Nordic Saint

You must really enjoy watching us lose games. With McCarthy in goal, we have won just 1 regular season game at St Mary's in the last FOUR YEARS, and that was 1½ years ago. That's how bad he is. When Bazunu plays we usually win.

Under Stiil, he looked lost and contributed very little; under Eckert, he fits in brilliantly and is creating and scoring lots of goals. Those who predicted he would come good (not me) were right.

He certainly did. He made 4 great saves.

All the Championship games Bazunu and McCarthy have played for Saints. The facts are freely avaliable on transfermarkt. You can check them yourself if you want. Whether you think someone is superb or terrible has no bearing on the facts, I'm afraid. Bazunu = 1.9 points per game/ 87 points over a season McCarthy = 1.0 points per game/ 46 points over a season Obviously, even though McCarthy has been here all the time Bazunu has, he hasn't played as many games because managers want to win. Bazunu W29 D12 L11 McCarthy W3 D3 L6

Based on all the Championship games they have played for Saints. Obviously McCarthy hasn't played as many times because managers want to win games. McCarthy average points per Saints Championship game = 1.0 Bazunu average points per Saints Championship game = 1.9 Over the whole season, that difference between them is worth more than 40 points and at least 20 league places.

You'd prefer Nathan Jones to Eckert? That's what doesn't make any sense.

I agree. Coventry are too far ahead now, even if we do the double over them, but I think we can finish runners-up and if we can keep Eckert next season, we'll stay in the Premier League.

Liverpool made a series of internal appointments - Paisley, Fagan, Dalglsh, Moran, Evans - during their most successful period. Anyway, wherever a manager comes from, it's all about results, and Eckert has just made the best start of any Saints manager, winning his first 3 games. Of course, if like all of his predecessors since Koeman, he has a losing run, he'll be replaced. A football manager is only a few defeats away from losing his job.

It's a funny thing, but McCarthy does seem to be a real Jonah, who you certainly wouldn't want to see in our goal on Tuesday night, unless you were a Leicester fan, because we've only won 1 regular season game at St Mary's in the last 4 years when he's been in goal (which was v Preston 1½ years ago). Whereas with Bazunu in our goal, in the Championship we win most games. Call it luck or whatever you like, but our results are better with Bazunu, and Tonda Eckert has obviously been at the club long enough to notice this.

The first time Saints have scored 5 away in a league game since the 5-2 win at Ipswich in 2011. Is Tonda Eckert the first Saints manager ever to win his first 3 league games? He's having the same effect on the first team players that he had on the U21s.

I wonder if he noticed his wallet had gone.

Company check says he's more than £250 million in debt. That's a lot worse than penniless. He was already in financial trouble when people were saying it was just the Chinese government preventing him from spending money here. Shares in his company had plummeted and he was selling off the remaining ones in an attempt to pay his debts. Maybe Goa would be a good place for him to hide out, if he could afford the air fare. Solak's company doesn't appear to be doing that well either. The one who got all the money was Kat. She made at least a quarter of a billion out of her father's investment here: roughly what Gao owes now. She certainly saw him coming. I always felt a bit sorry for him.

RIP Andy

Yes, Harry Amass is by far their most valuable player and the classiest left wing-back in the Championship. Unfortunately for Wednesday, he's only on loan from Man United. If United would sell him, he'd be a great buy for us, but they'll probably want him for their first team soon. 'Someone tell Dorgu his days are numbered' - Man Utd fans hail academy graduate taking Championship by storm

Good match report from the Wednesday site: Report | Southampton 3-1 Wednesday - Sheffield Wednesday FC