Charlie Wayman

Neutral with a moniker like Saint Scott? Do us a favour!

What do you need rules for, you've either been to a ground or you have not? It's geographic for heaven's sake

Morgan most successful tackles to win the ball back in the PL this season, say no more... worth £15m now?

He's probably on gardening leave until next season having no doubt been paid off handsomely. Villa will be vacant soon enough.

It's a nightmare trying to get to the ground on time because of road congestion and to find parking space when we have +25k in the ground even worse getting home when everyone leaves at the same time. It would be impossible for this city and especially the St Mary's area to take many more people. The idea of expanding SMS to the size suggested by the OP is so ridiculous in terms of what is possible and what would be allowable by town planners and the police that the only amazing revelation on here is that anybody has given it credence enough to discuss it seriously. Just suppose for one minute that we freely did want a 60K seater stadium then common sense tells us that it could only be on a site near the Motorways with enough wide open space around to create the car parks needed and tell me this who on earth would ever sanction such a use of greenfield land for such a venture. Have we already forgotten the Stoneham nightmare saga. Come on chaps, wake up and smell the coffee!

Regrettably you are right, the standards in this league are improving on a monthly basis and our failures in transfer policy last summer and in January will come back to haunt us. It's true we play far more attractive and flowing football than any other club in the bottom half of the table probably including Swansea and yes lots of people are saying nice things about our style but we are not getting points and we are not winning matches and that spells disaster. Does it remind you of another team who play really attractive flowing footballing but who end up winning nothing? Maybe what's good for the eye doesn't suit this league who knows but looking at the fixtures left and taking account of our history this season it's gong to be difficult to get more than 3 more wins and 5 more draws which will leave us close but not close enough to survival.

No but they know how to grab their chances when it matters and it has served them well in past seasons. We need just one bully boy character like John Terry who will put his body on the line in those last five minutes to force a goal b y sheer physical presence when nobody else seems able to.

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