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Those damn nasty Tory cutbacks are even starting to affect the Guardian. ConDems out FFS!

Alps - fret ye not. If/when we win tomorrow there will be plenty of people doing what they're baiting you to do, but in reverse...i.e. "so, cup games affect our league performance then do they Alps? Lol" or words to that effect. In other words, there are "I told you so" folk on both sides of any argument.... Mark my words when, after the game tomorrow, you'll hear me say: "I told you so that there would be 'told you so' people out there" ;-)

The Daily Mail's (albeit short) write-up this morning focused on Lallana. Now there's a decent newspaper... ;-)

Might I suggest that Lallana is now the most popular and revered Saint of recent years? Given this is the case, perhaps he should join Mr Lambert on the forum banner.....or, if there's no space, dare I suggest that he should be up there instead of Rickie (by a short nose)? That's got to be worth a few pages of debate, surely?

(a) I still think it's a 'magical' tournament (b) I wouldn't have been unhappy if Saints had gone out yesterday © I was excited when we won yesterday (d) I was excited by the draw today (e) I will not be unhappy if we go out to Utd in the next round (f) I will be excited if we beat Utd in the next round None of these statements are mutually exclusive, contrary to some of the opinions on here.

Indeed. Not necessarily....

Very surprised the FA allowed us to play a player we were yet to sign at the time

No, the Cup is far more important than the League now.... ;-)

I hope they don't come along....we don't want people labelling them 'plastic' for coming to see a 'glamour' game... ;-)

if it's about who pays more money to the club i usually pay more on a pay-as-you-go basis than a season ticket holder does over the course of a season. Does that make me equally deserving...? ;-)

But Adkins can't 'man manage' subconscious human behaviour. Even God ****ed that one up.... ;-)

Austin, Danns, Stock, Owen, Skacel...

At least it'll give those of us who were wary of the cup being a distraction some thing to hark on about... ;-)

This will obviously be a severe test of whether the cup will distract the players too much. Here's hoping we don't see any players subconsciously over protecting themselves from 50/50 balls in the games leading up to this one. Human nature and all that...

Less of the sensible posts if you don't mind sir.

And it starts.... It's because people are human and humans are fickle. Quite simply really.

Adkins would have got his wish if Liverpool had won

Win win

Ha ha!

Home to manure

ITV in 5 mins

About thyme

I don't think we should 'try to win' the cup in the sense of making it the focus of our attention but if it happens as a natural by product of consolidating our position in the top 2 then, hey, why not win the damn thing...as long as it doesn't become a priority then there is every chance the positives will outweigh the negatives. (but let's not polarise the argument by saying there are ONLY positives or ONLY negatives of a prolonged cup run. It could work either for us or against us)