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Hazard, on his game, would bring the weaknesses out of seasoned right backs - let a lone makeshift ones. What do you expect exactly? He wasn't at right back to offer an attacking threat for goodness sake, why are you even judging Yoshida on his lack of attacking threat? You do half come out with some waffle sometimes. We will not get a better player than Yoshida for the position he is in the squad.

Never understand these threads to be honest. Make a noise there if it's that bad, not on here to 0.00001% of the fan base.

Why would anyone expect us to roll over the bigger sides? They're better than us, we need them to have off days if we're to have a chance - and a lot of luck. Today, we had a hell of a lot of luck!

Ipswich would make easy work of that rabble.

Ref had totally lost that game, it was long gone. Should be sent into a darkened room for a week to watch all his cock ups for both sides. He didn't have a clue.

They are doable.

Why Davis? Why is he always the ''odd one out''? When in most cases, he's one of the first names on the teamsheet for every manager we've had. Top player, crucial in all we do. He starts every week if fit. Elia will just rotate with Long in the same way that Mane currently does. (Don't forget, Mane is gone now for 6 weeks - or after the next game)

I truly do not know what some people expect to see from Fraser. We're Southampton, he is as good as we will get here, and he is very good. But a good point in the sense that we limited them so well, defended in numbers, with organisation and we were incredibly disciplined from front to back. That's why we have such a good defensive record, and Fonte is such a linchpin in underlining everything we do back there. But Chelsea were clearly at another level, probably 2 or 3 levels above us - but that's to be expected, but we got the draw which is another point on the board. We could do Arsenal though...

Lol.

You know he wont, so well done for playing on that one. Such an annoying poster.

Making yourself look very foolish.

Been having a look myself. What is it with football fans and their inability to see past 2 or 3 quickfire results? They're being dragged into a relegation battle apparently, and they don't have the players in the trenches to avoid the drop if they get dragged in. I think most people on the outside with sane thinking can see that Everton will never be near relegation, just top 10 as usual. Not sure what they expect, they're in the same boat as us. That blasted glass ceeling...

Seriously, forget him! He offers nothing. Let' Hull Suffer his crapness.

I think the only link to us came from that fact that Koeman is dutch, and that they share the same agent. There was never anything more concrete than that! He's way out of our league if we're honest! He's a top international midfielder still at the prime years of his career.

Based on nothing apart from the fact that Koeman and Sneijder share the same agent...

Only a couple of million in it, actually.

It's not like you to post incorrect and misguided rubbish, is it?

Mane has definitely inherited the scapegoat coat, no doubt about it. Happened at a couple of home games, exactly the same as you had as well - moan moan, bloody mane....and it was wanyama....moan moan, keeps losing the ball...it was Clyne. I find it odd that anyone needs a scapegoat. If they play for Southampton they at least deserve support and he has, let's not forget, won us a couple of games this season. He's being portrayed as a complete villain, and whilst it's true he's having a bit of a bad time, he's no where near as bad as people are saying. Some way OTT comments. I love Tadic, rate him highly, but has he been much better in the last 3/4 games than Mane? Probably not, no. So why's he not coming in for the same level of vitriol?

It's easy to predict lots of bad results, as we're on a bad run. Whilst it's also easy to predict a load of good results when we've been winning. It rarely happens like that though, so I expect us to do a lot better than people expect in the next 4/5.

what, 3 or 4 dodgy games? Christ, give him a break! He's a natural leader, I noticed that in the first part of the season. I'm judging this lot on our most prolonged period of results - which was when we were winning, keep it tight etc. He was excellent, leading the back 4 and keeping the line as tight as anything. We had one of the best defensive records in European football, he was a major contributor to that - probably one of the main. The reactions based on the last 5 are nothing apart from a snapshot. It doesn't show the true story, it doesn't show their true form. It's silly to judge anyone at the moment as it's such a dysfunctional side due to suspensions and injuries and changes and form. He's more than good enough for Europa League football by the way, and is not holding us back in any way.

There are way too many of these OTT threads at the moment. Calm down. Stop looking for issues that aren't there and be grateful we have people like Fonte at the club. People have talked about replacing him for 3 seasons now. He's still there and is still leading the defence. Are none of our players allowed a ropy moment what so ever? Do we honestly expect all of the team to play at 100% every week for 40+ games? Impossibility, physically and mentally.

I didn't say he's expected to dominate midfield outright, but you'd expect to see by now - after 60 games - slightly more presence in that area. I like James, don't get me wrong, terrific talent and will only get better - but he doesn't quite influence enough for me just yet.

Wanyama did very similar for Shane Long against Leicester. In fact, we didn't look like scoring in that game, and Shane Long came on, stretched it and got 2 goals. It's not worth having someone on the bench and at the club earning so much money, in the hope that he may, just may....produce a through ball in a tight game, whilst producing very little else. I can't think of another game he's greatly influenced as a substitute. And in terms of starting games...those were generally non-events. His best game was his debut. Hull are having exactly the same issues.

What's the point? He doesn't want to be here, he never did want to be here. The last thing we need is a **** causing more issues on the training ground, which it's almost guaranteed he will. Let him go. Similar to Gaston - they were signed for big money, big expectations, excitement - but they were ****, pants, utter horrendous crap - they will not help us, ever. Forget them.

Typical response really. When he was injured last year it was always a case of...''if we had gaston, we'd....'' or when MP was freezing him out... .''we needed gaston today...'' The fact is that we've never needed him. He's never fitted here, or anywhere outside of Italy so far. He will have offered no more than Mayuka did yesterday, or Isgrove. We didn't need him when we were playing so well, so we certainly don't need him now.