Charlie Wayman

Walcott for Djenepo and I'm with you. 0-2 Chelsea

We can be sure that Ralph will not give up his job voluntarily as witnessed by his press conferences. He loves being part of the "best League in the World" and genuinely enjoys rubbing shoulders with the great and the good managers and challenging them in a battle of wits. If we want him out it's the boot from above and frankly I doubt Semmens has it in him to make that decision.

Yeah but apart from that?

By and large these are his players, the ones he has brought in since he arrived and they were not all freebies!

No excuses, we just do not have a single reliably creative player in the squad. They are all straight line thinkers always doing the obvious straight forward things. Comfortable day out for their defence, all they needed to do was sit back and let us cock it up every time. Playing at a snail's pace with as many backward passes as forward ones is a huge concern at this level. Agree with many on here that JWP is not at the races this season, a shadow of the player we had 18 months ago. Makes you wonder if he has gone stale on Saints and wants away. Hard to see where our next goal is coming from let alone a winning run. The support was fantastic yet we still end up losing, if that doesn't motivate players then what will?

Thanks for the link. Ralph talks a load of Rollocks at times. The u 23's are not getting trashed by Chelsea or Man City but by West Bromich bloody Albion. Surely they have no more access to quality young players than we do. It won't do Ralph, there's something rotten in the state of Academy! This one is on you, action not excuses.

Pathetic

Thanks for posting this. Great watch. Is this the same Southampton that I've known all my life?

Horseman will be on his way soon if this continues. Situation is going from bad to worse. Not good for our future prospects. Gutless performance.

Hear, bloody Hear! Knowing us though and our usual relationship with live TV we will have 80% of the ball and lose 0-1 Obviously a blow having Stephens out (never thought I'd be saying that) but hopefully Bednarek & Salisu can work together and keep our recent defensive form going. Worry is that they are both left sided CBs. Is this the time he pushes Livramento forward and includes KWP at RB? Must be worth a shot surely? Can't see Broja starting after his less than convincing run-out on Tuesday but Tella surely must partner with Armstrong up top. We should not obsess about Traore as long as Oriol & JWP perhaps also with Livramento boss the midfield and stop the supply lines to him. Let him run around like a headless chicken. McCarthy KWP Bednarek Salisu Perraud Romeu Livramento JWP Djenepo Tella Armstrong

Why do we need two of these people to describe a match in front of them? Save money for Beeb if just Blackmore.

Best team in Europe? Pah! Easy Peasy! 3-0 to Saints

Would we take Koeman if he becomes available?

He makes most of it up as he goes along and he is also a bit of a contrarian. Loves playing to the gallery as well. I'd take most of it with a pinch of salt if I were you.

Saw him play several times, fans were less complimentary in those days and many saw him as a "goal hanger" a term that has slipped from the soccer vocabulary. Probably wouldn't have scored so many today with the current off-side rule and VAR.

Total rubbish, neither were dives. Ronaldo has previous of course from his first spell at Man U as far as refs are concerned. Now they seem obsessed with seeing dives every time he is fouled and hits the deck. Very bad weekend for refs, they are being left behind by the pace and subtlety of the game and ruining it for the rest of us. Many seem now to be hallucinating, seeing things that are not there and making very poor judgements. Surely there are better people in the FL that could be promoted so that we can get rid of some of these star-struck old codgers.

More likely he thought that Bednarek was the more dependable option with loads of experience against top level opposition. Salisu is still raw and a yard too slow at times.

Not doing much for Villa is he. Seemed pretty anonymous yesterday in highlight clips

First class team performance and great result, well done Ralph for getting your tactics right and bamboozling Guardiola. Now let's do the same every week. Romeu excelled today and was a class above. What a star! The other big success story was Elyonoussi who brought intelligence and creative insight to our attacking midfield. As he gets more game time the more his underlying qualities emerge. He is not a spectacular high energy player but is quietly efficient, popping up in all the right places and creating chances for others that would be seized upon by half decent strikers. Big shout our for KWP who bossed the defensive left side third and still found time and space to run the line and get in some decent crosses. On what planet was that not a clear penalty and red card. The ref should have stuck to his guns. Judging by the number of times he had to watch the re-wind the benefit of any doubt should have gone to the attacker. We were cheated out of a win which would have been fully deserved.

Seems we have got away with murder for once. Hide the money before they want to back!

What's the problem with that? Can he only count to 10?

Hopefully we can keep it down to 0-3. Reading between Ralph's lines we'll see much the same team as last week. KWP will sit and fume as is becoming usual these days, so would I! Although he was almost categorical about having too many 10's to consider Livramento as a 10, two of his 10's are non-options at the moment through longish term injuries? Looks like he'd rather piss off Kyle than Redmond or Djenepo then. Weird priorities.

Ooh! Ice is a bit thin there.

Norwich are a bit of an enigma, too good for the Championship yet falling at the first hurdle every time in the PL. They never seem able to kick on from their great performances of the previous seasons like Wolves, Leeds and others have done. You'd have to say on current form that they are dead certs for the drop. WBA are much in the same mould but that's for next year. Watford, I'm no so sure. At times they can play some brilliant stuff. I have a feeling that Wolves may struggle along with Newcastle & Leeds both of whom seem to have weak defences. Saints will finish 13th. Burnley as always will survive one place below us. Relegation? Norwich, Newcastle, Brighton

Why the surprise and search for reasons for empty seats? Many older and clinically vulnerable fans have not been persuaded to return because of Covid infection concerns. There are very high infection rates in cities and no guarantee that a few people with Covid will not be sat near you in the stadium. In a crowd of 20k at least one two Covid cases could be almost guaranteed. Now that the idea of vaccine passports has been kicked into the long grass the future has become even more precarious for vulnerable folk and many will never return.