Charlie Wayman

Nobody can disagree with you but you'll get all the usual one-celled loonies throwing all their frustrated venom and brown stuff at you. It's been obvious for weeks now for whatever reasons that we've lost our rhythm and cutting edge whilst at the same time as Reading have discovered theirs. They'll win this league for sure now. West Ham are playing mor elike us, up one minute down the next. If Morgan is out for the season than this is going to be tough, very tough indeed. Nor can we fancy ourselves much in the grind and slog of the play-offs with Brum, Blackpool and Middlesboro to contend with as well as that load of Pansies from along the South Coast.

Indeed they do. Doubt Reading will be the decider, more likely if we don't turn up at Selhurst we'll have to settle for play-offs which nobody fancies as quality rarely gets rewarded there. "Why always us?" - been asking myself that for 50 years!

You offensive berk! Whatever happened to reasoned debate and courtesy? Are you completely lacking intelligence or do you have insufficient articulation to be able to string more than four words together?

My other half who usually avoids football on TV like it was an incubator for the Black Death observed quite astutely that Saints looked completely knackered on Saturday, she didn't actually say knackered but there you go but it set my mind thinking about what Billy Not-so-Sharpe said last week that Saints were much fitter than any other team in the league and that was their success story. Well if it is true that they are much fitter than anybody else ergo they must work harder in training than anybody else and must use up more energy than anybody else in a match. So, maybe Mrs Wayman has spotted the reason why we played so poorly because if they were physically knackered at the end of a long season than it follows that they must also be mentally knackered, which would explain why we passed and moved so slowly and with very poor accuracy and why we the full backs were so slow at tracking back on Phillips and Ince in the first half leading to their goals. Oh dear! If this is the case they won't recover until the end of the season so we face the grim prospect of our lads completing the vital remaining six games on 3/4 empty tanks. This may not be the run-in we had hoped for and if we slip to the play-offs how could we expect to win it then having to play three extra matches in two weeks

He was good on MotD2 last night. Great insight, intelligent bloke. If they're all like him up at Reading they'll win the league it seems to me.

Let's face it we've had bad performances away from home like this all season but most opposition were not good enough to exploit it - look no further than Leeds a few weeks ago. It was inevitable that we'd be found out and done over by a sassy team sooner eventually and Ian Holloway had us sussed out from ko. Now it remains for us to pick ourselves up and get a good result i the next match. What worried me most was that we kept doing the same old thing all match even 'though it was obvious to everyone that we were getting nowhere, unable to get through or around their defensive set-up. No imagination and no leadership and even Adkins & Co looked clueless. Can we pick ourselves up? I hope so but we looked fragile and raises many doubts. If we lose the next one this could be the 1948 slide all over again. Not one player deserves credit and the back four were simply pathetic, Butterfield looked totally panic stricken thorughout and his posiional play was clueless, Fox not much better and Fonte all at sea. The mid-field was as poor as we've seen it all season, only Cork having anything like a half decent game. Morgan and Chaplow were all over the place whilst Lallana had yet another awful game, does he ever have any good ones? No service to the strikers meant they had a day off but at least Guly tried to compensate with a bit of clumsy defending but Sharpe did bugger all and one was left with the impression hat he might yet turn out to be just another in our long list of failed strikers of recent seasons. Steve de Ridder? Let's not even go there! One man team? Two, if you count the goalie so let's just pray that Rickie Lambert makes it for the next game and where or where is Tadanari Lee when we need him?

That was my suspicion as well. Having spent a lifetime in business, what one learns is that nothing is as simple as it is stated to be. There are always deeper and darker motives for these superficially glowing PR pronouncements. Sow's ears are always presented as Silk Purses.

I assume you are not an idiot so how come you didn't know they are Swiss?

Actually, I started this rumour on here about two weeks ago when speculating about what Cortese would say in his (then) forthcoming press interview. Let's face it if we make the PL he will have achieved his mentor's aim of returning to the PL within 5 years and he will have beaten all his targets by two years - with a jolly good bonus to come and time to be promoted to a real job in the Liebherr empire.

Well it is ovious that Dean Saunders doesn't think so - the only difference between Donny & Saints is Billy Sharp. You couldn't make it up! What a load of self deluding ********. No wonedr theuy're "Bottom of the Laegueeeeeeee Ha! Ha! Up yours Saunders VVVVVVVV

The answer to your original question is "No way!" Their positioning and discipline leave much to be desired and boy! are they going to be found out big time next season by fast running teams like Arsenal and Tottenham

The last thing we want to do now is start this nonsensical speculation over Davies's ability especially as he has been by far the most consistent and reliable player we've had this year. It's not our erratic defence that has kept so many clean sheets it's Kelvin so stop all this claptrap about him not being good enough for the PL - of course he is, he's played in it FFS!

Scan or scam?

How long did you spend with Nigel Adkins? Talk about "Taking the positives" & "Controlling the controllable's" Are you hoping to be invited for a job interview as er... Head of PR? Nicely put 'though but none of it "wins a game of football"

Bloody well hope not, they're coming straight back down again!

This is the sort of game that long suffering fans dread. On paper we should walk it, in reality Saints - as only Saints can - often go belly-up. It would be nice if they could break this habit and actually turn in a diamond-studded performance as befits leaders against the bottom team and win by 6 or 7-0 Please just for once, 3 for Rickie, 3 for Lallana and 2 for Guly What? That's 8? OK, 8-0 will do. "What we don't want to do now is... " Oh! Shut up Dave!

Excellent well deserved result. Superb tactical changes by Adkins. Fully deserved.

Talk about jammy bastards! How did we get away with that? Tonight, I'm over the moon, tomorrow I'll worry about how our "defence" can possibly stop top PL teams scoring by the bucket load next year.

Do us a favour! Man U third team playing in a competition that SAF has never heard of and doesn't give a **** about. Nobody in England is the least bit interested in winning it - just adds more mayhem to the fixture list. Stll ManC * ManU fulfilled their statutory obligations to the FA and UEFA.

Jus showes wot pour edication weve got in this yuosless ****ry innit...

Pity you lot know nothing about football then.

Good result but a frustrating afternoon for fans. Cork made the difference. He and Morgan are a class act together, instinctively knocking the ball back and forth knowing where each other will be. Even Guly blossomed and became part of it then. If only we could get service to Tadanari Lee he'd score buckets load of goals but long balls into the box is not what he does as amply demonstrated by his world class run that led to our second goal. It's likely Lallana will get MotM but let's face it he couldn't miss either goal that was set up for him. At least he made some amends for screwing up three equally easy missed opportunities on Tuesday. Morgan was our outstanding player today by a country mile. he reminds more and more of Pires in his pomp

What's so suprising? Morgan was a class act when he came here - under-21 French international when France was winning things - and he gets better and better. OK I've been a fan since he arrived as first and foremost he gets the ball down and passes almost magically. No other player has such confidence on the ball - maybe Hoover - and you can see now that everyone is looking to get the ball to Morgan asap. For sure he'll play for France for many years once we or he is in the PL. For now, watch, admire and pray that he will be content enough to stay here. As our friends from somewhere up north sang a few weeks ago, "You're so southern, you're practically French" Maybe that's enough for Morgan.

It wouldn't be so bad if Billy Sharp, Sharp, Sharp was any effing good, god, good but he ain't, ain't, ain't and looks to be another perfect shoe-in for a Effing headless chicken, chicken, chicken. Where do we find these Division 3 hot-shoes that other big clubs seem unable to discover? Premier League, you're having a laugh, laugh, laugh!

I'm not worried about Reading, they have become a very good team and hard to beat. They'll likely win the league if they keep going like this. What worries me is that we are slipping down into the play-off mixer and we can't win promotion that way because the play-off final is always dour, rugged, physical, long ball scrapping which we don't do and can't do. Imagine having to play Birmingham or Middlesborough at Wembley on TV. Oh ****!