Lighthouse

Which aspects of Yoshida's performance against Arsenal did you feel weren't up to standard? I don't see the problem with him at all personally. I don't think Jos is as bad as some would have us believe either. He has a mistake in him but the worst part of his game was removed today; Fox. You wont find many better 4th choice centre halves at mid-table Premier League teams. In an ideal world we would have someone better but I don't think it's a priority. I'm more concerned about our second choice striker being an 18 year old who made his debut this month and our second choice 'keeper being badly flawed at Premier League level.

Why? We have 4 centre halves but only Lambert who has proven he can lead the line and he is out of form.

11th May

You have no idea what the club has been doing behind the scenes over the last couple of months. We could have been chasing targets which would have broken Osvaldo's transfer fee but the deal couldn't be agreed for whatever reason. There is still another day of the transfer window we may yet sign a player, even though it does look unlikely.

I don't think it particularly matters that much. That £1.8m was an investment on getting us promoted and to that extent we have made a large profit on him. We might not even get £500k, it might be simply a case of moving him on for the sake of his career and getting him off the wage books.

I thought nobody else was bothered so I gave up Agree though, the Caterham is butt ugly. The Force India is also a creature only a mother could love. Will be difficult not to laugh the first time we have contact at the first corner and end up with a couple of carbon dildos lying in the middle of the track.

Nope. Ian Harte believe it or not.

Would love the Konoplyanka rumour to be true but I can't see it, especially if Liverpool are interested.

Why do people try to look clever by pretending they don't understand something remarkably simple? Seems odd.

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I'd have him out of position over Fox any day, Fox's positioning was shocking and he made some dreadful errors. Having said that, Fox was a decent player in the Championship and an important figure in our promotion. Never gave less than 100% for us, good luck to him at Forest. Does this mean he will be pushing Dan Harding out the team for the second time?

When you consider at least half of that is JRod, that's quite some stat. If Lambert had played instead, we would have had a team out there that cost £8m.

As good as Keegan was, he had already made his name elsewhere before he joined us and only stayed for 2 seasons. I think if we're going for iconic figures who define Saints there are better out there, even if it was a massive signing at the time.

What exactly has Yoshi done wrong? Kept the league leaders quiet for all but 10 minutes of the game and not really at fault for either goal.

According to Soccerbase he scored 11 goals a season for the first couple of years at Brighton and hasn't played this year at all, due to injury.

That's not really the point Steve to be honest with you. If I owned a shop, I wouldn't put the prices up by £5 and justify it by saying there's free parking outside. £42 to watch 90 minutes of football is a rip off however you try and dress it up. Besides which, not all of us live in Southampton and it would cost me at least £50 to get to West Ham on the train. I know people will go if they are "desperate," but it shouldn't be like that. Away games should be accessible to anyone, not just the hard core who are willing to pay whatever clubs demand to watch a game.

Brighton are so much more prepared than us for the Championship, they've just signed Craig Michail-Smith!

Can't think of any reason to change tonight's team. Wanyama and Lambert are obvious candidates but Gallagher and Cork deserve to stay in the team. Hopefully Fulham are as dreadful as they were at St Mary's earlier in the season. Probably our easiest win since we returned to the Premier League, they just looked hopeless. Didn't even look like they were trying half the time.

What a great game of football that was to watch. Even taking my Saints hat off for a minute, that was 2 teams who play the beautiful game in the right way and there was some excellent stuff from both sides. A draw probably a fair result but I think with a top notch striker we'd have been out of sight at half time. Again. We're making a habit of battering teams 2-2 at the moment. I thought Gallagher was excellent and really gave two decent CBs something to worry about. He missed a couple of chances, notably one at the end of the first half where he wasn't expecting the cross to rebound in front of him and it spooned agonisingly wide of the post. His all round game was very promising though I thought. We have another excellent player on our hands. Great to see Fonte scoring after the week he has had. Genuinely thrilled for him. MOTM for me was Morgan. An absolutely monster today, he was everywhere. If I was David Moyes, I'd be asking the board for another £37m for this guy. I genuinely believe he is top class. Shaw was also exceptional tonight. Only poor performance really was JRod I thought. Had a good assist for Lallana but didn't really effect the game enough otherwise. I loved that equaliser so much. The Arsenal fans were getting all cocky, having been hopeless first half (did Boruc get his first touch of the ball with that corner on 44 minutes?) they suddenly found themselves ahead and then boom! Right back at ya!

He is a decent enough League 1 defender, certainly better than playing none-league football with the Skates next season. Good luck to him.

I'm not. I just think it's a shame people are getting priced out of going to Saints games.

I was planning to go to Val D'Isere/Tignes the same week but now I've got a job interview and can't go. Shame but I've already done 2 weeks in Meribel/Val Thorens/La Plagne this season so can't complain.

Bears little relevance to this game really, West Ham is not a Cat A game and £40 is a rip off.

If all goes roughly according to form I think the quarters will feature City, Arsenal, Fulham, Everton, Cardiff, Hull and Wednesday. If we can get past Sunderland I'd fancy us against 4 of those 7. Probably Everton too at home. If City draw Arsenal, there's a cup final up for grabs.

With the big boys drawing each other we've got a decent chance now. Christ knows we owe Sunderland one.