Bewildered

Every time we play, we start well, dominate and maybe even score a couple. But the moment they are put under any sort of pressure or things start to go wrong the defenders suddenly look clueless as to what they are supposed to do and the midfield and attackers become a nonentity. Are they poorly motivated? Psychological weakness? Lack of a natural leader on the pitch?

Krueger went to school with and is rumoured to be friends with Ottmar Hitzfeld, just saying...

Worth the lead because Norwich are not really threatening at all, but second half the passing has to sharpen up. Against a decent side there is no way we'd be winning playing like this. Too many occasions we have ponced about with it a the back and been forced into a mistake. Also Boruc needs to sort his kicking out, absolutely diabolical.

That's some shoddy reporting by SSN then, because when they did the lead in to the clip the newsreader said MP claimed to have never met RK.

But why say it when the new Chairman has already claimed to have met Pochettino on numerous occasions prior to his appointment?

The way Cortese was able to have a number of Football journalists eating out of the palm of his hand by the time he left and the way those same journalists tore into KL and tried to sell a story of a club in with a clueless owner looking for a quick way out after he quit suggests he was more media savvy than people think.

Saw that rumour floating about on Twitter yesterday morning, before the Telegraph article was published.

Gordon Simpson ‏@gordonsimpson 2m Lovren getting treatment on the pitch after the whistle. Limping back to dressing room. #saintsfc

Or not #SaintsFC team vs Crystal Palace: Boruc, Clyne, Fonte, Lovren, Shaw, Cork, Schneiderlin, S. Davis, Lallana ©, Rodriguez, Lambert.

u21s 1-0 up now, mainly thanks to a bad piece of goalkeeping.

Watching it at the moment, second half just started, really bad game. England having all the possession, but Wales have had the better chances on the counter attack. JWP not exactly overextending himself. Isgrove has done absolutely nothing for Wales except being offside once.

No Lallana? smh

Can't Shoot Can't Defend Gave up at 2-0

Another half, another game where we display inept finishing and let the opposition score their only good chance (that they only have because of a silly mistake)

Harsh on Ramirez not to make the starting 11 after his performance last week.

I'm surprised they haven't announced their end of season "We beat Southampton" boat party yet.

Negatives Lambert: Really poor again, he's lucky Carroll has hardly played this season. Rodriguez: Can't pass, prone to heavy touches and can't shoot to save his life if he is given time to think. Shaw: Caught way too narrow for their third, not his best game. Mind you, Rodriguez doesn't really help him much. Lallana: Should have scored twice. Still, he kept going to the end at least. Schneiderlin: Rarely showed urgency. Yoshida: Good goal, but ****ing hell he was poor defensively today. Fonte: Not much better. Davis: Hard worker, but against teams that are happy to defend and get goals on the counter or from set pieces he lacks quality. Positives: Ramirez: MoM for us, pulled the strings and contributed to a number of attacks that should have resulted in goals. Will be disappointed if he does not start next Saturday.

Pretty ****ing hopeless really. Played well until the linesman ****ed us over but that was the 11th minute. Once they got the second, they narrowed up and sat deep, a tactic that usually works against us.

It would be awful, he'd fill the team with talentless bodybuilders. Oh yeah, he's failed at everything that isn't wrestling such as his American Football league and his bodybuilding league

Phone voting is passé, it's all about twitter now Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC 1h Who do you want to play up front for #saintsfc this afternoon? RT for Lambert or Fav for Gallagher #WHUSOU

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1925035-luke-shaw-talks-to-bigadamsport-after-saintsfc-s-1-0-facup-defeat-at-sunderland Luke Shaw saying what Perez wouldn't. Apologised to the fans who made the effort to go up there and admits they weren't good enough.

If MP is here next season and we do sneak into the EL via 7th place, I dread to think who he'd send out for those games given it's the only competition he has rubbished in public.

Absolute ****, somehow even worse in the second half. Clyne Guly JWP Kelvin Yoshida All showed they have no business starting for us. Lambert was awful and I don't think Lallana has ever played that badly as he did in the second half.