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JJ, Faes, Choudhury, Ricardo, Vesty, Souttar, Kristensen, Iversen, Coady, Winks, Kels, Daka, Vards, Praet, Wilf Add to that he was allowed to bring in 38m worth of players to beef the above squad up (Inc Fatawu) on Hermansen, Mavidi, Fatawu and Cannon And decent.manager has to finish in the top2 with all that going for him

He's been given 15 or so premier league players and the biggest budget ever at this level (by a mile) to play at a level below and finish in the top two. I'm not having a pop at him. But it's a stark reality that literally any normal manager should be able to win promotion when dealt a hand like that.

Agree. Why's he being dug out? That winger couldn't get any change out of him. And, when under pressure sometimes he cleared his lines or safely put the ball into touch rather than taking unnecessary risk. Faes, who I love to bits, is a liability in these tight games. Bemused why. Kels is persona non grata. What a weapon on the bench. Only we could leave a proven PL goalscorer out of the squad altogether. Thought Vards was sharp and even his lay offs (often a weak point)!were en point

And as a bit of a soothing reassurance for everyone, we absurdly went temporarily top with about 4 games left when Pompey were by far the best team all season and we were runaway second best. (Tho third place Sheffield utd were 25 points behind us both)

All and any points are good ones at this stage of season. That could be the point that sends us up.

The two Penalties evened themselves out. But for me Vards' second half was clear, PL defo a pen

No it wasn't. We are just about edging it against a pretty decent and motivated opposition. Faes tho having a shocker Vards chip, header, Yunus blasting over, KDH hitting post. That's a decent half

Almost not bothered about our game now. The buzz was fantastic seeing that rubbish being dealt a taste of their own junk

Surely our players are gonna get a buzz offa that

Take that you farming cnts

They've been garbage against Brum, Rotherham and Cardiff these last three and won all three. Leeds garbage against us. Won. How do these teams do it?

These teams when a goal down to us launch the ****ing thing into the box for 10 mins solid. Why are Cardiff trying to craft a chance when they clearly aren't good enough?

Ipswich in no rush. that head injury means about 8 mins of stoppage time

I'm a big Faes fan. But even I agree with this. Solidity and balls needed

Yunus = utter garbage Coady. We need him.

Wouldn't it be a cool touch to create a one off commemorative white and blue trim kit for this game and, in a way, for the quarter final at Chelsea in 1997. Even better if we could resist daubing the obligatory Top tribute Thai elephant gold trinkets all over it

Hopefully a nice easy bumming today, like Stoke. A good decent, enjoyable, fluid, 5-0 bum

Pretty much the same vibe as last night. Functional, ordinary, unspectacular, absence of style....but they don't look fazed by the situation (as Leeds didn't) and I expect them to win at this stage

Think the real effect of tonight's result is on saints. They are about out of this. Which means two up from three, was two from four a week or so ago. And, whichever way you shake this, ability wise we are easily the best of the three remaining runners.

There's ten games left. Even if we balls up the next four, we are still right in the hunt with six to play . Loads will happen yet. People talking as if there's only three or four left.

They aren't playing better than we are. Two weeks ago we outclassed them to the point of embarrassment, in terms of the eye test. However, they just know to power on and hang on in there, unlike us

Said it earlier, they just battle along and eventually score. They are functional but fair play, they just stick at it

Been coming

Hope he's got bigger hands!

Best ref on the division is Sam Allison