Guan 2.0

Best move the club have made since getting in Ralph.

Friends, friends, what is the issue here? It all seems perfectly straightforward and above board to me. Any club worth its salt would come out and soothe any underlying misgivings ASAP. And our club is well run, yes? Also, I hear the five pledges will be listed on the front page when the website goes live, so there's always that.

Austin looks like Aguero's fat dad with that haircut. Did the pitch invader try and poo in the goal. Can't wait for the summer clearout.

We had better all hope and pray for a Liverpool win in the champions league final. If Tottenham lift the trophy, and Pochettino decides his work is done, then eyes will be cast around the premier league for an experienced but younger manager, with European and champions league experience, who can imprint a style of play and personality onto a team.

If he means 40 points by the mid point of the season I have no problem with that statement. Also bear in mind that we have to try and compensate for players who we are already committed to buying (Ings, 20million), and the targets i mentioned in January who we bid for but did not buy, most notably Joakim Maehle and Che Adams, are now known publicly and their price will no doubt have gone up. Indecently, Birmingham's gamble in taking the points deduction after rejecting multiple bids has paid off handsomely. We have Loan players coming back to ship out again. We have 'squad' players who need to become part of another team's squad. But that is for another day. I'm off for many, many drinks. Evening all!

We are staying up. Happy with that. Relieved with that. Estastic with that! Ralph has turned us around. Not fully, but by utilising players that were wasting away in the reserves, and shipping out bad influences, we are markedly improved. The next two weeks are going to be really boring aren't they! Haha i don't care. Now we can start planning for the summer. Here's to next season. May our points be plentiful and our nuns be lucky.

Without Vest this seemed hard. Without Yoshi it seems impossible.

If Vest is still out: Gunn: Valery Bednerak Yoshida Bertrand Romeu Hojberg Ward Prowse Sims Armstrong Redmond I prefer 5 at the back, but Stephens vs Mane, Salah and Fabinho is the stuff of nightmares and title-winning dvd sets..

Iffy performance, great result, happy days. If Cardiff bomb tomorrow, then I will start working out what permutations we need.. feels like counting chickens until then. Huge game and we came through. I also think that Ralph will have to turn full used car salesman in the summer in order to shift the subs + deadwood. I don't know about the rest of you, but i'm going to commence drinking.

With good reason: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/southampton-mystified-by-163100000-that-went-missing-416213.html

That feeling when we turned it around. Remarkable. The game against Brighton is huge now. Need to deck Glenn Murray in the first 5 and then dominate. The next 21 days are going to dragggggg.

Lallana has been trending on twitter since the 0-0 draw with Everton. But hardly in the way he'd like.

The performance today, and Sol Bamba's injury for Cardiff, have me convinced we will stay up. Nice.

Saintettes wearing Dennis Rofe masks. #Crowdpleaser

I'm going to clutch at straws and presume that Ralph has a top secret, codeword: 'Downfall' strategy that he was working on in warm weather training, and today was a sacrifice match to misdirect our rivals. But I'm clutching the straw so tight it's compressing into Weetabix.

£50 bet to charity of your choice if we go down. We won't go down. The same defence won't play again, Hojberg won't play that badly again. The Majority of the muck will be exposed and excised on the Tenerife trip. Everybody needs to take a deep breath and regroup. Fans, players, manager.

How many points has Stephens cost us this season? IF Yoshida wasn't fit yet, should have gone with 4 at the back. In fact, we should have gone with that anyway. The sad thing is, a combo of Austin/Gallagher (subbed on when CA started blowing out of his **** after 50 mins) would have been the best use of the extra man.

I think the 20 minute review video will highlight that Yoshida plays instead of Stephens.

Think we will win this 3-1. Warnock and Cardiff Distracted, us boosted by returning players.

Liverpool fans ecstatic to see Lallana playing. https://twitter.com/search?q=Lallana&src=tren

Ings off. Still incredible that Liverpool managed to guarantee a 17 million pound profit on a player who is undoubtedly talented, but chronically injured. #Pantsdown.

He wasn't. But he was on our radar, like Mepham. Depends how badly brum need the money (see redknapp problems*)