Charlie Wayman

Did you read what I wrote?

ditto

Not sure this flotilla is going anywhere near the Baltic or the Black Sea. I get it, we support the Yanks in their backyard but they won't support us in ours.

All this military posturing is sadly very reminiscent of what happened in the years leading up to 1914. Who are we trying to impress? Russia, China, US?

Very drab match

Yes but they can appoint only one.

I had no idea he and JWP were an item

We got an amazing deal, even Trump could not have extracted more from the Hammers

We just pay him what he's worth not what he demands. Time that lad knuckled down and earned his bloody living. Money for old rope is how I would sum up his career.

It's gallows humour Jim, as we know it...

Not sure about worse opponents. There will be Ipswich, Leicester and three of the current top six in the Championship all better than us for starters.

At least Ramsdale is showing some guts

Morale has collapsed again. Could be a trouncing.

Great PC with Simon Rusk. Happy, carefree, transparent and honest, this guy is a breath of fresh air and might surprise us all. 7 wins and the job's his surely? 3-1 to Saints tomorrow?

Meanwhile those wily chaps from the Orient have hacked all your personal data from your laptop. You should have used Le Chat - Mistral. Buy British, buy European!

He hasn't changed one bit, arrogant, full of himself and full of bullish*t. Bet Linekaer regrets having invited him into his house.

Nope

Uncharacteristically poor personal comment from you. Shame. Just spotted this on the BBC website Jason Burt Telegraph journalist on BBC Radio 5 Live A good manager makes a huge difference. I rate Russell Martin very highly and he is a better manager than Southampton. He tried to implement a style that the players weren’t good enough to play. You could argue that he put himself first in doing that, by not changing his style. A good manager has got a very clear and practical way of playing. You have to implement your style with the players you have. That’s why Manchester United are suffering so badly at the moment under Ruben Amorim. A best measure of managerial success is – Is that player better than when they came to that club? Has the manager improved that player? Pep Guardiola is one of the best measures of that, he improves players no matter what the price tag.

Anybody sitting outside SMS with binoculars? Potter's Heron is worth staking out as well. Mind you, if we can attract a manager of any description probably we'd want the whole world to know

Probably mutual disatisfaction. Bet he's glad to be out of this madhouse. He's probably still just about on the right side of sanity. I wish him well, he's had a rough ride not least from an unsympathethic press corp and fans who expected miracles form him. Good luck and thanks Ivan.

How does defeatist talk help? We start again and learn from the mistakes we have made in the past.

We have a team full of Championship players, why do we need more? We need Premier league players. We should not sell our best palyers, we should loan them out to PL clubs and re-call them when we get promoted again.

Terrible news for his family. Sending our condolences to them.

Whether by accident or design every change seems to work in their favour and against the interests of smaller clubs.

The modern game is not like that. Rather than pace themselves for 90 minutes it seems players are coached to go flat out for 60 minutes knowing that they will burn out and be replaced by a fresh battery at that point. No different to a 100m sprinter v 400m sprinter really. Horses for courses. However it only works as a strategy if the replacement player is as good as the starter.