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Can we get Rickie Lambert on emergency loan for penalties please?

Glad to see the referee has some sense of sportsmanship, even if Stoke don't. Can't beat us fairly so they're reverting to type - dirty tackles, lump it long to Crouch.

Charlie Adam on. We're saved.

1-2, good goal. N'Zonzi.

From BBC Sport commentary: HALF-TIME Stoke 0-2 Southampton Posted at 20:31 The treble's still on for Southampton.

Downstairs again, missed another goal... this pie had better be worth it.

For goodness' sake, I was downstairs for 2 minutes putting my chips in the oven!

Excellent, thanks ART!

Our line up is equally as good as it was on Saturday though, arguably stronger in midfield with Wanyama in. Gardos certainly doesn't seem a downgrade from Toby, from the little we've seen of them both, and Targett isn't much of a step down from Bertrand. Long in for Mane isn't a change in strength, it's a change in attacking style, I think. No reason why we can't win this.

Yeah, Koeman said a slight knock on his ankle. Probably fine for Hull.

I would have thought Cork is one of those players that even if the manager doesn't rate him massively well, you keep him signed up because the fans all love him? Besides, he'll be a great replacement up front should Pelle get injured this season! EDIT: But cheers for the info Monk, greatly appreciated.

Just hope we're ahead at ~60 minutes, there's not much in the way of attacking options on that bench. Interesting that Reed's on the bench too considering he played two days ago. Stoke's side looks pretty strong, Arnautovic has always looked impressive to me.

Ahh, the good old English language and knowing how to use and interpret it correctly...

And we always follow Lawro's predictions...

Wow, I sure hope there are no Stokies reading this thread! We annoyed them enough when we were third!

Calling it now: we will finish well enough to keep hold of Morgan Schneiderlin.

Realistically Everton are most likely, but if Spurs and Liverpool continue their current forms for the rest of the season then I don't see why we can't seriously worry them. It will depend on how long Sturridge manages to stay fit for, whether Lukaku can get a decent run of form going, and who Spurs replace Pochettino with in January. Chelsea, Man City and Arsenal will almost certainly be well out of reach my March, United will do fine too if they can buy an actual defender/defensive midfielder in January. I still find it a bit worrying though how much of our success depends on Forster not getting injured. One mis-timed jump from somebody and we're stuck with Kelvin or Gazza.

Is Isgrove fit yet? Wouldn't mind seeing him get some game time too.

1272 Stoke fans. Amazing support.

Really hope we can get a second just to shut the Batmen up!

I've always thought he was brilliant, one of my favourite players growing up. Charges everywhere, always absolutely drenched by the end of a game. Would be a decent squad player I think but I'm not sure he'd get much game time... maybe for those midweek Champions' League games

We're only eight games in and we already know it will be Di Maria or Costa that gets it, barring serious injury. After what happened last summer, I'm not sure I want any of our players being praised by the media at the end of the season.

This is 8-0:

Agreed, Vergini's was excellent. I was also really quite impressed by Tadic's goal - hit first time, not much time to think about it, managed to keep it away from the keeper and on target. Great strike.