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It was a gamble, we didn't have any option and we needed to win that game. Oxo has been nursing a hamstring injury which is why he didn't start, they were hoping to get around 20mins from him at the end, but he wasn't fit enough to play much tonight.

Because he was injured.

TBF they're both incapable of putting a long run together too. It's a mish mash of a league this year. The only team that have shown any real consistency is Brighton. The rest have been much of a muchness which does kind of indicate that it will go right down to the last few weeks.

ah may have been, something like that anyway. Loved him.

Are you Tony Bloom?

I miss him. "I sorry I ruined the party" is my favourite all-time t-shirt.

I've got no concerns about him. He's a good manager, he's going through his first real bad patch with us. Our form has been top 2 for most of his time with us until the last few weeks. It's made to look worse because of our bad start under Wilkins and Co

Oh well, my search for positives goes on.

ffs, this really is a stupid thread. It is totally premature and isn't worth even thinking about at the moment.

Because he was sad enough to part with his cash to do so.

I'd go with Chap in the Chapel's view. Just one of those games.

ah ok - didn't really know what tactics they deployed when he was brought on. Lots of lessons to be learned by the sounds of it. Was N'Guessan any good tonight btw?

TBF I don't think there was another sub he could have made for Morgan, It's not like it was planned and it probably changed the entire tactical game plan that they worked on over the last few days.

He didn't say, but I'm more worried about Morgan. Adkins said that it looks like a ''very serious'' knee injury.

Don't be silly! Automatic promotion is looking less likely, but we will not finish outside of the top 6. Not.A.Chance. How we do in the playoffs is down to the fate of the gods.

I think at the time it was the wrong decision to get rid of Pardew, but then again - we don't really know what happened, it may have been a situation that gave Cortese no choice and it's totally derailed our season. If we don't go up it's down to our start, not Adkins. If we performed over the course of the season as we have since Adkins has been ''in the building'', we would have been much closer to Brighton. I don't think the blame can be labelled at his door in total, some of it - yes...but not all of it.

+1. Then i'm off to ofcom to complain about Solents coverage.

Exactly, but looking at it another way it'll make it even more epic if we do manage it.

He said that if Guly and Forte had been available he wouldn't have been on the bench, but they weren't and they were also injured. Our squad is looking very stretched at the moment, who else could we have stuck on the bench instead of Oxo? At the end of the day he'd have been criticised for not selecting him as we lost, but then he's criticised for playing him because he's injured. One of those situations where the manager doesn't' win either way.

Didn't dominate? What game did you go to? All I heard from here was saints chance after chance.

I think there are a few OTT posts tonight, but it is a really poor result. There's no two ways about that. We needed to win tonight, as has been said - our poor start to the season has left us with pretty much no margin for error in the 2nd half (we have now lost as many games as we lost over the entire of last season). We've now put ourselves in a situation where we need to go to Brighton, Bournemouth and Charlton to win - a draw at some of these grounds would have been ok a few weeks ago - but after our last 2 away results, they now need to be wins. Hey, we might do it - and it'll be epic if we do, but the task is getting harder by the week and I honestly didn't see this season turning out like this.

Morgan sounds like he may have a serious knee injury according to Adkins. Confirmed that Chambo, Guly and Forte are also injured.

That's nothing to do with Saints Player though. They just offer the feed provided by Solent, it was BBC Solent that lost the link at Walsall - sometimes it's just one of those things, ****ty little grounds like that have awful connectivity at the best of times.

Agreed. Fix it already, or give us all refund.

Totally agree with this, as much as it pains me to say. Our form and consistency is very reminiscent of a playoff team. Who knows how the hell that will end though? Can't be arsed to go through that.