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You know I was having a pee just before the game and heard the announcer say Hammond was playing - I just knew that we would win with him back. Thought the side looked good. Jaidi and Fonte just need a little more time to get used to each other and they will be an awesome CB pairing. Waigo, Antonio and Lallana put together some utterly sublime passes tonight that could grace the Prem - the problem is consistency at the moment. Anyway, fantastic game - great atmosphere. Cannot wait now until Saturday - I really feel we can get something from this game. COYR!!!! We're going to Wembley!!!!

Exactly - however, I suspect its mind games. They will probably be waiting for an opportunity to catch US on the break. I also expect Ince to tell them to intimidate and bully us. Try to get a player sent off to even things up a bit.

SH1T!!!! I wasn't nervous atall until I started reading this thread!!! Saints of the past would quite easily screw this up. Now AP has assembled this team, I reckon the whole squad will be aching to get to Wembley - it should mean more to them in their careers than ANYTHING else, such is the history of the place. So tonight I expect nothing more than utter 110% effort from every man on the pitch. I just hope the officials are good, because I reckon Ince will tell his team to intimidate and hack away at our players - attempt to get a player sent off - that kind of thing to swing things in their favour. It could get ugly. We MUST close the Dons down from the 1st minute until the last all over the pitch. Don't let them play - don't give them time on the ball. Control the tempo. Switch between hoofball to Lambo and passing game to feet. We CAN do this! COYR!!!! PS: I REALLY hope all the extra plastics at the game today make some F-ing noise.

Does no one find it a little too coincidental that when we revert to our 'old' defense in cup games we win and concede fewer late goals? Bring in Fonte and co and we're fragile again. I think this is connected with Davis - he was thought awful at Sunderland but with time to work his defence he got better. Now once again he's with a bunch of strangers across the whole back 4. We need to see Jaidi and Harding back and then results might improve. However, AP needs to be given time into next season. Why? Because many of the current 1st team are cup tied so he has to swap the side around. This is less of a problem in higher leagues but in L1 the players are less adaptable. Next season I feel will be a completely different affair.

I think you're reading far, far too much into the comments which really were quite positive in favour of Saints....i.e. for each element of each of the clubs examined, Saints came out on top and the arguement for Pompey was extremely mute. Murts did a good job bigging up Saints without appearing smug or over-confident. Top guy.

Couple of points regarding this - (a) I thought Jacobs had been booted out...and (b) Solent were reporting this morning that it was thought a deal was not likely as Gaydamaks hold on the land would put off potential investors....and © remember when we were at deaths door and all the weird stories that circulated just before admin about possible investors that came to sod all?

It will be great to see some proper top class officials for a change, however they will probably be in Prem mode, where breathing on another player causes the ref to blow. Saints need to be aware of Pimpley's cheating tactics - they'll know how to influence the Prem ref/lino's to their advantage, mark my words.

We need to do one thing very well tomorrow night and that's close the Dons down quickly and decisively. If we let them play the ball around, sit back and wait for them to bring it on, I predict we'll lose the game and possibly miss out on the Wembley spot. If THAT happens then Saturday's game will be a sham...Pimpley will trounce us. And if THAT happens, it will lead to crowd tension, booing and the players will be affected to the point where the Norwich game could be a disaster too. So....close Dons down, don't let them play the ball and lastly, play to win...forget the 1st leg and a draw cannot be considered good enough. With many key Dons players out, we should win this comfortably at home.

League should always be priority. Playoffs are not dead until they're mathematically impossible - never know what team might slip-up, go into admin etc etc. JPT is a chance to win some silverware and we might not get another chance at it as next year it will be all about promotion (or we might be in the CCC already!). FA Cup is just a healthy distraction while we're at L1 level.

Rubbish thread. Get behind the team and the manager. The season (despite what the doom-mongers think) is NOT over yet. If another team slips up with injury or whatever, we might just make it. It's a long shot but it could happen. We've got two cup competitions to look forward to too. Our team is getting better and will benefit from a summer together. Why not be optimistic about the future? This is the best form we've seen at the club for years and years.

There is no way on God's Earth that I shall be giving up my ST seat. I have waited for years to get a seat as good as mine is (centre Kingsland, on an aisle) and I shall not be letting it go lightly (if Lowe had remained with the Dutch twerp I would have given it up this season). So to answer the question in short - YES I am renewing!

Absolutely spot bollok on with this post....could not agree more. A slight blip (that doesn't include losses FFS) and suddenly we see the impatient children start calling for AP's head. As somebody else said - INSANE! :smt119

Mmm, not a good idea playing Puncheon who is a passing/dribbling player, when you're putting Lambert up front on his own and playing hoofball because the pitch is a disaster. AP got the tactics wrong today, just like Leeds did last week. Having said that, I think the top teams will ALWAYS struggle to win at grounds like this - they're set-up to be good in the CCC and can't play their own game in these conditions. Still positive about Saints overall, about the team, about AP...in short I'm still happier this season than I have been for 4-5 seasons. It was not a loss let's face it. However, I think our play-off hopes are over and THAT knowledge might ruin the rest of the season including JPT. I think Poopey could be too much for us.

Handball claim refused. Seaborne put it over the bar. Typical.

Corner Saints - last minute pressure. COYY!

Merrington reckons Exeter have been the better side - pressured Saints all through. AP needs to give the players a rocket. Who the hell does he play on Tuesday?

Exeter hit the post.

4 minutes extra time.

Barnard on - too little too late.

The game has passed us by I think. Not enough creativity in the midfield it would seem.

Alps has a point...this could be a defining point for us TBF and we should be winning these games with the money spent. Mind you, we are playing 4-5-1 which is not conducive to a passing game on a rubbish playing service. Thomas on - James off. Errr.....what?!?

Antonio taken out - no card?!?

Saints corner.

I think Man Ure are 5 up against the Skates. Not sure - lost count. Solent are saying there's no point going back to the game! lol

Lino given a foul throw against Antonio. FFS.