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Is that right then? According to Graham Poll all a 'keeper has to do is jump on top of an opponent and it's a foul against the attacker? That can't be right can it? It might have been interesting if Long had any sort of killer instinct when through on goal but Saints were 2nd best for much of the game. Should have made Giroud a Saint. Let's see how we shape up against Bournemouth - much more important.

I've long given up watching the so-called "Champions League" because it really isn't, is it? I couldn't give a damn about the self-important competition of also-rans. If only the self-important "big clubs" could sod off into their uninteresting league of tyre adverts then we could settle down to the prospect of competitive and cheaper football.

Klopp's a right old misery guts. No class at all.

Looks like I had a better time in the pub avoiding the game then. Trawling through the threads it looks like we're not even trying to save ourselves. And there was me thinking 2005 was a one off. I'll be at St Mary's for the Boscombe game. I guess that'll be the end of it.

5 Live : "Southampton are getting into key areas and choosing the wrong options.". Tell us about it.

I suppose half time at 0-0 will be ok.

Last two games Saints have started moderately well and lost. Maybe the plan is reverse those stats.

Saving him for a fresh start in the Championship next season? That might be his level. Saints were mugged.

Well at least a chucked a few quid on Saints at 5-1 a few weeks back so there'll be the compensation of a decent beer fund to help drown the sorrows. If the bookies couldn't see the writing on the wall they were mugs. I see the word is that even Saints players think they need 12 more points for survival so really it's all over. Maybe the only hope is that the team loosen up a bit, play with some freedom and even surprise themselves.

Could get overtaken by WBA yet.

The long forgotten feeling of reaching 40 points with games to spare while seeing off one of the "top" sides. Wonder when we'll experience that again anytime soon.

Agreed. However. There's something seriously amiss with Saints defensive coaching. Conceding 3 goals every game is worse than relegation form.

Must admit that I don't pop in here as regularly as some but I seem to recall a discussion of some pledges some weeks back. Did anything come of them? I guess they'd have to be rewritten anyway given the pending relegation.

St Mary's Stadium. It's cursed. Already relegated from the top division twice as many times there as we were at The Dell.

I'm aware of that but am clutching at the final straw. That's all the hope there is. Any team above us now ought to feel fairly safe.

You have heard of the phrase "six pointer"?

I'm treating the Leicester as that game in hand. A must win if ever there was one. Realistically it ain't going to happen though. Bournemouth to deliver the final nail?

The game against Swansea will be key if we win the game in hand.

The game in hand is the only straw to be clutched at now.

Just about all that could go wrong did go wrong today.

FFS. Hudd 1-0.

Didn't realise that the free kick for Chelsea's first was taken from the wrong place. Poor defending against Giroud all the same but Dean hasn't helped us at all.

Maybe Saints should have signed Giroud given that he always scores at St Mary's.

Gutting. We're all but down now.Started scoring some but our defence just loses concentration and there's another 3 conceded.

Our defending is unbelievably poor. 2-3. It's what we feared would happen.