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Get in Punch!!!!

I really cannot understand why our own fans slag him of so much. 21 years old and he is almost a seasoned pro already the ammount of time he has been around the 1st team. I for one am delighted he is signed up for another 6 years.

bloody get in!!!!

hurrah

surely Utd can only improve because they are playing like a team with nothing at stake.....Man City fans must be loving this!

this is brilliant watching Spurs implode

Pelle was sat with Rickie Lambert and Dan Harding this afternoon

For what it's worth i think this is the likely scenario. Koeman is an honest guy and would see out his last season with us unless he has a personal agreement with the club that he could go if the Barcelona job was offered. Now whether he signs an extension to his current contract or not depends on several things from his perspective. 1/ Has another BIG club shown an interest in him and muted they will take him at the end of next season knowing he will honour his current contract 2/ Are our board actually wanting to extend his contract....personally i hope so 3/ If the board are wanting to keep him are they prepared to back him even further (as much as Koeman wants) I think by the end of this summer the board will know exactly whats going on and whether RK is staying beyond next season or not. I fully expect they will be making plans for the next manager in then IF not already. Sometimes i don't think us fans give the board as much credit as it deserves.....the club is no longer run like some Mickey mouse outfit as we have previously experienced.

A couple of weeks ago i thought it was all over.....not now though, i think Leicester are going to get caught at the death!!!!

That Imbula is absolute carp.....thank god we did not buy him!

I'm not saying i wouldn't have Oxo back or Morgan if he was available.......but there is no way on gods green earth either would come back here. It would be seen as failure on their part to return and a step down....also the money they get paid means there is no way Saints would pay anything like it. I really don't think it is realistic to think ex Saints players would return here.....i know it has happened in the past but i'm not expecting either anytime soon.

we were bloody awful and i only watched the second half! Absolutely clueless, we created nothing. How the hell can you play 90 minutes of football and never look like scoring???......well Saints obviously know the trick to it!

well i guess some will be happy that Mane is benched. I really hope Pelle rams the criticism he gets firmly down the throats of those having a go at him...much like Yoshida did last week. Thats as strong a bench as i've seen for a long time...Mane, Austin and Tadic would be most managers first choice players.

I know VW is not flavour of the month with many on here and some are very quick to say we would be better off without him (and i'm first to admitt i have previously said the same myself)....however on his day he is a top enforcer that has had many opposition midfields running scared. To say we won't miss him is silly, he is a class enforcer....I like Romeu and hope he fills VW boots...without the sendings off!

I cannot believe the club are not going to appeal this....it was never a red card in first place!

this is going to be a long second half....badly need to change things around a bit

Pelle is short of match practise and thats why he looks awful.....yes we look poor with him in the team right now and its a gamble playing a player lacking match fitness but Austin hasnt got 90 minutes in him.

except for when they play us i really like Bournemouth, hope they stuff the crap down the road

I'm a grown man but i was close to crying when Austin scored.....i so hate United and their plastic fans who believe they have a divine right to beat everyone!

cracking goal Rooney

Man Utd really are very poor this season.....so far removed from what Utd have been used too

Koeman was at the midweek U21 game!....not sure how many so far he has attended but no doubt he was checking on Fraser and hoping there might be be an u**** diamond amongst the current crop of U21's. Now i'm as hard core Saints as it gets but i'm honest enough to see and say we do not have anyone who could make a difference to the first team. Young Harrison Read and Matt Target are the only ones that i would consider as possible first team squad players. We need to buy a quality striker because i honestly cannot see Seager or Gallagher making the step up and those shouting their names for them to play i can only assume have not seen them play and shout out of desperation. I cant believe that Koeman would delibaretly ignore the U21 setup but rather he has seen whats on offer at present and is honest enough to say the conveyor belt has stopped.....at this present time.

I watched the U21'S cup game against Chelsea mid week and there was not a single player apart from Harrison Reed that i would have near the first team. Chelsea youngsters completely outplayed them and we got very lucky with a huge ammount of help from our FIRST Team goalkeeper. RK was correct in what he said. The next batch are not up to it at present.

looks like we will be chearing on Eastleigh in the next round!!

one game i can totally relax about, not in the slightest bit interested in the Cup unless we reach the the last 8 then i will care if we win or not. The league is our priority and we have two massive home games coming up that we NEED TO WIN.