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Another great save from Fraser. Burnley should be 3 pr 4 up here...

Need to string some passes together here.

Burnley are all over us now. Defence is shit. Thank fuck again for Forster.

This'll be a fairly dull draw. There I said it, ridicule me after the game. Would be nice to see Broja score. Hoping for some Perraud excitement, I like him. I still get a squeaky bum when I see Valery on the team sheet even though he's hardly let us down so far!

Hell no. 9th to 16th is anyones in this league this season and with, what, 2 million quid per place on offer that’s 14 million squid extra if we can string some late results together and finish 9th not to mention the extra cachet we’d have on players seeing us in the top half. 39 points is ok for now but I’m still hoping for 48-50 if we have turned our poor form around. Burnley can still do it even if we beat them tomorrow but sadly I don’t think Everton will go down now, Burnley will.

Article recently on BBC website that has him classed as “wonderkid” but perhaps premature. U21 international, English, probably not massively expensive yet, seems like the sort of deal we would do.

Relegated sides (most likely), Burnley, Watford, Norwich. CBA to do a new thread. Anyone realistic worth pursuing? Tarkowski on a free? Pope? McNeil? Pukki? Sarr?

That's the relegation battle sorted if Burnley don't do something in the next 20 mins. Then it's just up to us to join in late by slipping to 17th on the last day of the season. 😛😁 Seriously Burnley have been poor.... we should be able to beat them as we try to get to 40 points before the season is out.

Newcastle and Leeds will definitely be stronger next season, as will Everton if they survive. We absolutely need to sort this team out by signing some quality players or we will be in big trouble next season. I like Ralph but maybe in the summer it is time to make a change of manager and freshen stuff up. Vieira for example took a Palace team that were used to treading water under Hodgson (much like us) to a more attacking team that will probably finish top half.

Get home from lunch with parents, check score, 4 nil. Logging off and I'm going for a nap. Seems our seasonal goal fest is incoming.

Thought I'd stick this here. We're roughly mid-table for injuries this season. It's no surprise to see some relegation threatened teams have had the most injuries. Also Palace, Wolves and West Ham's squads have largely been untested, particularly Palace's who seem to have been able to keep their first XI largely intact.

I can't get onto Grand Old Team from my work computer (which has blocks) as it is now considered a malicious website. I've not had this trouble before last night so I wonder if it's been hacked! Toffeetalk will have to do then.

I'll take it, in fact more so because Newcastle would just buy their way out of the division and askew results for other teams, whereas I don't think Everton will have the financial clout without selling some stars. Always interesting to see a "big boy" go down because it makes next year's Championship even more interesting to see how they cope with life after relegation. Norwich, Watford and Burnley going down wouldn't be as intriguing.

At least one, if not two AMs IMO. It depends on how good the youth AMs have done this season but I haven't heard much about Watts or Ferry on loan. Smallbone I guess can play there but surgery is needed. For years we've had quantity but not quality in our AM positions so it's refreshing to hear we aim to amend that. Also we have 9 subs spaces next season with 5 able to be used, so a stronger squad will be important (it will also help us bed younger players into the first team if we actually happen to be winning games).

Definitely surprised at Redmond. Unless he's said he's not happy and wants to leave or unless we see him as a saleable player for money, for a club of our size he definitely is a squad asset and, though he can be infuriating, he's had a decent season when he's been fit. Theo is a no brainer and in no way will someone come in permanently for him unless they're stupidly rich and don't care about his wages, although perhaps a loan could be done. Moussa is weird, he seemed to start well but faded and is made of glass. There's a player in there but he's not the Mane we hoped he might be. That's three of our AMs going, leaving Stu, Tella, Moi and the youngsters. I assume we plan a squad overhaul in the summer. Hopefully this is a sign that the new owners might give us a teensy bit of room to spend.

This is still a strong Chelsea team but with Brentford smashing them they are definitely up for another beating. Most of their defence is off in the summer to Barcelona (apparently) so some of their heads may be in other places, and not to mention they are still in the Champions League against Madrid which may be on their minds too. That said their recent form before Brentford is actually quite good, so it could go either way. I'd take a draw to be honest but I don't see why, if we can try to capture our performances of 5/6 games ago, we can't get the 3 points. Strongest team again please - I think questions can only be asked of the striking positions - Adams and Armstrong for me. I'd like to see them play together as the season peters out.

We lost to Watford so it's them I hope stay up over Everton! I would love to see Everton go down. Tough that it means a West Ham win today but I'd take it.

Close long ranger from JWP

Until I see him wearing a Saints shirt on a novel unveiling video from the media team, I'm not getting my hopes up on Tete.

If Chelsea are anything like the Chelsea of old, not realising the talent they have at their disposal, they'll probably sell him in the summer. Mind you if they're 'cash strapped' they may want to hold on to the likes of Gallagher and Broja.

The assist to the assist.

Good to see we're getting the recruitment right for the future.

Ooh shot from KWP

Blimey just checked it - 5-4 down in the 91st minute and they won.

Stones injured in the warm up so White comes on. Another Saints link however tenuous