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It was a group of lads in shirts about 3 rows in front of us.

They do do it properly. The food is adequate standard, nothing more nothing less. The queues are what you'd expect from 10,000 all trying to be served in a 15 minute window. I really don't understand what people are expecting from food and drink inside a football stadium. I've never been in any football ground and expected culinary delights, its stodgy grub to fill a hole if you've come straight from work or having a day on the lash and I've never been to any pub or fast food outlet and expected to be served and finish what I've brought inside 15 minutes. I really don't know what more people expect.

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This. Its our best chance of a trophy so we need to take it seriously. Somewhere local for selfish reasons though.

There was also some Mongs singing that horrendous Yaya/Kolo Toure song with the hand movements as well about Kelvin and Steven Davis last night FFS.

Also why did some of our fans celebrate Barnsleys goal last night? Very odd, jumping around and dancing when their goal music came on, it was pretty embarrassing

But he's got no pace, doesnt run around load, cant tackle, doesn't show PASSION, couldn't fit into a 4-4-2 effectively. How do you expect him to be a success in England?

Comfortable win, miles better than Barnsley and a win was never really in doubt. Rodriguez was man of the match for me, lead the line very well and a great finish, think it was him who hit the post too. Great goal at the end from Ramirez, he played well In patches but again didnt really do enough against a poor team and should have buried his chance in the early minutes. I though Mayuka was poor in the first half but improved in the second. Rowe was lively when he came on and unlucky not score, Reid looked quality, good on the ball fitted in straight away and looks to have a bit about it. All in all a good night for saints, 5 goals and a good win and a good run out for the fringe players and a rare 90 minutes for Ramirez which was good to see.

I hope they'll be decent at Barnsley tonight, but the time I get there just before kick off I won't have eaten since 6pm so will be starving.

Yes mate, only lived there since March though.

Blimey, the dodgy pasty has really upset you hasn't it.

The Jam???

The ting tings

Why should someone who has never been to an away game, or fancies a trip to a big one, get priority over a fan that will be going to Hull on a tuesday night, for example?

How many away fans were there? Couple of thousand tops is suggest. You're not telling me that anywhere near half went and bought something. Far less people = quicker service. As I said I'm not quite sure what people are expecting from a football stadium catering. On the rare occasions I've had something its been adequate, not great not awful, the queues are as you'd expect from 10,000 gannets trying to stuff their faces. I'm not really sure why people expect anything more.

I dont really know what peoples expectations are to be honest. You're at a football ground surrounded by 30,000 people, many of which are greedy and overweight. I reckon at least a third of them will go down to the concourse at half time for a slash or to eat or drink. I'd like to see how many other businesses can cope with serving that many people AND give them time to drink and eat what they want in a 15 minute window. I'm surprised at the constant whinging that people dont have time to queue with all the other greedy f*ckers that cant go 45 minutes without eating and drinking and eat and drink whatever it is in that they want in that time frame. As for the standard of food and drink, again what exactly do you expect to get inside a football stadium? You're not going to get culinary delights are you! Seriously people need to get a grip, I really dont understand what people expect. Can people queue for a pint in a packed pub, get served and drink it within 15 minutes? Can people queue in a busy McDanalds, get served and eat their burger inside 15 minutes? I would say the answer to both would be no, so why should they expect it to be the case inside a football stadium with many many more people in it and not only that but expect top notch grub. It is what it is, junk food to fill a whole if you cant cope with not being able to watch a football match with your gut full of as many pies, burgers and choclate bars you can eat.

What on earth are you banging on about now? Just because you've made yourself look a bit of a din because i shared a first hand experience which has now been verified then a simple apology would do. "Share empathy" LMFAO!! What that a bloke ordering a pie at a football ground didn't get silver service and michelin standard food!!!

it's not an opinion though Les is it it's a fact, we haven't beaten a team in the bottom half at home since November and Pochetino never has in this country. In fact the only team in the bottom half he has beat home or away based on last seasons positionings is Reading, who had lost something like 5 in a row already when we played them. There is cleary a problem there somewhere. Maybe the new players can help address this but early signs against Sunderland suggest there is still a lot of work to be done. Still struggling to break down teams who come and defend deep and still suseptable to the long diagonal ball in behind.

newcastle also scored a couple of their goals against us this way. Sunderland wasn't different, their first clear chance came in virtually the first minute of the second half, another ball in behind for Ji to run onto luckily his finish ws powder puff otherwise we'd have had to aggresively chase the game even more and where would that have left us! Im confident too that with Wanyama and Lovern there we are better equipped to handle counter attacks and long balls but there is still work to be done, as was blindingly obvious from the saturday. As for your comment on how well we handled Stoke and West Ham compared to Swansea, remind me how many goals those two clubs scored against us compared to Swansea last season.

One of my favourite types of posts on mongboards is and entire post having a go at other posters for their post not being constructive, fantastic irony. Anyway, having set next to Johnny Bognor for all of last season I have witnessed first hand his outrage at the smaller than advertised crisps and tea, as per my post. Its a far more constructive post than the spiteful bile you've just posted, stop being so angry, if you can't handle Saintsweb there is always mums net.

Pochetino didn't beat a single team below 7th at home, Adkins beat 3 of the bottom 10 with the same players so its not even we can't handle being favourites. What it shows to me is that we can't handle teams that come to defend, we can't break them down and aren't strong enough defensively to not concede for 90 minutes and shut the back door, so to speak. Of course we've added Lovern and Wanyama to the squad to shore things up at the back and Osvaldo to help up top so this season its too quick to judge. Last season though we were undone by teams the played on the counter, look at QPR, awful but Redknapp out thought MP tactically, which worries me. MP seems a bit of a one trick pony. The worry is that QPR didn't do anything special, defended competently and a long ball into th channel between the full back and centre half and they scored twice that way, Newcatle beat us that way too, WBA beat us on the counter attack, plenty to work on there but we don't seem to learn from it. For all the back slapping as to how good we are Sunderland also had two very good chances in the second half which thy could easily have scored, again they came from balls In behind, are we learning? it seems not. Defend deep and well, get it forward quickly and there is a good chance you'll beat us. It seems a little bit too easy for a team that is meant to be so good.

De Ridder has pace, he's gone because he's sh*t. Teams can cope with sh*t players with pace. Good ones with pace, well there ain't many around.

Add this we only beat 3 of the bottom 10 at home last season, which is pretty poor considering home form is key for clubs like us. Still, is flimsy evidence from a so called journalist who is talking nonsense and doesn't know what he's on about. we're brilliant, end of.

What is concerning is our lack of goals, none from open play this season and I believe this is now only 5 from our last 8 premier league games.

I'm going down from Harrogate mate and will be paying on the gate, don't panic.