Charlie Wayman

Could HAVE been worse!

Well, we were never at the races at Anfield. The mid-field were universally knackered and ineffective so Liverpool controlled the midfield throughout and we never got the ball and never gave the front men a chance. OK, three games in a week but it's the same for everyone so are we special because we have very young players with less reserves of stamina or is that our guys just aren't fit enough? The back four seemed to hold it together quite well considering they had little cover from Cork & Schneiderlin and so subjected to a more or less constant onslaught. If unfitness is the problem then it's a big worry now that the colder, wetter weather is here with heavy going and growing concerns about results and whether or not we can haul ourselves out of the relegation zone. On the evidence of this match we deserve to be in the bottom half dozen. Overall we can't take any positives out of this one, we looked poor and the form of a couple of weeks ago seems to have deserted us.

He looks a class act to me and improves with every game. Brings more out of Fonte as well who now seems able to concentrate on his own job and makes fewer errors as a result. The guy is good make no mistake about that.

Houghton is a miserable git without a good word for any team other than his own. At least Nigel never gets drawn to criticism of others

A very tired performance that does not auger well for Saturday, if the lads cannot recover from Sunday to Wednesday - 3 days - then no chance they'll have enough energy with only 2 days recovery. The omens are not good and although I'd like to think we can give the scousers a good game somehow it seems improbable. Regrettably a 3-0 defeat looks most likely

If we stay in the PL, yes - that's really all there is too it. One can dream of parallels with the late 90's Man U - "you win nothing with kids"... Who's to say we cannot become giants of the south to challenge the might of the north? The new crop of kids seem to possess a level of loyalty far above anything that has gone before - probably a far better in-house culture - and most importantly they can see the opportunity to play regular top class football here if they're good enough which must be tremendous motivation. How many Brit kids do you see in other top PL sides? Fair do's to Theo & Gareth, they had to be sacrificed in the interests of survival as they were the only tradable assets we had, Oxy was plain greedy.

Wonderful. For one day the best team in the Premier League. One day we will score 6

No actually that bit was quite serious. According to the BBC we will be 'dumped' on big time this weekend, torrentail rain, gale force winds and flooding.

Of course it is sad that a very depleted magpies side will travel down on Sunday.. ha,ha,ha... he,he,he... ho,ho,ho. If we give Pards a huge south coast welcome that might knock his concentration as well so what's not to like? The weather will probably mean a wash-out 'though, the SMS pitch as close as it is to the river will be very prone to flooding especially if the tide is in during the match. To be frank, it may not be worth going up at all as we'll all get drowned on the way even before the game is called-off - according to the BBC.

Well you certainly put him down nicely. stymied is the word that comes to mind. well done!

PSG for Becks, Big Pay-off, Paris, tons of publicity, an IN crowd... what's not to like? Becks at St Mary's? You're having a laugh!

I've been telling you all along that di Matteo and Cortese are best mates and that as soon as Chelsea dumped him - he was always a fill in there anyway as events have proved - he would join us. Timing is perfect. Cortese will have known what was going on behind the scenes at Chelsea. Now it seems Adkins is up irrespective of recent results and the outcome of our two home games over the long weekend. The waiting is over for Cortese. The downside is that Chelsea can't defend either so whilst di Matteo's style of play helped Swansea & WBA develop their tippy-tappy style of football that is a prefect match to the 'Adkins' style, we may end up in exactly the same position as we are now but with a more experienced manager and maybe some better under-studies. At least di matteo is also great mates with Roy Hodgson so this should help Lambert, Lallana 7 Cork. Now, you have to admit it all adds up.......

You can only play 11 footballers at a time and at least 6 of those are defensive so poor old Chung through no fault of his own has slipped down the pecking order for the other 5 places whilst he's been out through injury especially with the arrival of Ramirez and Mayuka. Having another Japanese on board won't have helped his cause either as all the publicity down there will have shifted to their Japan captain, assuming that the whole Japanese thing is a huge marketing gambit to sell shirts down under.

Since Stoke is topical and a hospice for ex-Saints, why not send Steeeeeeeeeeeeve to potter about up there? Probably has twice as much talent as the whole of Pulis' side put together.

Do yourself a favour MM find something worthwhile to worry about on a fine Sunday afternoon other than your neurosis about Saints players. The picture to worry about is 13 on the OS - see how RL looks into his big brown eyes!

OP we are not a selling club - clearing out the dross club, yes - selling club, no way. Stop giving yourself palpitations. None shalt leave through the window unless they smash the glass first; all the blokes who were good at that have long gone!

Very pleasing result. Top hole!

Dis you mean "come May" without the what?

Totally agree with you. I had Swansea down as 1-1 and this will be the likely score on Saturday.

I guess we can justifiably claim to be fans. I'm still smarting from Charlie Wayman's decision to leave. What we could do with him now....

What is the matter with you? There is absolutely no connection between this unsavoury episode and the Chairman so why make one? Frankly, the attitude of people like you stinks. Whatever narrow minded mission you are on get over it. The silent majority are very grateful of the way the Chairman is leading this club forward, we are lucky indeed to have him.

Black - Ellerington/Ramsey, Rochford - Smith, Webber, Mallett - Day, Curtis, Wayman, Bates, Wrigglesworth What a team they were. never know how they missed the First Division so many times... Eric Day a legend RIP

Evidence requires a photo from every match taken during the match at 3.15 or whatever time after ko, not a pic when the game is over and other people have left. I sit near there and there's nearly always people seated next to him

You are factually wrong OP, Mr Cortese always has people next to him on his LH side whils to his RH side is a gangway!!! Poppies signify the British & Allied Armies blood spilled on the fields of Flanders in Belgium notably at the first battle of Ypres in 1915. Our Italian allies of the First World War were engaged in an equally bloody struggle against the Austrians in the foothills of the Alps in North Eastern Italy. Whilst we share and remember our common agony on 11th November at 11.00 am, the poppy has no symbolic significance to an Italian even one domiciled in the UK. I have no doubt he would have had his own solemn reflections during the two minutes silence at the match. You like others are far too keen to take a swipe at Mr Cortese for whatever narrow and bigoted reason is in your own mind. It would be far wiser for you to keep such thoughts to yourself and above all think before you write.

Well quite obviously everyone did notice, it was after all his first full 90 mins this season. What a game he had and what a difference it makes when he and Morgan play this well together. It is ridiculous to implicate him in the stupid error that led to their goal. 'Gazza' (as he is called on here) had all the time in the world to get the ball away safely but being a slave to the Adkins dogma of "passing out from the back" the poor young kid was programmed to do as he was told so picked the nearest guy to him who happened to be unprepared and off balance - but I guess all he could see was a red shirt with some space. Having a system is OK but players need to be allowed some flexibility and initiative to express themselves, that's what makes great players as opposed to squad journeymen.