Charlie Wayman

Talk about jammy bastards! How did we get away with that? Tonight, I'm over the moon, tomorrow I'll worry about how our "defence" can possibly stop top PL teams scoring by the bucket load next year.

Do us a favour! Man U third team playing in a competition that SAF has never heard of and doesn't give a **** about. Nobody in England is the least bit interested in winning it - just adds more mayhem to the fixture list. Stll ManC * ManU fulfilled their statutory obligations to the FA and UEFA.

Jus showes wot pour edication weve got in this yuosless ****ry innit...

Pity you lot know nothing about football then.

Good result but a frustrating afternoon for fans. Cork made the difference. He and Morgan are a class act together, instinctively knocking the ball back and forth knowing where each other will be. Even Guly blossomed and became part of it then. If only we could get service to Tadanari Lee he'd score buckets load of goals but long balls into the box is not what he does as amply demonstrated by his world class run that led to our second goal. It's likely Lallana will get MotM but let's face it he couldn't miss either goal that was set up for him. At least he made some amends for screwing up three equally easy missed opportunities on Tuesday. Morgan was our outstanding player today by a country mile. he reminds more and more of Pires in his pomp

What's so suprising? Morgan was a class act when he came here - under-21 French international when France was winning things - and he gets better and better. OK I've been a fan since he arrived as first and foremost he gets the ball down and passes almost magically. No other player has such confidence on the ball - maybe Hoover - and you can see now that everyone is looking to get the ball to Morgan asap. For sure he'll play for France for many years once we or he is in the PL. For now, watch, admire and pray that he will be content enough to stay here. As our friends from somewhere up north sang a few weeks ago, "You're so southern, you're practically French" Maybe that's enough for Morgan.

It wouldn't be so bad if Billy Sharp, Sharp, Sharp was any effing good, god, good but he ain't, ain't, ain't and looks to be another perfect shoe-in for a Effing headless chicken, chicken, chicken. Where do we find these Division 3 hot-shoes that other big clubs seem unable to discover? Premier League, you're having a laugh, laugh, laugh!

I'm not worried about Reading, they have become a very good team and hard to beat. They'll likely win the league if they keep going like this. What worries me is that we are slipping down into the play-off mixer and we can't win promotion that way because the play-off final is always dour, rugged, physical, long ball scrapping which we don't do and can't do. Imagine having to play Birmingham or Middlesborough at Wembley on TV. Oh ****!

Well needless to say I do not agree with Dave Merrington and all those other self-deluders who think this result doesn't matter, of course it effing matters. We have to win every game now to be in with a shout of automatic promotion and as Dave himself would say "the last thing we want to do now is drop points at home"! Two dismal performances on the trot at a time when Hammers & Reading are winning everything with apparent ease is just totally unacceptable. We simply cannot rely on them to screw up just to save us and who really believes the Pompey points will be scrapped. If we are relying on such sender hopes we are up the effing creek good and proper. As Adkins is so fond fond of saying, "two games every week - but it's the same for everyone" and it IS! Why then were so many of our players knackered at HT? Frankly most of our guys played stinkers and Adam Lallana should hold his head in shame for missing sitters when it was easier to score than not. I don't buy Adam walks on water malarky, he should have come off at HT but Adkins is scared to touch him as usual. Taking Lee off was a travesty of mismanagement when he was by far our best player. If I were Adkins, I'd be feeling very uncomfortable this morning and keeping my head down at Staplewood waiting nervously for a phone-cal from the boss. Try brushing this one off with a smile and a self-deceiving "we'll look at it in the morning, analyse it, see what positives we can take; then draw a blue line under this game and then WE move on" Bull****! Cortese looked like thunder at the final whistle so he must be raking over options in his head in the smae way that Abramovich does

Probably explains everything, the depressurisation and foul atmosphere inside the plane are well known debilitating effects of flying. Nobody feels the same getting off a plane than when they got on, fact. What an incredibly stupid arrangement; the idiot who dreamed this up needs his Rrse setting on fire! Surely we are rich enough to drive up on Thursday and stay in a decent hotel with practice pitches for a couple of nights and a real chance of acclimatising. Get it sorted you plonkers!

Yes but they didn't stay up there long did they

Talk about injustice! Poor old Leeds, should have been out of site by HT. Let's face it we were **** poor and they played us off the park. What happened to our mid-field? It wasn't just Punch & Chappers who were knackered from ko and our defending was little short of a disgrace. How the toddling Fs are we going to win anything playing like this. Hope we wake up in time for Tuesday. Thanks Kelvin!

Nonsense! Of course you can. Quality is absolute and price should have everything to do with it. Ricky is worth nothing to anybody else 'cos he ain't going anywhere. As for Carroll... Pards is no effing fool is he, if the long-haired geordie bean-pole had been worth £35m Pards would not have let him go in the first place. Think about it.

Pearce was here the other day, probably eying "Adz" Lallana but maybe Ricky too

Ricky Lambert is loved here by everyone - end of story

A very pleasant surprise. Let's hope this new surge of confidence will carry us through to the end of the season. All we have to do is keep winning and the rest is academic, how many points, who will challenge hardest etc. Please, just for once Saints win a meaningful trophy in style. The last three times we got promoted to Division 1 & 2 we ended up being second... First would be very nice for once! Next, we have to overcome that TV jinx.

Wonderful result. I missed the game to make an appointment in the City. What a bummer of a call that was! "Can we not win this league, Sam?"

You'll need to provide an explanation of this terminology for readers to make any sense of your post. No doubt it is intended to be offensive to those who do not share whatever view it is that you think you have but are unable to convey to the rest of us.

Pathetic thread. Sycophantic tosh! I expected more of you of all people. Brown Nose Day already? The bloke's in it for your money whichever way it's dressed up to look appealing. He'd sell you down the river just like anybody else given the right circumstances. I happen to respect the bloke for what he's achieved quietly behind the scenes but don't believe all the rhetorical bulls*it that emanates from the PR department and "no" i don't spend twenty minutes before each game craning my neck to see if "the great man" has deigned to be in his seat, as many idiots seem to want to do. I couldn't give a **** whether he turns up or not as long as our club keeps going forward.

This season will be remembered by me more for being messed about by TV schedules than the football. I've missed 5 already and this one is bound to be another as Friday is off limits for me so like others on here what is the point of paying for a ST when a quarter of the home matches are played at hopelessly inconvenient times. If we do go up it'll be even worse next year so brace yourselves.

The power of the internet! Trouble is how could you hope to prove he said what it is claimed he said? CPS could not take action on the "say-so" of individuals or even groups of fans. Impossible retrospectively, only hope is to record him saying something similar on at least one phone next time he's there. Mind you Stewards and Old Bill could keep a beady eye on him once they know who the suspect is so report it.

Tuesday night, away, freezing and 7.45pm ko? This ain't where we do our best stuff is it. Allardyce's ugly bastards will make sure we don't get a chance to play passing football in the naive way that Burnley did and no doubt will make sure that at least a couple of our guys get clobbered, with Lallana, Lambert * Hoover being top targets. This will be an ugly game and a draw will be a good result.

Excellent win and performance and about time too. We should have scored 5 and upped the ante on goal diference. Sat 3.00pm ko has to be a relevant factor, let's face it our bodies work with the daylight and at 7.45pm most of us are knackered and ready for a bit of shut eye no matter what time you get up and how little you do all day. Footballers are no different to you or me. It can't just apply to just Saints 'though, it must be true for all clubs so the early successful teams become the poor sods who get spotified by Sky and handicapped as a result. This may explain why mid table sides often make a late and succesful run to the play-offs as they get no attention from the media until right at the end?

As far as I remember back when we always seem to end up with red & white - just a co-incidence?

Chappers isn't match fit yet so will not start as that tends to be the high intensity part of a match at SMS when top sides come at us straight out of the blocks. Since De Ridder is knackered and Guly never gets his anti-freeze warm in this climate it's got to be Puncheon to start and Chappers on at 65min. Lee for Sharp or Sharp for Lee. I think I'd start with Lee after his display on Tuesday and bring Sharp on later. Surprised that you think Hoover will start as it seems doubtful to me that he'll be ready. Maybe Jaidi should get a start? For me; Davis, Butterfield-Jaidi-Fonte-Fox, Puncheon-Schneiderlin-Cork-Lallana, Lee-Lambert subs; GK-Richardson-Chaplow-Hammond-Sharp