Charlie Wayman

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!

Sunderland & Stoke and the prospect of rain sodden afternoons for both... and this is supposed to be fun? Cheer up it could be worse? It will be if they're both goal-less draws.

This of course another one of this infamous BBC non-stories that they love to use to liven up their otherwise boring front pages, one guaranteed to up the ante and getting the masses charged up. There is absolutely sod all the government can or will do about it, in reality it is nothing to do with them. The (private company) PL will keep screwing (private consumers) fans until they cry stop, simples! Everyone will huff and puff for a few days as they do; take their eyes off whatever ball the BBC wanted us to take our eyes off - probably Yentob's outrageous salary and fees - and then back to normal when most will have long forgotten. That's how it works.

I agree with you, completely unjustified sarcasm for that guy whoever he is. I guess it'll be business as usual for the next two games. Boring defensive football from the visitors and our inability to break them down and make anything of it. We could draw / lose both if we're not careful. As a spectacle let's hope there are one or two low flying jets landing at Eastleigh to liven things up a bit.

Hodgson's England are an embarrassing pantomime, no method, no skill, no ideas and Chambers over Clyne defies belief. Wilshire and Henderson belong in the lower leagues yet this is our spine? You've got to be Effing kidding. It seems this IS the best Hodgson can do and his limitations are there for all to see and what he serves up is truly b.loody abysmal. It is way, way past the time when he and his cohorts should have been thanked for their services and shown the door.... and don't mention that loud-mouthed clown who sits next to him? Give me strength! For goodness sake Dyke surely you can find somebody better than this. Nigel Adkins would be a district improvement if you insist on having an Englishman in charge.

Thanks 'Norm' for that, this is the sort of stuff saints web should really be doing rather than hosting all the town's mindless moaning minnies.

He gets better after overcoming his nerves. Don't miss what he has to say, laziness is no excuse for not staying the course.

This is a MUST SEE and MUST LISTEN! Are we being too helpful to other clubs? It seems Les has not kept many secrets about our modus operandii so what's to stop them encroaching on our territory for example? Not that that is a criticism - maybe he thinks with 5 or 6 years of a Philosophy behind us the others would have to be pretty determined to catch up anyway. Grabbing our coaches and Les himself is probably how they would try to short circuit the process so we need to hold on to these key people at all costs, our success will be more assured by paying these organisational people what they are worth and worrying less about player comings and goings. I sincerely believe in the methods that Les outlined and if he is only 90% right, what's to stop us just getting better and better?

Surely you have something other than football fantasy on your mind? How long did this take you? Bet you could have built a shed in half the time ;-)

It's a hypothesis not a theory but still cra.p whichever way you describe it. Of course he will play.

Does anybody know if this is on Sky this afternoon or do we have to rely on dodgy streams again?

Nope.

This video is probably the best they've done so far, how long before we actually see some match highlights as well? My guess is that Ralph has had more than a little input into the vastly improved communications with fans. Can you imagine Cortese letting us see any video interview for free?

Well done Nat but please ignore all those sour sods you'll meet at St George's who'll tell you that you're wasting your time at Southampton. They're just jealous 'cos they are not playing for Saints and not on Saints target list of potential signings.

Wind Up!

No good will come of it. We know he's good enough but do we really care about him being called up for England who at best play cr.ap and at worst utter *****. Why would we want any of our players to come under the influence of Hodgson and his cronies even for a couple of weeks? All of Ron's good work undone in a thrice. Nat Clyne is part of something very much better than playing for England, the last thing we want right now is him being sucked into a system that has ruined every player that ever turned out for the national side. We certainly don't want him talking to the likes of Lallana with his narrow and bigoted view of loyalty.

When we climbed to the top of the Championship within weeks of all the 'pundits' on here saying we would go straight back down few thought it would last because they had under-estimated Saints and over-estimated the quality of the opposition teams especially those that had just missed promotion to the PL. Many said the quality gap was too big and our League 1 team would not be able to hack it once we were up against the 'big teams' of the Championship and when the heavy pitches and bad weather arrived.... Does any of this sound familiar? Just keep believing folks.

Indeed. It seems to be a secret to Rono as well!

Totally agree with you. The so-called expert pundits contribute next to sod-all to one's understanding of what goes on in games. Like you I wish they'd stick with Linnekar just introducing the reports. The game commentators add all the detail needed. e usually make some tea whilst the pundits are on but there's a limit to how much tea you can drink at that time of day.

Great pis,s take lads but how much Dutch do you know? Personally I love listening to the man who just exudes common sense and good nature. We'll never have a better guy than this at the helm so relish him whilst we have him.

You're not wrong!

That's just not true, the ref was a Football League ref not one of the PL boys so doubtful he ever refs the big clubs. Remember too the official rule is "A minimum of 4 minutes"