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So, you can only name 4 teams with cup runs that you feel saw them worse off... that's an awful lot of teams who didn't have a negative reaction from their cup runs over the corresponding years

The league cup less so, lets not kid ourselves. That sunderland 11 would flounder in the championship. It smarts more that the next round would not have been vs one of the favourites so as far as I am concerned, we looked a trip at wembley in the face then told it to **** off. It is a total disrespect to the fans (the ones who went should have been compensated no question!) and has instantly made me lose all love for Poch. If his heart was in the club he would want to win something for the fans and would certainly give them better than this. I will be very surprised if he resigns. and to be frank, i view him with total apathy at the moment. It will take something of an equal and opposite turn of events to sunderland to swing that back round. I support the team always, but i am not happy at poch and the clubs attitude... I thought i had a right rare bet when I got saints 50/1 E/W in both cups this year... How little did I know.... Season is over for us. And how shocking is this............. The only thing keeping me going is the chance to support england and cheer on some saints in the world cup. After years of supporting the team playng the better football in england matches (or us when we're the underdogs ) I actually get to cheer england on without headbutting the wall at how boring and negative it is... Saints players will be there to cheer on!

All for Lambert to miss from 3 yards out This is a defeat.... Mind you Sunderland had win (and therefore defeat) written all over it! :lol: I have a mate whose family keep a west ham season ticket going in the memory of a late relative... Following on from the Sunderland game and having to sit in the home section during the 4-1 capitulation last season, you can imagine why I am not going to this again this year. I fully expect them to kick the crap out of us, Dickinberg to give us nothing and for the team to play crap after the poor showing in the cup... after all, what is there to play for now.

In my squad, no! He is a good player of course, but he won't last the pace in brazil, not in those conditions, and not in a tournament. Add to that the need to start blooding the youngsters and the fact that this will be Gerrard's last tournament for sure.

Anyone stupid enough to go and pay £42 to watch West Ham? Well I thought I should give you forewarning of what you are in for in advance... Clattenburg has returned! You can kiss those points goodbye.. I am surprised we have been given him again this season at any rate. http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/football/west-ham/mark_clattenburg_to_take_charge_of_southampton_v_west_ham_1_3339650

Hart, (and 2 from Foster, Forster and Ruddy) Cahil, Jagielka, Terry, Baines, Shaw, Walker, Chambers (Allready better than Clyne) Wiltshire, Barkley, Barry/Cork, Carrick, Lallana, Johnson, Henderson, Milner, Oxlade Rooney, Sturridge, Lambert, JayRod OP has wellbeck and Jayrod - this will not happen. Lambert is of the boil to a degree, but its him or Carroll. I can't stand carrick, think he is useless, but he will go... All this ******** of needing him against possession teams.... Did people not watch him vs Barcelona, utter bystander 101. For me, the best English right back in the premier league, on current form is chambers. Lampard will not go to the world cup. Barring some major injuries. He isn't a first team regular at Chelsea and his fitness is not what it was.

Happy Birthday Rickie! Greatest Saint since Le Tiss with no doubt whatsoever!

What is even more laughable, is that people think our squad needs more than 1 week of rest to be match fit for the next game. Because what you are saying, is that with 1 weeks rest, our players would be unfit for the next match...

Started as a rumour on facebook. The end.

Posted at least 2min before the final whistle... what a gimp As for the game. The but starts and stops at MoPo, You can't have Lallana saying its the players biggest game of the season and then pick a second string team... demoralise the players before they even start the game. Other than that they were all fu cking useless bar Davis who put in a decent shift as always. Anyone else think that lallana and shaw espeically were worried about getting injured after the last game vs sunderland.... Its starting to get to their heads if so. All in all, no defending that performance, they couldn't have looked less interested in winning if they tried. Worst ever performance I have seen from a saints team.

21seconds, awful awful pass from Wanayama.... then again on 1min... Can't even make a 10m pass. Christ.

Well played getting in before glasgow, i tip my hat sir! We should win this given sunderlands team.... However, everyone is expecting us to walk it (bar warnock who doesnt like us lol) I am therefore very nervous..., Poyet is a hard manager and a good motivator with a record vs saints... I therefore expect his weakest team to do something, especially given our starting 11 being below par. We underestimated sunderland with that team, we may regret it! That said, come on saints. And great effort by our fans to get themselves up there for this! Great effort!!

No? Well neither did Portsmouth, in fact they didn't survive in League 1 either, and they are barely surviving in League 2

Made a few changes (Underlined), but in truth I wouldn't argue too much.

Those figures are selectively low in many cases, although it was my understanding that cork was on a free transfer at the end of his contract? That is semantics anyway; the point made was our Team last night cost £12.5m.... Which is clearly wrong since wanyama alone is over that. I wouldn't disagree that our starting 11 is under £15m on transfer fees alone. But lets not kid ourselves, we have spent very large sums on money in the past 2 seasons.

Morgan £1m Lambert £1.25m Fonte £1.25m Davis £800k jayrod £7.5m Victor £12m Yoshi ~ £3m Do our fans really think our team costs £12.5m and go spouting that arrogant rubbish on other forums? Last nights team is over double that, circa £27m, ignoring free transfers for cork and boruc and development costs of the kids. We have 3 other transfers that add at least £32m to that as well.

Clearly some of us supported the team in the lower leagues, and some of us were armchair supporters. Because Lallana was in team of the year in both League 1 and Championship... Also, I am slightly confused by "look at how long it took lallana to be even remotley effective in the championship" - 1 season, 1 team of the year? Its like the myth pedalled about It being obvious we needed a new goalkeeper for years before we were promoted. Kelvin was in 3 consecutive team of the years But we needed better!!!! Obviously!!! He just wasn't good enough for us, even then! That said, your point about ramirez and having the balls and abilty to take risks is exactly sport on... The fans that knock him would probably like a team of 11 Carricks to pass the ball in horizontal lines for 90min

Where are the wingers in our formation? Please show them to me... and if we wanted them we would use Rowe or Sinclair rather than spunk on ince.... We have minimum 9th in the bag bar a bad injury crisis. Go for cup and be happy with that. Although, after MoPo's comments it seems he may throw the cup away

Hats off to Boruc you mean.

First thing to do in the summer, get poch to sign. Second ****ing thing to do is replace our donkey of a keeper. His opposite number today would do nicely please. When he's bad he's bloody appallingly ****.

Dell sized mentality 101

I think it hurt Nigel the most to play us with Reading last season, and to see what MoPo did with his team, and how much more effective they were. People mistake Nigel's colloquial talk as a sign that he lacks the tactical ability to succeed at this level. When in truth he had a similar record to MoPo once he had settled into the premier league, and before all the new transfers. It also appears as though the transfer comittee signed Wanayama, lovren and ramirez. Osvaldo was the only signing to be attributed to MoPo So in summary, I think Nigel would have had the same team to work with, plus 15m better spent on another player. was he as good tactically as MoPo is now, perhaps not, But would he be a different manager if he came back to saints, 100% yes, he would have changed and would have improved! I doubt the two managers would have that different a points total this season with these teams.... And we would have had a hell of a lot less injuries under Adkins. So, if MoPo left, I'd take Nigel back for sure. The bloke has unfinished business, he will do it in the prem with a team sometime soon and I'd rather he did it at saints. The bloke loves us, and we love him. So why the hell not!

http://www.shekicks.net/flog/blogs/post/919 Never Knew our ladies were so good. Record for FA Cup wins only recently surpassed by the Arse, and our U16's sound impressive. Sign them up! P.s. How many people did this title catch out

Article on the Beeb about brighton announcing a £14.7m loss for the annual accounts, and an £8m for last financial year. Really puts it into perspective how important being able to rely on youth players is for us as a club. Realistically, they had a tiny wage bill compared to us in league 1, with minimal income from the withdean. Yet despite the very large boost in turnover they've had in moving to the Amex they look to have hit their glass ceiling and stalled (perhaps). In comparison, we had a net transfer spend of circa £3m under Adkins (thanks directly to the youth academy) which saw us through to two promotions. We are now reaping the benefit of it in the top flight to further push our progress and if we can continue producing players of the level they currently are it gives us a massive advantage over the other top 6 rivals? Those we may sell (shaw) will go for circa £20-£25m, our wage bill is smaller, we can fill the squad positions with no transfer fees and no low agent costs, and we have a great team spirit and loyalty. Granted Brigton aren't everton, tottenham etc.. But they are another team we have left behind relative to where we were, and if we are trully in a race with teams like tottenham, everton, liverpool, newcastle, dare I say united? then producing the next walcott, shaw, oxlade, bale () gives us a massive leg up on those teams in one respect. They can have all the sponsorship they want if we get the players for free

Best kits we've had for me (in no particular order) are this seasons home and away, championship home, the sash, and that beautiful brazil kit that we got to wear for 2 seasons but could only buy for one season Last years home was a god awful vomit inducing pinstripe monstrosity. Literally think it is my least favourite kit and it is beyond me how it is as popular as it seems to be, but hey, personal choice So anyway, of my favourite kits I plopped for stripes once, and my absolute favourite kits have been sash, championship home and this years home kit. Kits are associated with how well the team play, hence why stripes have lost their popularity in recent years. 2 relegations, championship mediocrity before that, and the disappointment of failed promotion pushes in championship and league 1. The sash was like watching miss universe elegantly **** all over other teams, and we are playing quality football in this years kit. I imagine its a similar reason for why Zerox is so good, if the team had been ****, that kit would not be so popular... And likewise, the championship promotion stripes is a great kit for many people.... we were never out of the top 2 all season