Charlie Wayman

Maybe Matt Targett?

This might just work you know. Love to see him do again what he did against WBA, that goal alone was worth the entry fee. The lad can play football that's for sure and he can track back and tackle, just needs to improve his decision making which grant you won't be easy. The guys who are brilliant on the ball and can beat their man with speed and guile can also be incredibly selfish when it comes to finishing. Redmond still has a lot to learn as indeed does Raheem Sterling in knowing when to go it alone and take a punt or when to play in a team mate.

Obviously a big shout out for Dave Merrington.

Remind me please when we can expect see our retained list?

Thanks for saving me the time to explain that to the too fast on the finger brigade like Shance and CaptainChris

Not an issue, Villa will wipe the floor with them on Monday. Derby aren't ready or good enough to justify promotion.

UK is well known abroad as a tax haven for the super rich. Good for them not good for any of us as their money is tied up in assets and so does not trickle down to stimulate the economy. Probably going to be ten times worse after we leave Europe. A form of prostitution really, if the price is right....

What should worry us all is that Ralph doesn't really believe in us being anything other than a mid-table team, I was surprised to hear him say in his big interview that the "privilege" of us being able to play 12 matches per season against European League status teams was his/our champions league. That to me smacks of lost hope of us ever being a top six challenger again which isn't much of a prospect to look forward to and certainly not what most fans want to hear. You can't settle for mediocrity these days as others with more ambition will rightly take our place and there are plenty of them. WE either keep improving and looking upwards or we are dead meat.

Don't bet against Troy Deaney replacing Chas Austin. Chas + £35 of Tesco vouchers.

Surely all the ref has to do is stop his watch when the substitution board goes up and start it again only when the subbed player has crossed the touch line. Then it doesn't matter how long it takes although the momentum of play will be lost of course.

Not funny at all, both deserved every bit of criticism that came their way over the past 2/3 years. Only since Ralph's arrival with a Big Stick has either of them pulled their socks up and acted like the well paid professional football players they were supposed to be. We'll see if it lasts.

Very good entertainment for the under 5's so maybe that's the level at which we now aim to recruit?

We do not have single player who has been able to rise to Ralph's challenging style of play for 90 minutes despite over a half season of coaching, every one of them has had more off days than on and none has eliminated costly errors of judgement from their game. At no time has this bunch of players been able to emulate the slick style that we saw from all those RB Leipzig videos at the time of Ralph's recruitment. Major surgery needs to happen this summer and I mean major to transform our performance and style of play into something akin to what Ralph purports to want. I am not overly excited about what lies ahead because it is hard to see how financially or otherwise we can bring in two, three or four transformative players of the quality needed to form the core of a new dynamic Saints nor how Ralph can possible squeeze more performance or consistency out of his current players than he has already. There is no magic pill and the odd new face will make only an incremental difference. 14th may be as good as we can hope for - bit like Palace - and yes, Ralph will leave at the end of the season.

Sounds like the missus might be agitating doesn't it. Of course we will not give him the easy option. It never pays to foul up your own front door-step. Objectively he can't run very fast, he can't tackle back and he is not physically strong in the mold of Hoj and Romeu, he just doesn't fit what we aim to become.

Black is not the happiest of colors in traditional Chinese color symbolism, representing destruction, evil, cruelty, and sadness.

There are better shirts in Primark at 3 for £10. Can things get any worse, we said last year? Apparently they can, they have! Nightmare on Brittania Road. These kits would have been embarrassing if some other club had chosen them. Who the hell carries the can for this rubbish?

Very enjoyable match to watch although Newcastle looked a bit one dimensional all evening and quite physical with not a lot of creative flair on display. We deserved to win as by and large we were a far better team. O'Connor, Klarer & Vokins continue to impress. Ramsey like Valery seems to have this gift of stumbling through tackles with the ball still at his feet even when closely marked and can run so it will be a headache for Ralph to have to choose between them in the years ahead. Valery is at the moment clearly better, Ramsey's positional sense and passing decisions need to be worked on. N’Lundulu looks like he will be a handful, he has pace, strength and height and willing to battle for everything. He was great target man last night actually winning most of the high balls aimed at him and although not yet the finished article he does look like a decent prospect in the Lukaku mold. He also has a great sounding name for a top striker! Nobody played badly and all could be possible candidates for first team squad selection in the next couple of years but we know that all will not make it which just goes to show how fine the margins are at this level. The two or three players who have played a game in the PL were not obviously superior to the others last night. In fact one of them, Tyreke Johnson looked a bit lost apart from being in the right place to help score our second goal. Great turn-out but more should have made the effort as these lads are part of our future. A very good way to spend a fine spring evening in the sunshine and for free! Well done lads.

Ralph Kreuger was nobody's fool and is morally upright, he has just jumped ship. Now that's what you call a co-incidence.

Truth is we should have gone to Specsavers.

Oh Dear! You've made yourself a hostage to fortune again, this promises to be a vey interesting day reading this thread.

Totally unenjoyable and probably our worst performances since the last relegation season. It is hard to believe that the owner will have enough money to sort this mess out.

Is he an exceptional coach? Sure, he kept us up but he also coached the abysmal rubbish that we had to endure today and last week and many weeks before that. On that basis he has achieved only what Hughes achieved last season. On another note it is utterly moronic to question Gunn's competence as a goalkeeper just because he has made one stupid error.

Are there any houses on Park Lane, don't recall seeing any? Did you mean Park Lane, Bournemouth perhaps next to the flash hair salon.

I've never met a woman who really likes football, some will fake most things for their man 'though.

One of the academy staff mentioned next Friday at the Awards dinner?