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Really top class effort by all the team...and Ralph did his homework and despite my misgivings, Obefemi was great and Adams was a competent foil. MOTM for me was Armstrong...absolutely bossed the midfield and showed himself to be a real playmaker. JWP had one of his better games. Hojberg is still making some poor errors. Don’t let anyone say Chelsea were poor other than to also say Saints made them look poor. Fine result and for once the Christmas period is looking to be one we can celebrate.

Oh boy, this place sucks sometimes. Anyway, back to the business of wishing all Saints fans Merry Christmas and healthy New Year. May we be blessed with a few more points over the festive season, a couple of great signings in January and a stronger league position come May.

Fixed it for you. Fact is, over the last 2-3 seasons I do go to games with little hope that we will win. Contrast that to the side that came up from the Championship as an example and I would most often think we had a chance of winning, even against the top sides. Much prefer to be optimistic, but the results and our league position don’t lie unfortunately.

Completely agree with this...pity is, home support is getting worse nearly every game unless we’re 3 goals up. Chelsea were very good against Spurs, so I can’t see us getting anything from the game. Lucky draw might be within our grasp, but it’s an outside chance.

Got it right today and a great result. But Villa were no where near their best and so I’m not getting super excited just yet. Let’s keep things in perspective. Two losses and we’re back in the RZ.

What the f? We're 2 up. Watch us spunk it away.

Where would we be without Ings? Villa have been poor.

Ralph, if he’s to stay, needs much better coaching staff alongside him. Clear decline since Rohl left.

That would be an amazing signing. Not happening at €10m let alone €10!

Utterly clueless all over the park. This team, Manager, Board and owner are taking us down.

I’ve not heard him get abuse at games? Terrible if so.

yeah, but you get a really great match day scarf to insulate your arse from the stone cold plastic seat you’ve paid £65 to sit in. Not all bad eh?

Not sure what you’re basing this on. I don’t see him anticipating passes to him or making telling passes to his teammates. He just seems to be quite lost at the moment with no discernible improvement to his positioning or attempts on goal. That can’t be right for a striker.

When we’re in the Championship, he’ll be great....maybe. If he scores more than 1 goal this season I’ll apologise for getting it wrong, but as much as I would love him to ‘come good’ he’s shown nothing to suggest he’ll do anything other than run around a lot. He’s just not good enough.

Another loss at home on the cards. We might take the lead, but there’s every chance we’ll capitulate in the end. We’ve beaten the two teams worse than us...just...the remainder will not fall quite so easy. 0-2 West Ham.

Yes, I have written him off. Not just because of the lack of goals, but due to the lack of mobility, the lack of a strikers instinct, the lack of dribbling skill, the lack of a passing game, the lack of any semblance of a footballing brain befitting of the Prem. He’s just not good enough and a waste of how many millions?

Cedric not at the races, but I suspect he is being put in the shop window to create funds in Jan. Add 10% to the games of Redmond, Long, Hojberg, JWP, Stephens and Bednarek and we might not be losing these games. Too damn complacent after scoring one goal.

We’ll be hard pressed to buy someone of Longs experience and Obafemi is not as good as Long, or at least not yet...he is still unproven IMO.

I think Crocker will be a positive, but it’s only a small part in the jigsaw. The key is to keep hold of excellent coaching staff (to nurture the raw talent) and keep hold of the Manager to ensure the entire strategy stays the course. We’ve done neither over the last five years...a slow dismantling presumably because we can’t afford to meet the wage demands of those doing a great job?

Well it looks like some good news at last, but there’s more important work to get done...an assistant manager/coach of Rohl’s quality and three new quality players in the Jan window.

Well it looks like some good news at last, but there’s more important work to get done...an assistant manager/coach of Rohl’s quality and three new quality players in the Jan window.

1-2...last gasp goal mouth scramble in which Saints players defend valiantly but ultimately incompetently to lose the game in the 94th minute.

This x 10.

Where is he coming from?

Much better performance but Cedric really screwed up big time with Obifemi waiting in the box 1 yard out...it was a very very simple pass to make and he failed spectacularly. Redmond and Djenpo also had big chances and failed. Thought Ralph messed up bringing on Boufal when 1-2 up away from home...should have been Romeu surely? Ralph has a diliemna...either he plays a bias of attacking players and hopes we score more than the opposition or he plays more defensively and risks not scoring at all. It was better today, but conceding late will be the cause of relegation.