sandwichsaint

You can all put the bacofoil away for another year ......... but,but, but ........... the beeb hates Saints,

Bacofoil crazy! What is the preferred final? C/Sp, M/Sp, C/M? Obvs Saints will be weakest in the last 4 .... who do we play? How do you fix the winner of the other semi? Because the BEEB hate Saints (or something?)

Well deserved tho, terrific player. One that got away from the #blackbox.

Can't beat Swansea and Palace home, then unlikely to get much away at Newc or BHA. Shame, started well and seem to have a decent manager, hopefully we can limp above them.

Hudds look down one place to play for....

Totally in our own hands, we have to put points on the board, 'other results' won't keep us up. Beating West Ham and Swansea looks to be our escape route..... squeaky bum time.

Modern football, it's all about the ££££££££££££££££££££££££££s.

Can't wait to see him swish up to Staplewood, wind down the window, and tell Sky reporters he's joining 'a proper football club'.

'Interesting' weather forecast for Sunday, light snow showers in the SE, 'heavy snow showers' locally up the MI/M6 between about 09-00 and 11-00 Sunday morning. No threat to the game but not ideal at all.

Hughes: 1 keeps us up and he carries on next year 2 keeps us up, he takes the big bonus, and we go again next year with another new manager 3 go down and he is the man tasked with bringing us backup 4 go down, thanks for trying, here's your money, we are in the Championship with another new manager Who would a Les be, I bet he's got wet sheets tonight. I could get behind 2 but 1, 3 and 4 are pretty depressing. I would cut straight to Potter now.

Extraordinary weekend, one of the all-time classic Saints cluster-ups at Newcastle and we come out on the Monday evening better than when we went into the weekend!

Don't forget Brendan Rogers, he'd be a very realistic target, stepping up from CL football to the Championship would be a good step forward for him.

Bit harsh on Shroppie?

Something doesn't add up: either Gao has totally handed day to day control to Ralph/Les (why would you do that?) or Gao is quite happy to go down and thinks he can rinse his 200m through the Championship. #fishy

Pass the crack pipe, is there a manager in world football* that could get our unfit under-performing misfits 11 points in those 8 games? *a manager that would come to little old Southampton for a two month contract.

Give him a season in the Championship to get acclimatised and I reckon he could quite be useful in League 1.

Not really sleep walking though is it? More like hiding in plain sight. I called it last year after the B'mouth H game, 0-0 and going nowhere, I stood up in Block 36 and said we are going down, I was shouted down by a few, then added not this season you (expletives deleted), it's next season that we're nailed on for relegation. I just had a feeling last season that we had lost our mojo and that the black box seemed to have become a virus-laden curse since Mitchell left. Hate to say I told you so and I would never bet against Saints but fair play to those that got on at 25-1,12-1,6-1 etc.

Hopefully West Ham will be docked 10 points!

West Ham mustn't worry too much. it's their turn to look like world beaters next week.

very good.

Remember where you were when you read this, it might be quite some time till you see it again.

Bit nearer to the team people wanted now? PEH tick, 2 up front tick, Simms tick, JWP delivery to Carillo tick, pace(Long) tick, no Romeu tick. Probably it's all a bit too little too late now but a bit pointless people *****ing about Lemina who by all accounts had a shocking first half. Silk purse, sows ear.

68%possession according to 5Live but I haven't heard Carillo touch the ball yet. Have we had a shot?