VectisSaint

Playing almost the same team as he started with last week (Boufal for Sims).FFS anyone who thinks rotation is anything to do with today's performance really is a bit lacking in grey matter.

We could (but won't) but our second choice keeper is out injured and no-one gives enough of a **** to ask about him and when he might return.

Yoshida. Fonte will be elsewhere.

Nope, Davis for JWP. Hopefully Boufal for Redmond as well, but doubt it, seems like Redmond has a contract to play even when he is crap.

Is 1992 nearly 40? Guess you didn't go to the ZDS then. JPT was at Wembley as well, doesn't that count?

Cold and foggy? It was certainly cold, it was blowing a blizzard at times, don't recall any fog, just lots of snow, especially on the trip up. I was the nominated driver, four of us up there after work (from Bracknell). Stood in the open corner of Elland Road, what a **** hole. Great night though. Pity about the final. PS Anyone else still having problems with spaces when entering text on this forum (Chrome on PC)

Derry. Santa Cruz wasn't a stopover. The team changed flights completely there. They had taken a commercial flight from Brazil to Santa Cruz because the charter operators did not have authority for flights from Brazil to Colombia according to the Anac. Apparently same plane used last week for the Argentine national team.

I think maybe you are a bit confused. Cedric is the shorter Portuguese defender. Cuco isn't.

He was. Made several very important interceptions and tackles.His defensive positioning also leaves Cuco for dead.

Morgan turned 22 in our Championship promotion season. jwp has had a couple of very good games recently. If he can maintain that for a dozen or so more and learn to score he will prove to be a good midfield pl squad player, a Milner if you like.

Williams and Lukaku were booked, though I must have missed both.

Meant to say I'm sure one announcement put Josh Sims off, it was so loud.

**** me the new PA IS LOUD, TOO ****ING LOUD. Still at least we can now hear Kenzie. Sorry if the music at hakf time was appropriate to someone local, but it was awful. Please can we have Muse back.

Nearly Christmas, the time of year when Saints traditionally go on a very poor run. Lets hope we can buck the trend this year. Not overly confident though. 1-0.

Is he even the 3rd keeper? Rested for the game in Prague (guess sitting on the bench for years is more tiring than you would think). No mention I've seen or heard about when Alex McCarthy will be fit again.

Liverpool have asked us to develop him on their behalf.

Its not. We did it with Stephens and Turnbull, at least, at Swindon.

They played CL at Wembley but are talking about ditching Wembley.if they drop into EL.

Quite clear that it is not just a case of resting him. You don't just leave your captain out of all EL matches for the sake of resting him. There is something behind this other than just squad rotation.

Take it back,they are out on head-to-head rule

They can still qualify. They probably won't but they are not out yet. Playing at Wembley has cost them.

Although it wasn't technically true. Bertrand's early effort was on target, deflected off a defender, but would probably have gone in or at least produced a save.

Shame this has focused on our relative position vs Pompey. The position won't change between us for many many years. The interesting point is that we have recently overhauled former European Champions, Nottm Forest, and our next target is former European semi-finalists, Derby County. This table won't change much (in terms of positions) from season to season, but we could overhaul Derby in the next year or so. Our home average currently is about 1800 more than theirs, and the difference between us in the table stands at 45. It would be nice to see us in the Top 20, and given all the years when we were restricted by the small size of The Dell this will be some achievement.

Mane still had 2 yeasr left on his contract. We didn't have to sell, and likely we would have got more for him in the 2017 summer window. He was swayed by Klopp who had tried to buy him before, but to continue with this line that we had to sell and that we got the best we could for him is silly. Heisenberg is a troll (like others on here who are complaining about him) but in this case he really isn't too wrong.

So Wijnaldum and Sturridge instead. Not much of a break really. Sturridge likes scoring against us.