Micky

Probably the one area on the pitch that we really don't need to fret about too much.

Exactly..!

Tend to agree to a point. People tend to remember our rise back out of the lower leagues (which were two really good years, to be fair), but they forget the 3 years of decline that went before those years. As others have said as well, we'd be highly unlikely to find ourselves another benefactor with the vision of ML as well. Once you are relegated (and I think we have a very good chance of going down this season), you will find yourself in and amongst some very good clubs all vying to get to the promised land. Are we any better than the Sheffields, Villa, Leeds, Forest, Derby etc? Once you're in, there's no guarantees that you're coming out anytime soon.

JWP!

At Saints, or right across the Premiere League?

He'd ridden the first challenge and got beyond the man and was then fouled again. Had every right to be ****ed of with the ref, who got the free kick wrong but the booking right. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

If you offered me 38 points now I'd take it. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Terra, you're a loon. What you talking about? Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Thank you Mush, petty sensible yourself too. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

You have better eyesight than me then. I was sat one row from the back and didn't see nearly that amount, in fact i said on a thread elsewhere I would be surprised if there were 500, never mind 5k. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

The Bertram free kick was right in front of me and the ref got it horribly wrong. It should of been taken from where he marked the pitch for the wall. Ryan kicks off and gets booked, but I agree the ref was poor throughout. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

When a sugar daddy comes and buys us and we are winning the premiere league and champions league everything will be ok again and everybody will like the premiership then.

I was in the Kingsland Block 35, so quite a long way away from the Giroud tackle, but because of where he tackled from and then the way the ball went, it looked like a good tackle. Having seen replays on MOTD I'm still not sure but you win some you lose some. As for the yellow cards, well I think after Bertie kicked off about his free kick, the ref decided he was going to book as many as he could. Bertram was booked for dissent after arguing where the free kick should be taken from - but he was right, the referee got it wrong. I also didn't think the Lemina challenge should have been a booking, I think it was just a tackle in amongst some tasty play and he thought that was the only way to cull it. A foul maybe, but didn't think it was a booking. In terms of them fouling us - I didn't really see too much to get upset about - there may have been a couple of instances but in all they were well in control so didn't really need to kick us up in the air.

Reality. Couldn't agree more.

So shall we go into admin every time things get difficult, is that the master plan? It's good, I've not actually seen any other club in the entire football league do it, but hey ho - pathfinders us Saints.

This. We got a footballing lesson from a very good team, no disgrace in that. All over the pitch, their players are better than ours, simple as - they can afford that quality we cant. I didn't see any lack of effort from any of our players, we just weren't as good as them - simple. Bizarrely, if we had taken our chances (Ings, Bertie, Ings) the score would've gone 1 - 0, 1 - 1, 2 - 1, 2 - 2, 3 - 2, 3 - 3, but as I said - they had quality that we just didn't. For the warriors on here, from where I was sat - I didn't see one single fan having a go at anybody on the board - not one. I was going to severely berate the 30 odd thousand inside SMS but thought better of it. On the positive side though, I am happy to report though that there was some mild booing at the end of the match though. As Kingsbridge says - the next two are vital - anything less than 4 points (or 6 if we get 3 at Bournemouth) is not good enough in my opinion. Onward and upwards - support the Saints.

Wait until he leaves and we are blessed with a bog standard championship / league 1 replacement and you will be enlightened. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Could be quite decent in the championship. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Didn't look it either. I never saw anything like 5000 empty seats, in fact I'd be surprised if there were 500. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

So you missed a whole 30 seconds then....! Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

I was there today ally, at the final whistle some of our fans boo'd. Where's your balls mate, hung on the wall behind your keyboard? Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

I see, not really too sure why you would want to have all these social media platforms if you are high profile whilst being a little delicate to criticism. That said, his Twitter and Facebook appear to still be live so perhaps there is nothing innocuous about his IG account being closed. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

I'm not very good at this SM stuff but isn't this his twitting thing? Doesn't look like he's deleted it to me.... Take a look at Wesley Hoedt (@wesleyhoedt): https://twitter.com/wesleyhoedt?s=09 Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

The nerve jangling bits, Saints fans at the end.

Mr Steve Bruce is now available. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk