Charlie Wayman

Everyone has an agenda so what's yours? I have no reason to write to him

Adkins is living up to my expectations, absolutely. I expected him to be a poor imitation of the subject of all the hyperbole and bull**** that surrounded his appointment as a "top notch English manager capable of taking our club into a new era (sic)", or transcribed into everyday speak - 'he was the cheapest we could get'. So far what has he done to dispel my beliefs?

So what we really should do know is start a "Who's going out the revolving door in January?" I can't 'cos I'm a miserly sod who doesn't put a £5 in the kitty 2-1, Dixon will be the first out, Barnard 11-2 in second place, Butterfield third at 7-1

Torres?

Now the whole world is watching him. Let's hope he is really crap.

Not surprising 'though, he is so woolly in his pronouncements it is sometimes difficult to work out what he is trying to say. His other big failing is that he has virtually promised us promotion and you know what happens when people don't deliver on promises. At the moment it looks unlikely we will do better than scrape into the play-offs, more likely we'll end up mid -table again. Against top teams we have looked mediocre so what's wrong? Either we have a great manager and a C.rap set of players or more likely we have a C.rap manager and the same decent set of players for this level that we had last season after January. No matter what you or I think, Mr Cortese will not be sitting very comfortably in his office chair on Monday morning. Adders is very much on probation and as many at Chelski have found out to their cost the modern football club owner is not best known for their patience or forgiveness. If you can have any sweetie form the pick 'n mix counter you don't waste too much time sucking wine gums.

Stop wasting your money on Saints and buy a new car.. no brainer! Are you sure you're bright enough to be a student ;-)

For sure Adders ain't Moses. That's Huddersfield and Carlisle accounted for then. We're rather good against top 6 sides wouldn't you say? What happens then if we don't make the play-offs does adders get another year or ill it be manager No 14's turn?

Whatever else this is friggin outrageous. As far as one can tell from the outside he has been the one constant that has held the Stamford Bridge thugs together whilst the Russain Czar has played two-step with half the infamous coaches of Europe and beyond. Keeping the likes of Terry, Lampard & Cole in check and on the straight and narrow must be worth his job alone! It's not as 'though they've been starved of success either so what's he getting blamed for? As for Saints - er, he could come in as Director of Football or even as assistant manager just to keep Adders up to snuff and maybe teach the new rookie some of the old upper division tricks which we are gong to need a plenty in the Premiership in two years time. More likely it is all baloney

Slow morning chaps?

"At this moment in time it's all about winning football matches and not thinking too much about winning awards. It's about winning football matches in a certain style and if come next week those who judge these things think we are going in the right way then we can go all go full out for the awards..."

Do they have to be under 18 or will Wotton, Jaidi and Co be playing? After all, they were under 18 once.

What about a really novel approach, you only get access to a 3rd round ticket if you go to this one... Remember this lads if you can't be Rrsed to go, don't you think that Cortese and the players will soon get the message and not be Rrsed either if only a few thousand bother? Do you really want to drive Lallana and Cortese away for good. Come on rally round we are supposed to be some of the best and most loyal species in the land so let's show it by getting off our Rrses and getting up to SMS, Cheltenham or not - after all it's a step towards Wembley; we are going all the way this year, so 'tis written in the scriputures! COYDS

Oh **** I was waiting for MotD2! You were not to know!

That would be funny if not for the fact that it is exactly what he was doing. Remember he's missed more than a few games lately, since Adders was installed in fact, so you can see how he may be thinking as he ticks off all the boxes preparing for a sale in the spring. Top of the league, solid team, no debts ready for nPC football... if he can get his purchase price + debt write-off, he can walk away feeling that the books are balanced, the experience has cost nothing so he will not lose face and it will be a respectable amount of time since Marcus' passing. Regretably, you should expect to see less and less of him as the season moves on - unless I have called this wrong but there will be more of you than just me who are beginning to think that this brief our history phase taht began so brightly might be drawing to a close

Jammy burgger! pure fluke - no more, no less.

Let's be honest our blokes couldn't be Rrsed today, lazy barstewards, Chaplow excepted and maybe Seaborne. Diabolical rubbish! I stayed to the 93 minute most around me didn't - serves the sad sods right. More important to catch your bus home before it got dark then lads? Ballacks to all those others who couldn't be Rrsed to turn out today to support the team as well? What happened to Morgan by the way?

What if we field a reserve team and go 2-0 down???? I think you're way wide of the mark. Adders fancies the Cup so we will go in strength, resting only those who are knackered and maybe AC 'cos he "cramps up" whatever that means in my native Hampshire English. Richardson is only just back and needs the run, so too Seaborne and I wouldn't want to be the poor sodding coach who has to tell Dan Hard-ing that he's not included.

It's not just a question of good enough to go up, it's also about building a squad capable of challenging next year in the Championship, like Norwich this year. Only three or four of our current squad are even remotely good enough to get through to the Prem. We must build for that possibility an dit will mean new faces in January and June, otherwise all the shebango crrap about ambition and visions goes out the brick house window

Totally agree with you, these days a ST doesn't even guarantee you won't get killed in the rush for a decent view if we happen to draw Gooners, Chelski or Manure

None of the group that I sit with in the Itchen are interested, not one. Don't get it. Not so long ago when we beat Spurs 4-0 in the 3rd Round you couldn't beg a ticket. The reality seems to be that most think The Cup is a waste of time and money for lower league clubs as they have next to bugger-all chance of getting further than Round 3 so why get all worked up for nothing?

If we intend to keep him then Adkins should consider a 4-2-3-1 set-up as none of the current midfielders should be dropped to make way for Chaplow who is no better than any of the others. On the other hand we are not doing great with two strikers of similar ilk either so dropping Lambert or Barney to the bench will be no great loss for to our attacking prowess. I prefer Barnard to Lambert as he is faster and links better with Lallana and Hammond. Most of our open play goals are coming from midfield but Barney gets the odd one whereas lambert's role seems now to be as a target man for Davies and to hold the ball up whilst the rest scramble forward. Let me suggest for all of you guys to take a swipe at:- Davies Richardson Fonte (P) Seaborne Harding Hammond Chaplow Chamberlayne (E18) Schneiderlin (F21) Lallana (E21) Barnard

The end justified the means, we played awful kick and rush football for much of the match and got a result. Why on earth Adkins played the long ball is beyond me as he claims all the time that he wants his team to play neat fast passing football. Did anybody pass his message on to the players? Good result 'though especially later in the season when we look back

There's no room for passengers nowadays, every player counts, every kick counts, the stakes are very much higher than in those days when players could drift in and out of games and not be noticed. Now with empahasis on holding shape and attacking in groups and TV replays highlighting glaring errors there is no room for error or to hide.

I fear they will sell up in the spring anyway, why would Cortese wish to hang around in this backwater running a minor football team? He is a business executive persuing a high-flying career; without Marcus around this may be looking to him increasingly like a career cul-de-sac especially now the first shock has worn off. If Cortese can get us to the top of this league and running well then he'll get a very good price indeed for Saints - debt free and promotion probables, must be worth £20m