Charlie Wayman

About bloody time!

Utter garbage

Grannies they may be but they made the effort to go up there and stand in the pouring rain to support our team. They are stars!

Whoops there goes another rubber tree plant.

Extraordinary claims being made by @Pilchards & @St Louis, are they really insiders or indeed are they club employees? I wouldn't get your hopes up too high lads, nobody up top has the guts to admit they were wrong about Jones so chances of him being sacked as many would like are close to zero. Bookies odds suggest nothing is imminent.

Keep getting the digs in my friend despite the fact that he has been our outstanding player of late.

The task is hopeless now. No amount of wishful thinking will see us survive this debacle and nor should we, we are collectively terrible. There are many on here who will never see Saints in the Premier League again. This is what is left of the carcas after death by a thousand cuts, enjoy it before it rots completely.

Have you talked to a psychologist recently? It might be a good idea, they can intervene often before it's too late.

Effing brilliant!

Bournemouth and WHU are equally bad. There's your three for the drop.

Blimey, seeing as though we're on only 12 pts at the moment where on earth are you expecting your other 16 to come from?

Saints fans seem to like having a baldy in midfield.

So when the rest of us are nicely settled and our food and drinks are nicely balanced on our knees, along comes you at the last minute to get us all up again, pasties landing upside dow on the bloke in front's head and coffee all down our trousers and our day's ruined but you think that's OK. Get a bit of empathy for the rest of us mate.

The only problem with that is that one wise owl or another on here has said exactly the same about every single player in our line-up bar KWP. None of them apparently "fit to wear the shirt" and "should be nowhere near the first team" and "never want to see them in a Saints shirt again" Maybe you know the answer to this conundrum cos sure as eggs it's got me stumped.

The feature of our play that stood out and worried me most was our singular lack of ability to hold onto the ball as individuals and to make controlled precision passes to team mates only a few yards away. Everything yesterday was rushed and decidedly panicky, hurried at breakneck speed as if the ball was a grenade about to explode in a pass the parcel game. Inevitably precision went out the window and moves never got a chance to get going before the opposition were at our throats again. Only KWP seems to have remembered how to do this and even he is a shadow of his former self of 12 months ago. Nobody seems to want the ball anymore or have the ability to hang onto it to allow team mates to find good positions. Unsurprisingly our possession statistics were pathetic. We used to be so much better at this short fast but highly controlled inter-passing game that often got us out of trouble in defence and helped build attacks. Above all we could dominate play through possession and frequently put teams under the cosh for long periods. Let's face it owning the ball is the key to winning matches yet we seem to have totally lost our understanding of how to do this or the necessary skills to stamp our authority on games. You certainly don't see the likes of Man City or Arsenal rushing about like headless chickens missing passes at the speed of light. Time Mr Jones to give the players a ball each every morning and develop their ball skills. Making them run around for a couple of hours with it would also help them get to know what they are looking for on match days.

Too many people were hoodwinked into believing that the intelligence and bonhomie evident at press conferences was confirmation of the bloke being a good manager. Bull$ht has always baffled brains and always will.

Maya Yoshida is coming back, guest of honour in the Box on Boxing Day. Surely you didn't think he was there by accident?

The best we can hope for in this window is the loan of a striker and possibly (as one lad suggested earlier) one of the many spare ones at the Scousers. The Minamino scenario again. Seems unlikely SR will spend money on new players until Jones has decided who should stay and who should go and our league fate is determined, less so if they are factoring in relegation and regrouping as inevitable.

This, sir, is total b*ll*cks. Elyounoussi is our most creative forward and has had several very good assistd to his name this season.

We have. Not sure there's an easy off-ramp either having just paid off the Austrian Flopp. Besides which whoever up in their ivory tower is going to put their hands up for the biggest cock-up in Saints history.

I imagine we have got to the point where many fans are wondering where the next point is coming from. If we draw a blank v Fulham then the long road ahead will be an uphill struggle. On recent form this one will end badly, probably around the 3-0 mark.

They can't blame us that's for sure. Most fans saw it coming from the first mention of his name. One stat we can trust, bottom of the league at Christmas = nigh on certain relegation

Yeah but apart from that?

Merry Christmas everyone, long live the Saints and Bless you all! "Of come all ye Faithful…"

Should that have read Nathan Jones's Tic Tacs?