Charlie Wayman

Any room in your team for Forster, mate?

Doubtful, how tall is Joe Hart then? Isn't there a rule that a goalkeeper cannot be taller than the crossbar of a goal, thought I'd read that somewhere?

His best position is third chair along, back row of the bench.

"Not totally convinced"? You are being extremely generous today, the bloke has been a waste of space. All the time the Puppet Master is pulling the strings.....

The boo boys are really in their element at the moment slagging off Fraser Forster at every opportunity and the sad thing is that they are only a tiny faction that doesn't represent the fan base as a whole yet Fraser will know what's being said and is probably drifting to a "Sod you lot" attitude. What the slaggers need to realise is that driving the big man out is one thing, getting somebody in who's even half as good as him is quite another. We could easily end up with losing Fraser at the end of the season and getting nobody in to replace him of any quality at all so we end up in the same situation as when Jose Fonte left. People should be very wary of getting what they wish for.

I can perfectly well imagine that the nonsensical arrangement of Kelvin Davis being the "Club" captain with Jose Fonte being the "On field" captain really wrankled with Davis and as soon as he (Davis) got his feet under the table on the coaching staff he did everything in his power to ensure that Fonte wouldn't get the chance of following him in and queering up his pitch once again.

We are still Southampton and we all know what that means. Last year's run-in was exceptional. An away game at WHL as one of the "two in hand" is hardly encouraging.

Does anybody seriously doubt it, bloody morons who are already knocking the lad. He's hardly got into his stride since his arrival because of all the injuries he has picked up. Give him an injury free month or two and Puel will have some serious problems in team selection. Personally, I think there is room for Redmond, Tadic, Boufal & Gabbiadini the Magician.

Nah! Terry Paine will pick Ryan Bertrand again as he has done for the past two years. He too qualifies for the "not a foreigner" award. Overall PotS, no brainer it has to be Oriol Romeu.

Football at the highest level is rotten to the core, of course the whole PL thing is fixed and this is no cynical tongue-in-cheek trolling remark. Our perfectly legitimate 7th minute goal at Wembley was disallowed through an "erroneous" refereeing decision and now Mings gets a 5 game ban whilst Ibrahimovic escapes with three and Barcelona need to score 6 goals to win and do so! Who's getting the bungs?

"Lander Sports... in February, became the fifth Chinese company to back a professional soccer team in the U.K., acquiring an undisclosed stake in top-ranking Southampton F.C." Surely the Club would have been delighted with such an investment and made a high profile announcement. No such announcement has been made so the story cannot be true.

That's why you should have gone up to SMS on Monday just for a football fix. Good football, no queues for the bog or food and room to stretch your legs when you felt like it.

van Dyke 'is expected to leave in the summer"...... By whom we may well ask certainly not according to SFC. Could it be anything to do with the Guardian being a Manchester based publication?

The bloke has attitude which gets in the way of his performance. I'm not sure why he always wants to be the centre of attention but he does and the cameras always seem to pick up on it whereas a chap like Yoshida who just gets on with it quietly never gets a close-up on screen. If you watch clips from the training ground it is nearly always Redmond who is larking about in front of camera rather than concentrating on what he is supposed to be doing. If it is just cockiness and he thinks he's the next Ronaldo then somebody should remind him that he isn't all that good and not even the best player on our team. He'll mature one day and might then be a half-decent player.

Very much depends upon whether Claude Puel will be our manager next season. If he does and we continue to play high speed one touch pass and move football then the people who cannot adapt to that system will be the ones to be cast off. This is not a crusade against Puel just that if we get taken over in the summer then new owners will want their own man in and his style will dictate who's in and who's out. There are one or two who likely will leave of their own volition whichever way that works out, Martina & Rodrigues being the obvious candidates because they know there is little of a future here for them. Then there are a few youngsters who have had their chance but not taken it to make room for the next generation of academy lads and maybe McQueen and Hesketh are in that category perhaps going out on loan with a view to permanent transfers later on - try before you buy as it were. With Alfie Jones getting better all the time Jack Stephens may be another to miss the boat here.

Some of the posts on here are pretty unfair, so not sure if the posters actually went up to SMS last night to watch. Hojberg played very well especially in the second half when he had found his touch and was strong on forward runs to their box. Carceras was excellent as you might expect, read the game well, good movement. Always alert and moving to cover / intercept and great on the ball. Always running into space to provide an out ball for the goalie. It looks to be a case of strength and stamina now his quality is assured. Alfie Jones looks a prospect. McQueen was in and out certainly better in the second half but poor in first when all he did was pass backwards and did no runs down the wing. Boufal got really badly done by the Chelsea No 6 right on his recently injured foot, it hurt him and he was ****ed off with it, understandable as the Chelsea guy had given him the roughhouse treatment all night. If it turns out his foot has been injured again having maybe not properly healed then no wonder he stormed off as he did. Could be a season ender for him. Having said that he was off at 58 minutes so that must have been pre-arranged to give him match time. Our strikers were nothing short of inept all night, they created absolutely nothing between them people will focus on Rodrigues who was very poor indeed and lazy, gave the impression he couldn't be Rrsed. The academy boys fared little better just a couple of good moments from Sims but little else. Harry just zipped about all night running and crunching, he seems tireless.

We play our own game of set attack and out-pass and out-think them, that's how we win not be sitting back and inviting them to showboat at our expense. Redmond as AMF and Boufal on the left switching with Tadic.

Free entry is a very good price indeed to see tomorrow's stars in action. Big crowd up there tonight please to get behind Carceras.

There are two U23 fixtures before the Spurs game so let's get Carceras out there and up to speed in time for Spurs... and yes, Boufal in for JWP..

Yep! You've nailed it. Can't see Austin getting back into this squad but we still have to find a position for Boufal. Maybe drop Redmond back to attacking mid-field with Boufal on the left? Neither Hojberg or Les's poster boy are good enough it seems. The great thing about Redmond he is can chase back all day, tackle and defend so give it a go.

That's not what he said after the match was it, he said how well he and Ryan get on with all their banter and support for each other.

We'll take that but Stephens out of his depth really, we must play Carceras against Spuds. JWP knackered all match should have been replaced at HT. Need to get Boufal on much earlier.

See, this forum is not such a bad place after all.

LOL

Crunch talks, aye? Showdown at the OK corral? I don't think so, who in their right minds would want to live in Glasgow. If he is that good why not offer him DoF here, Les. More pertinently our club is about more than individuals these days as the last three years of coming and goings have shown, now who was that Paul Mitchell bloke who used to work here.....