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Sorry but you have to blame the manager for picking Stephens. When Yoshida went away with Japan RH talked about losing “one of my best players “ ......so fkin pick him over that clown.

Has Ralph not got the fkin message about Stephens yet ? Third game running !!!!

I can only assume he is doing what he did against Man City at Christmas with his eye on the next game.

wish I could see why RH is sticking by Stephens

I'm pretty sure he would have gone earlier had it not been for that terrible helicopter tragedy Leicester suffered

We aren't good enough in defence to park the bus against a team like Arsenal for 90 minutes, especially if Stephens plays and decides to put his arm up to hail a fkin taxi in the penalty area !

Yes to both points, what we have now isnt choice its circumstances.

It would have been vital had Cardiff won Friday night. A point would see us out the bottom three, that would be a bonus.

It’s a good, honest interview that. What with Forster’s situation as well it shows footballers are only human as well despite all the trappings that go with it. Not my favourite player but fair play to him and hopefully he will continue in the right mindset.

It’s us or Cardiff for that 3rd spot, simple as that. We need to take one more point than Cardiff, that’s all, that’s the goal. Surely we can do that.......can’t we ?

It was yes.

Umm, not exactly, he's said if you get relegated you can expect to lose your job. The rest is down to interpretation IMO

yep

given its the Cup Final at Wembley a couple of hours later i'm surprised it isnt earlier as well to be honest.

He was yeah. Pretty sure he ended up at Newcastle at some point - possibly in Keegan's days there?

Oh I don’t know about that, he wasn’t that bad. He’s no Ollie Lancashire, Lee Todd, Allan Bennett.......

This is assuming we stay up of course....

I look forward to that starting then - would help if he communicated with the fans for a start !

dont ever stop cleaning the windows of your ivory tower will you ! supporters treatment of him has been no worse, or better, than his attitude on the pitch most of the time. I’ve never ever seen a player wearing a Saints shirt who has been so quick to blame everyone but himself when he screws up. He’s having a good spell, he had one under Puel as well. But it has to last more than a couple of months

its the getting past Spurs and only being 3/4 points behind Cardiff, Burnley or Brighton that concerns me most otherwise yeah fair enough.

Thats true, having said that pity Stephens hadn’t gone more gung ho and launched the bloody thing instead of that almost square pass to nobody in a red and white shirt.

no I don’t believe they are either

For nearly three seasons now the core of this squad has by and large failed miserably in games like this. All this “cold light of day/24 hrs later” stuff about it not being that bad has been going on match after match in all that time. Bertrand, Stephens, Romeu, PEH, Ward-Prowse, Redmond, Austin, Long - they have all been in and around the starting eleven that have ****ed up home wins that would have eased our plight, but no every single time they bottle it and play like bloody snowflakes. Its not good enough and if somehow we do stay up this promised squad over haul in the summer needs to be major.

Yes how to improve a ****e squad - make it smaller, dont add any players so keep it ****e.

This all day long. Why some people refuse to see this point is beyond me, its basic common sense. We are playing Russian Roulette with our Prem League future....yesterday we took a bullet.