The Kraken

And I forgot that reality is beyond you. There we are.

What straw? You made the comment that we went AWOL for 2 weeks. I just find it amazing that our 0 men beat their 11 men, no matter how sh*te their 11 were.

Awful for the first goal. Just watched it again. His starting position is good just before the cross is good, he's central about 3 yards out. He sees the cross come in, stays there, and then suddenly retreats to his line and shouts "AWAY!" before seeing the ball get smashed past him. Total abdication of responsibility and a reluctance to claim a cross when it would have been a relatively simple clutch for any keeper worth his salt. Great shot stopper. Nowhere near good enough at commanding his area; let alone his six yard box.

How do you win a game by going AWOL? Its quite a talent to be able to do that.

After all this, you still don't understand it? It's not exactly complex mathematics.

Nice curtains Neil Message to self; Madchester has been and gone, hairstyles have moved on since. Still, compared to the nomark baldies flanking you, you have fine thatch. Just a shame it is so woefully coiffeured.

"The Watcher"'s little green online button is still on. He could be watching any of you..... Come on Neil, come out and say hi. Neil

Christ, you're not even joking. :lol: Being stalked online; feels a bit weird. Hi Neil!!!!!:toppa:

"The Watcher" has gone strangely quiet, since being pulled up on his nonsense. Still online though. Neil

Love the picture too!

Come on. Who are you really? No need to hide behind the faux-Saints identity.

It couldn't be. Could it?! One thing is certain, the awful writing style, grammar and spelling look familiar to your typical Neil Allen piece..

To be fair Dune, you could have probably got that from the end of his first post in this thread. "But the team would definiely be no worse off if Pardew was still in charge." Pards was really good for us but only an agenda-ridden idiot would come out with that statement with as much conviction as this pr*ck.

Can you spell irony?

So, this season, you're not advocating aiming for the playoffs instead of automatic promotion? Good to know.

Not sure why this thread had to be re-invented. But looking at the "80 points for second place" thread and reliving PokingFun make an arse of himself with basic maths made it worthwhile enough.

Quelle surprise, another "look at me" post from our obese Austrian doomsayer. Go and buy another pack of biscuits if that puts a smile on your face, and stop bringing everyone else down with your predictable, never-ending negagtivity and tedium

A header from 3 yards, from a cross that had to travel all the way from the touchline. Are you really suggesting a quality keeper cannot read the flight of the ball from that far out, step forward 3 paces and get his outstretched hands over the head of a striker? Even just to punch clear? If you're suggesting that is an unreasonable expectation of a keeper, then I feel you have massively low benchmarks for those between the sticks.

So the opposition fans said that we were robbed. Impartial football reporters said that we were robbed. Why are some of our own fans so completely precious about saying the same thing? Very odd behaviour, though admittedly predictable.

Another objective view from the Beeb: "Southampton face a nervous battle with the Hammers for the second automatic place. But Nigel Adkins' side can take huge credit for the way they played and if they perform like they did tonight in each of their final three games there will not be a team that can live with them."

Was the neutral BBC reporter a bad loser too, when he said that "Saints were robbed"?

BBC Sport's Nabil Hassan at St Mary's Stadium: "Reading move a step closer to promotion with a vital victory but Saints will certainly join them if they play like they they did tonight. Saints were robbed, but that won't matter one bit to Brian McDermott and his side."

He really hasn't. Last year? Yes. An absolute cut above, League 1 football was far beneath him, it looked ridiculously easy for him at times. This year, he's struggled at times to impose himself, and as much as I also like Jos I feel they still have some very shaky moments together. They're good for this level, and usually pretty consistent, but the Rolls Royce analogy is way, way over the top.

Nope, nothing at all. We did nothing going forwards. Good point.

Good performance from Saints. Undone by a team in form, high on confidence, and who know how to take their chances. Fonte had a mare, and we had one of those days in front of goal where we could have scored 5 but weren't nearly clinical enough. Gets a little tasty from here on in, but still got to believe, and would still prefer to be in our position than West Ham's.