VectisSaint

No need to sacrifice a defender, just leave out Vestegaard.

Will Boruc be in goal?

Absolutely this. He is a **** if he is anything to do with Cummings and Johnson. Don't care where he was born.

We are actually in agreement mostly, it is the other posters on here who are scapegoating. Yes, you would consider it worse to give away the ball in a dangerous position for instance just outside the penalty area, but in practice we are conceding goals (and that's all that matters in the end in football) because we are giving it away when we are attacking and our defenders have (over) committed to support the attack. I wasn't going to respond to Shurlock comment but the bottom line is that it didn't actually cost us a goal. Vestegaard shouldn't More by luck than judgement. It's irrelevant to the argument, Vestegaard is not the one being scapegoated, if all things were equal he shouldn't even be on the pitch, total liability. In the end what I say is true, Romeu is being scapegoated, his errors are not costing us goals (as a generalisation, I'm sure someone will find an example where it did) ) whereas others who do cost us goals are not being criticised. Just because Redmond had an otherwise brilliant game does not get away from the fact that his sloppy lay off actually cost us the game. I want Romeu in the team, he is a far better player than Hojbjerg, for instance, but PEH is all action, balls out and so doesn't get criticised. Bottom line is that we really need big upgrade in MF next season, we are weak there both in terms of quality and quantity.

It's not a terrible argument at all. It shows that the giveaways were not in such critical positions otherwise Spurs would have scored. People are blaming Romeu for the number of goals conceded, yet there is no evidence that he is the cause of these goals, they are just scapegoating, and you agree on this. So often the goals we concede (or penalties) are down to our attacking MFs giving away the ball cheaply when we are committed to attacking. It's been the same for a few seasons now, Redmond, Boufal and Tadic serial offenders, but our CBs and DMs get the blame. I'm not actually convinced that Romeu gave the ball away in a dangerous position at all against Spurs, but then I haven't watched the whole game. I would still rather have him in the side over Hojbjerg who is a liability too often. But we have no options at the moment.

To be fair, 4 games without a goal was beginning to be a concern, but Ingsy put that right in the replay.

Redmond's sloppy, misplaced pass lead directly to the Spurs pen, far worse and more critical than any mistake OR made. We didn't concede from any of his mistakes (if there were any). Seems to me to be getting blamed for nothing. Scapegoat as already said. Rather have Oriol in the team any day rather than Hojbjerg.

Guess that's why we employed him. Good to keep him busy.

City v Wet Sham is off

Matt Crocker is DoFO, defo. Director of Football Operations. His role is 'to oversee the development of every aspect of its football operations, and develop every department that supports all of the club's teams.' Same job title as Ross Wilson had. Think Matt will be making the decisions, perhaps why some decisions have been put on the ba k burner until he started officially last week.

Cup tied?

No, the saintsfc.co.uk site no longer works. What they have done today is put a redirect on it so that the site comes up as southamptonfc.com. Its a bit weird to make a change like this and not tell anyone, as it turns out now visitors will get to the site as expected (the southamtonfc one) and 99% won't notice they are on a different site, but yesterday they had not set up the redirect, so that was a bit amateurish.

Sorry to disagree, but the penalty was not legit and should have been overturned by VAR. Son should have been yellow carded for the dive, he was already on his way down before Gunn got near him. Alli's killer pass may have lead directly to the chance for Son, but our undoing was a terrible misplaced pass by Redmond, another example to go with the many of us giving the ball away in an attacking position and putting ourselves under pressure. Redmond, Boufal and Tadic have all been guilty of this so many times in the past few seasons. We also weren't playing our reserves, and I'm not sure Spurs were either. The team we put out last night was the strongest available, with the exception of Gunn who we knew would play (and is not much of a downgrade on Macca anyway). Not sure who exactly Spurs could have played that didn't that were eligible for the game. Thought we played exceptionally well last night for upwards of 70 minutes - their second goal was the killer, if we hadn't conceded then I believe we would have gone on and won.

The architecture can have a massive impact.

4 games without a goal ?

He will be lonely ?

Isn't that because he joined as assistant to Rahdi, who has subsequently been moved sideways to the US. So now Horseman is Coach.

Not included in the current 'protocol' according to Dermot

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Ings, Bertrand, Boufal and Romeu are the top 4 left

To be fair, several teams have competed against them recently, they have not been at their best (I didn't see the Wham game so can't comment). Late winners or grinding out a result is Liverpool at the moment. Shrews even got a draw against their U11 Girls team.

Doesn't seem to have affected his attitude negatively for the last few months. He would still have been trying t o impress up to June if someone hadn't come in for him now, perhaps even more so. I don't think attitude is a factor at all. I think there is more to the KWP situation than currently bein said, reckon we have a deal for him in the Summer already sorted based on Ralph's comments in the Presser.

Exactly as expected when his appointment was announced.

Apparently he is not alone at Spurs, Gazzanigga on same. Mind you, its about double what Yan Valery is on. All according to this site, make of it what you will: https://www.spotrac.com/epl/tottenham-hotspur-f.c/payroll/

What came across is that there seems little doubt that we are developing KWP for the future at Saints. Sounds to me like we have already agreed a deal, but for some reason don't want to make it permanent until the Summer.