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Cork went into central defence? Failed to spot that one.

Most likely explanation. In a way I hope that's the reason and that it's not something affecting his attitude because the spark just wasn't there. His touch was indeed poor, which is unusual for him, even when he's not been at his best. He also missed an opportunity with an early free kick to put it high into the strong sunshine and give cap less Lloris a problem. Just didn't seem to be on his game today.

He's nowhere near ready for the PL. His decision making is poor. I trust that's down to lack of confidence and not lack of bravery. Much more experienced players let us down today.

Even with several out injured that game was there for the taking and we gifted it to them through crass defensive errors. Very disappointed with that. I have to live amongst the kn0bheads.

He wants to play for France no doubt. Agreeing that your club captain suggest publicly that you might not be averse to playing for England when the 5 years is up might just sow a seed of doubt in the France manager 's mind that he could lose him and lead to selection in a friendly. No harm done anyway. After all MS didn't say it.

'Twas a joke....obviously.

Not sure but Ryan Giggs switched from England to Wales because his dad was mean to his mum.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/adam-lallana-reckons-southampton-team-mate-2950291? A change of heart perhaps. Adam Lallana rooms with him and says he's interested.

He would score goals for them and the goals could cement a World Cup squad place at the expense of his main rival Andy Carroll. Cortese would drive a hard bargain but West Ham are desperate and RL is 32 in January. The ingredients are there for this to be a possibility. Why might he not go? Maybe RL is settled and really does want to finish at Saints. Does he want to get relegated after two seasons in the PL, maybe never to return. Above all, we don't have a replacement and any replacement would cost a premium in January.

Pleat has more kerb appeal.

Only saw it once on MoTD but the tackle for which MS got booked looked like a good hard challenge, the kind that used to be applauded. Was it a foul? Was it a yellow?

It's in the eye of the beholder.

Huddersfield Town.

Good prospect but would be very surprised if he's selected ahead of a fit Clyne.

They need Banega. So do we.

What I found different about yesterday's performance was how individual players drove at City. Rodrigues always runs with the ball and commits the opposition. Lallana did it a lot yesterday, as did the fullbacks, Chambers on the outside and Shaw both outside and cutting in. It was very effective and City was uncomfortable with it. I expected Pellegrini to get Toure to run at us second half rather than us running at him but it didn't happen.

Some took offence at a shirt behind some dry lining at Staplewood.

He had a good game and is another fine prospect from the academy. It wasn't a flawless performance. He failed to cut out the cross that led to their goal, though three other players failed as well. He needs to be careful about being caught out of position as he isn't the quickest. That could be down to lapses in concentration. Fonte had a word with him about it in the second half. Quite animated.

Osvaldo created the goal for himself but the move that put him through started with a tackle deep in our penalty box.

He's never let us down. Get off his back you winkles.

And Davis will want to do well against his old club.

We'll I was quite happy with a bottle of London Pride in the Saints end, something you can't get at St Mary's.

There's an edit function if you'd like to reconsider this one.

We're giving the youngsters a chance aren't we?

Mourinho saying the win down to going 442 and pressing us as we play from the back. They are not the first team to play 442 against us. If only it were that easy to counter our system they'd all be doing it. Having said that their substitutions improved them and our enforced substitutions didn't improve us. More about quality from the bench than tactics.