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Get there early and get a decent fry up... https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/best-restaurant-london-wembley-cafe-the-lounge-tripadvisor-ranking-vote-a8301066.html

Agree, I'd rather do a Newcastle, sign decent players, keep as many of the current squad as we can, appoint a decent manager, push straight back up. But we need Reed and co gone to do this, or we'll end up with crap signings and struggle. Building a team over a couple of seasons is risky, although I think Norwich will be stronger in their second season under Farke after he changed most of the team from the previous regime. I'd like to sit the whole squad down at the start of summer, and anyone who doesn't want to be here next season puts their hand up, and gets shipped off at the earliest opportunity. We need players up for the fight, not passengers earning their salary and contributing nothing. Sunderland still regret the Rodwell saga. I don't know who I want as manager yet though. Last summer I said Rodgers would be the perfect fit, no chance if (when) we go down.

While I could barely give a monkey's toss about the top 6 and their European exploits, I would however find City turning around a 3-0 deficit very funny. City are just the team that could do it too - especially with the fallibility of the Liverpool defence.

Back to a back 4 I guess. ----------------------McCarthy----------------------- Cedric--------Yoshida-----Hoedt-----------Bertrand ------------JWP-------Romeu-----Hojbjerg---------- ---------Long----------Austin-----Tadic-------------- SUBS: Forster, Bednarek, Pied/McQueen, Lemina/Davis, Boufal/Sims, Redmond/Carrillo, Gabbiadini Squeezy. Spirited point to get our hopes up... 1-1.

Going for a point by the look of it. Potentially sensible. Nick a One Nil and we'll be on cloud nine!

Let's say, hypothetically, we do stay up this season. Would it be a bigger Great Escape than the seasons where we had Merrington, Jones et al as our managers in the 90's? IMO yes, as we currently lack fight, don't have a player that can win games on his own, have tough fixtures remaining and are already looking cut adrift!

This will be interesting. Granted there's still time for someone to be a hero (I so want it to be Boufal), but who deserves the Saints player of the season award? Slim pickings I realise. Wasn't there a team that gave it to the fans? That'd probably be the best outcome after the shower of shyte that our season has been. Otherwise I'd guess it's between JWP, Hojbjerg, McCarthy or Austin. I'd give it to Hojbjerg for breaking through this season and not being as turd as the rest. Now, on to the Manager of the Season award...

Wow, this should be fun. Tomorrow Stoke play Arsenal, which is not going to help us either way - either Stoke miraculously pick up a point or 3 or Arsenal will gain more confidence by beating them, before hosting poor wounded Saints that have been battered 3-0 twice in successive Premier League games by relegation opposition. I don't think this will be pretty, but I hope for a more solid performance than today's first half. Starts for Long, Yoshida, JWP, Boufal, Romeu, and maybe even Davis? Desperate times call for desperate measures. I certainly want to see Yoshida in there, JWP too.

Absolutely embarrassing. I'm not following the second half. A grand coming my way courtesy of Ladbrokes then. Not a bad consolation prize as consolation prizes go but I'd still trade it all for Saints survival...

Utter ********. Must win game and we're getting creamed. I guess this is going to kill whatever hope the Hughes appointment gave us. Thanks very ****ing much Pellegrino. And Reed for appointing the charlatan in the first place.

If we go down, which I still think we are destined to do though I very much hope Hughes can work some kind of miracle, the players we want to ship out in the summer will become the ones we are left with after the better talent has been snapped up. If we stay up somehow, we need pretty major surgery. Certainly we would need a new spine of the team - GK, CB, AM, STR, and then look at upgrading the players we have. Whether we keep Bertrand and Lemina would be another situation that could arise, meaning they too would need to be replaced.

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.

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