Baird of the land

Never been a Lowe hater. A lot of the foundations were building on come from his work. If anything his major flaw was his lack of Corteselike ruthlessness.

My impressions after going to the game. Yeovill were well organised if limited. Saints looked slightly disjointed due to the changes, especially the absence of rickie up top. As to ratings Davis: 7 Made saves that needed to be made. He is what he is a solid if unspectacular back up keeper at this prem level. Clyne: 7.5 Was an attacking outlet, especially in 2nd half Shaw: 6 Seemed constrained. Not sure if he was fully fit as there were times towards the end he didn't particularly seem like he wanted the ball. Hooiveld: 6 He won headers and cleared balls. An opossition that was perfect for Jos's attributes and hopefully it'll give him some confidence if we do need him again this season. Yoshida: 6.5 The more composed of the 2 centre backs. Scneiderlin:7.5 Good as always Cork: 8 Mom for me. He's got such great control. Really hoping he is impressing Potch as he's one player i'd be dreadfully sad to see leave. Lallana: 8, When he got the ball he had the opposition scared because they couldn't cope with his skill. Guly: 6.5 Solid shift from Guly back from injury. Nice to see him get a goal too. Jrod: 5: Not his day. He's so much more effective out wide. Subs: Gallagher:7 Very impressive outing from the youngster. Nice to see him get his goal too, especially considering the Osvaldo situation. Davis:6.5 Looked good when he came on Reed: 6.5 Couple of nice balls into the box by him.

His contrition is key. If he's not then sure find the best way to recoup as much of investment as possible. His absence the due to injury/suspension has weakened us as we haven't had anyone other than Rickie up top. Don't agree that the large sum spent on him should or can be freely ignored/quickly recouped. Training ground bust ups happen and I don't see why the squad should throw their toys out of the pram if management decide to try and rehabilitate a contrite osvaldo.

Personally we knew what we were buying, so if he's contrite I'd much prefer to try to reintegrate him into the squad rather than take a huge loss selling/loaning him out and weakening our squad.

Play strongest team possible Boruc(or Davis if Boruc isn't fully fit) Clyne Fonte Yoshida Shaw Cork Morgan Jrod JWP Lallana Lambert Subs Davis/Gazza, Chambers, Davis, Osvaldo, Reed, Fox, Gallagher

Disappointing day at the office for Boruc. He is a good keeper though and its from the expectation that he'd normally save both those shots that the disappointment stems from. Hopefully it was just a blip and that he'll be back to his usual excellence from here on in.

Not sure what you are on about. Thought lambert's link up play was excellent today.

Saints played great. Boruc disappointing for both goals. Potchettino bewildering for not making a tactical move before they equalised. Ref disgraceful for not giving a free kick for the foul on gaston. All in all 2 points thrown away.

The impression that he's just staying till the end of the season feels more like a lingering death rather than something to be celebrated.

Maybe that's why the rumours had him convincing potchettino to stay. Desperate straw grabbing is better than fearing the predicted sales.

Club looking pretty much to have secured its prem status coupled with an open man transfer window when inflated fees can normally be got. Yeah I'm worried about player sales & a rushed sale of club in summer as they try and squeeze as much cash out before exit.

Was desperately hoping it was mind games from cortèse. I'd prefer potchettino to go if he isn't committed long-term. Very worried that talent such as lallana, shaw etc will be flogged to the highest bidder now.

What a difference having the first choice five defenders back. Nice to see Ramirez contributing too.

Redknapp's image as a nurturer of young talent has always been a sham.

Decent win against a team going strong in the championship. Hopefully we will get another decent home tie. Hope rickie's injury isn't serious and that we can get Boruc, Fonte & Lovren back sharpish.

Played a very good team who have been better able to rotate over xmas. Our manager made very poor use of tactical substitutions. Hopefully we can beat Burnley(have an FA cup run) and pick ourselves back up in the league and try and stay top half.

Yep all he's done today is opened up the floodgates by taking Cork off. Either he's got to buy someone he fancies instead of Cork or he's got to stick with him until he gets Wanyama back.

Sadly got to blame the manager on this occasion. Doesn't make a change even though they've clearly got on top then once they score he takes off centre mid and we concede again.

While part of me thinks Cropper can't be worse than Gash anniga the cynical part of me thinks he could be even worse. Davis/Boruc back as a christmas present would be nice. Shaw and Fonte back in is a must of course too.

He's a good keeper but i'd be confused if he came to be 2nd choice here behind Boruc considering the wages he'd be likely to be on & his need to be playing regularly in a world cup year.

Happy to get an away point against a decent Newcastle side. Good to see Schneiderlin back. Now we just need Boruc back sharpish.

If you'd offered me a point beforehand i would have bit your hand off. Says a lot about how well our patched up team played that i'm slightly disappointed not to get all 3 points. Important that we keep Lovren/Fonte partnership together imo.

Well at least Osvaldo got a goal. Other than that a very disappointing result. We're going to have to make it harder for City to score at the weekend or we could leak shed loads.

Yep & that would be a real shame imo as i really rate Cork but he's not going to hang around if the manager doesn't rate him enough to play him when one of the 1st choice pair are absent.

Davis in for Boruc if he is available. Otherwise Gazzaniga. Cork has to come in for Schneiderlin. Davis for JWP Lambert for Osvaldo