Charlie Wayman

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 ****!

Well needless to say I do not agree with Dave Merrington and all those other self-deluders who think this result doesn't matter, of course it effing matters. We have to win every game now to be in with a shout of automatic promotion and as Dave himself would say "the last thing we want to do now is drop points at home"! Two dismal performances on the trot at a time when Hammers & Reading are winning everything with apparent ease is just totally unacceptable. We simply cannot rely on them to screw up just to save us and who really believes the Pompey points will be scrapped. If we are relying on such sender hopes we are up the effing creek good and proper. As Adkins is so fond fond of saying, "two games every week - but it's the same for everyone" and it IS! Why then were so many of our players knackered at HT? Frankly most of our guys played stinkers and Adam Lallana should hold his head in shame for missing sitters when it was easier to score than not. I don't buy Adam walks on water malarky, he should have come off at HT but Adkins is scared to touch him as usual. Taking Lee off was a travesty of mismanagement when he was by far our best player. If I were Adkins, I'd be feeling very uncomfortable this morning and keeping my head down at Staplewood waiting nervously for a phone-cal from the boss. Try brushing this one off with a smile and a self-deceiving "we'll look at it in the morning, analyse it, see what positives we can take; then draw a blue line under this game and then WE move on" Bull****! Cortese looked like thunder at the final whistle so he must be raking over options in his head in the smae way that Abramovich does

Probably explains everything, the depressurisation and foul atmosphere inside the plane are well known debilitating effects of flying. Nobody feels the same getting off a plane than when they got on, fact. What an incredibly stupid arrangement; the idiot who dreamed this up needs his Rrse setting on fire! Surely we are rich enough to drive up on Thursday and stay in a decent hotel with practice pitches for a couple of nights and a real chance of acclimatising. Get it sorted you plonkers!

Yes but they didn't stay up there long did they

Talk about injustice! Poor old Leeds, should have been out of site by HT. Let's face it we were **** poor and they played us off the park. What happened to our mid-field? It wasn't just Punch & Chappers who were knackered from ko and our defending was little short of a disgrace. How the toddling Fs are we going to win anything playing like this. Hope we wake up in time for Tuesday. Thanks Kelvin!

Nonsense! Of course you can. Quality is absolute and price should have everything to do with it. Ricky is worth nothing to anybody else 'cos he ain't going anywhere. As for Carroll... Pards is no effing fool is he, if the long-haired geordie bean-pole had been worth £35m Pards would not have let him go in the first place. Think about it.

Pearce was here the other day, probably eying "Adz" Lallana but maybe Ricky too