Greedyfly

Although I am not naive enough to think all 'dreams come true' and fairy-tales, I can tell you he very much wanted to play for us and has done for a few seasons. He had the opportunity to go Bournemouth plus a few other prem clubs but chose Southampton. He does have an affinity with the South Coast and wanted to move back here so on that basis I share some of the warm fuzzies the guys above are getting from him.

Not sure who those people are...But I certainly won't. He hasn't looked up to the job and Everton deliberately targeted him on Saturday. That said I think he actually has potential but needs to develop which being Bertrand's understudy will give him the opportunity.

This. Fonte was everything the rest of our defence wasn't. Not sure I lay as much blame at Yoshi's door as I do Targett who was rank average again - hopefully he can improve with age because he's been shown up twice this season now.

He was right about Uranus....

This. He'd be an absolutely good signing and unfortunately 15m is actually probably less than the going rate for English born players these days. I'd go as far as to say it's snip and he would have made the difference for us this season.

Jay Rod back training with the first team squad.

The BBC might have a spot for him hosting Top Gear? Complete Guano Mental. Kind of love him. But mainly because he's no longer here.

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Everybody rejoices. Balance almost restored.

LOL "late for lunch lad" got a chuckle. Well played. I don't agree though I am afraid. A good player yes. Potential yes (which I accept is what was said initially) but currently or near future I don't think he's world class. Aguero is world class. Messi, Ronaldo, Costa, Suarez - this is what I think of as World Class. He isn't a scratch on any of them.

That was 5 years ago and he's fallen away somewhat since. Don't get me wrong, I've seen stuff from all 3 which makes them good enough for us (though Mane most promisingly for me) but to be deemed a world class player I feel you have to be coveted by some of the best sides in the world. None of the three are, were or have been for some time. Not even close.

They definitely aren't. And I don't mean that is in 'they are bad' what I mean is they wouldn't get close to being on the bench for the top sides in the world (Mane a possible exception but even that's a stretch). We have possibly two world class players in our squad and even then I'd say only good enough for benching and that's Toby and Schneiderlin.

Are both Morgan and Toby likely to be fit for this one? Because that will make a huge difference for sure.

This completely. And I was a December bed-wetter too!

FML.....Great feeling that.

This. Near spot on for me. Though you are being kind to Long, less so to Pelle and Alderweireld who I think has been the best of the lot.

Yeeeeeaaaahhhhh I got my dates wrong. My bad. I thought West Ham came after them so I will give you that one. But not sure what you feel you have to be confident about? Is it our incredible attacking prowess recently. Or maybe our midfield creativity that has all but died on it's ass. Or our great defensive unit that has become some sort of clown act. It's ok though the prolific Shane Long is up front tonight...... As Window Cleaner said we aren't going to win the thing anyway so I am more concerned with the Everton game.

Yep. Just that dose really is a sickener. It's not easy admitting that, IMO, we basically just average. We benefited from playing teams even more drab than us in the first 10 and whenever we had a real test we got beat. West Ham is the last time we played well and some of our signings have not stepped up and some now going backwards. Not confident here at all and looking at Everton yesterday we could well be on the wrong side of a spanking Saturday too. Hope I am wrong.

Like that which beat Burnley.....Oh. We really aren't that good anymore.

Every cu nt ing Xmas period. We are a seriously average outfit these days.

Why the **** is saints player still ****ing not on the game. As poor as our performance.

Well that's not quite true is it. Because it sure as hell wasn't our defenders who were at fault for the Villa goal. Toby had it under control and Forster should have arrived at Agbonlahor much sooner OR stayed on his line. He did neither, dithered and it was 1-0. He was woeful against Stoke and he should have done better with RVPs second. Not been overly impressed myself.

And we'll be another mediocre 10 come season end. And all the usual suspects will be 1-6. Like I intimated, just disappointed I got caught up in the hype!

What's that got to do with it. United are a shambles yet they just turned us over. More Mayuka late subbing, Mane being utterly ineffective and a defensive **** up and another game gone. I genuinely thought we'd be up there looking at Europe this season, was a false dawn however

Another disappointing result beckons

He's shockingly average.