Charlie Wayman

I am not a betting man but there must be more than an evens chance that there will be a lot of interest in Nathan Tella from PL sides in the close season, not least from Arsenal where he started his career. In that sense matters could be taken out of our hands and Burnley's. The best outcome from Saints point of view could be a bidding war as it is very unlikely he will want to settle back here - whatever division we happen to be in nest season - to the uncertainty of selection that forced him out in the first place. Another player who fell out of favour with the myopic Austrian Flopp. If we hauled in £35 million for the lad it would no doubt be hailed as a success story rather than the reality of actually having let a half polished gemstone slip through our fingers. Money, money, money!

Please don't join in the chorus of the brainless idiots who start threads like this and jump on any bandwagon that happens to slag off our players. These johnny-come-lately so called Saints fans are probably skates sh*t stirring.

Excellent article on the refs lot in the Guardian today. Long read indeed but stick with it; it gives a great insight into the problems and challenges facing referees today. A must read for all footie fans with an open and fair mind. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/mar/21/inside-world-premier-league-football-referees-pgmol-howard-webb-andre-marriner-darren-england

This is the team to beat WHU on Saturday's showing; Bazunu Walker Peters - Bednarek - ABK - Salisu Ward Prowse -Lavia Walcott - Alcaraz - Sulemana Mara

Fair enough. Thanks for clarifying. These insights are lost to Kingsland viewers

Brilliant post match interview on the SFC website. Comes across as a really decent bloke totally dedicated to the Saints. Rational and calm, a terrific personality to have in the team right now, a really calming influence. Even if he hangs up his boots at the end of this season, I for one hope the club see the wisdom of having him on board either in a coaching role as part of the promotional set up. If he continues to play as well as he did against ManU and Spurs then even a new one year contract is not impossible to justify.

It looked to me like it was WP's own initiative, realising at 3-1 down that we could collapse and be humiliated he got his team together and gave them a pep talk. Whatever, it worked wonders. It's what you should expect from your captain.

Never say never! That's four on the trot for me now and a first point. Best match at St Marys for years.

Stupid bloody comment. Were you even at the match? Moi was excellent in the first half, holding up the ball, ghosting past opponents players and finding gaps between the lines for team mates to run onto. Despite idiots like you carping all the time, he actually does make a difference.

Exactly this and thank goodness at least somebody on here has half a brain. These threads are sickening, one sh*t stirrer starts a slag and lo and behold and predictably half the forum cognoscenti chips in with the abuse, even some old stalwarts who should be above this sort of thing.

Far too tempting but a brilliant troll nonetheless. Of course we will win and win in style now that it's much too late. Lie back and enjoy it.

Quite mixed metaphors but we get the picture. Beware the rats and sinking ships one!

Probs your last chance to see Harry Kane in action at St Mary's so worth going just for that.

The criticism aimed at Elyounoussi last night was fully justified, the lad had no pace, was easily shrugged off the ball and never got his head anywhere near any 50/50 balls in the air. A winger with no pace is as useful as chocolate teapot and as for his creativity, it was non-existent. On the other hand Diallo does not deserve to be criticised for "a lack of creativity", he was in the team as a defensive midfielder not as an AMF and effectively broke up play many times and often came out of tight situations with the ball at his feet. From my viewpoint in the Itchen I thought he did alright on the night and if his selection ahead of Lavia raised eyebrows it at least gave the latter a bit of a rest from the intensity of the Old Trafford game before the test against Spurs at the weekend. The midfield creativity was supposed to come from Alcaraz and Ward-Prowse but they created nothing all evening and went missing for large chunks of the match. If anything, Ward Prowse should be benched for a few matches as his creativity is non existent, his corners are ineffective and recently he has even lost the knack of hitting the target for free kicks in and around the box. Too many on here allow their prejudices to override their judgement. So on to Saturday. The cause is lost and IMHO has been ever since that fiasco of a match against Villa at St Mary's so we might as well throw caution to the wind and go for it. Sod the clean sheets I'd be happy with a 3-2 win and a memory to look back to when we are a struggling League 2 side in the years to come. You know that things are pretty bad when even the light show is so second rate that it makes you laugh rather than gasp! Honestly it's more fun driving past the new docks at night when the cruise liners are all lit up and setting off.

A few blokes having a full on slanging match with the owners and board at the end of the game, no expletives spared. Lots of very angry people leaving St Mary's. Their anger is understandable after such an inept and unimaginative performance. One wonders how many will bother to turn up on Saturday.

You are so wrong on every level cloggy, this is life and death for many.

This is going to be a nail biting, anxious and distracting day for most fans especially those going up to St Mary's this evening. This match matters. Most will be feeling that we must win at all cost but dreading the oft repeated experience of abject disappointment on the night. So often in the past hope has translated into despair and in this season more often than not. Certainly not a day for faint hearts and certainly not a day for passivity. Today we can and must be the twelfth man, staying positive, staying optimistic and above all getting behind our lads tonight and letting them know we care. Every voice matters, together we can do it. Make St Mary's a wall of sound. COYS

Simply ban pseudonym's and publish people's real names. It means some work by the SM companies to validate entries but insisting on names and actual addresses as opposed to email addresses would help stop this evil practice. With free speech comes a responsibility to not abuse the privilege.

All matches are recorded so why can't we see full matches on demand after the weekend? I for one would sign up for that and Sky would benefit from the subscriptions. Access to football on TV is still stuck in the dark ages it seems, a bit like the censorship of Lady Chatterly's lover (spoiler alert: twas the gardener) when we were young lads. For now, the extended highlights on the Club's website give a far better flavour of the match than the few minutes shown on MotD that was. Overall I thought we played quite well with encouraging glimpses of the fast inter-passing style that we came to love before management took leave of its senses…. and we had over 50% possession for a change.

What a ridiculous generalisation and it isn't true anyway.

Oh do shut up and leave it to Selles.

Oh course, because the back four are at last going their job properly and shielding the goalkeeper as they should. Amazing after all the infantile vile abuse on here aimed at Bednarek and Bazunu that they can shrug it off and produce performances like this.

Let me guess, you are the manager of his fan club?

The role of the B team seems to be in transition. League position and results seem to be increasingly of secondary importance to keeping first team squad players match fit when they are not being selected regularly for the first team. This is very much like the "reserves" system of old. At the same time the role of the B team in the development of Academy youngsters seems to be diminishing. The Academy spotlight seems to be very much on the U-18's now with promising kids either going out on loan as the next step of their progression to experience 'real' football or even jumping straight onto the first team bench.

Burnley will not let Tella go without a fight and we have too many players in that position to really be able to offer him regular football so a cheque for £9m will sort that out.