Charlie Wayman

No good relying on Dragon's Den, that don't have any money either

Not good news. If Kat is stuck with an unsaleable asset but wishes to diversify her investments portfolio she might be tempted to do what the Glazers did to Man U by refinancing the club through debt and we all know where that could lead.

The centre of gravity of the PL is certainly shifting South, just need Reading to win the play-offs and Bristol to start taking the round ball game seriously.

OK, so lets hope that our players have not decided to stop playing for Puel, the way that bunch of barstewards up at Leicester stopped playing for Ranieri.

Gabbiadini was only put in out of desperation, Puel said in his presser that Gabbiadini was 'a possibility' for the bench to get some game time which indicated that he might get 30 minutes at the end. I was surprised as everyone else that he started and lasted 60 minutes. The last thing we wanted was for him to over-do it and re-igniting his injury so we lost him for the rest of the season. The over-whelming opinion on here is that if Carceras plays we have to pay him which is the last thing those tight Rrses up stairs are going to do now that Liebherr wants to cash in her chips.

What were you on last night 'cos lots of us would like some of the same. Could you sort out North Korea next please?

This but **** happens. Clasie should have come on for WP much earlier, the Boufal sub made sense only to our manager when we were already stretched to the limit down the right side. From then on we were cannon fodder. You'd never have guessed that Puel was a defender.

This really, he was a advised to stay here a bit longer for his personal development and that's what he should have done but greed seems to have got the better of him. Now he's finding out the hard way that it's a tough nasty world out there when you leave the safe refuge of home and you'd better be ready for that. Obviously he wasn't and that's a shame but tough luck, he made his own bed and so he must lie in it but he probably won't end up at Accrington Stanley.

You should have been a professional footballer. Somebody gave you some very bad advice when you were a kid. Had you not studied hard to do "something worthwhile" with your life you too could have had an aimless existence kicking a ball around in the park as soon as school was out.

The problem is always to keep players happy when they are part of a squad but not getting a regular starting place. All players in this position will consider their options at the end of the season but they will not leave just to sit on somebody else's bench even for slightly more money. If they do move it will be because they know they will be a regular starter at a different club but no club can guarantee that and especially no club in the top 8 above us. OK, players may have options abroad but surely the EPL must be easily Europe's top paying league and this area is not the worst place to live even if not the most exciting. As for the "Koeman" factor that's just lazy journalism. Can't see a mass exodus happening in the summer, Puel is building for the future (so he says) and players like 'Davo" are not getting any younger so the young players like Pierre & Jorde just need to keep improving and their time will come just like Yoshi who is now a first choice and red & white through and through.

Not only are the players losing confidence and belief but so are the fans. Reading through this thread is quite disheartening, so many fans are very downbeat about our prospects for the season and even tonight's match. Time was when we assumed a home game meant 3 points (or 2) whichever year and in whichever league we happened to be. This is the worst I have known the pessimism to be at The Dell at St Mary's. Little wonder, when we started this week's trio of matches there were 9 very winnable and valuable points up for grabs and grabbing them would have energised our season. Typically of Saints they failed at the first hurdle and now understandably there is an air of despondency about the place, players and fans alike. Even without this negativity the recent form and rise of our opponents has ensured that it will be a very tough match that few can honestly claim we deserve to or will win. There is a difference between hope and reality and if we go about things in the way that we did in the second half on Saturday then we'll be very lucky indeed to come out of it with a point. The tired old rhetoric of being clinical and all players have the responsibility of scoring not just the strikers doesn't wash anymore. Puel has had a whole season to sort this out and there is no magic potion that'll turn our strikers into world class goal getters overnight. Sad days but many will be satisfied with a 1-1 tonight, that's how low expectation s are now.

I guess you'd had more than a few by the time you wrote this? Still, good for a laugh first thing this Monday morning. You won't be nominated for pundit of the year that's for sure.

We feel your despair Andy,let's hope that some sharp words are spoken tomorrow morning when the coaches have to account to management for a job very badly done.

Certainly not a good advert for season ticket renewals. No fun at all today up there. It's not quite the end of term yet chaps, a few exams to sit first!

Surely many of us wish only to see Saints games, if Saints are home we go to watch live - if local - if Saints are away we watch where/how/when we can and if all else fails we listen on Solent? A Sky day pass is £5.99 when we are on. If they screened on demand all matches as others have said at £6 a match of course we'd all sign up for the away games and they'd make nigh on £120 per household that very probably they are never going to get. No way will I subscribe to the greedy fat sharks that seek to screw the very section of society that is least able to afford it when all they offer most of the time are the darlings of London and the North West.

Your point being?

It would be mighty embarrassing for us as a Club after all the years of 'records' this and 'records' that for saints to end up with less than a point per match and the sponsors wouldn't be that chuffed either ...and how would that look to agents and players whom we might want to attract here in the summer. It wouldn't do Puel's reputation much good either would it and chances are it could be irreparably damaging for him?

He's not even back at Staplewood yet let alone doing even any light training or weights. At least Austin is although not running around. No chance we'll see either again this year, Puel makes these things up in the belief that it keeps the Oppo's guessing but surely that game is played out for his year, 10th on 33 pts is hardly going to scare the oppo's as the season runs down. Puel's pressers were quite revealing for once, whether intentional or not who knows but what he did and tried his best not to say spoke volumes. Clearly there are some personal issues with some players like Tadic, Boufal & Clasie all of whom were mentioned in that context. Not such a happy ship as we once thought

At least Orion Romeu thinks 12th place isn't good enough after last season so no way he will let up and allow this to become an end of season yawn-fest. That suggest we will not rotate to an absurd degree and field weak teams - at least that what I ope it will mean.

Seems I may have got my wires crossed on the announced pricing this season. Can't recall what I paid last season so will have to check bank card statements, definitely got the EBD. Thanks lads for corrections.

Indeed! It's difficult to score goals when you're sat on the bench or jogging up and down the touchline. Maybe some so-called Saints fans need the rules spelling out for them.

LOL

By freezing prices BUT NOT offering an early bird discount, the Club have effectively upped prices by last seasons % of the EBD. Very sly move and guaranteed to upset fans like me who do not even get a senior discount for where we sit in the Itchen. FMBTASMBOTB

"Southampton are keen to keep hold of the Euro 2016 winner, but they are bracing themselves for interest in Soares this summer with City and several other big clubs keeping tabs on his progress". Cedric is happy here, he has a long contract, Ralph says we don't want to keep selling our best players, negotiations on a selling price to the Chinese are on-going, a new owner will want the assets that already exist before deciding on future needs and we are the patsies who just give in when City can't prise their preferred targets away from bigger clubs... you couldn't make it up but of course they just did! City can have all the interest they like in their third choice option to replace ageing players but no way is this going any further than paper-talk. Do the press not understand that we might actually have spotted the potential of a - Soares, Carceras, van Dyke, Bertrand - back line ?

Come on people, the very last thing we need is for one of our most creative players to leave because he feels the fan base are beginning to desert him. He is a firm favourite at SMS and let's be clear about this, who is not thrilled by expectation every time Dusan Tadic receives the ball at his feet in space. For me he is worth the price of admission on his own. There absolutely is room in the team for both Dusan and Boufal if Puel would change his mindset for a few matches. All the time he or more likely Les insists on starting with Redmond & Ward Prowse then two of our most gifted talents will suffer humiliation and frustration and there can only be one outcome of that. We have an identical situation with Jorde Classie and Pierre Hojberg both exciting young talents who are being ignored at our peril. Puel was asked the other day about how difficult it is for a manager to keep everyone happy when not in the first team, now we are seeing the fall-out and one is bound to ask if he is up to that particular task with all this open talk of dissatisfaction. Once the seed is sown....