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Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.

It's not. He was benched for doing it when we played Liverpool at home last season, which was outside of the transfer window. It's just a journalist with not a lot to write about trying to fill some column inches based on no evidence whatsoever.

Good goal. Why is it that nobody in the Saints team is capable of doing that?

Same old same old from Saints. Better possession, better passing in the attacking third and the clearer chances so far, but no goals to show for it. We can only hope that the boys can muster up a better second half performance than we have been used to this season or it will be more dropped points today.

My biggest concern is fitness. It's absolutely shocking the way our players fade in the second half of games this season. Too many times have we seen a one-sided game from us in the first half only for the complete opposite to be true in the second. Something is seriously wrong with our fitness training regime IMO.

We absolutely had them on the ropes in the first half and should have been at least 3-0 up at HT. Not for the first time this season, the opposition manager makes a tactical change at half time and we failed to adapt ourselves. We ran out of steam in midfield but Ron decides to change the wide players instead of making the CM change that everybody could see we needed to make. Bad management again from Koeman. How many more goals are we going to concede down our right hand side this season? We desperately need a good quality RB to shore up the defence. That way we at least stand a half chance of getting some points when the attackers fluff their lines, like they have done all too often this season.

Of course it does. We capitulated in the second half and gave away two really sloppy goals having failed to score more than one when on top. In whatever version of reality you live, that deserves to lose.

Oh dear lord. Ramirez has been simply hopeless since he came on.

Who the f*ck was that last man who just stood by and watched Antonio go past him there?

Technically, no. What he should have said was every time he plays RB we concede from attacks down that side. It's not coincidence.

Jesus f*cking Christ Saints. How many times are you going to just surrender games from commanding positions this season? We were sooooo good in the 1st half, but we just fall off the cliff in the second these days. Clearly the Arsenal game was just a blip.

Gaston coming on

FFS. What a comedy goal. All that 1st half dominance counts for nothing if you can't stick the ball in the net. And to make matters worse, now we've got calaMayaty Yoshida at RB.

Silly yellow from Bertrand. Should never have let Antonio get in front of him as easily as that.

Collins is clearly injured and can't get the bench to acknowledge he needs subbing. We need to put pressure on him now.

Yep. I always get nervous when he gets too close to the oppo's penalty area, because you just know he will give it away and leave a big gap in the middle of the park for them to run into on the counter.

We really should be out of sight by now. It's poor finishing again that is costing us.

Yeah, me too. There's no way that ball was going in if it didn't hit Jenkinson. Whatever. A goal is a goal and it puts us in a good position so I don't really care.

Oooh, that was a decent effort from Davis.

Replay shows clearly it was an OG from Jenkinson.

Davis lucky not to get booked there. West Ham look pretty ragged. If we can score another one now while they are on the ropes I can't see them getting back into it.

Super stuff. what about that flick from Mane? Looks like the confidence is well and truly back.

You could be right. Going by the direction he was looking and the shape of the swing of his foot, it does look like he was trying to lay it across to the un-marked player to his left. Of course, he will never admit that though.

And here was me thinking that the December GOTM was a foregone conclusion after Saturday's game.

I said it at half time, after his dreadful miss towards the end of the half. I am happy to be proved an utter moron in this respect.