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Yep. His head's gotta roll, whether we survive or not.

That's what really gets me. We were quite clearly warned what could happen when VD got injured and we had to scramble around for a free agent replacement. Then a year later we sold and didn't replace our best defender and player effectively leaving us in exactly the same risky position except our best remaining CB is a massively inferior player. And **** me sideways if that best remaining CB didn't get injured and is now banned. Willful negligence/incompetence.

The CB situation is a massive worry for this game. All 3 are green and Hoedt and Stephens dodgy at best. I'd be tempted to put Bertrand in the back 3 for some experience and organisation, and bring McQueen in at LB. Then it's the ultimate Hobson's choice of whether to go with Stephens or Hoedt to play alongside Bertrand and Bednarek. The fact we have 1 centre back at the club with a decent level of experience is a disgrace.

I've grasped it. I think it's sending us down.

Won't believe it until Whitey has confirmed.

No ridicule meant, so sorry on that account. Just seemed a tad amusing that someone would wait 11 years to take the plunge. Actually, I'd like to know if Romeu is banned or not as well. Is he?

You joined in 2007 and that was your first post

Boom! Interesting critique of the condition of our home stadium delivered hours after unlucky away draw.

Pellegrino obviously didn't rate him and that's about the surest sign he's a good player you're ever likely to get.

Don't post and drive (winky smiler ting)

Jesus Christ you are so relentless in your negativity. We can still do this FFS.

Looks alright to me. Certainly our best available CB for Tuesday.

Right. Forget the devastation of today and let's just pretend we got a streaky undeserved point. This now comes down to a 1 season game. Just go and win this - which we should if we play like we did today and last week, and in the first half against Chelsea. Our form is decent, we can do this.

Exactly the same today with Bertrand.

Positive spin. Genuinely like it, no doubt that's what Hughes will be saying. We can still do this but ****ing hell that is properly devastating today, it really is.

Emotion may come into play I suspect. Ultimately we have to look beyond today - as gutting as it was - and consider who the **** is responsible for keeping Pellegrino in a job for so ****ing long when it was so ****ing obvious that he was totally and uttterly ****ing out of his depth well before the end of the last calendar year. Hughes has shown that, given a reasonable amount of time a half decent manager would have kept us up. Now here we are biting our cuticles sat on a knife edge. Take a bow Les.

It really was. That was the last time I felt this devastated after a last nano-second equaliser. ****sake that and losing Yoshida for the Swansea game might have done us I think.

He is one exceptionally dodgy player.

We can still do this, but by christ that hurts. I want that pr!ck Reed sacked whether or not we stay up.

For C U N T I N G F U C K'S SAKE

We look comfortably better than at any time under that plank Pellegrino (except, ironically the home game against Everton but that was down them being in disarray). Convinced if we'd got rid of him even just 2 or 3 games earlier we'd have been fine. C'mon Saints lets do this.

Superb stream that. Cheers.

Not really. Would prefer Dunk, and Duffy for that matter, than any of our CB's. Murray would be a useful option and would much rather have him than that fella we bought for £19m who doesn't score goals, and lately doesn't even make it onto the bench.

Atlas Fury

Like I say, I'm no fan of his and neither would I get on any player's back, but I was watching the game in which he was instrumental in setting up the first goal, good skill to flick it over his man and pass it on. Generally he wasn't great but he wasn't atrocious which is what he was accused of being.