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Aside from the fact those 2 points would (today) be the difference between staying up and relegation. If you can’t be aggrieved by that what can you be?

You did watch Kelvin Davis at his near post right?

From the BBC; Tord we have received from the street is that Southampton are hoping to have a replacement for Mauricio Pellegrino in place by the weekend. They face Wigan on Sunday in the quarter finals of the FA Cup. The club has confirmed Assistant Manager Carlos Compagnucci and Assistant First Team Coach Xavier Tamarit have also parted company with the club. Dave Watson and Kelvin Davis both remain on the coaching staff at St Mary's. Southampton have had just 1 win in their last 17 league games and their next league fixture is away to West Ham United. You just know it’s davis and Watson on Sunday! Eek!

Start Long and lose. Start Guido and PERHAPS be a bit more of an attacking threat and have a chance in this game. Pointless spending 20m on a bloke who won’t be first choice for a team of our level.

I remember being at Sunderland away a couple of years back when the Johnson song was started. One lad was arrested so up started 3000 others ... he was de-arrested shortly after and the game continued. Good luck clearing a stand is all I will say.

Yeah spot on! As if giving an useless manager the boot for an inexperienced coach who has no managerial experience is the way to get us out of this mess? Pelegrino must go but not to be replaced by an even cheaper option if such a thing exists!

Personally think VVD is looking worse as the tactics have taken away his ability to stride forward out of defence with the ball. He will now often just play a pass to either wing back. Basically he has become a little less eye catching he hasn't become a worse player. I do however feel sometimes he looks a bit languid which doesn't help the perception of him being a lazy so n so!

Could have had an extra 25 years and we wouldn’t have scored in that game!

The West Ham game was at least entertaining as most 3-2 games are but the lack of consistency is really killing any feelings towards the team. You just know you’ll turn up and spend half the game thinking I wish I’d done something else!

Think you have to expect with a player like him that he will be a bit wimpy, might not tackle as much as our "hero" redmond but will probably be our best chance of a piece of magic that could win us a game.

185-7 about 12 balls left they couldn't could they?! :-s

You did watch the game on Saturday right? ;-) In fairness we don't seem to have any real break through players around at the moment and the best ones are out on loan so we can hardly expect much from our youth teams.

And yet our manager did not seem to mind us being totally battered in midfield and decided to leave our record signing on the bench. I'm yet to see MP tactically change a game for th better. Subs today were poor. Both issues the same as under Puel. Really disappointing game but the pre match language of trying to compete with Watford poor form Saints!

Having next to no songs for our players doesn't really help and those that do have a song e.g Davis rarely do anything of note that makes you want to sing it! Few goals and we will be fine again but god only knows when that will come about!

http://www.insidefutbol.com/2017/08/21/on-my-way-wesley-hoedt-travelling-to-southampton/347689/ Seems to be good news if this is any way reliable!

http://hoofoot.com/?match=Southampton_3_-_2_West_Ham_2017_08_19 For those who didn't fancy a quick Google good result!

Makes sense for the club to come out and publicly state they will not entertain Liverpool or anyone else's bid this year even if it repeats itself. Get VVD into realising he has no choice but to stay and get on with it.

Anyone but the bin dippers! Disgusting that he was happy to sign his 6 year deal last year earn his extra pounds, sign up as captain, go through a rehab and only then deciding he doesn't want to play here. Hope the club hold firm and refuse to deal with Liverpool AND make this explicit to Virgil. I actually am flabbergasted that he would essentially go on strike to sign for them? Virgil seriously? You are far too good for them! Probably worth leaking our evidence to the media ... it's what all big clubs do right?

Wasn't it Roberts who hammered our youth team on his own when at Notts Forest?

Did we ever here conclusively if Liverpool were under investigation or did their excuse for an apology put an end to that?

I fully agree they didn't fancy helping us out then and now we should fight tooth and nail to ensure if he does go it's to anyone but them.

8pm on Wednesday. Mutual consent. Thanks for hard work etc.

First half reasonable but so defensively minded you could see Gabbi kicking off about th lack of supporting pressure from midfield. 2nd half we had zero going forward we used to have a style of play now we just pass about aimlessly waiting for an opportunity to slow things down and let the oppo get back into shape. The midfield and strikers were so far apart tonight that they probably had to be reintroduced at full time. Utter dross at the moment you could feel the life being dragged out of the support watching this once we went 1-0 down. Tadic has been dire for weeks now yet stays on for the majority of the game and Bertrand has not been the left back of last year. Would be tempted to stick McQueen in next weekend just to shake him up a bit.

Bertrand at Chelsea? With the amount of crosses we seem to want to blast in from all angles though you'd think a pelle type player would have been on the agenda.