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on current form it is us who are more likely to get relegated rather than Bournemouth who play with great belief, whereas we have completely lost ours!

I've never thought we were in any danger of being dragged into a relegation battle but as the loses start to build up confidence goes and the players become more nervous. Koeman is quite right to recognise we are very close to being dragged into a relegation scrap.....too good???.....i bet Chelsea fans never thought their multi million pound team would be 1 point off a relagation place just before Xmas.

Anyone that watched the Leicester v Chelsea game would have seen that something was not right. Eden Hazzard last year almost unplayable at times could not wait to get off the pitch.....injured my arse....there was nothing in the tackle or the way he landed that would have caused a player to leave the field injured. If i'm still playing at 51 and getting wacked from challenges and playing on then i'm bloody certain a young Premiership player can get up and carry on playing from a light hearted nudge!!!!........Mourinho lost the players with his bizzare behaviour i have absolutely no doubt....in my opinion he only lasted this long because of what he has previously achieved.

WTF, has our manager completely lost his mind. That is either a stroke of genius or he is a complete moron.....

utterly and totally ashamed tonight

must admitt i am not confident about tonight.....the last home game against Stoke is a very bad recent memory that i just cannot shift. Too many players looked disinterested and again on Saturday we were dire for the first 20/25 minutes and City could and should have been out of sight. Start like that again tonight and the game will be all over by the 25 minute mark!

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if you do a search on him you will find we were not the only club he conned. In fact the list is very long and for some of the clubs he joined he was their highest earner!......he seems to have completely dropped off the radar now.

hurrah Pelle scores nice goal

He knew what was coming his way but he doesn't care. The F.A. cannot hurt him financially, the bloke has more money than he could ever spend, he couldn't give a toss. I really hope he gets a lengthy touchline ban.

Now **** off you smug git. What goes around comes around, hahahahaha

I'm expecting a Chelski backlash tomorrow.....unless the Chelski players are no longer playing for their manager!

As the name implies....I follow Barcelona and always have done since i was a kid. Massive reason being my heritage, father was an avid Real Madrid fan so i had to follow his arch rivals....lol. Saints will always be my first love but Barca are a close second.

Manager chooses alot of the youngsters tonight and we get knocked out he is accussed of not taking the competition seriously by some.......manager chooses to take the competition seriously by naming a very strong squad and he is accussed of blocking the youngsters progress......Jesus who would be a manager????......Personally i'm pleased as punch we have named a strong line up.

really pleased we appear to be taking this seriously and so we should. I'm sure tonights approach has been very much influenced by our European exit. No excuses tonight for not progressing.

thats Shaw out of Sunday then!

I must admit that i was mighty ****ed of by both Saints abject start to the season and Wanyamas **** poor antics. Do i blame Wanyama for our Euro exit? In part yes, his antics almost certainly hurt the preperation of the second leg......but the 11 on the pitch were more than capable of getting a result. What i have to face is the fact that hardly any of our players if indeed any play for "the club". They play for us because we offered them employment at more than they were previously earning. This kissing the badge stuff makes me sick. Not one of them gives a **** when a bigger pay packet comes knocking. I would almost not have a problem with this if the players were honest. How many of our current squad do people think really play for "our club" and not the pay packet??? Historically i will say Matt Le Tiss and Frannie bleed red and white, of the current crop Kelvin Davies.....and at a stretch Ward

Mane looked happy enough arriving and as Saint Charlie said...we have a chance when he's playing. Cannot express how angry i feel about the Wanyama situation......does anyone actually believe he is ill??

I'm not sure what else he could say really......"we are relegation contenders now, our season is over, the managers heart is not really in it anymore and half the team want to leave because they want to be multi millionaires within 2 years".....believe me i'm as ****ed off as most at the terrible start we have had and my confidence as a fan is rock bottom.....but believe me i expect our highly paid team of muppets to at least talk the talk and give us fans some belief that things will change....I live in hope, which is a bit more than i did Thursday evening!

if Wanyama and mane want to go then **** these mercenaries and get rid......i'm sick to death of these pathetic, vastly overpaid prima donas. Oh and so much for the fabled black box that picks out certain qualities.....it's bloody hopeless at spotting spoilt brats!

the way we are playing at the moment Portsmouth is the last team i would want to face!

been at work all day which is normally a bummer on a Sunday but then i came home had a look at this thread and wanted to go back to work!

good if true...http://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/transfer-news/southampton-win-transfer-race-virgil-6302516

The most concerning points for me are the lack of leaders on the pitch....I look around and i can't see anyone. Koeman, to me looks disinterested......has he had enough of having to rebuild.....how much did the Toby debacle do to Koeman losing heart. At this present time we are weaker....alot weaker than we were last season. I have been baffled by his team selections thus far. Nothing against Yoshi, thought he did alright but we were crying out for an attacking wing back like Soares???....and why the hell is Juanmi not given a chance ahead of Long...he had a great pre-season. Yup i know it is early days....but i cannot help being very concerned.

I rarely agree with Alps....but on this point i totally do