Tommy Mulgrew

Does anyone know exactly how the managerial and coaching duties are split between Ronald, Erwin and Sammy? I'd be interested to know and would be grateful to anyone who can take the trouble to explain it. Thanks

I'd be really interested to hear from someone ITK precisely why this obviously talented creative player, who is capable of providing incisive passes to set-up scoring chances for our other players in a way that is sadly lacking from all our regular starters and subs except Mane, is considered by our coaching and managerial staff so surplus to our requirements that we are apparently ready and willing to end his contract and allow him to go back to south America. Anybody able to tell us why?

Bewildered is right!

hopeless; just like watching a pale imitation of Stoke or Wet Spam!

Interesting to read "Van Hanegem"'s comments on here; thanks for them. IMO, what we really need to strengthen our midfield when Morgan eventually goes is someone just like the real Van Hanegem, striding around St Mary's hammering the opposition and stroking the ball incisively forwards to our more attacking players.

According to Ron, ManUre has not made a "serious" bid for Morgan. I might have missed it but I think neither has Arsenal or any other club. Yet we seem to expect him to go on Wednesday. Does anyone know what the truth is?

Thnx for the suggestion of cricfree. I've tried it before and encountered a lot of buffering and unwanted interruptions. But, in the absence of alternatives, I'll try it again.

I usually watch away matches on Drakulastream, which has now been closed down. Anyone know of a good free stream for Sunday, please? Many thanks in anticipation.

Pelle was in Skrotal's pocket all match and hardly won a ball against the sole central defender (Lovren rarely helped his teammate in marking Pelle - he did not need to!). In contrast, Kevin Davies completely bossed ManUre's defence, even when he had three close markers for the lofted ball down the middle of the park in the recent FA Cup tie, and won almost all the balls played up to him. Pelle is jaded and without confidence; his attitude is sharp contrast to earlier in the season, when he scored regularly. If he gets a couple of goals his confidence will return. But will he be able to boss an entire defence the way Kevin Davies did for Bolton (and sometimes for us) and does for Preston? Perhaps a bit of Davies's aggression would help our Italian stallion.

"The pundits say if a player feels contact they have the right to go down, look at Kane today and many other games where it happens." Nobody 'has the right to go down'. It's cheating and wrong.

Yoshida MOTM for me. Fonte also good. Mane lively when he came on. Brenda got her tactics spot on and Ron did not; even our starting line-up selection was puzzling. The performance deserved nothing better than a defeat, unfortunately. We need to start scoring again otherwise our season will just fizzle out, like it did last year. The approach play is as clever as it always was but we're too shy of taking shots at goal. On a different subject, we seem to have several divers in our team now; I don't like it. It's unsporting and does us no favours. The dive for the first penalty appeal might well have influenced the ref not to give the second to us.

agreed

Forster dropped it too easily. Not all refs would have recognised the incident as a foul. I know Onouha was offside; that does not mean we did not get lucky. I have my opinion; you have yours. Both are equally as valid as each other.

I thought it was Clyne who raised his hand but never mind. The raised left hand was exactly the same thing as Forster did with his right hand: an instinctive movement by a Saints player just in front of the goal line in response to Austin touching the ball. The defender was too far away; Forster was in just the right position and knocked the ball over the bar. A great save. But less good was FF's calamitous faffing around and dropping the ball in the last minute of extra time. We certainly got lucky there, for a second time. I cannot remember a season in which we have had so much good fortune.

Great game today. Always looked threatening with his pace and running behind the line of defenders. Excellent finish under pressure for the three points. If he can avoid going down too easily when leant upon he will become one of our "legends" IMO. (Repeat from Mane thread)

Great game today. Always looked threatening with his pace and running behind the line of defenders. Excellent finish under pressure for the three points. If he can avoid going down too easily when leant upon he will become one of our "legends" IMO.

Agree with posts 377 and 379. Good luck Jack and thanks for everything you gave for us.

One shot on target in the first 88 minutes; two in the whole game. An opportunity missed. Chelsea, Citeh and Spurs all lose.

I mean 2:3 and they look like scoring again!

oh dear: 3-2

Park Drive in packets of three was popular among school-age youths (of my acquaintance at least) who could not afford a packet of ten or twenty. I think other things were also available in packets of three, too.

if you look at the article about the present top 20 EPL players, you will see we have four players in the list, one fifth of the total: Forster, Bertrand, Fonte and Tadic. Apologies if this is old news; I had not seen it before.

The pass from Stirling, from which SRL then scored, was just about the first time one of his teammates gave him the ball in a good position in or around the penalty area. Given a decent service, he will still score. The look on his face as he ran towards the supporters in the crowd was priceless and indicates how passionate he is about scoring for his boyhood club. I only wish he gets a few goals at Anfield instead of always in away games. If he does move in the January window, I reckon he could still be an asset to one of the struggling EPL teams.

Immense, disciplined performance; great team spirit. No Utd shots on goal! Superb tactics from Koeman, superbly executed by our players against a full-strength Utd side who simply did not know how to break us down. FF did not have a shot on goal to save and dealt with everything else satisfactorily. Clyne sound game, not as much of an attacking force as usual. Did not dominate against Shaw but rarely got beaten either. Fonte MOTM for me; did not put a foot wrong and dominated RVP. Toby good until he went off; hope the injury is not too serious but it did not look good. Gardos very sound except for a couple of dodgy back passes to FF. Bertrand had a quiet game and was all at sea against Valencia; like Clyne, not his usual attacking force. Wanyama steady and disciplined rock in the middle of the park. Schneiderlin tidied up as he usually does; missed out on a few 50:50 challenges as he usually does. Davies solid and workmanlike as usual; if he had more pace he would be more of a threat on goal. JWP had one of his better games in open play and set pieces. Elia looked lively and once he gets used to the physicality of the EPL will be great. Had the beating of Valencia but maybe did not do enough to protect Bertrand. Pelle put himself about but got no protection from the ref against the Utd shirtpullers and got a bit dispirited by his bad luck at times. Worked tirelessly until the end. Tadic gave us the creativity to break through the Utd defence. Took his goal well after setting up Pelle to hit the post. Back to his best. Reed more dynamic than Davies and added bite to our midfield control. Ref gave some strange decisions against Pelle and strangely did not see the shirt pulled up Pelle's back at each set-piece. Not a bad game; we've had a lot worse this season and no doubt will again. All in all a lesson in controlled defensive football. Great work Saints. Not as exciting to watch and Sydenham, Paine and big Ron but just as satisfying.

Post 254: "I'm going to call him Melia (one for the kids) and just pray (sorry MLG) that he is a better player." I hope he's quicker than Jimmy Melia, who was about the same speed as a certain Tommy Mulgrew!