Charlie Wayman

Three things cost us the game; We don't have a decent striker like Lukaku Players exhausted after 65 minutes, too soon after Wednesday night Bertrand told to be less aggressive in second half because of his caution for over enthusiastic play. Apart from that a thoroughly decent performance that deserved at least a point and maybe 3

Our biggest problem will be recovery from Wednesday evening when every player pretty much exhausted themselves physically and probably mentally. That was a game of huge intensity for our players, with the best will in the world trying to repeat that level of sustained effort on Saturday may be beyond most of our players especially he more experienced ones (i.e. older ones). We should certainly go with the same XI (arguably the best we've got bar Ings) just to make sure we don't give away anything silly in the first phase of play of about 20 minutes. We scored twice against them at SMS and were unlucky not to win so maybe just maybe we can get something. Thye've been on a good run of late but all things come to an end

Clutching at straws a bit Steve. Think back to Ricky Lamberts mobility and holding up abilities as well as his ability sin the box and you realise that Austin is so limited that it is amazing he ever made it to the PL. If people are grateful for small signs of improvement in Austin then it shows only how low our expectations of our strikers have sunk.

and the bloke walking around the touchline selling very dubious "cough sweets" and calling out "Cough no more for sixpence!" No that's what I call Half Time entertainment. Oh and we had the old lads of the brass band marching around out of step Those were the days eh lads?

He's a young lad on a very steep learning curve and needs a lot of guidance from the senior pros to become a complete player. Quite noticeable how Bertie was giving him a lot of advice last night. I thought Bertie was magnificent last night, tremendous leadership and commitment throughout. Perhaps the burden of being captain made it harder for him? Whatever there were clear signs last night that his was enjoying his football again and even more important was playing for the team. Hope this means he won't be off in the summer. if he stays fit and performs like this every week Southgate will have no option but to re-call him and Japa

Itchen was half empty. The official figure never acknowledges that many ST's stayed away

People can't handle the truth!

Damn nice weather so no excuse for not having a full house tonight. The most exciting part of the evening could be the team announcement, any XI from a fit XV?

Way past time in reality.

Very pessimistic about this one. There is no silver bullet in our squad. Whichever XI is put out tomorrow night we will still be plagued by stupid errors, panic under pressure and aimless tippy-tappy in the final third. No question Fulham will see this as one of their few big opportunities remaining to get a result in a late bid for survival. They will aim not to concede with nine behind the ball and try to pinch one on the break with long balls over the top to their CF, knowing full well our nigh on hopeless limitations in attack if we go one down. This is yet another of those "must win" 6 pointers and we know from bitter experience how well we do in those sort on matches. I fear 0-1, can't see better than 0-0. Neither result is good enough with Manure & Spuds next up. We cannot now rely on others to help us. If we don't get 3 points tomorrow and Cardiff win one of their next three it may be too late to avoid the drop. That's how important tomorrow's game is.

I hope you are right and he is being re-introduced gently. Expect to see him v Fulham, if not it will confirm that we have an egoist tozzer in charge who can only manage non entity "Yes" men and "do as your told" kids.

Clueless utter s****! No wonder we're going down. Good job Arsenal went to sleep after HT. A few question marks hovering over the Alps now.

Nah, it'll be Bednarek as he seems to be the only one who has an effing clue.

Please get Stephens and Ward Drose on the next train out of Waterloo. Bertie and Yosh on you moron!

I've not seen any other reports but kinda makes sense with the announcement of Obafemi's new contract. Town not big enough for two of them?

Wow! Like a new signing. Hope it's for at least 5 years.

He's history Nick. Nothing to see here officer.

The short answer is that probably he doesn't but realises that negativity on his part is not going to help matters one jot or tittle. Obviously the board didn't set out to stitch him up but incompetence in the transfer window has scgrewed him. Of course we should never have let experienced players go until the incomings situation was clarified but he may have been in part responsible for that himself such his predilection for having favourites and making up his mind too quickly about players. Now it has turned around and bitten him on the arse he must be wondering how to handle his career going forward with a PL relegation on his CV. He has a lot to learn as well as his players and I hope he is humble enough to accept that.

Same thing really

The BBC are world leaders at nepotism

What! You cannot be serious. Obviously you have never watched Obafemi over the years.

Poor show from you. No need for this sarcasm directed towards one of our ex-players who gave us some good service during his time here.

Mac that is not Crouch just to clarify as I was replying to the previous message.

Only ever saw him as 'hanger on' on the make.

The best guy we ever had at the top was Leon Crouch who was a real fan and put his own money in when we were skint. Nobody talks about him much anymore but boy could we do with somebody with his leadership now. "Ask not what Saints can do for me but what can I do for the Saints" should be the first question asked of any new owner.