Charlie Wayman

You really are a naive and gullible old fool.

Top marks to the King of Trolls. Either that or you are a blithering idiot!

He contradicted himself today when asked if he knew what was his best XI "I have a pretty good idea". Last week he said he didn't have a best XI as such just a solid 25 man squad from which to pick a side each week depending upon the oppo. Er, players back late from WC still having an impact whilst others have disappointed by not realising the full potential he had hoped for from them... Starting to blame the players then for our poor start, not his training methods, playing style or tactical nous. OK, Mark we'll take that with a wee pinch of salt then.

The meeting only happened because Chairman Gao told them to get off their fat arses and get fans more involved as it would be good for his image, otherwise they would have remained smugly aloof wrapped in their cocoon of make believe and alternative truths. I'll bet they had to be threatened to have their teeth pulled without an anaesthetic before agreeing to a forum and even then the barstewards charged two quid a head for the privilege of sitting in the same room as them.

Which Saints player never got abuse from fans? Terry Paine maybe John Sydenham question mark not many after that. It's gotten worse in these days of anonymous social media. None of it is meant seriously so hardly worth you getting depressed and in a lather about it. They get paid enough! Let's not forget what real abuse is, nurses get real abuse which they never deserve and for which they get paid a pittance by a government that couldn't give a toss about the working class or welfare institutions like the NHS

He is being optimistic, nobody in their right mind expects us to be as high as 15th. For what it is worth anything other than 20th looks increasingly like wishful thinking. We are a skill level below most other teams now for a number of reasons which have been well aired on the forum.

Brilliant post. Haven't heard anybody in the Northam singing "There's only one Mark Hughes" yet and I am not holding my breath!

Surprised at this really, looks like Hughes doesn't fancy him at all. Would have thought he'd have had a better future coming off the bench for Redmond or Moi. Anyway, good luck lad you have to safeguard your own future not leave it to the 'wisdom' of Hughes and his honcho's.

I can't see that it matters much what we think about Hughes as things will have to be very dire indeed before Reed would have the guts to make any sort of further managerial changes. Three failures in a row would certainly be the end of his career. He'll stick with Hughes even if we are relegated and that possibility cannot be ruled out judging by the largely inept performances that we have turned in so far. My guess is that Kreuger & Reed just about got away with it after the last two years of failure and cock-ups in transfers and appointments, Mr Gao probably gave them the benefit of the doubt not least perhaps because he didn't want to start completely afresh with a new management team having only just bought the Club and not having much of an inside track on English football. The more he learns about it 'though the less tolerant he will become, especially if things are going badly and both Kreuger & Reed will be well aware of this and not sitting all that comfortably right now. I thought it a huge mistake to bring in Hughes having for years despaired of his style of football at Stoke and low and behold we can see his style of aimless, long ball football beginning to gain a foothold here at the expense of the quick, one-touch pass and run "Southampton Way" that emerged under Pochettino & Koeman and even to some extent under Claude Puel.

I never want to see Austin in a Saints shirt again. His legs have gone and Ings had to show him what to do yesterday. Agree with others the game has moved on but Austin hasn't.

FFS this is awful. We're clueless. Up Sh**e creek.

Hughes more or less said he'd pick horses for courses. Certainly isn't Aintree with that line-up. I just hope Armstrong, Vestergaard, Gabbiadini & Yoshida are incapacitated in one way or another 'cos if Hughes thinks the blokes he selected are better than them then we are in big trouble. I was optimistic for a 0-0 with a late chance of a winner, totally deflated now. Definitely not going for it today.

I dunno, never thought about it

There were a lot of people round me who had their hands up all through the forum but never got to ask their questions. Perhaps they wanted permission to leave the room to take a pee and were not grown up enough to just leave the room.

Another one for the future when it's the here and now that needs attention. Probably never hear of him again one when or if ever he enters the hallowed halls of Staplewood. They come and go, hey-ho!

I find it baffling why 500 people have paid £2 a head to sit and listen to two woolly headed old farts talking a load of patronising bull**** when only three or four weeks ago fans universally blamed them for everything that had gone wrong since and including when Koeman left and wanted these very same old relics out at any cost, as far away from our club as possible and preferably swinging from the Itchen Bridge. This has to be a new low in brown-nose worshipping.

Has he ever said :- "We were outclassed by a better team" "We cocked up big time in preparation" "I have no idea" "We were bloody poor throughout the team"

He was a very prolific goalscorer years ago in non-league football and later in the lower divisions but he hasn't been able to cut the mustard here not least because he is now 29 and the PL has become a sprinters paradise. Austin is just too old, slow and cumbersome and there are no easy fixes for him.

No need for rudeness. One half decent performance does not make an average player into a superstar and it doesn't matter which player we are talking about.

Surely we'll play 4-4-2 away from home and maybe switch to 4-3-3 later in the second half if we can hold onto the ball, take the initiative and press them for a late winner. Hughes will play for and settle for a 0-0. Three at the back must be a non-starter if he wants something from the match.

???????????/ You talk as if he is an 18 yo youngster. He's had years to develop his game and become a 'fantastic' player so not much chance he'll get any better or more consistent than we have seen over the past years. Of course if his starting place is under threat as it is you would expect him to up his game but doubtful he can keep up the high energy display we saw today for long before he lapses into his old petulant distracted self. He's in danger of being left behind with the likes of Elyonoussi, Armstrong & Ings as competition.

If 4-4-2 -----------------McCarthy----------------- Cedric--Yoshida--Vestergaard--Bertrand Redmond--Romeu--Lemina--Elyounoussi ------------Ings-------Gabbiadini---------

Disorganised!

Another hit-and-miss journeyman signing confirms that we are preparing for relegation. Bargain basement is good enough for Saints now. Not impossible that we could be sitting right at the bottom of the table this time.

----------------------------McCarthey ---------------------------- Cedric -------- Vestergaard -------- Yoshida --------- Bertrand ----------------------------- Romeu ------------------------------ -------------- Lemina -------------------- Armstrong ------------ ------ Redmond ----------- Gabbiadini ------------ Elyounouissi ----