Charlie Wayman

The lad seems to be a bit of a misfit wherever he plays, short contracts, doesn't seem to know what he wants, changes of mind. Could be he have ****ed off Spurs with his messing around will he won't he antics. Don't want too many boat rockers in a small dinghy. Perhaps also he isn't very good. Not all Belgians are very good. Having said that we'd have him back in a flash!

It's plainly weird that's for sure as we seem to be under siege for large parts of most matches and in need of more than a few slices of luck each time to keep the ball out of our net. Yet, here we are rapidly earning the tag 'hard to beat'. Eleven more points will not save us sadly. As plain bad as our defending has been it seems most sides including Spurs are not very good at converting possession into goals when faced with our massed ranks of red & white jerseys

Still be a struggle to get out of PL2 even with the recent run of good results. Looks like they've had a shake up down at Marchwood and not before time.

An all expenses paid holiday for Pards and his lads before the new lot take over, I'd call that pretty damn smart! For our penny pinching tight wads, 'twas a jog on the beach at Lepe in the rain with 3degC to warm them.

Too contemptible to respond. Very twisted mindset form OP

Oh that we had one ounce of the guts, determination and fight of Wigan Athletic. No household names, no stars but a team work ethic that we have never had. Last night also showed what a nasty, spoilt bully-boy Guardiola is. Let's hope he gets a FA ban for his lunatic ranting behaviour after Delph got what he deserved. It must be pure hell for a young kid in his training ground. no wonder so few of the City stars can raise a smile.

That is how taxation works! The club may want a certain amount of guaranteed income from ticket sales using algorithms built on seat sales data accumulated over the years. If they reduce prices for some they have to up prices for others to reach the same target income. So as you expect to be rewarded for long service any new ST recruits the Club hopes to attract inevitably will be asked to pay the highest prices. Now just imagine you are a new ST applicant. You'll soon notice that all other ST ticket prices are lower than what you are being asked to pay... Whereas we live in a world where newcomers (to energy deals or anything else) are attracted by lower prices than currently being applied to the majority of customers. Hmm, that doesn't sound like a very good deal. Even as a senior I get no discounts but I have a choice. If it helps keep prices down so that a few more less lucky folk get the chance to squeeze themselves in on a Saturday afternoon then so much the better. It is not possible to be all things to all people despite what the me-first people want

This! It's becoming predictable and tedious. Has BackWard Prowse ever gone past a player

Many watched the game on-line yesterday, of course their opinions are valid they watched the game in full!

When Pellegrino said we should be grateful to VVD, he talked about his service here and that he made us a nice profit... What more indication does any fan need that we are being suckered every single day of our lives. The reason we hear nothing is that burglars operate silently and don't usually wake every one up and tell them that they are robbing their house. "Our team" will be an interesting concept next year in the Championship. Fans may not feel quite so cosy about things then, how many of this lot, players included will hang around to clear up their mess. The square root of F all that's who.

Of course but two go down with them!

Perhaps it's a present for Pellegrino from our players? They'll want it back 'though! Taxi to Barcelona -->>

Obviously the stated policy (RK) of the club to sell our best players in order to buy in and develop cheap young promising players to those higher standards is still in place despite Ralph implying a year or so ago that we didn't need to do that anymore. The only difference now seems to be that we are doing it not to gradually improve the team but to pay off the owners

I guess most of us realise by now that it is us that have been left in the last chance saloon, alone as always whilst the rich ones fly off to their Bermuda retreats

;-) Trouble is some will! Let's wait and see.

Oh come on fella's, wise up! Only an idiot will think about touching their with a bargepole. Let them spin their little web... but don't be the fly!

Nobody has refused to go on as a sub when called for! I too sit in that part of the ground and noticed how players subbed off did not acknowledge The Clown with a handshake or hug. It does look a tad automatic like they're going through the motions.

I hope you are right, maybe they were agreeing next steps and certainly Ralph look less than happy with whatever next steps he has been charged with taking. Les is Kat's man so probably water tight and seen by Gao as the go-between but Les's absence from that meeting suggests he and some other board members may be about to be axed along with the Clown. If surgery has been pre-ordained it is unlikely to be minor under a local anaesthetic. The Chinese usually play the long game and maybe Gao has a ten year plan in which the short term ails amount to very little, who knows? Maybe football insiders know something we don't like the formation of a breakaway European or even Global super league in the next few years with the wholesale re-organisation of national leagues as a consequence? The status quo may have no bearing on where we might be in ten years time. Such a wild scenario could at least go some way towards the apparent abject lack of concern of the owners in our current plight.....

Look lads there's no point clutching at straws we have passed the point of no return as far as relegation is concerned. All we need to discuss now is why the board and owners have allowed it to happen. Here's another hypothesis to add to the many. Imagine that the Chinese owners have told Reed to get rid of all those 6 year contracts without having to pay players off. How does he do that? Easy, **** off the players that are on long contracts so that they ask to leave or take the club down to the Championship so that automatic clauses such as halving wages are triggered and the most highly paid players will leave for PL clubs. Sounds like a coherent strategy to me.

Aren't Saints fans great! No sooner a player leaves us than the slagging off begins. Danny did a very good job for us when we needed him and never let us down. We are the sum of the parts and he was more than a spare part in our fight back from the wilderness. I was there for every damn game then so will not accept this cheap-shot criticism from johnny-come-lately's and armchair critics. If you have nothing good to say about an ex-player then keep your bloody traps shut!

The Echo was only speculating about the futures of Gardos and Pied. Still time for both to be offered new contracts unless they really want out and the club see absolutely no future for them here. Gardos is one of those very unlucky players who seem to pick up serious injuries but are unable to make a full recovery. It could be partly in his head of course being subconsciously unwilling to go 100% into situations where another similar injury might result. Whatever, we should feel sorry for him for a stalled career and a worrying future after he leaves. OK if we are to believe The Echo - and there is no reason why we should - he was paid reasonably well by footballing standards but not so well that he has secured his future if forced out of the game. I cannot believe we will let Jeremy Pied go, we need a new CB not new full backs and with our level of competence in transfer windows it will be hard enough to get more than one player in during the summer whatever our needs or manager's wishes. Apart from that he is a damn good player if he can avoid injury.

This is such an obvious nailed on 0-4 thrashing but I admire all my delusional fellow scribes who cling to any slender thread... Let's see now.. late Sunday night meltdown, Pellegrino why he still here....?

Another new cynic joins the fray! There are plenty of those on here already. What we really need are people who actually know what has been going on or are open minded enough to recognise that more often than not the simplest explanation of events is far more likely to be near the truth. In this case, the truth is probably that we went all out to get Promes but Les Reed cocked up the negotiations big time, an outcome which he has been amazingly good at achieving year after year.

About bloody time to. There's no fun to be had sitting in the cold frozen to the gulags on a Tuesday night in January. They need a rest and so do I and whilst we're at it make the break co-incide with the transfer window.

You're Barmy! Just simply delusional. Sorry for you!