Maggie May

Pleased with your unxenophobic response, Colinjb. Anyone know how good this lad is?

@ossianshine: Nothing certain yet but rumours of Roberto Firmino endure. He's skillful, quick and clever with a powerful shot. #saintsfc

...hush hush, eye to eye.

Something about him screams D'Alessandro. Not bothered.

Saints fans really are strange.

0-3 defeat.

My favourite is Antoni Jiménez Sistachs, who I will now call Jimmy Sixtacks.

Cortese has ordered more snow in an attempt to have the match calle off and give Mo more time to work with the players.

You've done it again, using someone's background/orientation in a derogatory manner.

The Pochettino link has been around in Spain since early January so I don't understand why people are claiming this is Alex Crook's scoop.

'not another MP/NA' thread, I hear you cry but please bear with me. I'm as stunned with the timing of this decision as the next Saints fan and fear it could have disastrous consequences on the rest of the season. But shedding tears over it? Do me a favour. Of course, we are all different but are you really surprised? How do we know what has really happened behind closed doors? It's just not worth it and the only thing we can do as fans is get on with it and support the team. Yes, it's a shocker but the game we love isn't the same as it used to be. I'm a big Adkins fan, always have been, always will be but I'm excited by the prospect of another new chapter in our history. If we go down, so be it. If we don't, I expect trousers will have a field day resurrecting the hyperbole of threads spewed out today come mid-May. For what it's worth, I'm not certain the penned message from NA to the staff is from him, if the Mirror's story is to be believed.

'One Nigel Adkins' for the entire 90 minutes on Monday please.

We are down.

It should be 'England's goal machine'.

That save was immense.

Definitely our greatest win under Adkins, a pivotal result. J Rod was outstanding, as was Boruc and Lambert. Shaw's injury is rather worrying but hope Fox can pull a few decent performances together. Loved Fox's reaction during the mini-melee after Shaw went down. Gabby Agbonglahor is an idiot.

Surely it's the ref's inability to officiate, rather than the player diving? Anyone can dive - not all referees give them.

If we sack Adkins and hire Gross, it'll be a bigger disaster than the Dutch experiment. Down.

They'll still beat us.

My prediction for our game with Villa: We'll put in a typically spirited performance only for Darren Bent, who make peace with Paul Lambert in the days leading up to the match, to snatch a late winner. Bent then enjoys a purple patch, rocketing Villa away from danger, leaving us to battle it out.

Loool

I've always thought it but I believe Norwich will do a Hull-esque capitulation and struggle for the rest of the season. Their goal difference is pretty terrible too.

Stick with Boruc. If he'd been first choice since he signed, these goalkeeping threads would be irrelevant. I don't think the performances in his first two games were as bad as people are pointing out. We weren't the side we are now and with a settled, and improved, back four Boruc should thrive given a string of games. Butland is not the answer this season, maybe next year.

50 Shades of Cray.

Ramirez is infuriating.