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Jeez......so predictable. get the ball and then always lay off to the wings and moves go nowehere. Acres of space in the middle but no always play to the wing.

my god, this is bad. yet another big miss from Pelle. Can't help thinking palace look more dangerous than us on the counter attack.

Elia has been very poor and Pelle no service (or real movement).

will we score again this season? So ponderous, slow and final ball is awful. Really poor and don't look like we will ever score again.

Agree...just appears to be a very disappointing end to a fantastic season. I really, really hope we just don't buy from the Eridvese though. Pelle and Tadic look a shadow of the players at the start of the season

RK has to take a lot of the blame for recent performances......Pelle should have been dropped ages ago, tactics last few games have been wrong and a genuine shot at top 4 appears to have evaporated last 4 games or so. Fantastic, unexpected season but we seem to be falling apart right at the end. Which, to be fair, while disappointing, should be expected as we just don't have the squad to cope. Hopefully next season we will regroup and continue our upward progress. Really don't see Elia being a permanent fixture and hopefully Tadic and Pelle come back stronger after a first season in the Prem. Remember SUarez did not look all that in his first season.

anyone but pelle....he has been a disgrace to the red and white stripes today. Deffo should not start mid-week

we have been so awful it is untrue. If Pelle start midweek something is seriously wrong with RK's decision making. Why play Mane out wide when he looked unstoppable through the middle? To accomodate the lump that is Pelle? Why?

truly abysmal............dont think we had single effort on target. no fluidity: ironic we have tons of pace but its being wasted right now. FOr the love of god please play 2/3 up top and just go for it. We have created nothing: Tadic has been abysmal, Pelle looks slow and off the pace and we are still trying to pass the ball into the net. Swansea showed how to play Saints and now everyone does the same and we have zero threat.

take tadic off at ht and bring on flip. tadic is not even worth a place on the bench at the moment

pelles body language is terrible and really offering nothing

omg....awful from tadic

reckon we need to change it up and go for it. playing 1 up front is useless: paricularly when it is pelle in his current (lack of) form

awful - again - with zero cutting edge. clyne has been bloody awful. plenty of time but pelle needs service and my god he needs a goal.

Disappointing but all teams struggle against sides that come for a point, like Swansea and WHU. We have no cutting edge at all and both Pelle and Tadic are mere shadows of the players at the start of the season. Since December, in truth, on the whole we have struggled to score and it's only mane that ever really looks like scoring. In a strange way Liverpool might suit us - they need to win games and won't/can't come to park the bus. We do need to be clinical though and we are anything but. Realistically it looks like we won't finish lower than 7th and that in itself would be an absolutely incredible achievement. And 17 goals conceded after 25 games? Incredible. Very disappointing tonight but we have 13 more games to make a mark. We are still effectively, with GD, 2 games ahead of both Liverpool and Spurs.

wow....can't believe some of the comments here (actually I can). Liverpool are still 3 points behind and if we win against WHU (which we need to be doing to maintain momentum) we will be 6 clear of Pool and 5 clear of Spurs. So Spurs then would have to win 2 and Liverpool get 2 wins and a draw whilst we lose every game just to get ahead of us. And the games are starting to run out. So long as we keep winning then we are in an unbelievable position: I think 7th is the lowest we will finish now which is extraordinary considering what the general perception was at the start of the season. It is very much in our hands.....win tomorrow and avoid defeats against Liverpool and Spurs and that means only 11 games left: and if both Spurs and Liverpool have to get 2 wins ahead of us that is a huge mountain to climb at this stage of the season.

I think Koeman seems like an honorable and trustworthy guy (unlike that snake in the grass Pochettino). TBH, I would love to see Koeman here longer than 3 years as this would enable us to potentially build something really special.

pelle has been terrible. May as well not have been on the pitch

Nail, head, on.....would have thought people would have learnt their lesson from the summer. Chances are we will end up with a better player than Cork and if/when Schneiderlin leaves sure we will get a quality replacement. Cork was a good squad player but realistically was not going to be the first name on the sheet any more.

Shurlock has it bang on IMO. We could play 5 strikers up front but if we don't give them a chance to score we have problems. Our defence, today aside, has been outstanding and that is why we are as high in the League as we are. Incredible how many chances we are converting as we are creating so little. That is the biggest concern right now: creatively we are completely flat and Tadic seems to have gone right off the boil. 3 points against Swansea would be great - but anyone who thinks bringing in a new striker will change anything is dreaming.

Nope, never.

http://babb.telegraph.co.uk/2015/01/matt-le-tissier-the-last-footballer-of-his-kind/ Great article and what a privilege to see his great goals. Absolutely loved him scoring the last ever goal at the Dell and yet another cracker. What a player - would be really interesting to see if he would have as much impact in todays team.

Would not be at all surprised to see JWP break into the England squad this season. He is a very special talent and is very underrated by many on here.

That's OK re. Crooks team of the week. For some reason, only known to himself, he thought Falcao was superb for Manure. The guy is the worst pundit in the history fo mankind. Even makes Townsend seem like he knows what he is doing.

Frank - yet again your 3rd grade writing resorts to insults. How on earth you can say Adkins was doing crap (Saints on a good run, just drew at Chelsea) is beyond belief. He was treated appallingly - if you cannot admit to that then there is something seriously wrong. We have moved on and have, IMO, the best manager for many, many years but at least credit Adkins with the fantastic role he played in our upwards curve.