Manuel

I caught the end of that earlier. This bit disappointed me: Interviewer: - If you lose, will you resign as leader? JC: - I won't lose Interviewer: - But if you do, will you stand down as leader? JC: - I'm planning to win. Interviewer: - But what if you don't? JC: - I'm planning to win. Would it be so hard for him to say he hadn't made up his mind yet? I thought Corbyn was above 'not answering questions'.

Corbyn for me. Overall the better policies and the better politician. Needs to be stronger when being questioned though, when being shouted over...don't let yourself be bullied.

I think it matters more what the players want than what Reed wants.

I hope Paxman gives May as hard a time as Corbyn, continual interrupting and shouting. We'll see.

It's the same in the House of Commons. May answers no questions at QT, just repeats the same mantra over and over. It will be the same in this 'debate' tonight. The Andrew Neil interviews are probably the only ones worth watching.

Yeah. If we do get VVD back I wonder what we'll do with Stephens. Could we use him in the middle of the pitch alongside Romeu?

I don't think I could cope with that again.

Apparently Arsenal want Wenger out because they've just found out he's French.

I've always liked Wenger and think he'd be a good fit for us. He says he wants to continue and clubs will want him. If he's looking to stay in the UK why not us? I think the players would really get behind him. Could be just what we need.

Arsenal lose today, Wenger gets sacked and is announced Saints manager by Wednesday?

The last home game resigned me to the fact that we're probably better off with someone else. We looked at our best this season in the cup final, despite narrowly losing. If we played anywhere near like that for the remaining matches I'd be happy but we haven't. Puel hasn't been able to motivate them sufficiently for me. Probably the players are as much to blame, but there it is. Lacklustre.

Well no shots on target, if I remember rightly.

Yeah we were saying that all game, again.

Anyone seen any footage of Redmond hitting the bar when the goalie got out of position? Our only chance in the 1st half as I remember and can't see anything online.

Yeah we thought that too. Also nice seeing the kids lap of honour before 2nd half and the Stoke support clapping them too.

Many of our players seem below average at the moment so I'm putting a lot of it down to style of play.

The only positive I took from the game is that Romeo was very good all over the pitch again.

Yeah but it was a proud hour and a half watching us play better than them, even if it did turn sour at the end.

Out playing Man U at Wembley, being generally better than them in most areas of the pitch.

I wondered if VVD has had anything to do with pressure on Puel. Total conjecture but listening to some of VVDs interviews when he was playing, I got the impression he wasn't very impressed. Could it be VVD will only commit to Saints if Puel's not part of the picture? Could it be enough to tip Puel out?

Yep, it's impressive and the club should be proud. This season not as good as some of the previous ones but still we're easily safe and above most. To be honest it's who owns us is more a pressing issue than who manages us next season.

Tight first half, make it happen in the second. We're gonna explode! And we need to get Austin on.

He deserves a discount.

Why was Rodgers sacked?

Hate the fact Fellaini is on. Lots of crosses to defend today then.