Charlie Wayman

Rubbish!

Silly season started already? I imagine the new chairman will have a few things to say about all of this, doesn't seem to me the type who will roll over and have his tummy tickled by bully boys and silly boys of the London press and their cohorts in Big Clubs. All part of the destabilisation process. Everything these days is part of a process it seems. Saints will field a pretty much unchanged team next season, maybe one or two in and some make weights out but the core of the team Shaw, Schneiderlin & Lallana will be the basis of any subtle rebuilding. Steady as she goes is what will come down from the bridge.

We seem to have got ourselves one hell of a guy here, with his background and CV you have to wonder why he's settled for a football club, why not Chairman of a Footsie Blue Chip?

Many disabled fans have a half-way line elevated position at ideal viewing height. Some sit directly below the directors box. No wonder we are the best and quite right too!

What you are overlooking is that match day income has become almost insignificant as a measure of financial & performance sustainability of the top clubs. Most of their income is now coming from advertising, sponsorships and the like mostly from exposure to foreign sources in the middle and far east, even ManC. The PL is an international business and thinking local or national are no longer tenable. Bigger stadia are likely to be useful only as vanity projects for ego-centric owners and I just don't see either Mm Liebherr or the new CEO in that category. A new stadium would have no obvious purpose now that the Don has disappeared. We certainly do not need the seats to attract and accommodate hangers on wanting to associate with our success. Look no further than Barnsley and Oakwell to see where such folly leads.

Let's hope he doesn't quit and go to Arsenal to get noticed across La Manche

OK but not fair on Davis who seems to have a back injury that he can't shake off and maybe will end his career as a player.

He has always come across as a nice intelligent fun loving lad, like Jos in fact and having two guys like this in the dressing room and training must be fun for everyone. That's why we won't let them go. Real nice characters. Imagine having somebody like Carroll on board, like putting a fox in a hen coop.

I'm sure he has good intentions but only time will tell if his optimism is misjudged or if his ambition is dulled by harsh reality. The trick will be not to offer too many hostages to fortune but he has already done so. Let's hope for his sake that all stays as it is through the summer so that we can make a renewed challenge in the next campaign with the resources that have carried us forward to the point at which we are now. In other words, steady the ship and set a course for fair weather climates.

Eff the "No easy games" cr.ap, this is an easy game and if we can't beat them three or four nil MP should be shot.

Sad to see him go but not all Academy graduates can be super stars. I guess he's had time to prove his worth.

Yep! Anyway MP doesn't do half-way house, the fixtures attract zero attendance and knacker his kids so PL form dips.

Nobel Prize for literature coming your way?

Yes, but he needs Shaw & Lallana on board as well for his project to be going anywhere. If they did leave it wouldn't much matter who was boss next season we'd end up in the dog fight at the bottom of the league.

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Saw him many times, a great keeper indeed. Lovely chap by all accounts RIP John.

Lallana looks like a shoe-in for England captain after Gerrard steps down. Already it is noticeable how other players look up to him despite their club allegiances. He is 25 after all which is quite senior in new England terms. He does seem to have an authority now that he did not possess as captain before Pochettino arrived which seems also to have been the catalyst for his new found consistently good form. Running over all those hot coals is likely "wot did it"! As for leaving us... ? Na! Never in a Thousand Years!

I think that's right and we'll settle for ninth

Wanyama needs to up his game considerably to seriously challenge Jack Cork for a starting place however long Jack is sidelined through injury.

It seems our general level of performance is tailing off. I'm wondering if this is due to the Cortese effect wearing off. I imagine Mr Pochettino would have had weekly reminders of his goals and likely penalties. Without that driving force (threat) has he and everyone else eased off and lost a bit of their competitive edge?

Still fighting the cold war are you? Saints have moved on and so must you. If players want to leave there's not a great deal the club can do about it or so you seem to think but Liverpool dug in and refused to let Suarez go or even consider offers because they had him on a long contract and insisted he honoured that contract. Obviously the PL and the lawyers agreed with the club that contracts do have meaning. So contracts matter and Luke Shaw (if that's who you are worried about) is on a long contract and so is Adam and anyway neither shows any interest in leaving. So why keep harping on and on about nothing. Our problems such as they are, are to kick on next year and after three defeats on the trot evidentially we are not the finished article. Focus your attention on the key players we should bring in as striker and centre-back. If any contracts are running down and with no sign of their renewal it will likely be because the Club no longer needs their services. otherwise they'll all go off to Switzerland, climb mountains, nude swim in freezing lakes, wrestle with crocodiles to overcome their worst fears a d come back ready to storm the PL. 2015 will take care of itself when the time comes.

David Moyes... but first thing he'll do is clear out all the Academy and back room staff and bring in his own people. About time too!

Desperate days indeed. Where would we be in the league if only matches refereed by a a chap called Webb counted? Not only pointless but mindless as well.

Of all scenarios yours is the most unlikely. I'd pull back from saying it is daft! The key to it all is Pochettino, if he stays there'll be only a minor clear out and perhaps two people in - striker and centre-back. Luke Shaw is 18 he plays for England, plays PL football every week and has no incentive at all to leave until he is 21 at the earliest. Never under-estimate how insecure an 18 year old footballer can be when he leaves home for a strange city that maybe he has never visited, having spent 10 years or more since being a kid in the closed and closeted confines of one club and remember too this guy is very close to his mum & dad. He may be big for a lad but certainly does not come across as big-headed, more bewildered than anything by how his life is rapidly unfolding probably even beyond his comprehension. He's just not ready to move on yet and having long standing pals like Chambers & Ward Prowse at almost the same level and in the same team of course is a massive factor holding him here.

Over performed at the start by hitting the ground running when others did not, under performed later when others adapted to our pressing style. Now we are where we should be, win some, lose some, draw some, (mid-table) as our tactical, limitations become more evident as other teams have settled down and enforce their own styles on us. We should have moved on but did not, whilst others did.