SaintBobby

In a just and fair world, AL all day long. In the world in which wearing a Man United strip seems to automatically entitle you to represent your country, 50-50!

Very, very pleased with that. A slightly - but only slightly - shaky ten minutes after they scored, but we were truly superb. Good to see us score more than 2 in the league for 1st time this season. Shame about the sloppy goal - otherwise we would have broken our all time record for minutes played without conceding a goal at home in the league. Lallana was from a different planet today - surely his best ever Saints appearance? On the side topic of England, (a) surely he will play a good chunk of the friendlies (b) his prospects of being selected for Brazil must be edging towards 50-50? Happy, happy days!

Lambert: "No point in you screaming at him, boss...his cock is this big...."

Utterly brilliant thread. Controversial and challenging. Speaking for myself, I hope we finish in the top 4 too.

Brilliant thread. Just awesome. Let it flow....

yeah, total nightmare if that happens. let's hope they sign Schneiderlin and Lovren instead. Reckon we could get away with that?

I think we're doomed whatever we do. Wigan will stay up and we will come 18th.

It wasn't really their 2nd string...mainly squad or starting XI players. If we'd put in Osvaldo that would have been "a change"...but not really a 2nd string player. Sunderland pretty much fielded their best availbale team (given they ahd an injured goalkeeper and two players suspended)

Game over. Feeble effort overall.

My God. Adam Johnson is truly awful.

Should have started with Lallana and JWP.

Have we managed a shot on target yet?

Only caught a juddery replay, looked like a good-ish pen shout for the tackle on Davis rather than the initial one on Chamnbers.

Could have understood not fielding our absolute strongest side, but to field virtually none of our strongest side is annoying. Quite possibly squandered a chance of a great cup run.

Not really, no. They've made a lot of changes (seven?), but they are fielding a team of players who typically or often play in the Premiership. We have only 1 or 2 of our startng XI out there.

Price you pay for putting out the 2nd team. Disappointing.

Groan.

Anyone know who our 5 penalty takers would be? This is getting very dull....

I think your view on him has long since departed from any sort of objectivity. He's been one of the most involved and dangerous players on the pitch - it was a bad miss though.

Cork and Ramirez looking very good indeed (except the miss by Gaston)

We'd be winning this with our starting XI. Just saying.

Did Lambert travel or not? Or did they leave him at baggage reclaim?

At worst, we will sell him for, say, £8m? If it doesn't work out, such is life. When you're paying big salaries and transfer fees, you take some knocks. At worst, our "loss" on Ramirez - including wages - will be about £6m. But that assumes that his overall value to the team has been absolute zero. Even his biggest detractors won't claim this, he's scored a few goals and has actually been pretty good in a few games.

I guess it depends whether your goal is to get as high as possible (e.g. qualify for CL) or to actually win some silverware. There are trade-offs here (I think I'd rather stay up than do a Wigan tbh)....but I do gently lean to the "win a trophy" side of the fence.

Basically this. Basically the exact opposite of Morgan Schneiderlin. (who is consistently and truly wonderful....a 7 or 8 every match)