Charlie Wayman

Watford, WHU and Everton are in free fall and will soon be joining Huddersfield in the fight for life. At least one of the three will b going down along with the Tykes so just one place left, Looked at that way life doesn't seem quite so bad this morning.

Yep, me too. Another like Adkins who got a rough deal by Cortese. We seem only to sack successful managers! I hope he keeps WBA up they've been part of our history since the last war and used to be a bit of a bogey team for us.

I just wish Blackmore was a better commentator so that we can imagine what's going on. He's always a week behind the action. I'll take 2-1 at HT any day

Sorry, I thought the mods would bleep it!

Bugger me, a decent team selection at last. Just a pity they left Ward Prowse in having benched Davis and Long, would have preferred Hoj

James, I rarely find reason to disagree with you but JWP still has all the flaws that he has always had. Cannot tackle, cannot head and never does anything adventurous only ever passing sideways or backwards to a maximum of 10 yards. Sorry, I don't rate him as a starter and the now well past its 'sell by date' trademark dead ball speciality rarely produces anything of note. At best he is an energetic well intentioned clubman. He is no more worth his place than the much maligned and unfairly so Steven Davis. My heart sinks when these name are announced as starters these days.

He didn't see that, he'd long gone as had most of the players.

Well, actually No! people boo-ed as The Clown made his hasty exit down the tunnel, they were silent for most players whom they felt had not done enough and clapped in just one or two who had given their all notably Stephens & Hoj but only those two I assure you as I was standing right next to the tunnel when they came in. Nothing wrong with clapping the lads who deserved it is there? Anyway, it's a distraction from the real business of making our feelings known to the Club. No banners or placards, no chants against the Clown or that smug barsteward upstairs, no demos outside SMS or Staplewood. What is wrong with our fans theses days. Nothing is going right, we are slipping into oblivion and yet we fans who stand to lose most can't get our acts together to try and oust these wretchedly incompetent people.

Right now we need Leon Crouch to intervene for the good of the club.

We keep regurgitating this same old question and here is the same old answer. Relegation will be an absolute disaster. It's no good looking at it through rose tinted glasses we could and probably will end up like Leeds, Blackburn, Wigan and a hot of other once proud premier League teams that have little hope of ever returning to the top flight. I've followed the Saints since they were only ever a second and third divison side and it wasn't very fulfilling being a fan of a failed team. As I have posted before many fans of my age group may never live long enough to see them in the PL again and that is not a prospect that any of us can accept. Be Very Bloody Careful what you wish for lads, very careful indeed.

Doubt Bertrand is that sort of player, he was giving it his all before he suddenly sat down on the pitch on Saturday. There was a collective groan from our part of the Kingsland close to where Bertrand went down. It looked bad and Pellegrino must have been bull****ting when he said Ryan could be available for tomorrow night. He won't be anywhere near ready so the Clown was just bluffing to confuse Hughton on our team selection. Pied played well and will start not MacQueen who will not be match fit.

It's not exactly a glamour tie for them either, locals are probably muttering to themselves it's only bloody Southampton so I won't bother going.

Cheap and silly!

Cheap and silly!

Our play is generally too ponderous and predictable this season. Whenever Saints take to the field these days you see the same few patterns of play being repeated over and over. There is no spark of imagination or innovation to excite us or confuse opponents. Any team that faces us will have watched a few videos of Saints in recent matches and seen just how repetitive, limited and one dimensional our patterns of play are. By and large we are a team of non-athletic, slow running players that move the ball around sideways and backwards before speculatively launching hopeful balls down the traditional channels for slow runners to chase. Setting up to counter this is child's paly as most teams have found out and Brighton will be no different. they will set up defensive tactics from the outset knowing that if they can absorb the initial 5 or 10 mins of enthusiasm of our front runners, their task of doing enough to earn a 0-0 draw will more or less have been completed. I honestly doubt they'll be too adventurous for much of the first half maybe a couple of quick breaks now and then to launch long balls into the box onto Murray's head. After the break we will become increasingly desperate and more ragged, gaps will appear, attacks will break down quickly and panic substitutions such as Yoshida on for Tadic will be made as we battle to hold onto a point and Brighton gradually exploit our lack of discipline and pressure for a possible late winner. It's hard to see past a 0-0 stalemate and I for one will be praying that Stephens and Hoedt don't nod off in the later stages to let them have too many free headers. Sdaly it is unlikely to be the result that we are all hoping for as Saints do what they always do best when must win games come along, disappoint. Despite this Pellegrino will be encouraged by what he alone sees as the steady improvement of his squad towards some unwritten utopian vision of a great team, Les will swallow this bull**** once again as he bottles the now too late grasping of the nettle. As he would say, there's always West Brom at the weekend to turn our season around....

Do you mean to match your own level of gibberish? No agenda from me, just asking why you seem to believe that only your own opinions matter in a DEBATE?

Er, No!

This was one of the most boring, soul destroying experiences I've ever had at St Mary's. Turgid, uninspiring rubbish. Why do we have to suffer this fool of a manager any longer. Going defensive at 60mins when we were on the offensive and taking off our best player defies any sort of football logic. Crikey even Blackmore screwed up enough bottle to ask the Clown the question and of course the answer was gibberish.

Bertrand springs to mind!

Typical Saints fair-weather supporter. It wasn't that long ago that people like you were lauding Gabbi from the rooftops! If it was meant as irony then silly me.

By whom? Certainly not highly enough by Southgate who has worked with him for years.

... and he does a very good line in mimicry, now adoptiing the Johnny Wilkinson concentrated looking sequence, first at the ball, then at the goal, then at the ball, then at the goal before kicking it over the bar! Hang on JWP, isn't it supposed to go under the bar?

Since we are listing the success stories of other clubs in appointing new managers to save their seasons, an honourable mention for Woy of the Palarse A new manager brought in now could not possibly do any worse than the incumbent who has put us into the situation we find ourselves in now, the worse possible outcome of a change of manager would be no change in our performance. So the worst outcome of a change would be relegation with a fight rather than what we have now, relegation without a fight. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.. do not go gentle into that goodnight.

Yep! The table does not lie. What a waste of the last 5 years this has been. We've been sold down the Swanee good and proper. It was the same mistake Thatcher made when she assumed rich people would be benefactors to society as a whole. As she found out the hard way and as we have now found out rich people are just greedy opportunistic Bs who are just in it for their own gain and have no interest in the rest of us. The money's gone, the assets are gone and of course the 'great benefactor' has gone, surprise, surprise.

You are unbelievable.. do nothin and it'll all turn out right in the end! I'm with Guan on this, the voice of the fans has a right to be heard or we'll be shafted again and again. It might not bring about change but it'll certainly stir things up a bit and might even shock the complacent b****** upstairs. There'll be a far bigger protest next year when nobody buys a season ticket to watch Division 2 football.