Fitzhugh Fella

Tomkins was an able deputy

That would be 10 touch Tadic you are talking about?

send me your e mail address, I can probably help a bit. Duncan@duncanholley.co.uk

Wouldn't be surprised to see Sam G in the squad

No he travelled to Everton today for tomorrow's U21 match

that made I laugh

He is an habitual fibber, can't even resign without telling a lie. Used to quite like the bloke having met him but I would rather put my trust in a cheap Chinese watch.

Thanks Chris, although the opinion of the Serbian journalist was undermined in my eyes when he described Tadic as being "great" for us this season.

Yep your middle line sort of sums it up - saying we have an option to buy is misleading.

I am a little confused what this actually means. Is it a case that should we want to make the deal permanent the fee is agreed at the time of the loan but it is still dependant on the player agreeing to it? Pretty much what I assume was the case with Bertrand. But do the selling club have the right to say no actually we don't want to sell to you as say A Madrid could do with Alderweireld. And can another club enter the market and gazump? I assume a lot of clubs must be looking at Toby and would like to buy him this summer and if they offer him more we lose our option? Basically I guess the question I am asking is just how watertight are these options to buy and are they worth the paper they are written on.

Sorry Charlie, disagree, he has been hit and miss virtually from Day 1

Hmm you say he rated Tadic?

I think there is a chance he will be involved in tonight's U21 game at Chelsea

Yes but it obviously was not a very good contract hence him turning his back on it and talking to Swansea. I maintain not enough was done to keep him and that in my humble opinion is a mistake. Southampton do make them you know.

Seems madness to sell him, if we have aspirations for European football he is exactly the sort of player we need to keep. I think the club have dropped a brick, our squad is thin enough already. Of course if RK has someone else lined up I will eat my words but I have a feeling he hasn't.

That last line sums them up to a tee

Like I said I guess he wishes success for Saints, he just doesn't predict it. A man who is jilted at the alter several times is highly likely to be cautious waiting for bride nos 8 to pitch up

He was only making a reasonable point, no need for your response to be so vitriolic

Being a Saints supporter doesn't mean you have to publicly shout you expect Saints to thrash everybody

Echo quoting Koeman as saying Long has broken ribs and is out for a while. Forward wise we really are down to our bare bones

Tadic has more skill than anyone else in the team, but he does not commit 100% and gets very careless and lacksidaisical. Sorry anyone who does not commit 100% I don't want in my team. Long has half Tadic's ability but he gives his all, looks interested and is brave. Tadic's is none of these things. Sorry just my view having watched him very closely yesterday and in previous games.

I wouldn't lose any sleep if I never saw Tadic in a Saints shirt again. Sorry but he was so woeful today.

Les seems to have come on in leaps and bounds since his Charlton days when there was many in football who derided him, plus I gather he had a few enemies when involved in the England set up. But good luck to him he seems to have hit on a winning formula. All this talk of black boxes, bespoke software etc etc does make me smile especially when we have subs who leave their pads and shirts in the dressing room at half time. Sometimes the basics are overlooked. The owner and the chairman should be applauded for letting the football people run the football part of the business, that is one fundamental reason we are doing so well, no interference.

One of your better posts although you were being a tad kind to Cortese, this is the man who in his final weeks at the club threw a lot of our valuable historical memorabilia into a skip - including the beautiful copperplate minute books that went back to 1898.

The last time Saints were pushing for glory in the League Lawrie Mac reckoned we were one player short and set up a deal to buy Jim Bett, a Scottish midfielder. For the first time ever the Board did not back him and when Woodford told Lawrie he had doubts about Bett's tackling ability the deal fell through. That was the straw that broke the camel's back for Lawrie who decided to leave. Sometimes that one extra player can make a big difference in the final run in and I hope we don't lose a good chance to make a name for ourselves because of over prudence or a let's wait until the summer attitude. We may never have a better chance.