Sour Mash

2,200 is a ridiculously good effort.

Just picking you up for making stuff up I'm afraid.

Who has suggested Eu membership has driven our wages onto a par with Turkey? And who has said we're currently unable to export to countries outside the EU? Making stuff up yet again.

The lad obviously has ability, but over the course of his 18months with us, how regularly has he produced the goods

Should have come on a lot earlier tonight.

Same weakest spot we've had for 18months. A good no.10. But everyone was obsessed with getting Austin in.

Proper f****g embarrassing that. Poor from Koeman and poor from the players. Add that to Liverpool in the cup and Myjttland this season. Loads of Saints leaving the ground now.

What were the Koeman comments?

If someone punched you in the face, would you punch them back?

Who pays for it then?

Wenger must be at risk of being shown the door come the end of the season. Chelsea and Man City should be miles ahead of these two.

Just watching the game back now on Sky, 100% that was a penalty, Cahill on Austin.

Yep, fair shout.

Few decent loud moments, but petty we couldn't get the same as the West Ham game going, similar backs to the wall effort from the side would have been appropriate. Still amazes me how many people leave early, but that's been done to death many times before.

The thing is, he's only playing as he has to for our 5 at the back to work. No-way is he near to being one of our best XI players. If we'd been planning on playing 5 at the back from the start of the season, we should maybe have invested in a proper first choice for that position, but lots of ifs, buts and maybes there.

Agreed, the bloke is a proper c**t, never seen that happen before I think. But the annoying thing is we let him rile us and get fussed, exactly what he tries to do and exactly what has been seen many times, we should have known better.

Don't let it upset you.

One post?

How does that fit with the first half hour of today's game. I'd have changed things up early 2nd half, but our set up has worked very well for us the last few months.

Pellè was poor, but he didn't cost us the game, we'd been having the same problem whole 2nd half - we were clearing the ball and it was coming straight back at us. Mane wasn't much better. We should have taken off Targett, who I thought was poor, and brought on jwp, extra body in midfield to help with ball retention.

I don't think anyone called you 'bullies', weird phrase to use in that context. Pellè was poor today, very good at the start of the season. Not a difficult difference to understand.

Oh and we allowed ourselves to be well and truly Costa'd in the middle of the 2nd half. Annoying.

Frustrating game. We were good first 30mins. They dominated a large chunk of the rest and did look excellent. If I was a Chelsea fan I'd be p****d off we weren't top of the league, not celebrating like they'd just won it at the end. I thought Romeu and Clasie were excellent. Pellè didn't do himself any favours. But the game showed the problem of 5 at the back - we're outnumbered across the rest of the pitch and were therefore unable to keep the ball, it kept coming back towards us and let Chelsea keep building pressure. Think we'll kick on and win at Bournemouth now.

Apologies for providing the stats you asked for that happen to run counter to your argument.