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Great performance from everyone . What a difference it makes to have the ball stick up front. Only criticism would be Hoedt's marking for the first goal, and Cedric's crossing in the first half. Lemina Mom by a nose from JWP. That looked like a team out there, and the way we kept the ball in the corners at the end to run the clock down was great.

If we go down, the squad we will be left with will be something like this : - Forster, McCarthy McQueen, Targett Bednarek, maybe Yoshida or Stephens Davis Hesketh, Sims Gallagher How does that compare to the backbone of the promotion squad ? We would stuggle to get mid table in the Championship. I know that the EPL now consists of 6 teams at the top, one or two teams that make a good start to the season and flirt with 7th and the rest. It's not good, but what are the alternatives. Add to that, the fact that there is nothing in the acadamy Gallagher

I was pleased when he siad in the interview afterwards that he should have hit it with his left foot instead. Long is forever hitting balls like that with his right instep and then looking suprised when the ball curls wide of the far post.

When a manager gets sacked, there seems to be a long delay whilst their legal teams agrees compensation with his old club. Even if MP gets sacked tomorrow, Silva will not be available for a while, as Watford would not pay much compensation if his is already back in employment. I think Silva will "take time to consider his options" which will mean scouting players for a few months until BFS gets the bullet at Goodison.

I was one of the first SISA committe members, and gave up a lot of drinking time to hand out leaflets outside the Dell. Initially we got a meeeting with the board, but that didn't really change much. The protests continued and at some point the board got worried eneough about the disconnect between the supporters and the club that they brought in McMenemy as DOF. However, I think that it was the Port Vale 3rd round FA Cup attendance that forced the change, not the protests themselves. At the moment it feels like everything needs an overhaul, the Academy and U23's are bare, and the first team squad is unbalanced. The 433 system set out in the five year plan is requires a forward who can hold the ball up and link play and a no 10 behind him. We have neither. The five year plan for now should be not to rely on the academy for now, but to concentrate resources on keeping the club in the premiership, so that the money is there to reboot the academy next season.

Sat back too much 2nd half. The lack of a trusted centre half on the bench cost us too, as we should have gone 3 at the back once Deeny came on. That would also have resulted in Davis being substituted and so he wouldn't have been on the pitch to give the ball away for the first Watford goal. If any pundit says "these things even themselves out" about the equaliser, I will fly back to England just too stalk and punch them. Great first half though.

On SFR sport the french previewed the game with a 10 minute montage of Mourinho going into gradual meltdown over the past few weeks and now they will have another clip to add to it before their game at Goodison, home of the dugout. I thought everyone played their part, although the centre backs need to stop letting team get one free header per game. Hoedt won everything, was composed in possesion but crucially, would row z it if required. Stephens had a much better game than at Wembley, perhaps he needs JWP in front of him like in the Arsenal game. McQueen had a good game, aside from that one run uo field in the first half , when he kept his head down so much he ended up surrounded by 5 red shirts. Mc Carthy looked more composed in goal, and actually came for a few crosses. On one of the podcasts earlier this season, a pundit said that we needed to get Tadic closer to whoever was up front, and after yesterday you can see his point. The whole attack was much better. Man of the match though was Hojdberg . He is the real leader in midfield that we need. He was everywhere, and put in loads of good tackles, even after a silly early boooking. Starting to remind me of a certain mr Williams from the 80's. . It will be interesting to see if any action is taken on Ashley Young, but I'm not holding my breath on that one, the PL's Review of Dangerous Play by Teams Outside the Big Six has a bit of previous .

Greaty defender, apart from the odd lapse in concentration and looks good because he can carry the ball out of defense well. Toby on the other hand reads the game better than any centre half I have ever seen, always in the right place. Toby also has a £25 million release cluase in his contract this summer, so £75 million for VVD is a great deal for Saints.

God knows why we ditched 5 at the back for a tough away game, clueless. At least the team kept going, unlike the fannys on here. PEH , Boufal and Targett were ok, Gabbi and Tadic were also up for it when they came on. Long was Long. The more touches he had on the run at Lloris, the less confident he got, and he really should be moving towards that Gabbi cross, not waiting for it. We need a 2nd choice right back Stephens is not up to it, and Managla on loan if VVD goes to city. Redmond needs to be sold, his attitude stinks at the moment, and that pass for the 4th goal was disgraceful. He could have knocked it either dside of the defender and attacked it, but passed it instead stright into Spur's counter attack zone.

For me, Davis and JWP should never start in the same team, as they are too lightweight and take too long on the ball to make a decision. Next time he plays, just count the number of touches that Davis takes, only to make a pass that was on in the first place. Our first choice midfield should be from PEH, Romeu and Lemina, with JWP playing if there is no-one else fit who can take corners. With Austin out for a while, we definitely need a striker in in January, but I can't think who ? Sturridge in PX for VVD ? We played OK after we scored, but sat back too deep, and narrow as the game wore on.

Personally, I thought the game went to plan for the most part, keep it tight, restrict them to long shots and try to hit them on the break. Austin would not have lasted 90 minutes having to cover the ground that Gabbi did, so bring him on for the last half hour. We had 3 good half chances, plus a few scrambles in their box, minfd you they had a fair few scrambles in our box too. Whatever genius came up with the idea of keepers showing the wall side of the goal at free-kick needs shooting . It is a terrible starting position, unless you are Lloris or De Gea.

The French commentators kept calling Redmond our most dangerous player, he was better than he has been, but still makes odd decisions. We really should have been 2 or 3 up in the first 10 minutes, if Charlie would watch the line a bit more. Also , once Betrand got on the end of that Tadic throughball, I thought that was in. Great team shape, very well organsied, just a shame that our wide defenders tuck in too much near the end of games. The same thing happened at Man City. That was one of the few times that Sanchez got a cross in the whole game.

Davis had plenty of space to turn in, but took the safe imediate options to play it backwards, which resulted in the fullbacks being caught high up the field when Bournemouth tachled Hoeth. JWP was doing the same on the right wing all 1st half, both players need to be braver. Phil Neville would be happy with them though, as they are consistent and don't give the ball away. Couldn't believe Nevilles rant about Boufal on MOTD2. He had an up and down game, and needs to learn quickly where not to make a sliding tackle, but we are so much more dangerous when he plays together with Bertand on the left. Thought we played ok, and created lots ogf chances, but we could have conceded more as well .

Boufal and Bertrand wer fantastic on the left and they should probalby be the first names on the team sheet now. Austin should have had a hat-trick with the crosses that were coming in today. MOM for me though was PEH fopr his strength, workrate, tackling and crucially, moving the ball q lot quicker than Romeu has been lately .

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Total days since the last time you weren't called a ****,

I've paid €24 to see Bordeaux v Marseille on Sunday, and as it was paired with the Rennes game, I paid another €3 to see that match. Unfortunately, Bordeaux are about as entertaining as we are at the moment. I've also bought tickets for the league cup final, which is in Bordeaux this season for €35. That is in more expensive seats than I normally choose becuase the ends have been allocated for the finallists. Fans in the UK are being robbed blind.

Watched the highlights, and Hesketh looked good, took both his goals well , and his movement also looked deecent . As for the comments about McCarthy, the 2nd goal was a screamer into the top corner and the 3rd was far post at a corner with Northampton sending their keeper up. Not his fault, should have been someone on the post.

Only saw a bit of the 2nd half, before the stream went and we didn't seem too bad, but I have seen the goal, which was soooo stopable. Close down the cross, and have the goalie move his ****ing feet. It will be interesting to see if we can play a Burnley style for the next few games against the big teams and pick up a point or two, but the coaching staff have no real alternative for an attacking formation, and the squad is too unblanced 2 strlkers need a target man to play off and we don't have one, we only have one number 10 in Boufall for a system that is built around that roll and we ****ed away 6 million on a centre half for the future ( would have been ok if he was the Polish Mark Wright).

It is standard practice to put a protective boot on, so it is no real indication of the severity of the injury. Fingers crossed though.

Thanks for that, very enjoyable and it will be on my Xmas list.

I use Sport Lemon most weeksusinf chrome and adblocker, but on Saturday, when I tried to restart the stream when it was buffering, every stream was blocked with a dangerous site message, the same with Firefox. I can get it to work by turning off the anti-phising settings but is this a new feature of firefox and chrome, or is it nore likely to be newer mallware on the streams ?

Streaming problems today, but we looked the more likely until Cedric slipped. At least we tried 2 up for while, and Boufal seemed lively.

I kept playing the Fifa Foootball Manager game for that era, just so I could sell Hughes and Ripley , no-one would buy Hirst no matter how many times you played it. Hughes for me is still the worst player ever to play a full season for Saints, a total mercenary who was too busy fouling his marker to bother to trap the ball. Palmer was already gone by then , otherwise I would have flogged him too!

Only saw the 2nd half. We were very good, pressed, and moved te ball quicker, the only real flaw was Tadic and Cedric kept winning corners, rather than beating the man near post. A lot more bodies in the box, which was good. If Romeu's effort from that corner had been scuffed more, Long would have had a tap in, although I have seen him miss tap ins before ...