Charlie Wayman

People need to tread carefully, creating fixture congestion could well be a ploy by UEFA's top leagues to reduce Premier Divisions to 16 or even 12 elite clubs. Recent suggestions that the gaps between matches are "more fair" for some than others might not be accidental. The way to defeat this is to deliberately play weak teams in unimportant competitions so that you get knocked out early. Even for a club like us maybe we should adopt the attitude that the only competition outside the PL worth taking part in is the Champions League There are a lot of old romantics in the fanbase who think competitions like the FACup are still worth winning but they're not if it results in a low league position so that when the inevitable down-sizing occurs clubs (like ours) get stranded below the cut-off point. We should aim now to be always in the top 8 and sod the Cups!

I agree with you, there are still a lot of limitations in his general play that by and large cancel out much of the good things so you end up with an average player who looks more like journeyman than a real talent in the same mold as Henderson & Berkley. He still cannot tackle effectively or cleanly after well over 100 odd games and still falls back too often on the very simple 5-yard off-load pass to a nearby team mate or a back pass to the CBs both of which stall our forward thrust and as often as not leave our strikers running into off side positions. For me he is no more than an off-the-bench player not a first team regular but all the time Les is at the helm we'll be stuck with the Academy boys mentality that he has instilled in Puel. You've got to ask what Clasie & Hojberg have done wrong to always be behind WP these days and hardly get a game. They must be mightily ****ed off!

Forster seems to have very slow reactions and lacks agility due to his size and ungainliness, the two characteristics that seem to be of the utmost important at this level. Too many fans are grumbling about his performances match after match for it to be a knee-jerk response to the disappointment of last Sunday. The question must be asked what the coaches think about his situation as surely they cannot be unaware of the mood of the fanbase. Indeed the fact that they brought in Hassan in the transfer window might suggest they are concerned. Maybe it is time for a change. Hart would not be a bad option but is he a team player? If we do need to find a replacement let's go for that Burnley lad even if they stay up.

Strange as we couldn't find a decent pie all afternoon.

Somebody has to be the first effing **** to find someone to blame as is so predictable on this website. As others have said go find another club to support.

Give it a rest mate, what was there to criticise about yesterday's performance. This was the best team performance ever seen at Wembley, just be satisfied with that.

An amazing performance from all our players so well done to Claude and everyone this morning. The future is bright, the future will be red & white!

Did you actually read what he said at his pressie or just pick up on the uninformed bile stream and it has nothing to do with him being Dutch by the way?

I guess most people on here are going to Wembley to watch a football match not stand around in a boozer all day - hence no replies. Still, each to his own aye?

Let's face a few facts before we slag this guy off as a panic buy who has nothing to contribute. Ordinarily if he had been fully fit and playing regularly at his best level and he was a free agent when the transfer window opened we wouldn't even have got a sniff at a guy of this quality let alone be able to afford to outbid the rich clubs of English football for his signature. If he settles in well, plays well and decides he likes it enough here to stay on a longer contract we will have stolen a march on the big boys; with the prospect of a fit again top notch Carceras lining up alongside van Dyke next season what is not to like? This could be the start of something great! He will be a boon to young players as a teacher and of course as a challenger for a place in the team. Not only that but he is a "name" that can only be good to attract other top players and persuade the stars we have here to stay. His entry may have been unorthodox and unseemly but he might well be one of the signings of the century

Nah!

Now Gallagher has picked up an injury

Good to see such decisive people on here! It's only a guessing game for fun, nobody will go to jail for getting it wrong.

We are allowed 25 squad players so we must have a clear out of flops before we can hire new flops. Lay off Clasie will ya, you're like a bunch of flipping' parrots

Do they have loos and food on the club's official coaches - seriously?

"It's all about the occasion stupid!" (No, not you beatlesaint). Guaranteed this will be the Rooney Final as will be the pre match obligatory interview with Laurie MacMenemy even 'though he knows sod all about the modern Saints. Nobody is interested in the football or the nonentity little club from the south coast.

Nice and Easy wins the game.....

What you forget conveniently is that all of these players were relative unknown's when they came to us and we got hold of them because nobody else wanted them! We made them into desirable commodities. Who's to say we won't do so again. We are going to win and win big today even 4-0 will not be a surprise.

There are so many things you see happening at a live match-day that never get on screen where the experience and perspectives are nowhere near the same.

Sadly for us Sofiane Boufal has all the hallmarks of developing into an outstanding player of world class. He seems to be one of those rare talents that can genuinely change a game. I guess we'll see him for this season and next before the inevitable exit to Chelsea or Arsenal.

It is important that he plays well against Man U to impress them according to his agent

Was that Alfie Jones in the training pics? Interesting.

If it was Arsenal or Man U showing interest... but Sunderland? Sam has scored a few against Championship defences granted but if like me you've been watching Channel 5 footie on Saturday's not many of his goals have been down to outstanding individual brilliance. A few of the Greaves variety in there.

You should get a job with the BBC who seem happy to employ doom and gloom merchants in their news and weather teams.

Not looking likely is it, another day of rumours but little substance.