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Can't see if it's been posted, but Lovren and Gastón have both traveled with the squad today.

Would hate it. As an ex-wrestling nut, seeing the affiliation would make me cringe. Would probably have a wrestling-saints cross over and the WWE logo would be embarrassing to have pasted everywhere!

I did think I'd seen the figure 6000 before but wasn't sure. Definitely don't think 6,000 have sheds that big!! haha

Always try and make it to Palace away as it's about 10 minutes from me. Last time out there our traveling support treated them to a rendition of "I've got a shed that's bigger than this!" which I highly doubted. In fact, I have a suspicion that not even one of the 4,000 away fans had a shed that big.

I probably should have worded that less defensively! Wasn't really aimed at you per sé, your comment was just what got me thinking. I agree he hasn't been as "effective" under MP, but think that is relative to his role in the the squad, which I think has changed in the last year.

He hasn't been as bad as most on here are making out lately. Been a sturdy increase in misplaced passes from him, sure, but he pops up all over the pitch during a match and more importantly pops up with a moment of magic every now and again. Brilliant work ethic and commitment to winning the ball and always trying to do something productive with it.

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Watching Lambert bag his 100th League goal for us at Fulham a couple weeks back will be a memory I keep hold of for a while. Going mental when he scored for England with his first touch, too, an obvious highlight. Bragging rights in the office after a win against Liverpool at their place was also nice, too!

Don't people on this site often say that the Daily Echo don't know what they're talking about?

This should be in the signing up e-mail so that people have a headsup! If you want a break from realism and logic, head on over to the Saintsweb Forums!

Probably a major factor in some of us not being too affected by the FA Cup. Amazing support from those that went to Sunderland. Sounded louder (from what I heard on TV) than the thousands of fans who were at the Burnley game last month (from what I heard in person)!

Completely agree. I only mean the quality of the strike was unsaveable, but totally agree that it was in our hands to stop him having so much space and time. For me, Lambert gets a lot more flack than he deserves lately, passing hasn't been great at times, but the way he collects the ball and holds up the play when necessary is a joy to watch. Was worried he was going to get a lot of stick for that miss, but it seems a lot of the blame has landed on the shoulders of MP, when, as you have outlined in your posts - there was a lot of room for improvement all over the park! Would have liked to have seen Morgan starting, but apparently he looked knackered on Tuesday so maybe that played a factor.

It's a bad selection in people's eyes because we didn't win. Rodriguez and Fonte had knocks so weren't going to start. Clyne, Wanyama and JWP coming in are hardly liabilities. Jos is a weak link but with Lovren out and fonte not 100%, what other option did we have there? Same with Guly / Rodriguez. Sure we could have started McQueen but if we'd have lost people would still be slaughtering Pochettino on here. Starting lineup in my eyes was capable of winning that match, it was the performance that let us down. There was hardly any pressure, no hassling, we didn't squeeze up the pitch enough until the second half when we were already losing. We lacked our fluidity, and yes, that motivation should have come from MP. Every team has bad days though, and we have taken results from more games overall this season than losses, and so one bad performance is not too much of a worry. As I've said elsewhere, we lost to a wonder goal. No keeper would have saved that, and we missed a tap in. If the ball had hit the side of Lambert's boot as opposed to his shin, we would have a replay at St. Mary's and this place wouldn't be in meltdown. It's funny, this place only gets this busy when we've played poorly or somethings happened that people don't like. When we beat Liverpool at Anfield or thumped Hull at our place, there wasn't this much commotion then. Also, the stomping home analogy seems far better suited to those throwing their toys out of the pram because they didn't get the cup run that they demanded. I am trying to be rational and say that it's not the end of the world as some are making out.

No, you're right, but I'm sure you know what I mean. More often than not this season we have been great. Liverpool and Cardiff away, Fulham and Hull at home to name a few. Yesterday wasn't great, but even Man City have off days.

And one that was won nearly 20 years before I was born. No matter how many times I read my copy of "in that number" or watch the match on DVD, it is difficult to get as excited by that than the brilliant football i get to watch us play week in, week out now.

They just don't excite me as much. Was at the Burnley game a few weeks back and judging by the atmosphere that day I wasn't the only one, outsung by the travelling fans all game. Actually only seriously got into saints when we'd just been relegated to League 1, so if that makes me a "Premiership/Sky fan" then I guess that's what I am...

I don't think it helped that some of that squad haven't played much football together this year, and so at times looked like strangers, didn't click as well as usual, but we played a lot of first teamers. Lallana, Shaw, Yoshida, Lambert, Davies, Wanyama and Clyne are regulars in the league. Hardly as bad as people on here are making out selection wise. As you say, motivation was clearly a major issue - but then Lallana, Davies and Lambert have all said they wanted to win the cup this year, so it's a very odd one. It's worth noting too that one of the PR guys on Twitter said that Rodriguez and Fonté were both carrying knocks, hence why they didn't start.

Not our best side, no, but players like Clyne coming in (who last season was being championed by most on here & touted for England), Wanyama, JWP and Davis (Who was decent when called upon yesterday) hardly makes a bad side. As I said above: Bad performance, not necessarily bad selection. And Chez, no, I didn't travel to Sunderland, but then I have very little interest in the cups.

That's what I can't get my head around, it wasn't realistic in the end because we couldn't and didn't do it. We couldn't even beat Sunderland yesterday, so why do people think we could have gone on and knocked a Man City or Arsenal out?

Why is there the belief that we were going to win the cup anyway this season? Before Pochettino's "woeful" selection (using entirely regular first teamers, heaven forbid!), why were so many adamant that we were going to win it? We've only won the FA Cup once in 128 years for a reason. At the end of the day, it wasn't a bad selection, it was a bad performance. Every team has them, we lost to a wonder goal and missed a sitter - if Lambert had tapped that open goal in we'd have them to come to our place and you lot wouldn't be moaning half as much. Utter, utter madness on here.

Is it not enough for you that so far this season we've "actually won" more league games than 11 other premier league teams?

Shame on them, eh! You'd think they'd have something proper to moan about by now, like how Pochettino is useless for trying to use all the players available to him!

Don't forget to mention the betting, you know a thing or two about that if I remember well, and that usually annoys 'em, too!

Don't talk too much sense on here, the regulars don't seem to like it! You're meant to react extremely to what has just happened and then forget you said anything of the sort when something else happens a week later! Of course his selection was made with the best intentions, all the players used today have featured before (apart from McQueen) and so have been trusted before. Although we made a slew of changes, 3 of those changes were starting positions for Wanyama, Clyne and Ward-Prowse who are hardly "weak" members of our squad! Very strange reaction from the forum (and the media - Gary Lineker on Twitter particularly) trying to look for a reason for our general poor performance.