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Cabrone

Cabrone

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Everton will always be our bogey team after 84 and the fact that they had the hex on us for ages in the 80s and 90s. These things scar you as a fan.

 

If we lose Europe is dead IMO but if we can win then Villa (a) is next (win - surely?) and I feel we could go into that Citeh game with a bit of momentum and get the win......then things might start to get interesting.

 

Bottom line - this is a must win if we are to have any chance of Europe (barring some freak set of cup results\table positions\divine intervention).

M271

M271

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I'm still left mentally scared from the 8 - 0 to Everton in Nov 1971. That afternoon I was competing in the Southampton Cubs Totem Pole competition for 2nd Southampton at Shirley Warren School, we won but the first thing I asked my dad was how did Saints do, when he told me the result I remember feeling so deflated. A life sentence of being a Saints fan ................

Lighthouse

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Interestingly none of the Sky pundits on Super6 have gone for an Everton win.

 

Jeff, Charlie and Dale all went for 1-2 with the rest going for a draw (Matt went with 1-1, as did I).

Saint Charlie

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Massive chance with Barkley and Lukaku set to be left out.

 

There is a lot of talk from the squad about "our ambition" so with a chance like this it is up to them to play like we did against Stoke rather than Bournemouth.

markr27

markr27

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Everton play Liverpool in midweek then FA Cup Semi next weekend - if Lukaku is a serious doubt I suspect he'll be held back to the bench today.

captainchris

captainchris

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He was; but he was better than Dan Harding.

 

Danny Fox was the worse left back we have seen in a long long time which makes Harding better...by quite a way...

Back on subject, a good win for us today to prove our credentials for top 7... A northerly biting wind in the Northern outpost of Liverpool doesn't bode well for Pelle.... If he doesn't 'turn up' send on Rodrigues and drag Pelle off..

Saint-Armstrong

Saint-Armstrong

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SAINTS: Forster; Martina, Fonte, Van Dijk, Bertrand; Clasie, Wanyama; Long, Mané, Tadić; Pellè.

 

Bench: Stekelenburg, Cédric, Yoshida, Romeu, S. Davis, Ward-Prowse, Rodriguez.

 

 

 

No Ross Barkley or Romelu Lukaku in the starting line-up for Everton.

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DuncanRG

DuncanRG

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That's a weak Everton team, with its entire spine taken out. We should win this, but have to be wary of a late charge with Lukaku and Barkley coming on.

davayy

davayy

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Cedric really is out of favour

 

should cause them a few problems today. with half of their team out

 

To be fair, Martina played very well last game and Cedric had a pretty poor game before that; can't say I'm surprised he's on the bench.

Matthew Le God

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Danny Fox was the worse left back we have seen in a long long time which makes Harding better...by quite a way...

 

Fox was out of his depth in the Premier League, but did very well in our Championship promotion season. Fox played ahead of Harding for good reason and had a large number of assists that season.

Matthew Le God

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A new right back this summer is probably needed.....madness considering we bought 2 last summer

 

I think in time Cedric will make it his own. He has a lot of good qualities, is young and this is his bedding in season.

Saint-Armstrong

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Austin not on the bench again. Injured or just missing out due to the amount of options?

 

Ronald said he twisted his knee in the Newcastle warm-up on the turf at St. Mary's and he will probably be absent for another week.

 

Not any ligament damage involved.

Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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Austin not on the bench again. Injured or just missing out due to the amount of options?

 

He twisted his knee in the warm up against Newcastle and is out for a week Koeman said in the press conference on Thursday.

verlaine1979

verlaine1979

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Besic looked excellent during the last world cup, and I was annoyed we weren't in for him as a replacement for MS. Haven't seen much of him since, so interested to see how he does today.

John B

John B

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Fox was out of his depth in the Premier League, but did very well in our Championship promotion season. Fox played ahead of Harding for good reason and had a large number of assists that season.

 

He was a really good crosser of a ball and did well for us in the Championship we did get promoted the year he played for us so I would say he was an excellent buy

Batman

Batman

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I think in time Cedric will make it his own. He has a lot of good qualities, is young and this is his bedding in season.

 

so much so, he is 2nd choice.

John B

John B

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so much so, he is 2nd choice.

 

Is there any truth that we have to pay more if he plays a certain number of games

 

Think we may not lose today

Saint_clark

Saint_clark

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so much so, he is 2nd choice.

 

Or, he's being rotated depending on form. I've seen enough to be confident in him improving in the future. Clyne wasn't at his best in his first season for us either.

Batman

Batman

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Or, he's being rotated depending on form. I've seen enough to be confident in him improving in the future. Clyne wasn't at his best in his first season for us either.

 

I think we need to be better than bringing in players now who need a season to 'bed in'

for serious european ambitions and all that

Saint_clark

Saint_clark

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I think we need to be better than bringing in players now who need a season to 'bed in'

for serious european ambitions and all that

 

There is no club who nails it right away with every signing. Not a single one in the world.

Batman

Batman

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There is no club who nails it right away with every signing. Not a single one in the world.

 

we sold nearly £30m worth of right backs and replaced them with about £5m worth. as it shows and neither of them can hold down the place and/or need a season to bed in

 

 

hope we can have a better hit rate in the market this summer when we lose Vic/Mane

Saint_clark

Saint_clark

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we sold nearly £30m worth of right backs and replaced them with about £5m worth. as it shows and neither of them can hold down the place and/or need a season to bed in

 

 

hope we can have a better hit rate in the market this summer when we lose Vic/Mane

 

The rightbacks we sold cost us what, £1million? £2million at most? We were never going to spend money like for like or even close for replacements, anyone who thinks we will do that is mental. It's a huge part of our philosophy to make a big profit on players - until we can bring in top level commercial revenue or finish in the top 4, that's not going to change.

ALWAYS_SFC

ALWAYS_SFC

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we sold nearly £30m worth of right backs and replaced them with about £5m worth. as it shows and neither of them can hold down the place and/or need a season to bed in

 

hope we can have a better hit rate in the market this summer when we lose Vic/Mane

 

Its because we have a squad...

 

Is it a fact we will lose Vic and Sadio...nope, possible that is all..

Batman

Batman

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The rightbacks we sold cost us what, £1million? £2million at most? We were never going to spend money like for like or even close for replacements, anyone who thinks we will do that is mental. It's a huge part of our philosophy to make a big profit on players - until we can bring in top level commercial revenue or finish in the top 4, that's not going to change.

where did you read/know that is a 'huge part of our philosophy'?

 

any links? cheers

Batman

Batman

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Its because we have a squad...

 

Is it a fact we will lose Vic and Sadio...nope, possible that is all..

if it is because we have a 'squad'

why is VvD not 'rotated' for Yoshida?

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