Charlie Wayman

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.

We have surely seen the best and worst of Redmond over the years. Why should we expect anything different to what we have seen and endured over the seasons. In my opinion he has never been sufficiently professional to have knuckled down and worked really hard on correcting his weaknesses. If only he had the dedication and determination of a Romeu or a JWP for example he could have been a half decent player but he doesn't and he isn't. He is what he is and never will be consistent enough to warrant and hold down a permanent place in the starting XI.

On loan or not, for this season he is a Saints asset and his future has nothing to do with our present. If he is our best striker then he should play ever week. Good will come of it even if he leaves at the end of the season as Adams & Armstrong will need to up their games considerably to get back into the team.

Depends I suppose on one's expectations, if being set up mainly to contain the opposition, keep a clean sheet and hit them on the break for a 1-0 then some might have enjoyed that and fair to argue that the ends justify the means. That's not what I want to see. Let's just hope we have not given up on being a slick passing fast running attacking team that creates loads of chances and scores a few goals. Perhaps that is naive. Surely it cannot be that the quality of our players is so low that RH can only set us up to defend or attack but not both?

A dour and unimaginative performance from Saints contributed to a scrappy and in most part utterly forgettable match with few highlights and little genuine excitement. If this is what it takes to keep clean sheets then we are in for a long, boring and miserable season. Salisu was our one player worthy of the MotM tag while McCarthy showed improvement with a couple of good reaction saves and increased aerial authority in his 6 yard box. Stephens was reliable and solid and did what he is paid to do. JWP & Romeu were way below par and Redmond frustrated as only he can. With a misfiring midfield we never really got going. Why Tella's pace wasn't used alongside Broja in the late stages of the game is beyond me, whet's the kid done to have fallen so far from grace? Leaving Armstrong to forage on his own for much of the match was a recipe for certain failure and we rarely offered a serious goal threat. It seems to me that we are not in good shape for next week's visit to City, caught between this new negative style of keeping a clean sheet at all cost, and our normal high-octane easy on the eye attacking play. Once again there were question marks over Ralph's team selection, while Tino seems to be his flavour of the month I am not convinced he is any better than Kyle W-P defensively or going forward. Certainly in the final third in positioning and decision making KWP is far superior. Ralph should not forget that Livramento is 18 and has a lot to learn. Playing Djenepo, Elyonoussi and Redmond together seemed extravagant and short sighted especially with Theo side-lined, leaving us with no viable substitution options when they tired.

Living his dream and why not.

Funny to you maybe but quite offensive to many old men on here. Plenty of smelly young men around who have never understood what personal hygiene means!

Worse than the Austin Allegro?