Charlie Wayman

Yes but they have spent well and he has a pretty decent squad to work with. Unlike us when they sold top assets they re-invested it in younger decent players unlike our previous owner. Look what happens when you have an owner who cared passionately about his club.

Anybody know what the attendance was yesterday, it looked pretty thin on screen. Presumably the weather kept a quite a few STs away even 'though they'd be in the official headcount.

Norwich look doomed, so it is them, us & the one other could be Burnley or West Ham which may sound ridiculous to some but Hammers are likely to panic and sack Pellegrini soon and get themselves into an even deeper mess while Burnley surely cannot go on relying on ageing players playing physical football and winning ugly to get them by. Dyche has been riding his luck for some time and bringing back players like Rodrigues only adds to the feeling that their time is coming to an end. How old are Barnes & Cork? I would put Bournemouth in the mix as well they are looking more stale and predictable by the match; Howe is increasingly blaming others for their poor performances.

Koeman, Pochettino

Try to be fair when you lump these two together, Liebherr took out all the value in player sales and sold Gao a lame pup. His only crime was to let vanity take over his senses and not realise what he was getting himself into. It's not his fault he was stitched up.

Stop giving us all this "told you so" crap will you. Come up with some serious suggestions of how to get out of this mess or sod off. I for one am sick of your preaching!

What is Hasenhuttl hanging around for, his reputation is already in tatters and now that desperation has kicked in he is looking more clueless by the match. Just resign man, you tried but failed. No hiding place now the boo-boys are on to you. Sanctuary down the tunnel, don't bother to thank the fans for supporting this lad of cobblers.

Don't we always go down with Norwich?

How can Boufal ever be left on the bench. He's the only footballer we've got

Boufal on but Cedric off. What a stupid decision. Surely put Cedric in at RB get WP off FFS

Don't blame him, he actually tries hard.

Hasenhuttl is to blame. He's out of his depth. Clueless as usual.

Ralph was quite impatient with the PR who asked questions about contracts for Cedric & Hoj at the end of the season - I am only focused on staying in this league, (sic) if we do this than we can talk about contracts etc. Of course his own contract is up at the end of the season as well, just thinking out loud or a slip of the tongue. Seems he'll be heading off one way or another.

Doubt Ricky is short of cash but surely SFC can find a role for him at SMS that would make his visits here more certain. The lad is an inspiration to all young wannabes and never stops smiling and acts like a grown up as opposed to Kelvin Davis who always behaved like a child with silly pranks. I guess Matt is doing his best to try and shoehorn Ricky in somewhere, PR or Academy.

Top bloke as his attitude has shown since he returned to the fold. Maybe he won't be offered a new contract here but where is Ralph going to find a better RB? Valery isn't the long term answer as we have seen for his rather too many inept headless chicken displays this season. Part of the fanbase has always dissed Cedric because of his salvaged inability to pick out a cross but let's face it chaps with our useless striker line-up we wouldn't know what a good cross is supposed to look like as nothing crossed into the box ever reaches the back of the net. To his eternal credit, we never heard this guy whinge, moan or sulk about not wanting to be here. Give him a two year contract who are we going to find who's any better. Hope he plays against Everton but knowing Ralph he'll stick with a failing formula.

Seen it coming for ages. The u23's have no discernible style of play except long balls dow the channels and vainglorious chases that rarely succeed. When you consider that we now recruit supposedly the best talent we can find abroad as well as nationally and that several of our recent captures are highly thought of as future stars it does make you wonder what goes on at Marchwood when eyes and attentions are elsewhere.

Odd incidents change nothing as you are very well aware, it's what happens in the bigger picture and over the years JWP & Stephens has proved wanting far more than they ever turn in a half decent performance. I am not prejudice against any player, it is what I have seen at SMS over many years. I can tell you that in the part of the Itchen where I sit and suffer week after week there are always loud groans when Stephens or WP are named in the starting XI.

If some fans are happy with that so be it. Once Ward Prowse is included in the line-up we might as well pack up our kit and FO home. It is an utter disgrace that we are reduced to starting players like Stephens, Ward Prowse & Armstrong so inept of ideas are we at competing in a football match. If valiant rearguard actions that ultimately fail is what it has come down to then we deserve to be relegated. This club is fats becoming a non-entity in terms of appeal and watchability. Sad, sad day!

I'm pretty sure the problem is that Ralph came here with an idée fixe to re-create RB Leipzig at Southampton with the style of play and 4-2-2-2 formation that he developed there so successfully. The plan cam unstuck when he discovered that (i) he would be given no money to bring in the players he wants who could play his way and (ii) the players he did have at his disposal could not be adapted to fit his formation and style of play despite all the very many chops and changes he has tried out. He has ended up of course with a bugger's muddle as he seems not to have any sensible alternative way of playing with these players. If indeed he is that inflexible then it might be better all round if both sides call it quits and move on.

I hear there's a chance Hell will Freeze Over in January.

Man City would no doubt like to break the PL record score but they won't as our lads always seem to remember how to play football when they are in the Big Boys shop window. 4-2 to City

Self evidently match after match it is quite clear that our coaching is not fit for purpose in fact it is bordering on the inept, how can you argue otherwise. Our defensive set-up is appalling, same stupid mistakes made every week from which nobody seems to learn anything, players or coaches. In attack despite Ralph claiming that goals are not our problem we can't score as 9 goals in 10 matches attests. We are the third lowest scorers in the league and the worst goals against record. Without naming names as we don't know who does what our coaching is failing abysmally and there is only one person who takes the can for that and yes, it is Ralph Hasenhüttl.

Saints will not go down but clearly will need to get points on the board rather than rely on goal difference. The likelihood is that even Gao realises that the playing side of his club is in a mess and the need for a quality CB in January is now so acute that even he will have to find a way to fund the purchase. No way will he want to lose the money and the prestige of not being in the Premier League. Of course the 9-0 humiliation will not have gone down well with him and he must be starting to think that the Club is not in good hands withe the current board, likeable as they may be. Hands off may be about to change. He could sell up of course if he doesn't want the hassle of a filing club. A board that toes the party line without question is not his best servant, he may not like to be challenged on his remit but it would be better all round if somebody had the guts to spell it out to him, spend some money or you will lose far more than you save.

Very odd views from you. What evidence do you have to support any of your contentions about Davis or Bertrand? Probably none. Nothing like good old fashioned prejudice.

Irony? Hope so.