Charlie Wayman

Thanks mate for taking the pressure off me for once. I don't envy you all the foul mouthed verbal abuse that will follow your observations from the usual one-celled amoeba's that pose as fans on this site. I could list them all and get 99% of the list right. Whatever you do don't respond to their myopic rantings, I doubt many will construct more than two sentences. As for the Adkins man, his missive of today reaches a new depth of self delusion... "given ourselves an oppurtunity to achieve what we want.." when we've all but blown it from a dominating position? The poor bugger must really be feeling the heat; one senses your predictions will prove all too prophetic.

We're all hoping it'll be a victory parade of course hence the level of interest; Redknapp awarding the trophy... Either that or Blackpool home and away then Brum up at the smoke.

Yeah! but he rescinded when the Clergy put the screws on him and his life was in mortal danger, so people remember only the good bits. Trouble with this hopelessly optimistic scenario is that Reading won't lose again either. Of the three we are the most shaky right now so if anybody is to drop points it'll be us through silly errors one suspects of the Merrington variety "What we don't want to do now is Eff it up"

Had you intelligence enough to actually read and understand what I was saying about last night's game no doubt you could have enlightened us on your persuasive counter arguments. As it is your reply speaks magnitudes about your total inability to understand, analyse or deduce anything useful from a football match. Clearly you are a loud mouthed buffoon who hides behind the anonymity of a website moniker. As for loyalty, I was watching Saints playing probably long before you ever existed. Silly boy, silly reply.

Not surprised at all. Reading were much the better organised footballing side; they defended resolutely throughout the match and when they needed to strike they did so with speed, penetration and purpose. Let's be honest although we gave a very workmanlike performance we were second best on quality all night without inspiration or imagination. Any decent PL side would have cut us to pieces just as Reading's attack did last night. We can't be disappointed with the outcome because for all our huffing and puffing and trying to ram our way through the middle we never looked like we could ever prise open their defence. Battering away time after time at a closed and barricaded door is not the answer. This team is not good enough for PL duties as it stands as the sheer pace of Reading's attacks now testifies, all was laid bare with their second goal. Blame silly mistakes on Fox & Harding all you like but to do so totally misses the point, Reading were so quick to take advantage of our slips that we were caught out flatfooted and chasing shadows not once, not twice but three times. We were found out by the only team in this league that will have any chance of staying up in the PL at the end of next season. Sadly, it has always seemed to me since Christmas that Reading were going to win this leaugue and have said so o here many times. Who can stop them? Big ****! The one and only Alan Pardew spotted their manager at Woking and gave him his first 'real' job in league football at Reading... wouldn't you just know it!

Good result. Well done!

That's what we were all saying as we trudged our way from the stadium. "Why fiddle about then" when what we had to do was hold the ball up and generally amke a nuisance of ourselves and Smart was doing that all day. Poor Harding... probably had long since switched off in his head at that stage and was just worrying about who might take him on for next year...

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.