Charlie Wayman

Not sure a relegation on his CV makes him that special.

Let's hope we are no longer a selling club. If we stay up he should stay for another year. He is not the finished article yet. Then we can discuss a swap with Rashford plus some cash.

Swallows swoop, crows peck at scraps.

One man's meat….. No way he'll get match time here.

He did though and scored a beaut!

It would be very surprising if the club recruited any new players this summer. Apart from the uncertainty about where we will be playing football next season, we already have a bloated squad that needs thinning out and several promising young players out on loan who could be recalled and be useful for us. There is also the need to consolidate the new players of the last two windows into a cohesive whole. Most of Selles' time this summer will be taken up wrestling with these problems - who stays, who goes - getting fringe players off the books. By the end of the year, he'll have a much better idea of his best squad and where any weaknesses might lie so the January window is probably the next time we will need or be prepared to splash yet more cash.

Quite right. First and foremost the on-pitch referee is in charge of the match in real time; the VAR refs should avoid the temptation of interfering or nit picking their decisions at every opportunity. It might be better for the on-pitch referee to be the person who initiates a VAR enquiry, if for example they are genuinely 50/50 on a decision. The idea of a Big Brother constantly looking over their shoulders surely can do nothing for the morale of referees. Otherwise let the refs decisions stand. I agree, the nonsense of drawing lines 0.5mm apart to decide that an attacker is offside by a toenail is a complete nonsense and is ruining the game. I was also impressed by the common sense admission that refs usually can tell the seriousness of an incident by the collective responses of players.

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.