Charlie Wayman

Very lazy reply. Irony is obviously lost on people like you.

Nobody else is able to find a way through and stick the ball in the net so why not Ramirez. I mean any forward who isn't scoring goals is worthless so he can replace anybody more or less. lLt's start with Ramirez, Guly and Lee... why not? Can't be any worse than Osvaldo, Rodrigues and Davies?

Well just remember our best crowds ever were only just over 30k at The Dell and at SMS. Moral seems to be we have catchment of around 300,000 people and for 10% of those to turn up for every game is a big ask indeed. Agreed, 40k go to Wembley but those are rare special occasions. It proves regrettably that our capacity is about right and that Mr Lowe was not quite as daft as we paint him - he also signed Morgan! Cortese is not into vanity projects so the dream of a super stadium in the South will ever remain just a dream. 28/29k for Fulham is more than our visitors deserve. Attendances are falling everywhere with our penniless poor and bankrupt middle, soon only idiots (like us) will deem it worthwhile to spend money on footie rather than food.

Although Fulham ran out easy winners against Palace last night they did not play particularly well or with much assurance. They tried to play a passing game of sorts but it was slow, not instinctive and often wayward. The speed and accuracy of our game should have them on the back-foot from the get-go. I honestly cannot see them scoring, on the other hand we're not much better in the 18 yard box and will struggle to improve on the odd goal bundled in in a goalmouth scramble so for me 1-0 to Saints, maybe 2-0 if they are generous enough to give us an own goal.

Oh Dear! How sad is this suggestion? Why do we need a blo.ody song for every occasion. Embarrassing!

Surely the whole point of this website is to talk ballocks and moan about trivia? Why else would anybody log in? Cortese out!

Well this old fart said from Day 1 of his appearance in our first team that he would be the new Pires and he has never changed his mind. I was labelled by everyone on here at the time as a looney when so many complained he was a waste of space and get rid, so it is for me a Schadenfreude moment that everyone now agrees. Glad you all caught up chaps! I am also the only one saying we will win the Premier League this year, yep same old looney!

We still need to be better at finishing, offered nothing much of a goal threat in the 18 yard box. We are good at containing but must improve going forward and strikers need to work more intelligently.

] Pretty much agree with that but getting any sort of result up there is a very tall order. The real test will be if they score early on and our defensive confidence gets sapped away. So much of this game is in the head these days that any sign that our present invincibility is under threat could be catastrophic. We have good players but not many excellent ones so much of what we are about is physiological self-belief.

THINK ABOUT IT! Unless there was real interest in a player and a real chance of signing him on a permanent basis why would Saints bother to disrupt a long-term team building programme with a short-term loanee fix? It doesn't make sense and it won't happen.

Roy Hodgson is far from being a joke. If you recall he had his WBA team playing great football like the Arse. before he moved on and weren't they top 6 for a while? England looked good and fast last night in the first half so where the heck did he make a poor selection by leaving Ricky out? Of course I would have loved him to play but he wouldn't have fitted at all last night in that all out attacking game. Can't understand your nonsense about Hodgson, he looks like the best England manager since Robson and Ramsey and he might just pull a surprise out of the Brazilian hat.

It is more meaningful to ask if Southampton will be the new Manchester United

Agreed there were some bad times many years ago but he was talking about here and now. Times have changed.

He doesn't get many chances that's for sure presumably because he does not play well enough in training matches? At least let's hope that is the case because if it is just old fashioned favouritism that governs who plays and who doesn't then we are in serious trouble. On the few chances he has had to start he has fared no better and no worse than any of the other front runners. On the other hand it is easy to imagine that Pochettino's oh! so chummy "hugga-mugga style" could get up anybody's nose after a while. If Gaston has decided that he doesn't want to be part of such nonsense then he will have switched off ages ago so it would be better for him to be away to a saner environment sooner rather than later. After all how many of us want to be too up-close and personal with our bosses?

That is utter rubbish. What evidence have you for supporting such a claim. Why make things up just to stir the pot?

That's beacuse we've been with our lads through all the bad times and lower divisions and saored with them. We are as one. We are The Saints! All these ne hangers on are Johnny come lately Rrsoles!

Say what you like he's coming back to haunt us again next year and it can't always be a co-incidence.

Like Martin Effing Keown who said yesterday "Lambert's OK but he won't start as England need front men who (no disrespocet) have a bit more quality and bring more more to attacks". Nasty Bastard!

What should not be overlooked is that he had no pre-season with Saints and is still trying to catch-up with the style of play and how to link with Ricky and Adam. It takes time to become a well oiled machine. Judge him after Christmas. He certainly has a physical presence that intimidates CBs and that's good because it relieves some of the pressure on Ricky who's been marked by two people ever since his England call-up. Chances will come as these two work out their routines and it could be very exciting.

You're kidding? You mean there are three worse? Unbelievable.

Obviously they do not know their own Rules. Hope you told 'em where to stick it.

Crikey mate, where did you learn your English grammar?

Only 26 more points needed and we're safe for another year.

Good stuff.

Am I the only one who thinks we'll win the league?