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I think that the club should refund all fans that went up there tbh. Made utterly no attempt to beat the worst team in the premier league and a great chance to get to the final.

 

How arrogant are we, almost the entire fan base would have taken a cup final win over europa league qualification through the league. They both achieve the same thing after all....

 

If we don't achieve Champions League now then the club have seriously let us down and failed, because that is what they try to spoonfeed everyone.... so if europa league is not good enough, dish the godamn champions league footy... but that ofc won't happen and is a few season off at best... therefore what was wrong with the ******* cup option ffs.

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I'll tell you how.

 

First Jack Cork - what the hell has happened to him? Shadow of the player from last season.

 

Terrible worthless foul to give away.

 

Fox, who exactly was he marking on the free kick?

 

Kelvin - love him but ROOTED to his line on the header across. If he comes out and lifts his arms up - guess what - he's taller than everyone else in the box!! Which is why he don't play much at this level...

 

The second goal happens when you're all out for the equaliser.

 

What's Cork done wrong? Had a decent game.

 

And what do you expect from someone who has been on the bench all season. Of course he's not going to be at the level of last season, and if we're honest - we're used to better now, no matter how good Cork was for us. Wanyama and Morgan are rightfully the midfield 2.

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Premier appearances this season - max ten games (includes coming on as a sub although that mainly applies to us as theirs are starters)

Sunderland

Mannone =1

Celustka =9

Bardsley = 3

Gardner 6

Brown = 1

O'Shea = 9

Johnson =10

Colback = 10

Altidore =10

Ki = 6

Giaccherin = 7

 

 

Davis =0

Chambers =4

Fox = 2

Reed = 0

Yoshida = 0

26 Hooiveld =0

09 Rodriguez = 10

18 Cork =3

19 Lee = 0

10 Ramírez = 5

08 Davis = 6

 

 

pretty much their first team against our reserves

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I reckon so. 17 big ones - wasted.

 

More importantly, looks like we can lay the myth to rest about having squad depth.

 

I think those are the main issues - how long are we going to persevere, he's not delivering so could well be that we look to offload. Problem 1 - whose likely to want to pay anywhere near what we did?

 

Doing great in the league at the moment - but depth of squad looks thin. Problem 2 - a couple of injuries and we start to slide.

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I think that the club should refund all fans that went up there tbh. Made utterly no attempt to beat the worst team in the premier league and a great chance to get to the final.

 

How arrogant are we, almost the entire fan base would have taken a cup final win over europa league qualification through the league. They both achieve the same thing after all....

 

If we don't achieve Champions League now then the club have seriously let us down and failed, because that is what they try to spoonfeed everyone.... so if europa league is not good enough, dish the godamn champions league footy... but that ofc won't happen and is a few season off at best... therefore what was wrong with the ******* cup option ffs.

 

what the hell are you on about. even the team we faced made 7 changes

why is it such a surprise when teams do this?

 

the obtaining CL is the arrogant bit, you idiot

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It's all very we'll concentrating on the league, but let's be real, we ain't going to win it, it will be a miracle if we finish higher than 7th, and we have Hull at home on Saturday .

FFS, we want to win things, as fans, trips to finals are few and far between, and this was a definite chance, and we did not go for it. Why? So Lambert is not tired on Saturday, do me a favour!

Our first team would have won here tonight, just don't buy this second string cup team, it's ****** and we will end up in 8th or 9th (which is not bad) and people will say "well done Southampton......"

But that is all we will have to show for it, can't wait for the commemorative T Shirt, Merse and Lawro being patronisingly kind about us. Can tell my grand kids about how we finishe 8th one year

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Some bellend will try, they always do, its tiresome, we need to come together and finally all admit he is **** and will always be ****, he was a Cortese signing thats truly ****ed up, our British players from League 1 have given us the impetus to get where we are, no expensive gambles, where is Osvaldo?

 

What's really tiresome is ****s like you calling your own players ****

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It's all very we'll concentrating on the league, but let's be real, we ain't going to win it, it will be a miracle if we finish higher than 7th, and we have Hull at home on Saturday .

FFS, we want to win things, as fans, trips to finals are few and far between, and this was a definite chance, and we did not go for it. Why? So Lambert is not tired on Saturday, do me a favour!

Our first team would have won here tonight, just don't buy this second string cup team, it's ****** and we will end up in 8th or 9th (which is not bad) and people will say "well done Southampton......"

But that is all we will have to show for it, can't wait for the commemorative T Shirt, Merse and Lawro being patronisingly kind about us. Can tell my grand kids about how we finishe 8th one year

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What's Cork done wrong? Had a decent game.

 

Terrible worthless foul to give away...

 

And what do you expect from someone who has been on the bench all season. Of course he's not going to be at the level of last season, and if we're honest - we're used to better now, no matter how good Cork was for us. Wanyama and Morgan are rightfully the midfield 2.

 

What I want is players who really make a point when they get their chance and he hasn't. He's better than tonight (agree it's tough when you haven't been playing). The point I was making is that he gave away a poor and unnecessary free kick which combined with my other points led to a sloppy goal...

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MP will have learnt a bit tonight about which players he will want to keep for next season. Can't see Ramirez, Lee, Fox being around. Not sure Kelvin will either.

 

Jos as well, I'd have thought one of our younger CBs would be better such as Stephens or the new one we recently signed

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It's all very we'll concentrating on the league, but let's be real, we ain't going to win it, it will be a miracle if we finish higher than 7th, and we have Hull at home on Saturday .

FFS, we want to win things, as fans, trips to finals are few and far between, and this was a definite chance, and we did not go for it. Why? So Lambert is not tired on Saturday, do me a favour!

Our first team would have won here tonight, just don't buy this second string cup team, it's ****** and we will end up in 8th or 9th (which is not bad) and people will say "well done Southampton......"

But that is all we will have to show for it, can't wait for the commemorative T Shirt, Merse and Lawro being patronisingly kind about us. Can tell my grand kids about how we finishe 8th one year

Is there an applause button? I'd press it after that. Entirely correct. Our disdain for this competition is really disappointing.

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I see that Gaston did not have such a good second half.

 

Possibly off in Jan

 

Done my best for the lad.....:rolleyes:

 

He's let a few people down. Of course we all wanted him to do well and the odd flashes and 10 minutes here and 5 minutes there of excellent play proved he could do it. Maybe its an attitude thing more than a physical thing with him. I don't think we'll ever know. And to think.. we poached him from under Liverpool's noses... Hmmm... Still, we all buy a lemon now and again. Onwards and upwards.

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what the hell are you on about. even the team we faced made 7 changes

why is it such a surprise when teams do this?

 

the obtaining CL is the arrogant bit, you idiot

 

see above, 8 of the sunderland first team were playing.... then you have the two suspensions... so they made 1 unforced change.... either way, that is the worst team in the prem bar maybe palace.... what exactly are the club trying to achieve.. if its europa league qualification then the cup would do it.... if its CL this season they are frigging crazy... The entire fan base would have wanted a League cup win than finishing 5th-7th... Yet the club made next to no attempt when really even minimum effort should have been required.

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see above, 8 of the sunderland first team were playing.... then you have the two suspensions... so they made 1 unforced change.... either way, that is the worst team in the prem bar maybe palace.... what exactly are the club trying to achieve.. if its europa league qualification then the cup would do it.... if its CL this season they are frigging crazy... The entire fan base would have wanted a League cup win than finishing 5th-7th... Yet the club made next to no attempt when really even minimum effort should have been required.

 

they are not the worst team in the league though are they.

they still have good players. I would not be them getting out of trouble

 

look at you getting all arrogant that we never batted them away with ease

they made 7 changes by the way

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Premier league team with a bit of a thin squad looking for a decent premier league finish in not taking the crapital one cup particularly seriously shocker.

Shame for the fans who travelled all the way up there, but did anyone seriously expect anything different?

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Premier appearances this season - max ten games (includes coming on as a sub although that mainly applies to us as theirs are starters)

Sunderland

Mannone =1

Celustka =9

Bardsley = 3

Gardner 6

Brown = 1

O'Shea = 9

Johnson =10

Colback = 10

Altidore =10

Ki = 6

Giaccherin = 7

 

 

Davis =0

Chambers =4

Fox = 2

Reed = 0

Yoshida = 0

26 Hooiveld =0

09 Rodriguez = 10

18 Cork =3

19 Lee = 0

10 Ramírez = 5

08 Davis = 6

 

 

pretty much their first team against our reserves

 

Yep, if your sad enough to go on their forum like I am you'll see that they think it is virtually a full strength side.

It just makes our loss more of a joke tbh.

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they are not the worst team in the league though are they.

they still have good players. I would not be them getting out of trouble

 

look at you getting all arrogant that we never batted them away with ease

they made 7 changes by the way

 

It's arrogant to think we could put our reserves out and still go through.

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Happy days for everyone, as the utterly uninteresting Gaston-debate is fuelled again. Wohoo.

 

Meanwhile, Harrison Reed played 90 minutes in the heart of midfield and Sam Gallagher got his debut(?) for the senior side. Chambers and Ward-Prowse again involved. Not a great match, no, but there are positives if you look beyond the same old arguments...

 

Edit: oh, and they had one of their more important first team players (Giaccherini) injured which shows why the manager sometimes have to make difficult choices with games like these - imagine Lovren or Boruc out injured after tonight?

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I can't believe anyone wouldn't want that.

 

Personally, I don't see why we shouldn't target higher than 7th. What's wrong with aspiring? We've proven we're a match for the club in second (we beat them at their place).

We got a point at Old Trafford (ok they're not so hot this season as in season's past).

 

I DETEST playing a second string team in any game but I sympathise with a manager who has to try somehow to see who else is good enough to challenge for the first team...

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I can not believe some of our fans would rather we finished 17th and won a Cup every time, I do question our fanbase sometimes, what do they genuinely want from the club?

 

I question people like you spending their time on here slating our players and only turning up when we are losing/or have lost. You cant possibly support Saints, so go and troll somewhere else or go out and get some friends. Is your life really that boring that you have to spend your days on a football forum trolling?

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He's let a few people down. Of course we all wanted him to do well and the odd flashes and 10 minutes here and 5 minutes there of excellent play proved he could do it. Maybe its an attitude thing more than a physical thing with him. I don't think we'll ever know. And to think.. we poached him from under Liverpool's noses... Hmmm... Still, we all buy a lemon now and again. Onwards and upwards.

 

Did my best to coach him;)...Always lived in hope:)

 

Onwards and upwards:D

 

At least 3 new players in Jan....

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see above, 8 of the sunderland first team were playing.... then you have the two suspensions... so they made 1 unforced change.... either way, that is the worst team in the prem bar maybe palace.... what exactly are the club trying to achieve.. if its europa league qualification then the cup would do it.... if its CL this season they are frigging crazy... The entire fan base would have wanted a League cup win than finishing 5th-7th... Yet the club made next to no attempt when really even minimum effort should have been required.

 

What a lot of ****** you talk...so winning tonite guaranteed a League Cup victory.. Hull game is far more important than this mickey mouse cup

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