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Hopefully Danny, Redders & Theo have been spending the last couple of weeks working on some new attacking ideas. Anything inventive in the final third has to be better than some of the stuff served up so far in 2021.

If we don't get a result with that team it might be time to give up.

What I'd really like today is Saints back to early season form, an early goal, no defensive lapses and the game wrapped up with a comfortable lead well before the end. Probably too much to ask these days so I'll no doubt have to settle for a point in a scrappy game and then some solace if Newcastle & Fulham both fail to get anything. Anything less than that and we can start comparing this season to 1974.

Well Sunday evening is normally a football-free time when I get the chance sit down for dinner with my football-hating wife. I'll now have to earn some bonus points. I'm also so long in the tooth that semi finals should still get played on a sunny afternoon at a neutral ground rather than at Wembley.

1830 on a Sunday night? They take us for mugs. Probably because we are.

Manchester clubs kept apart. 😉

Saints wasteful again. 😉

Worth a red I reckon.

Diallo needs to work on his shooting.

Typical Redmond. 😁

Handball wasn't it?

Saints taking them apart now.

What's wrong with that one then VAR?

Offside.

Ball comes off defender.

Not VAR again surely.

Adams scores again.

Saints giving the ball away too easily.

I guess we're wondering what sort of 2nd half we can expect from Saints. No need to chase the game, keep it tight and there should be more goals available on the break.

Saints 2-0 up at half time and Bednarek not on the scoresheet. Good omens for Saints

Redmond on fire.

Great work by Redmond.

B'mouth getting into the game now. Saints getting worse.

Instead it's Saints who get a yellow.

Ref needs to show B'mouth a yellow ot two. Some of these fouls are awful.