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Saints are looking woeful now. Passes going astray. Tackles missed. Shape gone.

No shape. No hope now.

Started 2nd half as sloppy as 1st ended.

Could lose this badly now.

Dear oh dear! Lost it completely.

Saints not a threat at all at the mo. Get to half time at 1-1 and start again.

Before the game I'd have taken that but to miss an easy chance for 1-4 and then not hold on despite playing against 10 men for much of the time disappoints.

We're gonna lose this aren't we?

Crouch on. I reckon I know what'll happen now.

Oh dear. Miss a sitter for 1-4 and then it's 2-3 all of a sudden. We'll do well to hold on to this.

Looking comfy so far but plenty of time to screw it up yet. I'd be looking for at least one more 'cos I'm sure well concede at some stage. Keep it at a two goal lead for another 30 mins and I'll start to relax just a tad.

I'd hope the players put up more of a fight than some on here. Stoke away will be tough but surely not completely beyond us.

Perhaps I'd think about having JR and Lambert with the latter being required to augment the defence at set pieces. To get anything at Stoke we have to take the game to them, keep the ball, don't concede any free-kicks, never put the ball out of play in our own half, be physical and (just for a change) take our chances to score. Simple really.

Disappointing stuff again. Saints seem to have lost any sort of attacking ideas. Goals have dried up.

We don't have to walk it into the net FFS! Try shooting (on target).

Rather inept performance. Saints were always likely to gift us a spot of despair for Christmas.

Sunderland were poor. Saints were worse.

0-1 down and we've hardly had a shot. Dreadful stuff!

Another rubbish free kick

Jeez! I never thought that Saints would be worse in the 2nd than the 1st.

Very lethargic stuff from Saints. Awful ball retention and hardly any decent chances created. I predict 0-2.

I live in Reading so feel that I really should stick up for some of their long-standing diehard types. There are a few but, frankly, not many although I tend to find the ones that I chat to pretty fair. Tonight in the pub there was no doubt about the better side today. Something I do find though is that a lot of Reading fans also seem to support some other team, be it Chelsea or Spurs or Liverpool or whatever. Maybe it's something to so with JCLs or perhaps the large number of people living here that hail from elsewhere. It all seems rather bizarre.

What's the difference?

Will be setting off from Reading for match soon. I really require Saints to make my life in the local here tonight a bit easier than it has been over recent seasons. A comfortable win would be nice but I don't think the Royals will be pushovers.

Nope. I meant the Agger goal. Watched it slowed down on my MOTD recording and he's offside when the ball is played. Surprised more didn't notice.