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So much for the hope that it was levelling off or decreasing

Loved The Killers since they first hit our shores in 2003/04 - the fact that they are due to play our home was pretty special to me so naturally I’ll be gutted when it inevitably gets cancelled - despite the statement the band put out last week. As with The joiners I expect Engine Rooms and The 1865 to struggle massively with no financial help, be a shame if any of them have to shut as it’s nice to have a choice of venues in Southampton at last.

**** Liverpool - makes up for the teams that suffered because of Heysel.

Knowing Saints they’ll tell us that the value of the missed matches will be taken off next seasons ST value, only way to prevent the inevitable huge drop in sales.

Appreciate your opinion on this but for me that’s simply not true. There’s have been games where St Mary’s has been absolutely rocking, louder than anything we managed at The Dell - Wolves in 03, Norwich in 05, Sheff Utd in 08, Coventry in 2012 to name a few, not to mention the games against Pompey. The fact is the poor form of the last 4 years; and general apathy and feeling of like turning up is a chore is what has created the less than intimidating atmosphere at home of late, not to mention the general day tripper Premier League experience the club are trying to create.

So basically Sharp has the same number of goals as Long, Adams and Obafemi COMBINED this season, but is only worth having if you want to fight to stay up!?

What did you expect us to do faced with over an hour of 10 vs 11, go all out for a win? Despite the extra man I wouldn’t say they were all over us, we were clearly lacking up top and I’d have taken a point given the circumstances. To lose to a stupid error, against a team that can’t even buy a goal makes it all the harder to take. 9th loss at home this season, and some utter helmets like Instant Classic have to nerve to criticise those of us that turn up whilst they stream from the comfort of their armchair. Can’t wait for the season to end

Totally undeserved. All that battle and completely let down by Valery.

Those of you criticising us fans, actually in attendance, without the benefit of replays, getting swept up in the VAR shenanigans can quite frankly go **** yourselves. you don’t get to criticise from your armchair

The no hand shake thing is so bloody ridiculous when you’ve got players jostling each other at corners and falling on top of each other from tackles etc.

West Ham fans were singing “top of the league and you still don’t sing” once Liverpool had gone 3-2 up. The myths about Anfield are almost as bad as Fratton.

Shame the question of why we give away fans more than we have to for cup games never came up.

*on west ham

They’re definitely proving a tough nut to crack - fully expect them to be set up totally different to this on Saturday though. If Liverpool turn this around for the win it could have a massive demoralising effect of West Ham (I hope)

Christ Glasgow have you been on the sauce? He’s part of the deadwood IMO, so average and we should be looking for more from a CM and Captain.

Awful isn’t it - imagine having to listen to it for 90 minutes. What was with her stupid comment about Vydra waiting 500 days for a goal and then two come along at once - don’t think that counts when they’re separate games the dopey bint.

As I said in the post match thread earlier there’s nobody else I’d want at RB other than Prowsey, he’s had both Zaha and Grealish in his pocket now.

A repeat of our first trip to their awful ground would be nice, and with the way we play away from home there’s no reason we couldn’t win comfortably. Don’t know how likely it is that West Ham AND Bournemouth could both go down but here’s hoping we can help with that.

Villa were probably the worst team I’ve seen at home this season and we still huffed and puffed to get a result. Djenepo goes from the sublime to the ridiculous it seems, Smallbone had a solid enough debut, Stephens was a rock, and there’s nobody else in our squad I think I’d rather have at Right Back than JWP. Our fans were good today, well done all.

Can’t help but wonder how the EFL Cup final might have gone with Caceres at the back instead of Stephens

More VAR inconsistency tonight as Harry Maguire escapes a red card for kicking out. The technology is great but **** me it’s meant to stop these debates.

I dunno, the last 7 or 8 years once they made the Archers our home end, used to be rocking and really felt like we made a difference when the team needed the boost. Because of the executive boxes, location of Britannia Road and away coaches, plus footbridge the only logical place to put the away fans is towards the Northam end of the kingsland, but I can’t see the club spending the money to adapt the stadium - particularly as they want St Mary’s as friendly for the day tripper as possible.

Technically a former saint in the winning defence too....

Fully expecting us to get turned over by Villa, 1-3 to them kind of score line. They’re a bit resurgent in recent games and their score lines aren’t a fair reflection of their performances, couple that with our fragile mentality at home and I only see one winner.

All in all a **** day out. We never looked like winning today, after the winter break and the talk of making our home form more formidable I don’t understand just why we were so poor today - so poor we made Burnley look good tbh. Can only assume with their first that Ings forgot his positioning and thought the harsh bend on the ball was taking it into the side netting - why is it always us that embarrasses themselves like that. Just like the Leicester game it put the myth of shooting towards the Northam second half being good for us. Roll on next week when a resurgent Villa come and do us over too I bet...