crikey, long-time lurker on here but this one is one of those posts that seems to be going way too far.
as far as i can tell, the following is true about the weekend:
We weren't significantly weakened, many fully capable first-team players played
We didn't lose to a horrendous error by any supposed weaker player
There was no guarantee that we would have won with some first-team players involved who were clearly injured (Fonte)
and most importantly:
We were not guaranteed to go the whole way and win the FA Cup as seems to be implied by the anger resulting from this one match.
Everyone would love a great cup run resulting in winning but there's only one team each year that can do this and it wasn't in any way guaranteed for us. Just as finishing higher up in the league isn't but that is very achievable over the remaining games whereas the cup is always a bit of a lottery.
I am afraid that once again, Saints fans are ripping in to each other over a potential outcome that was totally hypothetical.
Very much time to move on and forget about it, hope we strengthen in the summer, keep our existing young talent and have a squad next season genuinely capable of competing in a couple of trophies. The response to a result that was not a forgone conclusion all is somewhat crazy
