Mattio

Not bothering to come down to Southampton for this one, just not confident enough of a result with our current form (plus the Southern Strike means I'll be getting home at 2am). Hope I end up being proved to have made the wrong decision and we smash 'em!

He's missing the Semis so it's not good news, also we're in a terrible vain of form, we need our best players now.

Well we scored two, so that's a step in the right direction... Surely its worth trying Van Djik up front, at this rate he's going to be our top scorer anyway.

Ta!

Anyone know where to get a stream? Not on EPL site annoyingly

I can't see this being a thriller, good luck to anyone travelling to this one and fair play to you!

defoe

Surely Eddie Howe is the obvious choice if he'd join? Seems to be very loyal to Bomo however so doubt he would come.

merry xmas!!

Feels weird not having a boxing day game, it's something of a tradition to turn up whereever the game is absolutely sloshed after 3 days drinking and not remember most of it, it's going to be hard to keep it up for an extra 2!

Travelling from East Anglia for the noddy trophy is a hell of a commitment!

Feels like a loss FFS.

Pretty sure we've only scored twice at the Northam end this year so probably right!

I've heard crosses are his weakness though.

On a (welcome) non-footballing note it looks like they've started serving bottles of Budweiser and pints of Tetley's at the bars at SMS so not everything is doom and gloom!

Except redmond that's our strongest team IMO. COYR! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Eastleigh (or Halifax) at home for the lulz

Have to agree tbh, we're not going to challenge for top 6 but if we we won the League Cup, and if we got into the knockouts of the Europa I'd be pleased with this season as long as we're 14+

Probably a bit late to make other arrangments but FYI the trains from Weymouth to Waterloo are all f*cked this morning and also trains in and out of Clapham Junction are delayed by up to 20 mins or cancelled so you might be train hopping all morning! (I'd suggest getting yourself to Basingstoke on a Cross Country train and going to Clapham Junction from there - or you could take the Southern train to Victoria change at East Croydon but that's probably likely to cancel itself in the middle of nowhere!). Apparently it will be sorted before the game finishes but who knows...

Long?! He was terrible against Arsenal and also played the whole 90 so will surely not be starting anyway.

Very good.

It seemed like half the ground arrived late yesterday, I assume that was due to Tubes/Trains?

Cheers for that, I'll head straight up in that case instead of sticking around the office.

Is there any reason Stephens hasn't been given a chance since Sunderland?