Charlie Wayman

No chance! He'll never drop Ings so two up top is guaranteed. Nor can we play 4 at the back with the players we have.

Catch up that was last season.

Great article, thanks. Really good insight into the workings of the loan system.

Good job you're not selecting the team then chum!

Nonsense.

Of course not, he'll be back on Saturday. As for the slagging off of Vestergaard (not you I hasten to add) his missed header for their first was the bloody wind taking the ball well beyond his reach. Far too early for all the criticism he is getting.

Freak weather, freak performance. probably as simple as that. Don't be surprised if we beat Liverpool 2-1 on a sunny day next weekend. COYR

Yep, noticeable that most of the nastier comments on the match reaction thread came from people that otherwise never or very rarely post. There seems to be a very nasty element who salivate at the thought of coming on here just to trash the club and all it's players. They are not fans and they should all pick ups their little toys and bugger off!

A little beneath your dignity I would have thought. Certainly not what one expects of you.

Gunn on the scoresheet today?

We'll be OK next week, we have a very strong team spirit and we want to win every match. Oh! The football?

You mean the sole option? Is he of sufficient calibre?

Surely Stephens has to go out on loan now that Danso has arrived, he is so far down the pecking order that unlikely he'll ever get a game here.

I imagine it is the age old trick of delaying expenditure to the very last minute, government departments do it all the time. Headline announcements of big projects followed by years of vacillation and slow building to spread the cost over as long a period as they can get any with. The M3 "upgrade" was a case in point taking twice as long as the original plan announced. HS2, Crossrail?

Impossible to say as our philosophy on transfers has changed so much. None of us has a clue how good or bad the three new youngsters will be and we have failed woefully to sell most of the players that we no longer needed. Just bringing in new faces hasn't guaranteed anything as we have found to our cost these past few years. If we start tomorrow with 10 of last season's side on the field - a side that finished 16th - and do so again next week v Liverpool then I'd have to rate this window as being mildly disappointing.

Written into the contract.

As important as who starts will be who Ralph takes with him as subs. Agree it'll be Romeu or Ward Prowse alongside Hoj so subs likely to be McCarthy, Cedric, Rom/WP, Long, Stephens(!), Boufal, Armstrong

You can't help but feel sorry for the lad, plenty of clubs want him on loan but none it seems prepared to do the decent thing and offer him a decent contract to secure his future. It is also obvious that he has no future here despite the fact that he fits in well with the first team squad. Surely his transfer fee and wage demands cannot be so great as to make him unaffordable by the clubs who want him especially for clubs like Fulham flush with parachute money? Saints owe it to Harrison Reed to get his future sorted out once and for all. He gives his all to the clubs he represents and always plays with a smile. In short he's a decent lad and a model professional. Eternal loan deals are unfair to him, he deserves more.

Soon to arrive at Platform 9 1/2

Especially as nobody had ever heard of him two hours ago!

Bet it isn't, you just made that up to appear smart

Ralph clearly likes Sofiane so we may with a little bit of Austrian encouragement have. player on our hands.

Only Lemmings voted Brexit and they are rushing mindlessly over the cliff in quite predictable fashion.

Most people on here had cottoned on to this a couple of years or more ago, it didn't need a brain surgeon or a rocket scientist to work it out for us.