Lighthouse

It seems to me Arabs can't cope without a dictator telling them how to live. Places like post-Soviet Afghanistan and Iraq have already shown how badly a state can turn with a power vacuum left behind. As unpleasant as the Assad regime is, at least people were behaving themselves most of the time. The lesser of two evils if you ask me.

On the subject of strikers not being mobile enough, another 90 minutes without a goal for Lambert. He's scored once in his last 30 games, against Villa.

I don't think Long has scored against a team not in the relegation zone for us yet. Certainly Leicester and Burnley last year, Newcastle this year and I think Villa were too. He shouldn't be starting Premier League games, no matter how 'fluid' his movement is. IMO the front 4 should be Pelle, J Rod behind, Mané right and Tadic left.

Surely that's the funniest result possible though? Liverpool are awful but not quite bad enough to get Brenda sacked. Plus Nivea Chops goes and misses a pen.

Oh dear Tw*t beard.

European football returns to St Mary's; sort of. After tonights performances I'd be tempted to start with Rodriguez and both full backs (who finished the game) ahead of Yoshi, Targett and Davis.

Can't help but feel they wont really be up for it. Battling the drop really and will surely rest players.

So we've scored 6, three times in less than a year. Not bad in spite of the opposition. Would love to see Mané, Pelle, Tadic and J Rod all start on Saturday.

What a miss from Wednesday!

Come on Saints, I want to see us score 6, 7 and 8 in less than a year.

So now you have a problem with my wife's fanny as well?!

I beg to differ!

Oh Calum...

J Rod hat trick would do him the world of good, even against substandard opposition. I'd leave him on and take Mané off.

Agree. I can't remember a enjoying a Liverpool manager's tenure as much as Rodgers'. Should be knighted for services to football.

I'd agree with this. More because I want to rest Mané for the weekend and don't particularly want to risk Tadic for no particular reason.

Carlisle equalise

Poch losing.

Excellent team for this match IMO. Maybe half each for Mané and Tadic or even a rare glimpse of the lesser spotted Ramirez. Would be good to see half an hour for Bert as well.

This isn't the 'Celebrities who've had the least success thread.' James Corden is highly successful, no doubting that. So are Trump, Justin Beiber, 1 Direction, Bin Laden, Katie Price and Dani Osvaldo. Doesn't mean they are complete tosspots.

Only if they start looking like Champions League players, which so far this season they don't. I don't think we're really that far off those two clubs either TBH. If one of them does go on to have a great season, they will pretty much follow our path anyway. Their best players will leave, Bilic will end up replacing Rodgers etc. etc.

So Koeman knew several hours before the game when he picked his team that Fellaini would play no part in the game? You would also rather have a player who is weak defensively against Memphis Depay? Actually, aside from Yoshi's error for the second goal it worked out reasonably well. If the lino had gone to specsavers or some bloke in Madrid knew how to send a fax, we'd have won yesterday, even in spit of our lackluster performance second half.

Silence! Cedric is useless and will never ever ever be good enough for us. Furthermore Les is obviously an idiot for signing a player who isn't immediately our first choice. Also, Koeman is a fool for choosing a taller, more defensive, experienced player to combat Depay and Fellaini.

Talk about rose tinted specs. There is no beauty to a relegation fight, it means you just end up watching the sh*t we put out in 04/05 every week. Sure you get the occasional Norwich 4-3 but there're a lot more 2-2 Evertons and 3-0 at Blackburns without ever getting into their penalty area. Some people talk about 7th and 17th like they are just numbers but the difference is a heck of a lot of sh*t football.

This team, when we start playing properly, will be far better than anything Sunderland, Newcastle, Villa, Norwich, Bompey or Watford are capable of. We're unbeaten away from home and lost narrowly at home to Utd. We may have gifted Utd the win but we gave them a better game than Liverpool did. The only properly poor result was Everton. The time to be concerned is when we look 100 miles away from even competing in games. If we'd lost 3-0 again yesterday and not had a shot on target, then I'd be a bit worried. Edit: You can add West Brom to that list, they played like the away team hoping for a 0-0 last week. Leicester and West Ham may be flavour of the month but they really aren't anything special. No different to Hull and Wigan being in the top 4 a few years ago, they both ended up fighting the drop.