THIS MATCH report should come with a Government health warning - you may have read this before.

Saints dominate at home, they play well, decent football, they miss chances, don't score when they're on top, end up with a draw when they should have won.

Sound familiar?

It's becoming a worrying trend.

Six draws in a row, and probably all of them could have been victories.

Again, it is in front of goal where the problems lie.

Harry Redknapp must be wondering what striking combination he will try next.

Brett Ormerod, Marian Pahars and Dexter Blackstock must all come into the reckoning.

Last night against Reading he started with Kenwyne Jones and Ricardo Fuller for the sixth time this season.

And despite plenty of hard work, there was little sign of a potent partnership sparking up.

Indeed, in the six games they have started together so far, they have only managed one goal between them.

And still we wait for a Saints striker to score at St Mary's this season ...

Fuller is still looking a decent player, though - just last night he didn't stick the ball away.

But then he was hardly the only one guilty of that.

Saints battered Reading. It was rare to see the ball out their penalty area and the Royals must be searching hard to try and remember the last time they had a team dominate them so much.

Bear in mind they are second in the table, and it just shows what a few extra goals would have done for Saints' prospects so far this season.

They would quite possibly be up there with Sheffield United.

Saints did play very well last night, that has to be said.

They moved the ball around well, they were strong at the back, Nigel Quashie was again a true leader in the middle of the park. They looked a good team.

There are only two areas you really need to look good in when you play - not conceding and scoring. And Saints have a serious problem with the latter.

Arguably the best chance of the match came after just 29 seconds when Jones headed into the path of Quashie.

He controlled the ball brilliantly and it seemed inevitable the net would be bulge as he pulled the trigger from inside the six- yard box, yet somehow it went wide.

That set the tone for the night.

Marcus Hahnemann did his bit to stop Saints as well.

The American turned over brilliantly from Kamil Kosowski while on 33 minutes he made an incredible reaction save to keep out Fuller's close range header after Kosowski's cross.

In the second period the game became even more one-sided.

Reading had a couple of chances on the break but only Kevin Doyle forced Antti Niemi into a save.

For Saints, the miss count really started to rack up.

Continuous pressure seemed as if it would pay off when Fuller intelligently squared to Kosowski who promptly fired wide.

Just a minute later Hahnemann saved from Danny Higginbotham who had got on the end of a Dennis Wise free-kick.

With 12 minutes left St Mary's thought that finally they had a goal to celebrate after more than three goalless hours.

Fuller's header was saved and the follow-up came out to Marian Pahars, returning from the bench after 18 months out, but his effort was blocked on the line.

Even with time virtually up there was still another chance.

Wise clipped the ball into the area and Fuller did well to get across his man, but just when it seemed he would guide the ball in he put his diving header wide.

Perhaps a sign of the frustration was the number of optimistic penalty appeals from the crowd as the match wore on. It seemed every part of every Reading player was their hand as the shouts went up time and again.

Not that you can blame them. The frustration is getting to everybody.

Redknapp has to decide whether to stick with his team again and hope they start scoring, or try and do something drastic up front.

The performances are there - they just need the goals. Now stop me if you've heard that before.