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The long forgotten feeling of reaching 40 points with games to spare while seeing off one of the "top" sides. Wonder when we'll experience that again anytime soon.

Agreed. However. There's something seriously amiss with Saints defensive coaching. Conceding 3 goals every game is worse than relegation form.

Must admit that I don't pop in here as regularly as some but I seem to recall a discussion of some pledges some weeks back. Did anything come of them? I guess they'd have to be rewritten anyway given the pending relegation.

St Mary's Stadium. It's cursed. Already relegated from the top division twice as many times there as we were at The Dell.

I'm aware of that but am clutching at the final straw. That's all the hope there is. Any team above us now ought to feel fairly safe.

You have heard of the phrase "six pointer"?

I'm treating the Leicester as that game in hand. A must win if ever there was one. Realistically it ain't going to happen though. Bournemouth to deliver the final nail?

The game against Swansea will be key if we win the game in hand.

The game in hand is the only straw to be clutched at now.

Just about all that could go wrong did go wrong today.

FFS. Hudd 1-0.

Didn't realise that the free kick for Chelsea's first was taken from the wrong place. Poor defending against Giroud all the same but Dean hasn't helped us at all.

Maybe Saints should have signed Giroud given that he always scores at St Mary's.

Gutting. We're all but down now.Started scoring some but our defence just loses concentration and there's another 3 conceded.

Our defending is unbelievably poor. 2-3. It's what we feared would happen.

It'll be an almost welcome relief when it finally happens.

Much better but 3 goals conceded again. Probably 3 wins required out of 6 games. There was some passion & fight there today but I fear it's all too late. Hope to be proved wrong though.

Well at least they showed a bit of passion.

Our defence is so easily penetrated.

Started the half well with good energy but ended it looking somewhat knackered and slightly disorganised. Need to be fitter.

Doesn't help that the ref is giving Saints nothing.

If only Tadic had a right foot.

That sums it up ofr Saints

Not very good in the air which is important given where he plays. I think he'd make a decent right back or part of a 3 man centre. He might even do a job in midfield given how much better he is on the floor than the air.

Given their easy run in I don't reckon we should be bothering with Palace. They'll be alright. We're 4 points adrift of catchable teams.