Baird of the land

Don't scare me with the notion they aren't going to get a keeper in the summer. Interesting to see if defence has any confidence in him. After the mess up early last game they visibly stopped involving him. Think Kelvin should have been given this game. Also disappointed to see one of the few players who looked good last week(reed) dropped instantly.

Very dull and disappointing. Don't see much liklihood i'll want to buy it. Wonder if we'll ever get something akin to the Rank Xerox.

What was the excuse for not offering him a contract in the summer? Would Fonte have been happy if we'd strung him along and told him to prove himself worthy of a new contract over coming 6 months.

I really don't see how he'd fit our system, so i'm not convinced by the notion of going for him.

Well this end of season looks like it is going to be embarrassing if we collapse out of top 7. Hopefully this result will give the players a kick up the proverbial behind for game against villa.

One of my favourite Saints players of recent times. Saints screwed up badly imo not valuing him and offering him a deal last summer. Instead we strung him along and understandably he's gone to a rival club for a tiny fee because they acted like they wanted him. Personally i always felt he was offered something different but equally good to Wanyama. Some games you a defensive beast like Vic, others you want someone much better on the ball like Cork. Now we are left in the summer likely having to source top quality replacements for both him and Morgan.

I'd give Targett another run out as Bertrand looked utterly ****ged. Davis Clyne Toby Fonte Targett Reed Wanyama Davis Djurcuvic Mane Pelle Subs: Gazza, Bertrand, Yoshida, Gape, Gallagher, Long, Tadic

Yeah we've been spoiled with Cork and Morgan. Still gutted we mucked Cork about and he ended up leaving. This summer we've got to recruit a replacement of their ilk on the ball.

Just back from the game and another very abysmal display. Leicester to be fair were hungry and organised but Saints looked so disinterested for most of the game. When djurcuvic and Long came on we perked up slightly. Mane looked decent when we got him into play and Reed was very impressive. First goal should have been shut down but it was a nice finish. Second goal was calamatious. Wonder if that might be Gazza's final game for us as after that team looked hesistant to play it back to him. Spurs mucked up again thankfully but i struggle to see us winning given how badly we are playing.

Surely if you are doing a deal with arsenal jenkinson would be the player to try and get included, given our likely need for a new right back.

Pearson comes across very badly. Can't imagine Leicester like the way he is tarnishing their image. Wonder if they will replace him regardless in the summer? Very glad he isn't in charge of us.

Given Kelvin's got another year on his contract(as far as i'm aware) i really don't see any other scenario than him continuing as 2nd choice and competition for the loan keeper in Fraser's absence. Don't see the Foderingham thing as likely

If he goes there it will be clear that he doesn't have an interest in playing champions league football. SO i really hope he holds out for a move to a club that is actually in the Champions League. Not interested in any of the makeweights they are offering either, Townsend seems vastly overrated based on brief moments for England that haven't been replicated domestically.

Maybe if QPR go down and they need to get wages down we could get one of Green or Mccarthy in on loan. I think it may end up being a foreign import on loan.

Davis Clyne Toby fonte Bertrand Morgan vic Mane jwp tadic Pelle If Morgan is out I'd like to see reed given an opportunity.

With clyne, Morgan & Jrod I'd happily take one of them signing a new deal and a bidding war getting us a decent price for the others. Take tough words with a pinch of salt. The interesting thing is the news that we'll likely be after a loan keeper. Not sure I like the assumption Fraser will be back by jan, when past serious injuries have been shown to rarely run to best case scenarios.

Hope we get 7-9. Fear we'll get 3-4 points.

Good player, clearly suffering from a lack of confidence in front of goal this season though.

Decent performance. It cost us having our reserve keeper in the team. Both their two goals I would have hoped Forster would have saved. So gutting that last minute header didn't go in. At least liverpool drew too.

Wonderful goal by Gallagher, great to see him bouncing back from his injury troubles. Reed didn't do his first team chances much good by recklessly lunging in twice & deservedly being sent off. Needs to curb that pronto.

Silly tackle by Reed.

Villa might trouble Arsenal at this rate and only top 6 end up getting europa.

Actually one of our better recent performances and its gutting not to come out of the game with something. Nice first goal by Fonte & reasonably comfortable first half. We seemed slow out of the blocks in the 2nd. I see understand Kelvin thinking it was going to hit the bar and go over but should have been playing the percentages and conceding the corner. Then we starting playing well again and Tadic could have scored if he'd struck it cleaner. Sadly then i think Koeman got it wrong replacing Tadic with JWP. We lost our shape when we could have done with Long or Elia on. Should have at least responded to their last double change imo. Second goal felt rather sloppy. Last panicked 10 minutes of kick and rush where we never threatened was made worse by what seemed an injury during and innocuous challenge on Toby. All in all a big shame as at 1-0 the dream of 4th was still alive. Now we've got a huge 6 pointer against Spurs to try and bounce back for.

Thought Davis started badly but got better during the half. Certainly wouldn't bring Long on for him. Reed or JWP depending on the score later. Tadic seems fine to me. At some point we might want to stretch them with more pace via Elia. Feel we may need a 2nd goal to win this one.

Who I want to go down. QPR most definitely, Sunderland & probably newcastle. I think it'll probably be qpr, sunderland & hull. Coming up I'd like Bournemouth, Derby & brentford. It'll likely be Middlesbrough, Bournemouth & Watford.