Charlie Wayman

Thanks for that. Schwarzer of course but no idea how to spell his name! he's even more frightening than Brad

Fulham are a good side playing well under Jol who is a total football man. This will be another very hard nut to crack. We never score against Brad Friedel either so that's it really. Beaten at our own game as we were by Arsenal & Everton. I fear 0-3 and for Adkins after this one. So, yes, 0-3 it will be and it hurts to say so.

It's already quite apparent that our defensive coaching is second rate (sack the buggers) and we need desperately to find some replacements but from where? Abroad? Italy? Certainly the PL is not choc-a-bloc full of them which is why so many sides ship goals like shoals of mackerel.

This is what happens when Morgan goes missing and we delude ourselves into thinking that Fonte is good enough for the PL. Looks like a long struggle as Villa and Wigan are only just above us and the only teams we looked capable of beating. Good thing is that Norwich look poor, QPR are a disorganised shambles and Reading are simply not good enough for this league so it could be a nail biter with (yet another - sigh!) great escape - - but we were promised better things by Cortese and he doubled the price of my ST on the back of that promise.

And this is what happens when we don't have Morgan playing

please don't phone us !!!!

Why pick on 75? I only met one in my whole life although isn't HRH Bonnie Price Charlie an Arthur? As you've never heard of it probably means you're a working class bloke unused to the choices of the upper crust. Just in case you hadn't spotted it they don't use Daren, Wayne or Adam to name their offspring....

Go back to sleep before the dogs start barking

Quite so. What a moronic puerile thread and to think we mix with these saddo's on Saturday's.

Frankly who gives a t.oss, it's the league cup and nobody gives a damn! Field the kids provided they can get off school.

I'm with your team selection. Why would Adders change anything, you simply don't change a winning team especially one coming off the back of a 4-1 thrashing of Villa and high on confidence. I do not agree with many of the pessimists. If the lads follow Adders creed, get the ball, pass the ball, hold the ball then why not 3-0 for Saints. If we choke off the supply to their strikers and Steve Davis and Morgan are terrific at this then it could be all on way traffic. Leeds have probably sown a seed or two of doubt and we need to get at tem and score early to frighten the **** out of the buggers.

This was the Fifth match of the season in case you didn't notice and the next four include Everton, Fulham and Spurs as well as Hammers at Upton Park. If we lose all four as well we might when will your season then really start? You do always talk the biggest load of ballacks* on this forum...

Good result poses the question " why didn't we complete the new signings ii the pre-season so that we could work out our best team and hit the ground running?" With a bit of quality around them people like Morgan and Ads are beginning to look world class and it seems to have worked wonders on Steven Davies as well. Now we need to replace Fox who just looks more and more incompetent every match, can't find a pass, can't find the man he is supposed to be marking. Adkins got it dead right at HT and transformed the team. It's not so much Puncheon who should worry next, where is the way back for Lee/Chung and what is Rodrigues role up-front if Mayuka, Ramirez, Ads and Rickie click as the strike force?

How do they 'trial' a goalie? I mean they either have nothing to do all day or pick six out of the back of the net through lousy defending. You can't set up either in training so how? Anyway the Toffees already have Tim Howard who seems to be top notch still so why would they need an old silver stopper to challenge him?

Actually it is not going to be a long season at all, 4 down only 34 left to play and about 5 of those certain defeats - you'll be amazed how quickly that goes when you're struggling so we need 42 points from 87. That's what I mean about a short season.

Worse than I'd hoped and frankly clueless in the first half. Yoshida and Ramirez will probably help but oh dear our limitations certainly were exposed. Sure we were better in the second half with a more conventional 4-4-2 but with that formation we had no penetration whatsoever and in any case Arsenal clearly eased up to save energy for Wednesday night. This doesn't auger well whichever way you mix it. Even if Ramirez turns out to be the signing of the century he won't be able to do it on his own. Our movement off the ball was slow, clumsy and predictable compared with Arsenal's. I hope this isn't the end for Davis and Lambert but they looked pretty poor today. If I was Nigel I'd be getting a bit worried about our overall quality but we have what we have until January and he'll have to do more than play containment football to win more than 1 point from games. Still, we've been here before and no doubt will be here again so it can't get any worse.

Arsenal fans are quite OK, don't worry. It's the ones further up the Finchley road you have to worry about!

Wenger at mind games again, hope Adkins doesn't get lulled by false praise. He's hardly going to say we are cra.p is he in case the unthinkable happens and he faces Garth Coles later quastion "So Arsene, beaten by cra.p?" Guess we'll lose 0-2 but hoping for better COYR!

We've got to get use to it and the inevitable un-refusable offers in January. Cortese must stay strong. Morgan is half our team!

Presumably, the boss thought Swiss Red would be a great tribute to Marcus Liebherr upon reaching te PL and for one season and one season only I'll support that but..... We are Southampton, we are red & white! Let's hope normal service will be resumed asap.

Must be some sort of weird logic in your head but the bloke sounds to me more like an accident waiting to happen.

You mean he's Japanese, can't speak Portugeuse and has no grudge with Pards?

A better question is "when did you last leave a saints game feeling like a million dollars?" Right! I can't remember such a game either, win, lose or draw somehow Saints always manage to somehow fall shor of expectations.. if it finishes 1-0 "it should have been 4 or 5!", if it finishes 1-1 "it should have been 4-1!", if it finishes 4-0 "it should have been a hatful!" Know what I mean and the poor effing cat gets it in the Guly's whatever.

What this thread reveals is how little confidence most have in Cortese, Adkins, the coaching staff and the players. But why? Despite all the negativity on here last year we were top two all year and went up... We have played very well indeed thus far this year and outplayed the top two teams for quite a bit of the respective matches and with better finishing the result might have been quite different. There is certainly no lack of confidence in our team so what's to worry about? We are most definitely not Derby or Sunderland or Wolves of a few years ago. We have not had an ideal start but we'll be a better team for it and will be massively good enough to better Norwich, QPR, WHU and Villa. For sure we are not going to get anything from the Emirates and the worriers will have another field day but half the table are only a point or two in front of us so a couple of good results will make everything seem different. If you don't start believing your feelings will transfer to the team so man up guys, we'll get through this. Remember when Spurs were bottom a couple of years ago and now they're in Europe

I remember being a very lone and often derided voice when Morgan Schneiderlin showed up here and I likened him to Pires and predicted he would turn out to be one of our truly all time great signings (still with the caveat.. if we can keep him) and a nailed on certainty for international honours. "Nah" you all said.. "****" y'all said... This lad is 17, already he looks like a young Carrick. I don't think he really has the silky skills of Morgan but he has extremely good reading of a game, is comfortable on the ball and picks out some great passes - in some ways a typically good quality attacking English midfielder who should make the England team in a few years. Not yet quite an automatic first team pick but bloody close but we must hope he is not phased by the arrival of Ramirez