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Poor old Yoshi has had a shocker - on a positive not Caulker has been solid since replacing the ©.

Indeed, but you can put their third down to JWP turning it over.

Apart from Mane we don't look to be posing any attacking threat though.

He's a future England captain according to many.

Long has to be replaced.

Along with Wanyama, Clasie looked our best player - it's out wide on the counter we are being mullered.

Clasie the really good thing to come out of the first half.

Long right off the pace - the sting goes out of our attack without Mane.

My take on Mane is that his brilliant, quite unique skills would take a lot of replacing, even if some Club like Man U coughed up 40k plus pounds. I see his role and value at Saints equal to that of Suarez when at Liverpool and even Bale when at Spurs. I can't think of an attacking player in the Prem I'd swap him for......Hazard, Stirling, Martial, Aguero, Benteke, Vardy, Kane? No thanks. I know he will go eventually, but I'd like the Club to dig in and keep him for as long as possible, including an extension of contract, because when he goes, even for big money, it will leave a big gap in our style and efficiency.

Inspector Gadget would have not been able to reach the Willian goal; it was freakishly placed and unstoppable.

If you judge purely on form and performance, and trust what you see rather than just rely on statistics, FF should have a battle on his hands to regain his spot when fit.

Could be a dead man drowning, in Swan Lake.

Yes, in a way, Sam's hoof ball style took the pressure of our mid-field (none of whom played badly) and allowed us to marvel at VVD's command of the high ball.

He really has been. Davo and JWP much better 2nd half

There's a bit of prima donna in Pelle.

Clasie very good today and better second half from Ward Prowse.

Mane could have three by now with more luck.

I've been busting to say the game has passed him by but you run the risk of being labelled a JWP hater.

But with the line up we have today, Mane has to create and do so much - along with Tadic.

He is playing quite well - so is Clasie.

Like a lot of Saints' signings these days seems a genuinely good lad.

Sums it up. Vic's still playing well but he hasn't got the class help around him he used to have.

This game's gone from being embarrassingly one sided to embarrassingly one sided.

Davo = goal machine.

Hope you are right. They did create plenty of chances on Wednesday night v L'pool. I think Sadio will get amongst their defence and create plenty of mayhem.