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I think this is Stephens' chance. He's been on loan and now he needs to grab this opportunity. I think he has good potential, and I hope he steps right up into the consistent premier league CB he has the qualities to become. I must admit I did have a bit of a wobble when I saw that VVD has been ruled out for up to three months, but we've been in tougher situations than this. F*ck it, come on Saints. Let's salvage something from this season!

Great player. Surprised no one's mentioned him before. What about that Lovren bloke, too?

Fonte wouldn't have played anyway even if he were here still.

I like the fact we're nervous about being close to Wembley rather than relegation etc. We've come a long way since 2009. Do it for everyone that's been a part of the journey so far, lads. 2-1 saints, Yoshida header to win it.

He's been on the Liebherr journey and is part of the Saints family. It's gutting that he's left to another club instead of retiring with us, but as others have said I can completely see both sides. I understand us not giving him the contract length he wanted and I understand him wanting to get that security (we can all talk till we're blue in the face about how he earns more in a week than most do in a year- let's ignore that for now). Best of luck Jose and thanks for the memories.

Swarbrick's performance can be summed up with this comparison: He gave a free kick for a very late blocking tackle by Lucas on Romeu who was starting a counter-attack. No card. He gave a free kick and a yellow to Rodriguez for a pull back justo outside Liverpool's box. Dreadful performance ref.

Only problem I can see for supporters attending would be the RMT union strike on Wednesday.

Shame it happened a week before the biggest game of the season. Top player for us. Earned good money for a League One and Championship player. He owes us nothing, we owe him nothing. Thanks for the memories, José.

Didn't we have bucket collections for them when they wereven teetering on the edge of liquidation? They are a nothing club with nothing fans, I just can't bring myself to hate them no matter what I do. I find their fans that are trying to spark something funny. Brighton and us did indeed have a rivalry when we were battling to get out of League One and the Championship. They've only just managed to keep up. The skates will always be there no matter what league they are in. Bournemouth isn't even close to Brighton in terms of rivalry, let alone Portsmouth! They'll always be that friendlying retirement home from down the coast we want to do well.

Looking forward to having him in the squad after his loan spell. Will be like having a new promising young Championship striker.

Seems to make things so simple seem very, very complicated.

We are back to being bang average. Deal with it. Puel is making a good fist of it with the players he has.

Thank God you said "right now". In a couple of years we'll all know which we would have preferred to have bought last summer.

F*ck me we were sloppy today. Fonte's sliced attempt summed up our performance. Oh well, on to the next one.

:lol: That got a few laughs from me. "They were rippin man apart. It's lucky it's only two nil blud, it should've been more! It should've been more blud! It should have been an embarrassing scoreline blud, you understand!?!" Eloquent.

We would have to play a "tough team" to win the cup anyway. We've shown we're good enough to win away at Arsenal in this competition so why not away to Liverpool?

Yes.

F*cking go for it. We can beat them if our strongest team turns up.

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No I'm just using it to highlight that in a year our attack has had a few teeth knocked out.

Austin isn't a patch on Pelle, let's be honest.

It's starting to come unstuck! We cannot hit a barn door and when we do it's with a pass a toddler wouldn't struggle to keep out. We were limp in midfield and toothless upfront, Martina and Boufal the most ineffective combination on the right wing we've had in years on that display. There is simply no cutting edge, as soon as theyou put 10 men behind the ball we had no ideas and resorted to awful long shots by the likes of Yoshida. Dreary result. We truly are stuck in a rut. How bad has it got that I knew throughout the whole second half I was wasting my time. We wouldn't have scored if we had 4 hours to play. Utter shambles.

Nice bit of propaganda for Les. He's done an excellent job, which he knows. I wonder ifor we have a database for a Director of Football replacement? Hopefully Reed won't leave!

Looks to be mostly stag in terms of "large animals", from what I can see. In which case, it's not that alarming. If it were elephants, lions etc; endangered animals, then I agree with your views.

It seems the goal against Ipswich I was thinking of was his second for us