Charlie Wayman

It is an easy mistake to make to assume that because we have found one or two pearls every oyster will contain one. What may happen is that because of its recent successes more really promising young lads might prefer to come to our Academy than go elsewhere, just like top Uni's for example. So if better kids come in then the overall level of grads should improve. The downside is that many of these kids may have little emotional connection with our Club or ambition to play for it. In which c axe the Academy becomes and entity in its own right, churning out the very best talent in the country but from an intake that also spans the whole country. Simply put, if a lad wants to get on then it may become the situation the SFC Academy is the only place to be. Would then many or indeed many of the Saints 'owned' lads at the Academy might gradually get squeezed out?

Not a very deep thought 'though. We have five players who might be good enough for top 4 status whereas the top 4 clubs have 25 each. It's the lack of quality in depth that has shifted us this season and will continue to do so even if none of our kids leave.

Typical of Arsenal and the other "big" clubs, they do EFF all to develop young British players despite FIFA aims for every team to have a proportion of home grown talent but but are arrogant enough to think that all they have to do is cream off the talent from more progressive clubs when they feel like it and when the political timing demands. Let's say b0ll0cks to them all. Walcott & Chamberlain would be twice the players they are now if they'd stayed here and yes I know we needed the dosh at the time.... Time for the little clubs to take a stand and refuse to play their nasty little game, who knows maybe what has happened to Manure will soon happen to all of them and we'll have a PL that is genuinely competitive.

Thankfully he seems to have had the mental strength to get through it so let's hope he can keep it together from now on. Others have tried and failed in their rehabilitation as is well documented. Claus must learn to realise that he owes it to his wife and kids to look forwards to new challenges rather than resent the fact that his past life as a star footballer exists now only as part of history. Good luck Claus in your battle and remember all Saints fans are with you all the way. Sometimes it is worth remembering who are the ones who really care about you.

A CEO manages the day to day activities of a company, a chairman overseas and regulates the way the company is managed.

Thankfully I don't have to read his obscene drivel.

I was horrified by his remarks which the main presenter made no attempt to head off. Totally agree with you but has the damage been done already? Not sure what the BBC can do now except make sure the biased idiot Dane never appears on MotD again.

No opinions of your own then? Cheap and easy to knock others but at least they have passion and care about our team? If you have nothing to add then sod off!

A complete bloody disgrace. We looked like a load of Sunday league players in the second half and pretty poor ones at that. Fonte is an utter effing Plank. I feel sorry for the poor sods who made their way up to WHL to have to watch that load of donkey droppings.

Typically, The Telegraph try to spoil things for us as usual tempering the rumoured good news with their snide aside that Shaw & Lallana will leave whatever MP decides to do. All b.llocks of course, any fool can work out that if MP stays they will all stay for at least one or two more years.

As was proved tragically in the seventies and eighties safe standing is a contradiction in terms. As always with Health & Safety Issues, quite a lot of idiots need to be saved form their own follies. You should all accept this is one decision that will never be reversed. Far too risky for the FA & the Clubs in our modern day legal climate. Anyway, I am against standing.

Have you seen a doctor about this form of madness?

Don't you just love Ricky Lambert & Adam Lallana. Always the right words in all situations. Every word genuinely from the heart. Two of the greatest ambassadors for football in the country.

Rubbish as usual.

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.