Charlie Wayman

Oh ****! A leopard never changes its spots. Are we mad, why are we throwing him a liferaft, he will only ever be a disruptive influence? Not the sort we want in the dressing room.

Never understood what Adkins could see in him and so it has proved, a one trick pony if ever there was one. Joins the illustrious ranks of brilliant Adkins signings Forte and N'Guessan who came and went before we even noticed they were supposed to be playing for us. Guess we won't see much more of him if Tandoori is any good - on loan to Crawley soon?

Suggest you don't give up your day job stacking shelves in Oxfam.

Oh my! You are one very brave fellow, just wait for the **** to start flying now. Helmets on!

We got pasted by a very workmanlike side who had done their homework well. They were too fast and too strong for us and their continual use of the long ball by-passed our talented midfield and left us chasing shadows. In the first half we left far too much space between the back lines and they ran wild in there, the space we left them was criminal. There can be no excuses we were second best all night and now with 6 first team reguars sidelined we look to be up **** creek without a paddle. Well don't say we couldn't see it comimg, we bought nobody last January, nobody i the summer other than loanees and likely nobody this January either. We can't seriously believe we can sustain the challenge of taking on this whole division and the PL with a group of players essentially put together by Alan Pardew three years ago in League 1. Our squad is paper thin and most of the blokes on our bench are second rate compared with our first pick eleven. Blame who you like but the recent record of P-10, W-3, D-2, L-5, Pts-11, is appalling for a side with PL pretensions when all pundits believe you'll need to win 2 points per game to get automatic promotion. I hope Adkins & Co have not run out of ideas but it certainly looks like we've hit the buffers very hard indeed and Mr Cortese will most certainly not be very pleased with hi at the moment. The loss of Hoover is a cruel blow. Presumably we'll have to send the under 18's up to The Den on Saturday and bugger the result but even so we are going to struggle next Tuesday against Cardiff who certainly seem to be the in-form team right now

Well, I don't know if you guys watched the FL show last night but what a load of **** awful teams there are in the NPC this year. Not one of them play fast, open, pass and move good football and none deserve to go to the PL. Most are so **** awful they'll just come back down again anyway even if they somehow batter their way to promotion. It makes Saints look like they really are "DC" to borrow a phrase from DM. Only Birmingham and maybe Cardiff even look as 'though they know what they're doing and Allardyce is a prize arse IMO to state that "playing the (old) West Ham" way only leads to defeat so he'll always take the ugly 1-0 route. Is he not watching Saints FFS. I loved the old Hammers and would have travelled miles to see them but not Allardyce's rabble, you wouldn't get me out of bed to watch them at the local rec. All I pray for is that the team's that play ugly football to grind out 1-0 wins don't in the end grab all the top spots in what is by any standards a very poor league this year. Let's face it most PL stuff is boring crap this year with few exceptions; if only Linekar stopped bull****ting about must watch matches which in reality turn out to be mind-numbing rubbish, more people in the NPC might follow Saints, Swansea & Norwich and try to play some decent football. What gnaws away at me is that one senses instinctively that dross and scum always rise to the top of a pond.

I guess Cortese will be around for a while longer than Mr Puncheon.

If it amuses why not, meanwhile we grown ups will carry on discussing the wisdom of fitting this guy into a self-selecting midfield...

Makes sense

If he's vindaloo hot why aren't Spurs using him all the time? What if he really is the cat's knackers and fits in well with Lallana, Schneiderlin and Cork and we have a ball-playing midfield unequalled even in the PL? After all they are all very young lads and can grow together. Suppose with this formidable line-up Up we Go! For sure Adders won't want to break up that line up will he, in the first season up there... send this guy back to Spurs, you must be kidding... It all looks like a very good deal and a very bad deal at the same time. It puzzles me even as a cynic. Certainly Harry ain't doing this for our benefit that's for effing sure! So waht's the real deal here? Does old flabby chops have an eye on one of our lads and has been offered first refusal or a swap next year? Starting with L or S?

It's asking a lot these days for people to travel up to Reebok for a Yuff game. Saints should run some free coaches for these games if they want support. People would go but where's the money supposed to come from?

Are you watching Arsene Wenger watching? I'll bet two tonnes of horse **** to a plate of mushrooms that he was sniffing about up there.

This is a must win game after our poor form over the last 8 and probably our last chance to stay top. Can't see any sort of result myself with a disrupted and partially demoralised team, so I'm down at William Hill's for a 3-0 defeat. "What we don't want to do now is allow our concentration to lapse and let in three silly goals". There Dave, it's been scripted for you already. Oh ****, Leicester next week!

I've never heard of him and honest enough to say so.

"What we don't want to do know is give away five goals through lack of concentration"

At least his is more intelligent and less foul mouthed than you so ergo far more welcome than a moron!

So "Japanese International Star"; "Scored winner against Australia in Asia Cup Final" so waht's missing from the perfect CV No effing Premier League team is interested.... So how has this amazing talent slipped through the net? Another Adkins hunch who will soon join Rochdale on loan?

Quite right old cock! Both Pardew and Adkins have stressed the importance of establishing a winning mentality here but that's gone now, flushed down the pan with all those crappy results in December. Now we are developing a losing mentality that isn't going to be easy to turn around again. These are mostly young guys who can't easily shrug off defeat. Wrist slitters should prepare. This is what happened to Cardiff last year. Play-offs at best unless Adkins has something up his sleeve but somehow it doesn't look likely, he has looked quite ineffectual throughout December.

Eas Tee Lee?

Only one resolution - get promoted as champions!

Oh dear, the **** has hit the fan big time. After the way we've been playing in December who can be surprised. It looks like our basic way of playing has been rumbled and Adkins seemingly incapable of working out another strategy. Many other teams in the Division have evolved and developed as the season has progressed and quite a few it seems have now caught up with us; indeed on this showing clearly some have passed us. Leaders for the first half of the season but over the last 8 matches almost relegation strugglers. Can 'he' stop the decline must be the BIG question on many minds this morning including that of Il Italiano?

I missed it as all the family were down for Chrisie and the front door was locked and barred. One of the missing 500... Heard it on the radio 'though. Great stuff.

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.