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And I have to keep reminding myself he cost the club a reported £15m and is probably on £50-£60k a week. His Agent must be asked if he can solve the Brexit problem and sort out world peace. He must be some sort of miracle negotiator!!

Have to agree with you on the last comment Elyonoussi was abysmal. Thought there may be a decent player in there somewhere trying to get out but last night, against weakened Championship opposition, he was rank. How on earth we 'tracked him for some time' (according to Less Reed) and shelled out £15m for a player who has contributed zilch since he has been here is beyond comprehension. Mind you playing with him and Shane Long in the same team is never likely to work well

Swap him for Harry Reed?

There is a cunning plan if there is an election and Labour win. Make Diane Abbot chief Brexit negotiator and allow her to blindside the EU with her grasp of figures and negotiating skills

Spot on with this. These three plus Lemina (when he tries), Bertrand and McCarthy/Gunn are above the current average but a fair bit below the standard we have enjoyed in the recent past.

Indeed I would have been embarrassed to own up to this claim of fame. Interesting listening to the Spurs v Utd commentary on the radio. Lloris was criticised for the Utd goal. Didnt see it so can't comment but Lloris has consistently been one of the top keepers in the Prem but now there is talk of Gazzaninga(?) being the better choice

I wonder how many people who criticise our 'keepers have ever played at a reasonable levels in that position? Criticising McCarthy for the Leicester goal is ridiculous. He would undoubtedly have been expecting a clean strike from their player at a relatively point blank range. As it was the player had an imperfect touch and it rebounded off his knee. Same with Long's goal. Their keeper did OK to get a touch. Nine times out of ten it would have been enough to stop the shot at that angle. Fortunately for us it diverted the attempt (which was probably going wide) into the net.

Anyone able to comment on the possibility that when Barr built the stadium, as well as preparing the foundations of some part of the stadium for expansion they also allowed for the introduction of safe standing. I think the latter is probably unlikely but you never know. However there seems to be a general move towards a limited introduction of safe standing. If so, anyone know what the additional ratio is of the seating to safe standing ratio is? I am sure I read somewhere it is in the region 1:1.6 but seems rather high. Still the possible capacity gain at SMS is a bit incidental atm I guess.

I would be concerned about playing them now. A season or so ago no problem but our squad is mediocre now and they have the wind in their sails,

We have a BIG problem with strikers Ings and Gallagher have ongoing injury problems, Austin is a busted flush, Long (apart from a short purple patch) has been consistently awful, Gabbi is off and Obefami has potential but not up to Premiership standard yet. All adds to the worry

Thanks for this How many fans did we have at the game?

Is Sam still injured?

Unfortunate fact of life, if we have to sell the 'talented' players and have to keep the dross ie Long, Mo, Hoedt, Austin etc we will be struggling next season in the Championship Our list of managers have been badly let down by the dreadful selection of new players to replace the long list of stars we have had to let go.

McCarthy must be off as he made a number of decent saves v Man City and has performed well since taking over from Forster Feel Gunn will be OK for us though

Was Ings injured?

We do need pace but our limitations in the creative dept means we often have to pump balls forward where we have absolute no presence in the air and the ball comes straight back. In my view we do need the option of a tall striker who is good in the air. Not saying Gallagher is the answer but is he long term injured?

I doubt many of us expected much from todays game but 1. We were basically mullered this season 6-1 and 3-1 by Man City whereas last year the team put in fairly reasonable performances to twice lose by effectively the last kick of the game, 2. If it wasn't for McCarthy, the woodwork and some poor finishing by City we could have easily conceded 6 or 7. 3. Our ball retention was abysmal. Only 23% possession 4. Who thought spending £15m on Elyounoussi would benefit the team? What a terrible buy!!! 5. Man City are a superb team. However the gap between them and us and them was frightening. They were so dominant. I could not see us dominating a game to such an extent if we were to play a League 2 side yet we have spent over £100m on our squad and apparently have the Prem's 8th highest wage bill. 6. Just hope Ralph H can arrange to dispense with the dead wood and bring in some decent replacements

Try the Multi Dock car park at West Quay or if you want to go closer to the stadium the Multi Deck in Ocean Village off Canute Road is handier

Anyone remember the same scoreline when we played Spurs in a FA Cup Replay back in the 80's? Recollect that Le Tizz scored for us in a 1-1 draw at WHL and think we were 2-0 up in the replay at the Dell. If my memory is correct Spurs pegged us back to 2-2 at 90 mins only for Ronnie Rosenthal to score a couple from range with Grobelaar later accused of match fixing

So following players are not involved today: Forster Cedric (injured?) Bertrand (injured) Ward Prowse Hoedt Ward Prowse Reed (Loan) Claisie (Loan) Davis Boufal (Loan) Gabbiadini Elyanoussi Gallagher (injured) Hesketh (Loan) Carillo (Loan) 15 players!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Going to be a completely different game today as compared to Arsenal Expect Huddersfield to be similar to Cardiff and we will need to defend a lot of high balls Two relatively poor sides exerting a lot of huff and puff. Hope our exertions (and skill) are better than theirs. Must avoid another bottom feeding defeat today!!

An enjoyable game for the neutral to enjoy. A good performance from a Saints fan performance if we had drawn or lost. A great performance for a LONG awaited win. Lets hope it is onward and upward from here. The only negative observation from yesterday's game was that we were fortunate to play Arsenal when they were short of defenders and it showed. That said they had formidable attacking options and we were able to cope with them reasonably well

Anyone know if the club has actually been able to shift any?