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Agree with this. Gabbiadini and 3 attacking midfielders for me. Yoshida back in too if fully fit for Stephens. Austin to come on and hit the winner with twenty minutes remaining! McCarthy Cedric Yoshida Hoedt Bertrand Hojbjerg Lemina Redmond (right) Boufal(10) Tadic (left) Gabbiadini Subs: Forster, Stephens, Romeu, JWP, Sims, Austin, Carrillo (or McQueen for another defensive option)

It's got to be Danny Mountain on there surely! Though you'd need a lot of rock to carve from if you intend to be incredibly detailed... Kids, don't Google him...

I'm a member but have only managed one game against my customer number this season so I doubt I'll get a ticket. Annoying because I was at the Fulham game but I didn't buy the ticket!

Guaranteed 3 points in the league over Chelsea please, which would take the pressure off more "winnable" games such as West Ham, Bournemouth, Swansea, Everton and even Leicester. We need ten points for survival IMO, so 3 from Chelsea means we'd only need two wins and a draw from the other 7 games. Then get to the summer with safety behind us, and hope Les either ****s off, or has learned from his mistakes. However I have reassessed a former opinion - I'd rather win the cup and get relegated than stay up and not win it, not that that's what is being asked here...

My wife's brother's wedding that weekend for me. I'm stuffed if it's on Saturday (I wouldn't even get to watch it!) but it's possible I could sneak away early on the Sunday. I'm not holding my breath...

Very entertaining match, I was screaming at the telly - I watched it 2 hours later "as live" as I had been working, and I was doing my best to avoid anything that showed me the score! Yes we were pants in the first half, we simply looked nervous as hell after the Newcastle result, but the half time team talk must have been good because we came out a better team. Fair play Mr Hughes, he also made decent changes. In the end but for their keeper we could have won 4 or 5 nil. Long was very good when he came on and did more in his cameo than Carrillo did all game. Gabbiadini was unlucky not to score, but as he's been used so little under Pellegrino he's probably rusty. Good to see Yoshida on the bench, I'd be slotting him in alongside Hoedt for the West Ham game if he's fully fit as Stephens didn't have the best of games. Well done to Cedric and Hojbjerg for their first goals too. Bring on Chelsea.

I hadn’t seen much of him before today but he was a headless chicken with no connection with Gabs. Long showed more in his cameo than Carrillo did all game, and Gabbiadini’s movement was very good. Personally I’d drop Carrillo for the rest of the season, and either play Long and Gabbiadini together, or have Gabbiadini up top with Sims playing off him. Need Chaz back soon.

Ok maybe not 4-4-2, but I hope to see 2 up front for starters, Chaz and Gabz when Chaz is fit, but for me Gabbiadini needs to play. Draws won't keep us up, we need to attack and at least try to win games against West Ham, Swansea, Leicester, Everton and Bournemouth. Against Chelsea, Arsenal and City, any extra points we get are a bonus. I can see us getting 7 more points. Will it be enough?

We could have Sir Alex as our manager but it wouldn't matter as we're most likely going down anyway IMO, but Hughes on a short term wouldn't be the worst appointment in the world. Reassess things in the summer based on which division we're in. Imagine Hughes keeping us up instead of Stoke... Whoever we do bring in will have confidence we can survive - stressful 2 months otherwise! I hope the rearranged Swansea game is in the final week to give the new gaffer a chance to get his methods across and give us a better chance of winning it.

Realistically (which rules out managers we might have been looking to employ a couple of years ago as we're no longer at that level) from the bookies odds I'd rather have either Silva or Bilic. However I have an unnerving feeling it'll be Hughes.

Rodgers would have been the perfect appointment for us in the summer Koeman left IMO - a good coach, an eye for a transfer and somewhat of a big name - and Celtic have a few good players he could potentially have brought with him. I don't think we have any chance now, even if we stay up this season. He'll stay at Celtic or move on to bigger things. The person I like most on that list aside from Rodgers, Mancini or Koeman (who I think are unobtainable) is Bilic. I think he got a crappy hand from West Ham at a club where the owners are worse than ours. He's not particularly characteristic but he'd do a job. The only other name I'd want on that list is Silva - even though he took Hull down, he comes across as the person on that list that could immediately come in and get us firing. Redknapp can do one. I'd prefer O'Neill to O'Neill quite frankly. (That's Martin over Michael - Michael would give Davis a 5 year contract!)

Months too late. Reed out. Silva in please, or anyone that can build a decent team for our Championship promotion season.

There’s only one South Coast team I’d support that’s not Southampton FC, and that’s whatever the Phoenix club would be that rises from the ashes once money grabbing bastards have destroyed us. AFC Southampton or some such thing. But let’s hope it never comes to that.

[TABLE=class: table] [TR] [TH=class: is-mobile]1 [/TH] [TD=class: is-mobile]Alex McCarthy [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH=class: is-mobile]2 [/TH] [TD=class: is-mobile]Yan Valery [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH=class: is-mobile]3 [/TH] [TD=class: is-mobile]Sam McQueen [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH=class: is-mobile]4 [/TH] [TD=class: is-mobile]Jack Stephens [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH=class: is-mobile, width: 45]5 [/TH] [TD=class: is-mobile]Alfie Jones © [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH=class: is-mobile, width: 45]6 [/TH] [TD=class: is-mobile]Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH=class: is-mobile, width: 45]7 [/TH] [TD=class: is-mobile]Nathan Tella [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH=class: is-mobile, width: 45]8 [/TH] [TD=class: is-mobile]Callum Slattery [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH=class: is-mobile, width: 45]9 [/TH] [TD=class: is-mobile]Michael Obafemi [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH=class: is-mobile, width: 45]10 [/TH] [TD=class: is-mobile]Jake Hesketh [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH=class: is-mobile, width: 45]11 [/TH] [TD=class: is-mobile]Josh Sims [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Build for next season. Unless by some miracle we've sacked Pellegrino and have someone decent in charge. Stoke and Newcastle were winnable games and we have one solitary point from them. I'm not expecting anything from West Ham, and by then it will be too late. Yes the players have been largely crap this season but I lay the blame at Pellegrino's door. He's utterly clueless. Worst manager in my time of supporting Saints. If we do stay up this season, it will be a miracle and it will be purely down to the crapness of WBA/Stoke/Palace/West Ham, and I would call it the luckiest event Saints have ever experienced. Not gonna happen though.

FFS. Plus side is, my first born is due in June and the Thousand quid I stand to gain from Pellegrino’s ineptitude will help a lot. Relegation battle and this is what we get.

Every game I try and get my hopes up, every game I end up more disappointed. This. Yes, a win against Newcastle would be a huge result, but I was saying this last week before the Stoke game, and before the Burnley draw and before the Palace defeat etc etc We deserve to be where we are because we can't even beat the crap teams, WBA aside. I'd love us to beat Newcastle, and I'd love us to beat West Ham even more, but winning twice in a row? With Pellegrino as manager and only 5 wins all season? Nah, ain't happening. I would take 4 points from the next two if you offered it. Games are running out, and draws aren't going to save us.

Tonight was a relief but it shows we can't keep relying on other teams to shape our destiny this season, especially with Brighton all but guaranteeing their safety yesterday against the mighty, sorry shytey, Arsenal. Our fate is still in our own hands, we just need Pellegrino to gain some sort of tactical nous in the next 48 hours to have a fighting chance. From the bottom up, my guess: - WBA are down. If they survive now then that's the biggest Boing they'll have ever experienced. - Stoke have enough defensively IMO to scrape their way to safety. Whether they have enough in attack is another issue. - Palace's defeat tonight will hurt them more than help them. Yes they were 2 up against United at home, but to then lose 3-2 will deflate them. And still no Zaha. They have attacking personnel but lack defensive reinforcements, although that youngster looked very good tonight, Aaron whoeveritwas. - We can't buy a win, our home form is atrocious, but it might be our saving grace that we play more away now. Huge week coming, 5 points from the three games (incl. Stoke) would be a start. Any less and we're destined for the drop IMO. Beat both Newcastle and West Ham? Well that's dream land, and would set us up for safety. - Newcastle are a bit hit and miss. Beat us and they'll be fine IMO, and with Benitez in charge they should be beating us tactically. Lose to us and they'll be close to the drop come the final day. Draw? Meh. I'd only take it if you guaranteed me a West Ham win. - Huddersfield have showed character this season, seem to have a decent manager and have a couple of decent players. But will inexperience cost them? - West Ham are, I think in real trouble. Short of defensive reinforcements, and with tough fixtures to come. - Swansea and above will be safe IMO. Swansea have showed enough under Carvahal with some good attacking displays, Bournemouth on 33 points will be fine under their resent resurgence, and Everton under Sam will plonk their way to enough points for mid-table obscurity, although that won't be enough for Everton fans. Brighton are long gone - I think they spent wisely in the last two windows (if not further back). I think Stoke, Newcastle and Huddersfield will be safe. I believe it'll be West Ham, Palace and Us or West Ham for the drop. The West Ham game is now insanely massive. They'll fancy their chances against us IMO - is Carroll fit? Yes just checked. Well that's a bit of a relief. It's definitely shaping up to be a "last day of the season" relegation battle. Which of course, for us, is a City-sized problem. Even on the beach wearing flip flops they could beat us. If we do survive, do we celebrate it? Do the players whoop and cheer? It doesn't feel like something worth celebrating really...

Ok we’re down.

This game is far from over but I agree watching our immediate rivals picking up wins recently is painful when we can’t buy one. Writing’s on the wall.

It was purely tongue in cheek, a play on the fact we'll be set up exactly as we have on our drawing/losing run. I did just watch the highlights though on MOTD. If we continue to play as we did in the second half we have half a chance, however I feel it's still too little too late. If you offered me a draw against Newcastle and a win against West Ham this week, I'd bite your hand off. West Ham will be slipping towards the relegation zone IMO, I don't think they have any fit centre backs left!

I'm going with radical changes in formation. Desperate times, desperate measures. McCarthy Stephens Hoedt Bertrand JWP Hojbjerg Lemina Sims Boufal Carillo Gabbiadini In a 3-3-2-2 formation offering no width at all, Bertrand in a left-centre back position and us punting it up to Carillo and hoping others feed off the scraps. Well at least I'm thinking about changing things, Pellegrino will stick to his philosophy and we will lose. Or at best draw.

Smacks of when I did Computing GCSE with Mr Williams as teacher. He was completely useless, far too nice and had no authority because he was a bit weird. (He used to clean his ears out with a finger in class and wipe the wax on his cheek.) In the end a pupil stole his keys and locked him in a cupboard in his classroom, two lessons with different age ranges came and went with him banging on the door to be let out, before someone reported it to another teacher. Then one day, a kid in my class got beaten up in front of him, suffered an asthma attack and went to hospital. That was the day the headmaster started sitting in on his lessons to maintain order. He wasn't back the following term, and I failed computing GCSE.

2 huge points dropped. Now need 6 points from next 2 games...

A draw no good today, this is our most winnable game remaining. Win or bust today. Need to see an attacking line up similar to the WBA game.

That was my first ever Saints game, the 3-1 defeat to Reading with Souness storming in the pitch at the final whistle after two sendings off. (Slater and Benali?) I remember wrapping up well but I was so pleased to finally see my team live, I don't remember the cold. The coldest I remember is the Norwich game in the JPT, we drew 2-2 last minute and won on penalties, the year we won it.