Charlie Wayman

Even van Gaal is at it now... "Chelsea & Man City are the best two sides in the PL" !!!!! Probably jealous of an embarrassed by Our Ron's success at team building which has been conspicuously absent at Old Trafford under his watch.

To be fair Jason our team have had a winning mentality for the past 5 years as we won the JPT, stormed through League 1 and the Championship and on up the Premier League. Never looked back since Mr Liebherr bought the club.

Well done once again to the lads. Where they get their stamina from is anybody's guess but boy did they look knackered at the end. City, Gooners and Manure in 7 days is going to be one hell of a test of strength and character but arguably it may have been much tougher physically playing Stoke twice in succession.

You should not worry too much, have you ever seen a happier player? He's found something at Southampton that suits him and has inspired him at 29, not many strikers of his age would come here to do more than play out their final two or three seasons at the top level in a 'second tier' environment without overmuch pressure on them. For him it is like a second birth and he won't throw that away easily. He's settled, he's happy, he's realistic and my bet is he will keep banging 'em in as a Saint for as long as Ron is here and don't rule out Ron being here for a long time.

Sadly, you may be right.

Great reminder to take my ear plugs. Are you deliberately trying to make us all sound like brain dead morons?

No Morgan in today's training footage, hope that kick on the foot he got from (DFB) Adam isn't a serious injury. Anybody heard anything?

I'd settle for the 'old' Aguero personally.

Sure made hard work of that, Gardos made a few errors and then lost confidence. Wanyama's distribution is awful. Targett still has a great deal to learn. This is why they don't start every week. Give away five corners in a row and the law of averages says one is bound to go in. Credit to Koeman, he didn't panic even when they clawed two back and gave the reserve lads almost a full match despite their lack of match fitness, that showed in the last quarter of an hour, only bringing on reinforcements to shore up the defence for the last 5 minutes. Adams is a dirty ba**ard.

It would be nice to think that Les Reed stated this rumour just as a tit-for-tat with the Yobos, 'we can poach your players anytime we like as well'. More likely Kane's agent putting pressure on Pochettino, pick me or I'm off. Problem for Rodrigues is where does he fit in as first pick now that things at SMS have moved on so much.... and still we cannot know if he will recover fully and ever be as sharp as he was before. Obviously other clubs don't know that either so any real interest or bids will be next summer if Jat has starred playing again, playing well and can break into the first team as first choice No ??. Long way to go on this one and if the treacherous Argie really does depend on a seriously injured striker recuperating slowly at a different club then the likelihood is he will b long gone before Jay is even considered a prospect again.

Wonder why the OP doesn't scoop the pools jackpot every week? How many scores has he predicted so far?

2 x Paracetomol every 4 hours might help. Symptoms should subside within a week or two....

Indeed he is and Shawcross is no better. Stoke are an embarrassment, particularly Adams and his boss Hughes both of whom seem to think match-long moaning at the ref is a good substitute for playing football. I hate everything about Stoke City and feel especially sorry for their fans who have had to put up with this culture of anti-football for years. Who in their team would even make the bench of a good PL side?

Morgan Schneiderin will never be massively over-rated, he is a world class player and will develop even more in a better team, which in his case is likely to be Barcelona. Don't be too sure he will leave in the summer, he is part of a very good squad with seemingly a very cohesive dressing room; if we do really well this season why would he want out if everyone else stays? Who wants to be Johnny Nomates like Shaw?

Harmless remark which anybody would make in deference to a boss (sic Les Reed) who has the ultimate say in who is bought or sold. Ron didn't say we don't have the money he was saying if we have the money to buy Bertrand at this stage who is on loan to the end of the season. If we have other targets for January the priority will be to spend presently available transfer funds on new players then whilst the Btrtrand situation can be resolved in the summer.

Well, I for one am really fearful of Adams diving all over the place in the final third when the refs back is turned and he's far from being the worst offender. You KNOW they will dive and for sure they'll get at least one penalty with Hughes doing his windmill act and harassing the ref and 4th official and moaning like b*gger* to SZky afterwards. I guess Ron does as well but too polite to say as much publicly.

Sure but doesn't fence sitting become uncomfortable after a while?

Ronald Koeman is a man worth listening too, a breath of fresh air in the dank, dark corridors of the Premier League. Long may he tell it as he sees it without rancour or negativity. "To be honest I am still a little bit on shock... 8-0 is not a normal premier league score" Truly refreshing. Wenger, Mourinho, van Gaal, and all you other moaners please take note and follow our leader!

Well done to you all and yes we have been watching you on the Saints OS in the dressing room in "Match Day Uncoverered". Hope you had a really great day. True fans of football for sure so please coma again and tell everyone in Holland "Saints are here to stay". Maybe , we will come to Rotterdam soon to watch Feyenord

Of course, it is good people management to praise the good things in public and deal with the less good in private on the training ground mana-a-mana. No doubt wee Sammy has a knack with these things if his enthusiasm on the bench is anything to go by.

Can't agree with you as two of last weekend's starting XI were forced on the manager by the late return of players. Wanyama & Mane are surely first choice over Cork / Long and five goals came after the changes don't forget. Those who claim Schneiderlin didn't play well are talking rubbish. Once he was the standout player now all around him are good but he still controls midfield magisterially with foresight in positioning for receiving passes and faultless distribution. Cork(y) needs to up his game quite a bit, he was slow off the mark in the first half and too often caught out of position or being unsure of where he should be to give cover to Clyne(y).

Wake me up in the morning, I want this dream to last forever. You need to ram home the point Ron that we can't afford to miss all those chances at this level. No easy games.

I watched the USA v Japan Women's Olympic Final at Wembley and the skill levels were very good indeed, especially Japan who moved the ball around and ran off the ball as well as many PL teams but of course pace and strength were not their greatest assets. USA preferred long balls forward and in the end they won because the Japanese were caught too many times too far forward to recover their positions in time... plus they has bloody good goalkeeper who was er.... 'Woman' of the Match. To answer the OP, don't ask 'why?' do something about it, there's a load of women up at SMS these days and more than a few I'll wager can kick a ball around for 90 minutes. Just needs people to get it moving and not necessarily women.

Very well deserved, maybe time Steven to smile a bit more? You'll do us all a favour by making sure all the other players sign up for life as well. Not sure about the impact on Jack 'though, he looked very distracted at training.... must wonder if the call will ever come club or country. 10 mins here and there as a sub is no solace for a great footballer. I'll back Ron's judgement over mine any day but this affair mystifies me.

Of course, things happen in a good way at Southampton. Maybe we can break the mold this weekend and give Poyet's mob a damn good thrashing!