3 final repeats are a possibility. Let´s hope we play Spurs in the final. After all, the nation deserves to be entertained and not watching the dross of Manchester United and Chelsea.
Can't see that happening Ides, Spurs are allergic to silverware so won't risk a final against Saints just in case they accidentally win something
Football fans as a species are idiots, and Stoke fans are up there with the worst. I visited there once and it was like Jeremy Kyles green room
I’m surprised they’re not complaining about how our first goal was practiced to perfection, on the Stoke City training ground. Watching it back, I just love how Gabbiadini, Stephens and Hoedt occupied three defenders (well, stopped them from attacking the ball/space), whilst Carrillo drew another away from Pierre, not once but for two consecutive corners within a minute. Fair play to Tadic for putting the ball in the right place on both occasions and to Pierre for getting ahead of his marker both times.
Not arguing the low confidence and new manager, just stating, in my opinion, we did not play well, and if the conditions were having an affect we did not help with our poor style of play. I have tried to be patient most of the season and at the start of the game it was, here we go again. Hughes recognized we needed a change in a system we seem to have ingrained in the players heads and it worked second half. Anyway, we won and we move on to wembley.
I like the two up front approach, but I also like having someone more central behind them, to clutter up the space we gave Wigan in the first 45 minutes. We can’t give that amount of time and space to Premier League quality midfielders to build from deep. 4-1-3-2 maybe.
Also worth noting the quality of Stokes squad is much worse then ours, plus Hughes tried to sign 3-4 of them but they came to us. Maybe we have the players Hughes really wanted to have in his system and it may click for us? Difficult to take any fans word for a departing Manager, regardless of how good they have or haven't been.
Agree, I caught most of the match on TV and thought, this is called transition as one style takes over from another. I’m not surprised that Wigan had the upper hand in the first half, they’re a good team and it demeans them to take the view ‘we should have dominated etc’. I remember like many on here when Saints from way back could give the top teams a game to remember even when in the old 3rd Division. So we’ll done Saints the whole team did well to get a good result and I think you could see at the end how much that meant to everyone.
