Charlie Wayman

Any fool would sit on his Rrse in the dugout for £90k. No need to get fit or worry about your game. Always good to see a local lad doing what they do best - skive off work, stay in bed, sit on their Rrse all day, every day.

What a truly weird reading of the game. Hooiveld always looked completely assured, really comfortable on the ball, never once looked flustered and frequently cleared up the mess after mistakes of his colleagues. An international class player who would always be first pick on the teamsheet.

No hiding from this one, it was seen by the whole country. Drab and uninspiring about sums up our play. How can we hope to get promoted with this current aimless style of football. It is pointless saying that in the past five years all teams on top at Christmas were promoted, this is now and the reality of Saints in current form is that we are not good enough. No comfort at all in Pompey being abject - we knew that anyway - we should have wiped the floor with them and we didn't! Our lead has been whittled down to a single point and at the rate we are losing points now - back to 2 per game - we'll soon be overhauled by Middlesboro, Cardiff, Hull and West Ham who relentlessly grind out results. We need to buy a decent striker - yes! - but also a real match winning midfielder who can really make things happen and boss games to supplement the silky skills that are already there.

I'm from the old school who thinks that if we are still a selling club than we have no ambition whatsoever to be anything other than an als ran fringe club. I hope Mr Cortese takes a different and more constructive view, that we can do anything that Spurs can do twice over without breaking than bank and having a debt burden greater than Greece. He has said time and toime again taht we MUST develop our own talent and that means KEEP it so that we an become like ManUre did in the mid-90's with a greta bunch of young native born talent. Tell Arsenal to F*** O** Nicola... WE are Southampton, we will kick your Rrse soon Arsene.

Anybody going to the Pompey game should be travelling in an armoured van with medics restraining them. Give them a Send off? Close the M27 once they've crossed the border would be a better idea. ;-)

Well mate there's been shed loads of ******** talked on this website over the years but this lot takes the effing biscuit! Who was that team from down that way who won the CCC with a record number of points, played in the PL since we were last there and win an FA Cup Final whilst we excelled ourselves in the third division... etc, etc?

.. but they got it right about didn't they?

Well, that's 4 from 12 so we are definitely not going as well as we were a month ago. We didn't pass the ball around anywhere nearly enough on Saturday and with no penetration never looked like adding to our total. If we didn't have Lambert we 'd be stuffed. As for that stupid tit in goal what can you say without swearing? How many years has he been here? What's he been doing FFS? As I said before if he'd been any effing good he would have ousted the other old geezer long ago. Now we can see why he hasn't and frankly it's well time to get rid and find a real goalie for the future. Robinson would be great if Bolton get relegated.

It's not a question of if but when.

Who in their right minds is prepared to put up with all the hassle of getting there, all the abuse that will be aimed at us all afternoon and the strong likelihood of rocks and the like chucked at us on the way out and home. That hardly qualifies for pleasurable entertainment. Seems quite a lot of the decent away support have similar concerns - this one is best left to the knuckleheads who just want to get ****ed and truncheoned for kicks.

Um.. how does photosynthesis work underground?

I think Adam Leich's statement is only one of those generalisations that everyone makes from time to time and to be fair to him whilst we may indeed be fairly well off as a club taken overall in the Championship (no doubt two thirds of them running on empty), we should not let our ambition lead us to believe that we have the buying power of the top 6 or 8 clubs in the premier league for example - so whislt we may have a few million to spend wisely we probably don't have a 'pot of cash' to spend in those terms. Our owners for all their ambition are not oil soaked Sheiks from Arabia but honest-to-goodness Industrial Engineers from Helvetica whose business profitability is measured in low % terms - and spare a thought that this global recession is hurting manufacturing industry across the world. These are not the times for reckless spending on hobbies and never forget that Saints are a Hobby pursuit of the family.

Nero?

You have and so have I and we are constantly derided.

Nails on the head old boy! It is all too often the case that incurable optimists are always at a loss to know what to do when events turn against them. Same in any business and usually leads to their downfall. After all anybody can manage the good times.

Very poor. Away form is simply appalling for a so-called top team (12 from 30) and nowhere near good enough to win this league. Limitations of many of our players now becoming more obvious as the season drags on and other teams have wised up to how they play. Good players find ways of dealing with close marking but it seems most of ours haven't got a clue. Looks less likely now that this group of players will be able to hack it at the higher level, We need to buy one or two really talented people in January to have any chance and Sharpe is not the answer he's as one dimensional as Barnard, de Ridder, Holmes & Fox. Lambert was just effing useless today and Chaplow a complete waste of space.

Football teams either evolve quickly or die in today's competitive conditions. Saints of today bear no relationship to the Saints who struggled to survive in this division only 2 1/2 years ago. Managers come and go quickly if results aren't forthcoming. Once a manager is changed a team changes so past form is nothing to go by in that event. Bristol City were in the play-offs not long ago so their bottom-of-the-league position with the same players must have been false. Donnies this weekend should offer no such surprises and on form we should whack 5 past them.

Terrific news. Always last to leave the pitch after home matches, always a smile, never in panic - a True Saint if ever there was one. Hoover is well named always sweeping up at the back!

Pathetic. You are the enemy of football and should be ashamed of yourself. You are so bigoted you probably don't know what I am talking about. Moron!

'Cos they were broken!

Me too. It was nowhere near that. Hull must have had about 65/35 in first half alone and we certainly did not have anywhere near 100% in the second

"You're so southern, you're practically French!" just love that from Hull's fans... Class! We must beat Doncaster on Saturday... we must! No excuses this time or Hammers will be above us and we still have to play them at Upton Park.

Not 45000? Good round number, 44000 is far too specific a number to have any meaning. Oh well, as has always been observed many many times, it isn't size that matters it's the noise they make!

It says 'payant' in that window so it doesn't appear to be free streaming

Hawkeye have years of experience in Tennis and Cricket where a much smaller ball travels at 100mph and it has not been faulty at all so footie should be a doddle