Charlie Wayman

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.

Bowllocks to Deschamps. Morgan not going to Brazil is a scandal. Best players on show? My Rrse! One of us really. Why not select him for England?

Clyne? What ya taking about? Do you ever watch the Saints or do you make it up on your Tapatalk (? WTFIT?) CHAMBERS

I think it will happen naturally. The family will want their own man in sooner or later. My bet is this summer and Poch is serving out his notice.

Fonte made several schoolboy errors today and gave away a pen and almost another goal. Getting old and slow? Lovren needs a couple of matches to get back to fitness.

I agree, there was no movement at all on the bench until the 70th minute when it was far too late. MP is probably serving out his notice after the recent announcements. Unusually poor performance from Shaw, did pressure of having to impress Hodgson get to him. Chambers incredible, could he be better than Shaw even? Our MotM by a country mile. Morgan good until knackered and Corkie.

One point will stop the rot! Safety almost...

Do we ever play well in the evening. They'll want to get even for Anfield and SMS last year. 0-2 best guess. Going to be freezing and wet as well so not a great evening to be outdoors.

You complain of speculative waffle and then make a comment that is not only ridiculously speculative but also personally libellous. Take care my friend of what you write, there are plenty of lawyers reading the internet these days.

So if the reported interview in the Mail is 'on message', we should expect to see Pochettino out the door in June. Maybe that's already decided and known within club circles and Pochettino has agreed to see the season out for a big fat pay-off.

Look fellas, we are a Swiss team, right? Switzerland play in all red, right? Next year's shirt will look exactly like this year's shirt. A return to stripes will never happen under this regime and things might get distinctly worse if we sell to a company with Blue as a corporate colour! Poor old Cardiff could become poor old Southampton

He seems to have lost a bit of pace and confidence and has got caught too far forward, too many times of late. It seems Callum is preferred because he's a big lad and has physical presence whereas Clyne needs to win the ball with his feet in every tackle.

Disgraceful defending and ineffective attacking, great recipe for success. We should patent it.

They would but it will not happen. PSG are doing rather well under their present manager or hadn't you noticed MP is unproven at PL level let alone CL. He has a long way to go yet before being considered for a top job in Europe, that's why he's here; this project must succeed to even get him a bigger club in England. He will still be here next season unless sacked and if things don't get better next year he'll probably get the big heave-ho anyway and then nobody will care a toss.

We seem to be in transition again with players coming back so likelihood Pochettino will drop Cork, Lambert and Yoshida to the bench again and rely on the centre backs and defensive midfielders to get their acts together. For some reason he never seems to keep a winning team? So there will be spaces through rusty performance and lack of understanding and with Shaw and Clyne up and down a bit of late it might be asking too much to keep a clean sheet. Can we score, not so sure? 2-0 to the Hammers is what I think will happen.

Time to smell the coffee. If it hadn't been for Marcus Liebherr and his mega millions there would be no club and no fans so saying that the club is no longer run for fans is idiotic.

I love Jos, he must be worth his weight in gold in the dressing room, keeping spirits up and most importantly helping keep the young lads' feet on the ground. He did a good job yesterday and the goal was not his fault. People like you OP should get off his back and stop writing utter bilge like this thread title.

Simply unbelievable Jeff! Utter mind blowing tosh in fact.

What utter mind bending tosh. Surely you've got better things to do on a fine sunny Sunday than navel gazing.

What has happened to James Ward-Prowse? Future England captain, transfer target and automatic first pick at season start to hesitant, ineffective and feeble mid-fielder in less than a quarter of a season. Something not right there at all. Is competition and national recognition of Shaw and Chambers phasing him and affecting his game? I hope the coaches cam sort him out as would hate to see him end up as an also-ran and being farmed out to Chesterfield on loan. Going the way of Simon Gilett?