The Wyvern

Good strong line up. Wonder why a different approach to the Leicester cup game?

I’m glad he’s not our manager, but I think Jones is great in this regard, the more characters in football the better.

This bizarre modern day football thing that has been made up that people call a “three game week”, like playing three games over eight days is some exceptional event to be overcome.

VAR is a complete and utter farce isn’t it.

Will Saints show the game live on Saints Player for £10?

Brilliant corner from Bree for the goal, best corner this season.

Agreed, can’t stand the man. Hate the way he interacts with other team’s players, Redmond for us a few years ago case in point.

Never heard of him, but that sounds an utterly shit idea.

Getting themselves ready for next season by the looks of things.

I’m sure there are far more adverts than ever before, just a constant run of them through the build up and half time.

Good win and performance, helped by the fact Stoke were pretty poor. Decent opposition would have still caused us a lot more problems. Play offs still alive? Think we’ve still got a bit too much to do and will keep blowing hot and cold.

Good line up for me, that’s a good side. No complaints on selection, let’s see if they deliver.

I am glad we didn't fold and we definitely matched them in the physical battle throughout the game, but I do think we let the occasion and atmosphere get to us. Needed more calm heads to let our quality show, put our foot on the ball and get our passing going, slow the game down at the right time, not charge around or fly into tackles that weren't needed. Anyway, a good learning curve for a lot of the players and hopefully brings the squad together a bit. Think we'll get to do it all again next season, so hopefully a few lessons learnt our side.

I'm amazed they get away with it. No stewarding or police checks, free to do whatever they want. Our support trying anything like that at St Marys would be slung out. Similar approach to the two pitch invaders that came on. Once the stewards woke up, ours was clattered to the ground, theirs had an arm to their shoulder and guided off. I know its a cliche and we're obviously all biased, but they really are a weird bunch down there, a properly odd bunch of people with a chip on their shoulder they will never, ever shake.

I noticed this at the time as well, just when we should be killing the game, quietening everything down Downes decided to the complete opposite and gave them momentum. Didn't need it at all. We battled well, but to show we really played well under pressure we should have not let the occasion get to us and shown calm heads when needed. We just constantly dropped down to their level.