bangkoksaint

Right I’ll stick my tin hat on……….Bournemouth - a small seaside town, local fans with a tiny stadium punching well above their weight in the richest league in the world. Obviously I want us to be better than them and win but I don’t look down on them and they should be applauded for upsetting any status quo for the big boys

Gary Neville has pretty much summed up everything that is wrong with how football is played currently. Our manager exacerbates this by never appearing to deviate from this possession style and that if it doesn’t work to just continue with but to try harder. I for one am fed up with it.

If that is the case and is genuine I fear that if we wait until the end of October then a club such as Everton will have beaten us to him. He may not want to come but the conversation should be had and the esrlier the better.

Just been described on Sky Sports as ‘pointless Southampton’……..TBF they have a point in more ways than one

If we play a ‘weakened’ team and lose the pressure will mount even more on RM. For his own preservation he needs to select a strong team

I wonder how many City players will score more than our entire team? In fact how many other PL players?

Everton might not be great but at least they are creating and scoring goals. We on the other hand……….

Moyes anyone?

We’ve a talented squad and there are some decent managers available. Take the difficult decision and let’s see if we can make a proper go of it before it’s too late.

Uhm.....I see what you're saying and yes you're absolutely right and I doubt it will affect us in the long term. Whether the club take a more long term, almost pastroral view, based on his interests will be interesting but BIM TB may be one of the few players between RM and the sack I probably doubt it

Absolutely, however their respective injury records throughout their careers weren’t/aren’t great. I wonder if that’s linked?

Id be staggered if they dont monitor sites such as this BIM as football fans we're their target audience.

All the top sides go long at times when it’s necessary and that’s what we simply don’t seem willing to do. Maybe that, along with a personnel change, will change after the international break.

Just looking at his injury history I honestly don’t see him coming back and playing at this level again. An expensive mistake? Yes’s but it’s sweetened by the fact we off loaded Lavia when we did and for what we got for him.

We had the World Cup break when mad Nath joined us………that went well!!

An 18 year old fit, young and athletic lad fatigued? Sorry Russ but I’m not having that

I think his next league team selection will tell us a couple of things. Firstly whether we have a chance of staying up and secondly whether he is likely to be still in charge come Christmas.

With the window closing the owners have given us more than a chance of survival.……….unfortunately RM has other ideas and we’ll return to where we came from if he persists with these tactics

Honestly………for those that thought Pedro was Saints bound please give your head a wobble otherwise you’re going to have a very disappointing day!!

Maybe if we’d signed a GK of similar stature 2 seasons ago we wouldn’t have had that flirt with the Championship!

Anyone else having Sky freezing?

A Brazilian non-goal getter that’s coming from the warmth of South America to the hotbed of the Premier League as we go into the winter……..what could possibly go wrong??

I think that’s an interesting and valid question that should be qualified by the fact we’re only two games in. We know RM won’t change his ethos in how we play which I think will really cost us. Hypothetical I know, but if we were winless after ten games how would everyone be feeling then? I actually think giving him a contract extension was a tad premature. Hopefully I’m proved wrong but history probably suggests not.

He certainly put his foot through it enough times at Wembley!!

Give or take, relegation will cost around £100M in revenue. I’d suggest that we could get a game changing GK for a fraction of that and still be within FFP. Someone at the club needs to do the maths coz currently AMC will put us in the £100M bracket unfortunately.