Charlie Wayman

Wenger needs to win Cups as he has no chance of winning the league and the usual cop-out of a top 4 finish won't satisfy the fans or management for much longer so whatever his starting XI you must expect Wenger to turn the screw second half if we get off to a good start and they go 1-0 down. No way he will let this one slide out of his grasp so if we want to win it we will need to outplay them for 90 minutes. Can't see that happening myself especially up there. Wenger won't want a draw for obvious reasons so sadly 3-2 or 2-1 to them looks about how it will end up.

Samuels job is to help sell newspapers and with Saints currently sitting second of course we are newsworthy; as Keown said on Saturday MotD "the story goes on" meaning the last five years of seemingly endless progress from the depths of League 1 to now almost the top of the PL despite the many managerial and personnel changes that people decried at the time but none of which in fact have arrested that continuous progress. So there is a story to tell and for football fans the country over our situation continues to be one of the hotter topics of football gossip, not to mention the fact that we have done it all against the odds by playing real good attacking football. Finding a new angle by introducing a dose of negativity rather than drooling over the current success has stirred the **** for sure as he knew it would and now we are all talking about it. His job done, everyone of social media will be talking about Samuels.

Well, I hope they sell you - a very poor influence in our dressing room!

Lousy links today, tried dozens but they all were poor? Maybe everyone thought the game worth watching even as neutrals.

We do Ron, Ron we do!

Late night?

What a delightful afternoon. There's a good feeling about the place. Maybe the tensions have gone with the trouble-makers?

... and who is over-seeing all of this good work? Time you laid off Mr Kreuger, it's your comments that are becoming embarrassing.

Au contraire my friend, the starting XI is arguably much stronger now and did you not expect Morgan to be given a substantial pay rise to keep his head here? Remember to, the Club always had the options to keep contracted players here even against their wishes but the Club also said that it would keep the players that it wanted to keep so it can it not be be inferred that those who left were considered to be not irreplaceable?

It's the strong sunshine we had today. Why not lay down in a dark room for a couple of hours? Suddenly everyone's speaking double-dutch.

Excuse me, what does "my bad" mean in English?

Maybe we play him at centre back?

It's the white stains running down the red shirts :-)

Morgan is worth 10 Luke Shaws, 20 Callum Chambers and 100 Oxlades for what he has pout into Saints over the past 6 years. He is in the French team now which he fully deserves so playing here is no barrier. Whether he stays 1, 2 or even 3 more years he will leave with our thanks and gratitude for helping make us a better team and a PL team once again. Vive le Schneiderlin!

So ART why are you on here so often if you take such a dim view of the Forum? After all a Forum IS only it's membership, is it not? There is the irony!

Without doubt our best player ever and who better to be the Club President. Watching Terry was the next best thing to heaven in the sixties!

It would not appear to be quite so easy for either of these two lads to break into the Saints starting XI now despite Mr Koeman's reputation for developing kids. Seems JWP might be the lucky one of the trio in that he had already made the step up last season but the challenge for him now will be to stay there. The upside maybe that if they can't just walk into our first team anymore, envious glances at our latest Academy stars might be turned elsewhere despite their England associations.

The transfer window is closed. If JR is still not ready to play by the time the next window comes around any interest real or imaginary in Mr Rodrigues will have evaporated. Some of you guys really do need to get out more.

My guess is that the sort of players we are trying to attract are probably good enough to be targets for other top eight clubs as well so understandably agents and players hope for as long as possible for the call to come from ManC, Arse. Chelski or ManU and wouldn't you in their position especially if this was your first time in the Premier League. If that strategy fails then why not Saints for a year, play well in the PL shop window and hope the bigger boys will bite next summer. Makes perfect sense. Lovren being a possible model for our future recruitment and failure to hold on to real nuggets.

Then we should play with two keepers. We can start a trend...

You are talking about football?

What did you do that for? Not many others bothered obviously. As many have said before England no longer has relevance to Saints fans as all our players who made it to the national team Effed off the minute they did, so to Chamber-pot who looked mighty pleased with himself when he came on at the end but my feelings were of complete indifference. Some will say, isn't it great the England team will soon have five ex-Saints playing for them, maybe even six but most no longer give a tos,s?

There's always one complete prat on every thread.

If JWP doesn't start, so much for our much vaunted Academy players and Rono's alleged mission to bring those lads through to the first team.

We should shed a tear for the loss of such a man. Our door will always be open. Love the Man! Good Luck Jos, hope to see you back here soon.