The Cat

I only just saw Johnson's speech where he started talking about Kermit. Mad as a box of frogs.

"IN THE HOLE" He's on the tee 500 yards away from the green you absolute whopper.

The people queuing up for petrol when they only need it because they drive the kids a mile to school or are too lazy to cycle 15 minutes to work.

Similar in some respects to people who stick pictures of their kids or family around their monitors at work. You'll be seeing them when you get home ffs.

I'm driving to Pompey in a bit for a gig, wonder if someone will siphon the petrol out of my car while I'm there? Mind you I wonder that every time I go to a gig there.

Waigo scored both goals in normal time. I remember Grant Holt going mental because he thought he'd been fouled during a breakaway attack and 10 seconds later Waigo had the ball in the net for the injury time equaliser.

Wolves are so bad even Harry Kane can score against them.

Someone bought a ticket online and the whole site crashed?

Apart from the header where he pulled off an incredible save from where the follow up was ruled out. If the header had gone in it was a goal. There's more to goalkeeping than saving shots as you are well aware.

Sounds like he did ok tonight and 2 penalty saves isn't to be sniffed at but McCarthy just kept 2 clean sheets against 2 very good teams.

Funny that McBurnie didn't score, the massive prick. Home draw in the next round please but we all know we'll get something like Preston away. Some hilarious pens in the Fulham v Leeds shootout.

Doing a bit better than Koeman did up there. Especially considering he had better players and Sheff Utd were in League 1 then.

Wembley here we come.

Can't call it a sport. Bin the shit off.

Pompey 1-0 up in the Dockyard derby.

This should be required reading for all the posters who don't understand why a certain team is picked, or why we play certain formations and change them during a game. These systems take a lot of preparation and it only takes one player not to carry out their instructions correctly for it to fall apart. This probably explains why Redmond gets picked ahead of other players, because he follows the instructions better than some others. People were annoyed about some of his choices with the ball in attack, but Ralph will be looking more at his choices in the defensive system because that's a 90 minute commitment rather than a brief momentary passage of play. Ok he messes up a pass, but if he spent the rest of the game contributing to a clean sheet that's more important. It also explains why Ralph will sometimes pick a starting team from players who were not away on international duty in the period before a game even though the perceived better players are fit.

Small's playing for the B team today so unlikely. I imagine Broja will play up front.

Looking at their forum, a lot giving us praise. One said Romeu and Ward Prowse bossed the midfield, loads saying we easily deserved the point and probably more. "The drive and desire of Southampton is something we could learn from" "Saints were impressive" "Saints were brilliant and comfortable, deserved 3 points" "Whole team was poor" "We were lucky to get nil" Quotes like these show just how well organised we were which is obviously down to the preparation in training and the players on the pitch carrying out those instructions. Some of their fans think Sterling is shit. Some are moaning about the manager. And that's just from the first 20 pages of 97. If there's one downside to becoming one of the best teams in the world it's having to trawl through nearly 100 pages of a post match thread after every game.

He can, but he was never going to stay at the club so it's pretty irrelevant. Plus the person who replaced Ings won a penalty which might have led to 3 points if it wasn't for Jon Moss's lunacy. Maybe we'd have won if Stuart Armstrong was fit because he's our best attacking midfielder.

I explained before kick off why those comments were dumb, so yeah, I'm going to call people out on it. Obviously no one is ever 100% right but come on, loads of people ragging off about a team selection when they have no idea why it was picked? Some of the comments were ridiculous even without hindsight. You'll settle for a point away at Man City where the vast majority of teams lose? That's good of you, although you are so overwhelming negative on here I'd have thought you'd have been happy with us keeping the margin of defeat under 5.

2 clean sheets in a row for McCarthy, today's included an absolute worldy to keep out the first header before the offside follow up. But yeah, clueless Ralph should have picked Forster.

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Absolute bunch of idiots.

Thing is no one on here knows the reasons behind the selection. Does Salisu have a small injury? Are players being saved for the cup midweek? Are there tactical reasons why certain players are picked over others? Without knowing all the facts and reasons behind the selection everyone is just speculating. I get that's what a forum is for but comments like "Ralph is clearly a poor manager" just come from such an ill informed place that they aren't worth making in the first place.

Definitely dragging some of these posts back up later if we nick a point.