Charlie Wayman

This is precisely why we are going down and Wigan are not. 13 games left and at least 16 points needed and we haven't averaged that rate all season and yes we have played everyone at least once. With Villa and Reading winning, it really isn't impossible for us to end up on the bottom at the end just as we did last time. We are leaking like a sieve and nobody seems to know how to fix the leak. We are all gutted here.

Agreed Jack Cork is vital as is Morgan Schneiderlin and Luke Shaw but they do not score goals so unless Rickie gets some help from somewhere that's going to be our big problem. Jason is a bit on and off, on a good day he can pull pink rabbits from hats, most times he produces ooh-aah's. We need goals but we seemed to have become shot-shy of late and if Pocket Rocket doesn't fix that soon.... you know the rest.

Reading, Saints & Villa will drop unfortunately. Wigan are too good and too canny to go down and somehow my gut instinct is that Harry will scrape enough draws to get him by. The rest seem comfortable now. Saints still need 17 points and must get some wins as there are only 14 matches left - at least 4 probably 5 and let's be frank they are not there in the fixture list

No I am not, we were pressing further up at the start of the season - which clearly you've forgotten already - with the result that we were constantly getting caught on the break with our midfielders too far forward and we leaked goals like a sieve and believe you me if ManUre hadn't lost interest in the game when they were 2-1 up last night they'd have had at least 4 by the break and slaughtered us after the break when we had to chuck everything forward to try and get back in it. Unless you hadn't noticed, Arsenal chuck everyone forward every game at the expense of defending, sometimes it works out most times they let in a hatful as well. Unfortunately we don't have their talent to recover from 5-1 down to win 6-5 so NA had to work out the vital compromises to be made between all-out attacking and keeping the ball out of our net. MP hasn't woken up to this yet but we must hope that he does soon otherwise on another night we'd be back where we started. The game is in front of you so study it with a bit more insight.

The proposition of the OP is absurd, MP has not been here long enough to have made any significant impact on the way we play except to perhaps fiddle with some details. We are doing nothing that we didn't do under NA and in my view we are still on the roll that started after the Sunderland game at SMS. Players maybe are putting in 90% instead of 85% just to impress the new guy but that would be about it in terms of discernible impact and change. Most on here surely have followed football fork long enough to have worked out that change in football happens slowly. The slick fast passing style that we now seem so good at has taken nearly 4 seasons to perfect. The time to rush to judgement will be at season's end not after two games when most players will not have had much contact with him or his coaches.

At the end of the day we got beaten. No points, end of story. We squander more chances than any other team in the league and if we don't start scoring soon we'll be on the way down. Best team ever relegated? probably.

He's left the building, took his bus and been arrested for possession of a football.

I believe he said top 6 not top 4. Just checked the interview again

It was a very even interview in my view and more or less seemed to flesh out the view I have of Nicola Cortese, somewhat remote and singular. He confirmed what we suspected about le Tissier all along, it didn't come as much of a surprise that they'd never met and it is true we've never heard a bad word about LT from NC. There was sense of matter-of-factness about the man and clearly a lack of emotional connectivity with other people, his dispassionate view of where fans figure in all this was particularly disappointing and not at all inclusive - of course we share in his vision of Saints being a top top club but if his main creed is "What is best for SFC" then we fans and our decades long emotional investment in the team will it seems in the end count for very little. If prices have to go up because that is 'best for SFC' and some fans are priced out of it, so be it that'll be the price we have to pay - that's exactly how NC came across and it is no surprise to many of us that it turns out to be how he is. From my point of view it was good that he went on the record at all rather than just remaining this rather remote, unhappy looking bloke who sits in the director's box every other Saturday. One doubts it will change anything and he will no doubt retreat into his own world once more. He has to learn as all younger people do that it is not a sign of weakness to smile and be a bit more approachable to ordinary folk around him especially as he is running a business that depends for it's survival solely on the goodwill of those who pay to follow it.

It's a flippin joke really when we can't fill the stadium even for ManUre's visit. Plastic fans indeed!

Oh you *****!

Makes a change

I don't think he's "up to" anything. He's running a football club - a business - and he's making what he feels are the correct business decisions to achieve both the businesses short term objectives and the longer term vision that has been set for the club. It is assumed by many that his style is autocratic and therefore he is unaccountable... don't you believe it, if the business is seen to be faltering he will be out just as easily as other members of the management team. He had clearly lost faith in Adkins to help him attain the shorter term objectives so in that situation he either backs his hunches and gets rid of the man or goes soft and sentimental and fails along with Adkins. When it comes to self preservation nobody does soft and sentimental and certainly not Saints' razor sharp CEO. Don't believe 10% of the nonsense written about Mr Cortese, everyone has their own agenda and s**t-stirring is the weapon of choice for story starved hacks who hate secrecy more than anything. The downside is if the club say nothing at all to the press it invites opprobrium which is exactly where we are. You may not like the way he does things chaps but I'll bet my dog's supper you'll love the results he achieves.

Oh come on, the bloke's acting like a big girl's blouse... all he has to do is shut up and stop bleating! The club is nothing to do with him anymore and it's about time he recognised his place in the scheme of things and moved on.

Listening to Morgan speaking it is pretty clear he has no regrets at all about the old management team being given the heave-ho. If this comes as a great relief for him than fine as Morgan Schneiderlin has been for several years and will continue to be the heart-beat of the new young Saints. I've banged on for years that he WILL BE the new Robert Pires and he is becoming that now; let's face it every bugger and his dog will want the guy in their teams and as soon as it nears contract time the offers will flood in. This is one player we cannot afford to lose ever and in my humble opinion if we do lose him this team will collapse like a pack of cards. Rupert Lowe brought him in and for that single act of vision should be thanked although even for me that's a mighty hard pill to swallow

How sad... he'll be too busy counting his pay-off to worry about reading e-mails from idiot fans. Look stop fantasising about the bloke sitting forlornly in a corner sobbing his eyes out and regretting what might have been. He's either in La Manga or Los Angeles brushing up his tan and practising smiling in the mirror...

Don't take it too seriously, this lot will be history in two years and any players they recruit will be on their way again

There's only one Morgan Schneiderlin and we should sing his name more often

Wasn't it cold. Still, we'll never forget old what's iz name.

Haven't we all!

Traitor

If this has been posted before my apologies otherwise great stuff. Give it some Nigel! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTciSTn1o7E

It's all worthless bull shine, our so-called fans on here were all for boycotting matches to remind Cortese who matters most. so what happened next, they all chickened out 'cos they can't stand the thought of missing a match they've paid for. So much for morality all hot air in reality. Nothing will change lemmings will still queue up to jump over cliffs - we are as one? - and just as predictably Saints 'fans' will be queuing up to get into the amphitheatre so that Cortese can heap more **** all over them whilst telling them nothing and ignoring their interests or needs or views. The more fans roll over for their tummies to be tickled and accept what he's doing without a murmur the more he will be inclined to do exactly what he wants... .... and remember this all you wise ones, he doesn't give a toss whether you are there or not because you'll be replaced by plenty of glory hunters who will want to jump on the bandwagon if success comes and prices double and treble. They'll still be Southampton FC, staffed by players and people you've never heard of and won't care about; with no British players and no connection to the City or it's people.

What to do about Monday? Stay away to show Cortese we are fed up with his dictatorial approach in a mass boycott? or Turn up and boo the barsteward endlessly and sing for NIGEL throughout the game? What to do lads?

Let me apologise on behalf of Southampton Football Club for treating you so shabbily 'cos sure as hell nobody up at SMS will. Your positivity will always be revered by real fans. Bleak day indeed. Good luck and we look forward to the day when you come back as manager of a more visionary PL team so that we can say our farewells in person. Good luck!