Charlie Wayman

Nothing like that in real life at St Mary's. You should try it sometime.

Lots of passing mostly sideways and zero creativity about sums up our Saints this afternoon. Still relying on moments of individual inspiration for our goals, both of which were outstanding. Also the usual stupid errors in defence and gift goals. Manning, I think shoulders the blame for today's cock-up Downes looked useful rather than talented but did what he had to do. Fraser very busy and impatient to make things happen. Good to see. Colgate seems to have lucked in with Steven's injury. The absence of Tella and Adams speaks volumes, not a trace of Perraud either who was probably on the car ferry back to France. More worryingly, at the end of the match KWP was shaking hands with everyone on the staff including the tea lady. Defo looked like a farewell. Doubt we will see him again in a Saints shirt. All in all not a brilliant display but a win's a win even if we had to dig it out rather than stroll to victory.

Of course they will be, they're still Saints players.

Don't worry Russ says he has a very good character and Russ should know 'cos he knows him and has played with him. In my book that's a recipe for him getting away with murder. Still, so long as we do not lose Tella or Edozie, welcome on board ship Ryan.

Martin has got himself on a hook by putting his name to this alleged new contract offer. Most PL clubs are not stupid, Adams was the main striker for the team that ended up bottom of the PL last season. That surely tells them something and likely giving them very serious pause for thought. For clubs likely to be in the relegation fight this season signing Adams and relying on him to come up trumps with 20 goals would be a huge gamble and it is looking increasingly unlikely that any of them are prepared to take that level of risk. If he stays, gets an attractive new contract and then ends up scoring only 5 goals all season for us then Martin's judgement will be under serious scrutiny and we could be stuck with another player that isn't good enough and nobody else wants. At least if he stays without a new contract and he doesn't deliver this season we can get rid next. Of course the new contract offer could be all bluff and bluster to pacify fans, with no new striker even on the horizon let alone heading into port.

Waiting on Martin's PC when we should get an update on Smallbone. Can't see him making the squad this week as no picture of him in training. Agree, suddenly we seem to have a plethora of promising midfield options which can only be good news for a promotion push.

He won't start Downes as he's nowhere near match fit. Food poisoning will have knocked him sideways for a couple of weeks at least. I doubt he will start Alcaraz either, still in rehab. Both will need time to get up to speed. Probably give both of them 10 minutes later on. It'll be the same midfield as last week, he won't change a winning team. 4-0 to Saints looks attainable.

There was no such nation as Germany in 1815. What we now call Germany was founded in 1871. Prussians were Prussians Less than a third of Wellington's army came from the European States of Hanover or Brunswick that later became incorporated into the fledgling German nation. Most of Wellington's troops were British and Dutch.

Reminds me very much of Lyanco

The answer to all rhetorical questions is "No", In this case a resounding "No"!!!

Our cat. She loves it. We call her Elyopoussi. Welcome to the Premier League Express, Flynn. if you're only three times better than JWP that'll be just fine for me.

They expected him to be at least as good as Perraud in case Perraud left. As things stand, the Frenchman is still here and all things being equal* will easily displace Manning. * Favouritism may come into play, we don't really know how open-minded and neutral Martin will be on these things.

Do Everton understand that 'though? More importantly does Adams understand that? Perhaps the Toffees are preparing for life in the Championship. Time to call time on him in my view and start a clean page with a new striker. Too much sentiment building around the idea of a prolific Che Adams that never existed in reality and never will.

Amazing that a player for long considered on here as a WoS is now regarded as indispensable to our efforts to regain PL status. You couldn't make it up.

We made harder work of that than we should have done. Much better second half but we still need a creative midfielder who can turn all that effort into clear goal scoring chances. AA looks better in midfield than up front. Charles deserves a shout out, we won't hang onto him for long that's for sure. Defence looked a bit better but weren't really tested by a poor Plymouth attack.

Amongst all the doom and gloom of what if's and maybe's it's worth remembering another comment made by Martin on Tuesday night, that certain players who wanted out after relegation have changed their minds and are happy to stay. He didn't name them but there were lots of smiles at SMS on Wednesday from SArmstrong, Adams, Tella and Alcaraz. 🤞

Quite; alleged interest in Smallbone seems to have evaporated at the time his injury was announced.

Managers always say that but 'Phil' is calling the shots and no way will he resist a sale or encourage expenditure. He's an out and out bean counter and beans is all he cares about. Don't be too disappointed when Adams leaves and nobody comes in. That has been and seemingly always will be the Saints way. You read it here first.

She is Dutch and offers from the men's game would probably come from a Dutch side. I imagine it is being or has been discussed over there. Plenty of female CEO's lead big companies so why not? It's her brain that's bringing success not her skill or physical strength as a footballer.

Why that hasn't happened was fully explained by the new CEO on Tuesday night. If you didn't go or watch suggest you run the vid.

Good try but your defence is unconvincing like Saints'

Very unfair and the innuendo is border line libellous. The gentleman concerned was perceptive enough to realise that the predominantly male panel and male audience was pretty much ignoring Marianne Spacey so he chose a question that would bring her into the conversation. Football and Southampton Football Club still have only a nodding acquaintance with equality.

So the only useful takeaways from this event were that Downes is coming in this week and every one of our players is up for sale at the right price… and there were we hoping we had stopped becoming a selling club and that a firm line had been drawn under further transfers out. Not that this comes as a surprise after Wilcox was so scathing about everything and everyone involved in SFC before his own arrival. Clearly he has no interest in retaining any of the players who were here last season other than Bazunu who has emerged as an unlikely Martin favourite. The new CEO comes over as second rate, second-hand car dealer; honestly, all that crap about the importance of sustaining SFC financially pretty much told us what we all knew anyway that with this lot the balance sheet is king, players are assets only and the notion of early promotion back to the PL a pipe dream for fans to puff over.. It's small time thinking by small men with no vision.

Did you think about that before you wrote it?

Apart from making management feel important and good about themselves and allowing them to tick the box [Fan Engagement] on their CSR policy survey, I can't see any value in these get togethers whatsoever. Let's be honest for most of the questions we lot can think of asking, the answers we will get from them are boringly predictable and self evident. I wouldn't embarrass myself by asking them. Boycotting it will send a stronger message than any ill thought through utterances from the fans.