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honestly there have been some quite ridiculous comments about this incident. Mourinho making himself look every bit like a Sam Aldyce a complete dinosaur. I have no love for Vin Junior seeing as he plays for that white shite but it's 2026 and some fans, players and managers act as if they are still dragging their nuckles in some cave somewhere!

Would be very surprised if Charlton didn't win tonight

The draw is a decent one IF we are serious about trying to progress to the next round. However the weeks leading up to the cup game will no doubt decide how much of a rotated side we put out! If we continue our good league form and sit in one off the playoff positions or literally just outside then absolute priority has to be given to the league and i would expect a rotated side (certainly not our strongest)

If we really want to reach the playoffs there is little wiggle room for error now, we simply have to win our home games and get the odd point here and there away from home. Should make for an exciting but very nervous run in!

With the way the Cup results have gone today it is highly likely with our luck we will be drawn away to one of Arsenal, Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea or Newcastle

And even further to be considered in the same standing as Lawrie Mac!

Has a non-Premier League side ever won the FA Cup? A non-Premier League has never won the FA Cup, but teams from outside of the English top-flight have won the competition before the rebrand of the Premier League in 1992.

For me the club are making a decision on what is best for the clubs future not what football fans romantically would like to see. If we go back to 1976 when Saints won the Cup there was not the Sky money and there was not the huge wages being earned by todays players. It is all about money today even if we do not like it! Even if we a slight chance of reaching the Premier League then it has to grasped and the FA Cup play second fiddle to it.

I'm not sure why some are getting worked up about us playing fringe players for this. We are 1 point away from the playoffs and as far as the club and finances are concerned the Premier League is the Holy Grail. Can you imagine the fallout on here if we had played a first 11 and any of our better had got injured. It's just not worth the risk for a competition that we are unlikely to win.

A little bit upset by little Southampton wasn't he. Hope there weren't any bridges on his way home!

Without doubt you cannot ask for a better debut and i think when that bullet header went in we all thought "wow I wasn't expecting that", i certainly wasn't. It is far too early to say if Larin will be hit or miss BUT he is already an upgrade on DOWNS because he scored and he uses his physicality to hold up the ball and cause defenders a bit of a nightmare. My one concern is he appears woefully unfit. He reminds me of Tall Paul in that respect "blowing out of his arse within 10 minutes" At the moment he has not got 45 minutes in him and this is one of the things that fans from his previous clubs cited. We need to manage his game time carefully as we have with Stewart and hope to god Stewart stays fit. I see him being used as an impact sub at best for the last 20/25 minutes of games.

Unfortunately I did pick up on him looking in some discomfort soon after scoring and rubbing the back of his leg. He obviously carried on to the final whistle so hopefully was only a tweak.

something has gone on behind the scenes, there's no way you freeze out an asset to the point no one really made a concrete offer to sign him. I would love to know what he did because i can't believe he didn't do anything....it just does not make any sense.

For me today is where this set of players need to show they are still very much in the hunt for a playoff place. I want to see a statement of intent from us and to go at Watford from the start. We need to be winning all our home games now without fail as we have left ourselves a mountain to climb. Lose today and unfortunately i will not see us as a playoff contender.

I think the fans will give him a fair crack of the whip, lets face it Damion Downs only started to get negative crap from the terraces after quite a run of games where he contributed nothing whatsoever. All Larin has to do is put himself about, run around a bit and he's automatically better than DD.