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Yep, that’s my main takeaway from today, I never want to see AMN in a Saints shirt ever again. Perraud is a better player than he gets credit for and should be playing regularly, not tucking about with KWP or Lyanco at LB, square pegs in square holes etc Seeing how much we struggled today convinced me we will need to make about 10 new signings when we go down as some of this lot are not up to the championship. Lastly, I’m genuinely disappointed that we’ve played Sheff Weds, Blackpool and Lincoln in the cup this season and none of the U21s have had a look in. It goes against everything we apparently stand for, “the Southampton way”, no wonder Morgan is looking to leave.

Hopefully if there a any good to come of that, it’s that’s the club might take away fans in the home end a bit more seriously

A lot of hard done by crying on here about various aspects of the game last night. Truth is we got exactly what we deserved, fuck all. We did not play well enough to get anything out of the game, and the same old flaws were there for all to see. That City performance really was a one off, and any of you travelling up to SJP next week have my upmost respect knowing that Jones and his team are very likely to let us all down again

Can’t blame their optimism given the way our respective seasons have gone. I’m as apathetic about this semi final as the one against Chelsea a few years ago.

Indeed. We were well in with a shout of staying up if we had made the right appointment instead of jones, one that actually gave us a bounce, someone who quite clearly wasn’t so incredibly out of his depth. Ive resigned myself to the sad reality that we’re stuck with him until it’s too late. In fact I fully expect him to be in charge next season before finally getting the sack after 10 games when a promotion charge is already well out of reach.

Did you even watch the game? Bazunu is just Angus Gunn mark II. I was happy to give him the benefit of the doubt and see how he got on as the season progressed but enough is enough, he inspires zero confidence. Caballero needs to come in if AM is still injured. Any optimism I had after the miracles of last week had faded by half time today. I know people will go back to the VAR decision but we didn’t deserve anything. No way we make up 25 points in 18 games, we’re fucked. This side is worse than the one that went down in 04/05, and that’s saying something

That performance against City really was a fluke, as we really are dreadful. SR deserve relegation for their ineptitude.

Tough game but with the momentum behind us we should come away from this with a least a point. Hopefully the squad benefit from a bit more rest this week after the effort they put in last, and we see another City like performance.

Absolutely huge result that. Get a striker in this window and we stand a really good chance of getting out of this, incredible that despite how shit we’ve been we’re not cut adrift yet. Can’t believe we’ve finally broke our Goodison hoodoo. Even more enjoyable after the way their fans behaved when they took Koeman from us to see them struggling like they are. Boo fucking hoo. Need to get something against Villa now, hopefully the team feel the weight lifting from their shoulders at St Mary’s now.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss!!!!!!!! Fucking get in!!!!

If we could fucking beat liverpool over two legs we can sure as hell beat Newcastle.

Well played Jonesy, credit where it’s due. Nice scenes at the end, seems the squad really like him.

Fair play lads cracking half. Please Jonesy don’t fuck about and try to protect the lead.

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!

Boom! Great finish too, fair play. So frustrating that we raise our game for City and not Forest though!!

Wondered if it was just me!!!

7/1 on over 5.5 goals. That’ll take the edge off

Did everyone else get the text from the club letting us know tickets are available? Never known that before, seems pretty desperate. Photos in twitter suggest all the big names are in town so it’ll certainly be an arse whipping tonight, although I fully expect Pep to tell the team to back off once they get to 0-4.

But these are the bestest fans in all the land. They conquered Spurs at the weekend. Surely they wouldn’t only take 200 to an away game. Apparently they’re protesting the competition - what a load of bollocks. Like they did the other year until they reached the final.

Huge credit? Are they taking the piss? Only 200 after taking 1 million fans to Spurs at the weekend?

Saw Darren Anderton outside his parents home whilst I was doing my paper round ahead of the spurs game against us at the Dell in the 1998-99 season. Was star struck as a kid seeing an England international hanging about Oaktree Road, me and my mate I was with ended up asking his dad if he had any autographs we could have. Nowadays i’d probably just call him a skate bastard. In response to Turkish I didn’t realise Aaron Flahavan was a fellow Bitterne Parker, and that his funeral was at St James Church, all kind of passed me by at the time. Didn’t Nicky Banger go to school there too?

Same. Incredible how fast life can pass you by. His free kick at home to Coventry the following Wednesday was even better. 5 time Champions League winner - made in Southampton.

That Monaco kit came 2nd thankfully, the winner was one of our best ever kits I’d say. No surprise considering the fans chose it!! Im a fan of mixing it up too, although this years effort is an abomination. A bit more red like the 99-01 shirt might have saved it a little. If we do return to stripes I just hope we finally go back to a striped back too, as the plain backs look shit.

I thought Vernon was a well known Bolton fan?

About 10’000 left looking at the website. Shows the general feeling around the club at the minute that most people can’t be arsed with a cup game that would be considered a “gold” fixture in the league, especially at discounted price.