Charlie Wayman

Which is why it is a waste of time buying them. What are you supposed to do with the damn things in conditions like those for the Sunderland match? Bad enough finding somewhere to keep them pristine even on a fine day. Sorry Nicola you're going to miss £54 from my pocket this season. I bought the first one so all the problems are real.

I've always thought that the PL clubs miss a trick by not screening their away matches live on the big screens at their home stadia and charging for entry. It would be worth a tenner of my money based on modern cinema pricing and if 10,000 turned up the club would be quids in rather than the stadium lying empty most of the time. It would certainly beat by miles waiting for Sky to deign to screen us once or twice a year or those useless feeds from foreign websites.

Not sure that's quite right but there does seem to be a disconnect between the ball passing skills of the back 6 and the ability of the front four to run and pass in the final third. Anybody who watched Arsenal on TV last night will have recognised the style of play immediately as much like ours at the back and in the middle of the park but of a very much higher level of speed and intensity and with the essential difference that their players moved on into the final third with exactly the same style of quick open play and movement and of course as we saw penetrated the oppo defence with ease. Only Adam Lallana of our front four has the level of ball skill of the Arsenal front four and there's the rub. He can't do iut on his own. Ricky is an old fashioned up and under striker whilst Osvaldo and Rodrigues are channel runners mainly without a high level of retention, deft movement, close vision awareness and passing skills that would allow them to dart about in intricate little four-yarder passing movements that confuse and open up defences. Last night Arsenal seemed to be capable of annihilating anybody and it must have been a one-off but as a yardstick for our aspirations it did rather point up our limitations. But, we are not WHU and we are not per se "long-ball". Long Ball by the way is not all that bad as Howard Wilkinson once pointed out from his analysis of many goal scoring moves. He proved that goals more often follow 2 or 3 touch moves rather than long drawn out showmanship moves of 20+ pass, yet instinctively fans prefer (these days) the multi-pass method because it more delights the eye and heart.

Hot air balloons rise very quickly but can come crashing down without warning with disastrous consequences.

Accurate but churlish ;-)

The better we do and the more lauded our players the greater the risk of the bigger clubs trying to poach them so we should discourage international recognition. What's better than being a Saint, we don't want people like Ronaldo in Jose's ear about big wads and Galacticos

Let the good times roll, we'll have wrapped it up by Christmas

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

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

Let's be honest, nobody is scoring from open play. Only our centre backs from set pieces have managed anything worth remembering with the odd pen making up our class leading goal tally. Probaly be another Bore draw on Saturday 0-0 most likely, with 1-1 just possible if we really kick on.

Second season syndrome. Having survived the drop everyone now knows that most of the league is dross and no better than us so who cares enough about Palace to splash nigh on £50 just to watch Holloway playing the fool to the cameras, we'd have as much fun watching Bury or Crewe. Even ManUre without that miserable old Scottish git in charge may not seem so attractive anymore.

Yeah but he was an arrogant sh!t WITH a Ferrari

Not there - couldn't be bothered - a rip-off too far - I can watch dross any Sunday at our local rec... take your pic

The flaw in your argument is that without the top six clubs the football league would be meaningless and nobody would want to watch it. We must hope that they do not leave the league because it is only the promise of the David and Goliath fight that keeps the fans coming.

We are as one on this as they say!

Excellent. Probably be gone to Arsenal / Chelsea next summer if we don't progress. Want to see him with Yoshida, too similar to Fonte.

Very disappointing. Lambert clearly has improved since he's been way with England which is a bit worrying. How good is he because the truth might be that we don't get the best out of him so he might be very goos indeed. The fact that he improves at every level he plays in suggests he might actually be world class in the right surroundings. Just possible he would do better at Barcelona with much better people around him. We failed because WHU close marked Morgan and Wanyama almost out of the game so they couldn't get anything going from the midfield. Football ought to be about more than neutralising your opponents so why not NO points for a 0-0 draw? Would stop the likes of Big Hoofs Allardyce in his tracks.

It may be more entertaining than the stuff being served up at SMS tomorrow

My guess is that Yoshida, Chambers & Ward-Prowse will start; Rodrigues, Clyne and Ramirez will not. Saints will win 3-2 coming from 2-1 down in the first half. Clyne is out of favour for some reason we don't know.

So what, not many were brought in to be Premiership players particularly. They were good enough for us at the times when they were brought in, events overtook them and it is not fair to imply what you are implying at all, that these players didn't step up to the plate or that transfer judgement in Adkins' time was flawed.

Ricky is one player who will be very genuinely mourned once he hangs up his boots. Whenever that far off time might be I for one would love him to be part of the permanent staff here at SMS or Staplewood. Not obviously coaching material a la Davies but hosting or something on the PR side. For now 'though just give us another 100 goals to enjoy.

You seem to be devoid of imagination old chum, we have the best sailing in the world bar none at Cowes and and the finest wilderness space in Europe in the New Forest that draws visitors from all over Europe just to enjoy the space, hiking, camping, fishing, riding, cycling.... and parking is free. If your existence and imagination are shaped solely by being entertained by others then I pity you but Liverpool over Southampton as a place to live?

About the same as Boruc then?

I suppose the conclusion must be that all of them will be knackered on Sunday and West Ham will roll us over.

Yeah, good enough for Roy but will he be good enough for Pochettino on Sunday? I mean for starters he won't be able to grow a pony tail in time... We'll love him even more after tonight, good job the transfer window's closed or we'd have Wenger & Moyes sniffing around. Good luck Ricky. Come on you Saint!