, this on the other hand is THE New Forest derby and anything can happen in these occasions.

Leicester fans starting to turn on Cooper, seems a bit early to me.

Can't say there's many attractive draws left for us to get tonight, hopefully a home draw for once, v Preston or Sheffield Wednesday

No but we did draw with Arsenal twice and really should have won away having been 3-1 up with a couple of mins to go. I don't doubt we'll lose to these teams but find the desire some like Saint_clark seem to have to see us destroyed so they can wallow in Martin blame is a bit odd.

She was first choice keeper who even had an England call up but not featured at all this season? Surely an injury but you never know

Already 5 points adrift after 3 games in a league that just has one promotion place , season of games with little at stake not great for the fans if lose touch with top spot

Russell Martin has sent his congratulations to Saints ladies team for a perfect performance this afternoon

Fair enough. Just a coincidence then. I agree Taylor looked decent so did deserve to play

Is this why KWP didn't play?

Seeing fans with their heads down leaving the ground, we badly needed that win for a morale boost, felt like a defeat didn't it

Any truth to the rumour that Martin has been helping train the Huddersfield defence this week? https://twitter.com/ntfc/status/1837553498134581463?t=GpaP18sMW12zUzBEzXe9LA&s=19

Yeah he got involved more today, good effort to get into position for those two chances , shame one didn't end up in the back of the net

I'm gutted, feel so drained by that, but those two points won't make a difference at the end of the season unless other teams have points deducted

Lallana won't last more than 60 mins so would expect one of them to replace him

We're short of height and physical presence up front, will be too easy to defend against, fair play for trying something different though KWP unlucky to be dropped.