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Well, I certainly didn't expect to see Clasie and JWP in the same midfield. Is Romeu 'Superman' in disguise - how come he never gets rotated? Just proves the whole thing is nothing more than a joke.

Followed swiftly by an appearance in a Christmas 'Pointless' special!

The new TV reality TV show starring Claude Puel and Eric Black 'Rotation, Rotation, Rotation'

Clasie and JWP in the same midfield - incoming!

Let's hope it's bad enough for her to persuade him to resign.

Unless Puel is big enough to admit the way he sets up the team is too negative and that his constant excessive rotation are not working things will not improve and we'll reach the point where the crowd/fans are so against him the board will be forced to act. He must get the team playing open attacking football and ditch the negative passing for passings sake attitude. It is dull, boring and clearly turning the fans off in droves - it is not and never will be 'the Southampton way.' Change the formation and style of play or he is just hanging on until the inevitable because the fans will not accept this cringeworthy football.

Isn't it time Puel conducted his interviews via an interpreter? His english is so poor and as a result it is almost impossible to tell what points he's trying to make so he could well be getting away with talking absolute nonsense - in fact, I'm almost sure he is!

Are there any plans to bring back entertaining football at St Marys? If not do you expect people to meekly cough up their hard earned to renew season tickets when they are clearly getting very little in return?

Possession just for the sake of it which only runs down the clock and bores those watching to tears. Football is meant to be entertaining, that's why fans are prepared to dig deep and pay top dollar to watch it. I think our fans should be paid to attend matched because most of the time it is just a slow torture. Puel is killing our club and undoing years of good work and besmirching our reputation for producing exciting attacking football. I can't see things changing anytime soon and the current frustrations and anger are going to increase week by week. It's a slow death by a thousand futile passes.

Rotation is a major problem. You need a settled side. Players need to play week in week out to bed in. Keep making wholesale changes and it will result in the same old dross. Against West Brom we dropped our two best full backs - I bet Pullis was rubbing his hands. It is utter madness and all it achieves is us fielding a weakened side without justification. Give players a rest only if they are showing clear signs of being knackered. What is this obsession with professional footballers needing a rest every other week. If that's all they can offer then lets pay them 50% of their hugely inflated salaries. It's utter nonsense.

A simple message to CP that might make the penny drop....the goals are at each end of the pitch, they are not and never have been on the sides of the pitch. Grasp that one small thing and you may yet manage to sort this mess out.

A small amount of rotation can work. However, Puel gets it totally wrong by making lots of changes for every game. It's not clever and it doesn't work. How does he expect the team to find any consistency? How are they meant to get used to playing together? How are individual players supposed to get match fit and play to their best? Sorry but his rotation policy is complete and utter nonsense.

Nail on the head!!!

Puel has turned us into a side that creates barely a half chance from open play and that is a considerable concern. His tactics are entirely to blame for this. We are horrible to watch.

Like his favoured style of football Puel is taking us backwards. Possession for possessions sake, aimless crosses into the box to nobody in particular. No cutting edge, no dynamic football, no playing between the lines just boring pass, pass pass in areas where it doesn't matter. We must be one of the worst teams to watch now and he's undone the good work of previous managers. Get him out of our club before he bores us all to death.

I still think JayRod will score goals but he must be given the ammunition. Yesterday we created very little from open play so he had few opportunities to shine. We didn't hit balls into the channels for him like we did against Bournemouth and we made it easy for Tottenham to defend against us. I agree we need a unit in midfield who can break up play allowing Romeu to sit and patrol in front of the back four. Our midfielders are all lightweight so that's something that needs to be addressed in the Jan window if possible. Spurs are a good side but after we scored we seemed content to allow them to come on to us as we retreated further and further towards our own goal - poor tactics by Puel and indicative of his constantly negative stance. I think he could have made some tactical switches at half time to try to wrestle back the initiative but they scored early and that was it. I did notice neither of our centre backs were picking up Kane on corners in the first half which concerned me and was not surprised to see him get free and score with a header from a corner.

Jay had no service for one simple reason - we played the diamond.

Not nearly good enough at this level I'm afraid. Unfortunately for the lad he dosesn't have the physical strength or speed required and boy did it show tonight against the Tottenham midfield.

Completely agree - we won't get him but boy do we need him alongside Romeu. Our other midfield players are all powderpuffs who can't tackle and have no physical presence. Can we justify playing JWP just because he puts in the occasional decent dead ball delivery? We need someone like Morgan who covers the ground, makes interceptions and is strong. That will allow the cretive players more chance to work their magic instead of continually chasing back.

Ditch the diamond or Spurs will win this - it has been one way traffic for last 30 minutes. Throw on Long up front with Rodriguez to give us an outlet.

Ryan's great individual effort was actually a superb team move if you watch the complete build up. Bertrand was involved at the start when he had the ball deep in the corner of our half. We played it from there up to the middle then to the right, back across to the left and that's where RB took over and did the rest. It was actually a superb move even though obviously he still had a lot to do when he received the ball on the left.

With a dour Frenchman as our coach trying to force his ridiculous formation on the players I guess nobody should be surprised that we don't entertain, we don't attack with any speed, movement or purpose and we certainly don't score many goals. Football is meant to be enjoyable but this bloke must be turning people off in droves. There will be those who are content with that as long as we retain a reasonable league position but for me our team must always go out and try to play entertaining football. This dull, insipid fare is just so uninspiring and I don't think Puel can set a team up to play any other way. He fools nobody with the sideways, backwards propaganda football which soon fizzles out through lack of movement and imagination as soon as we get anywhere near the opposition goal.

Claude will be delighted - he'll have plotted all week for a draw and that's exactly what he got. Is he completely incapable of getting these players to move into space and get between the lines? That's how you open up stubborn defences and create chances not by floating in a series of crosses when you have no forwards who carry much of an aerial threat. Absolutely played into their hands and threw away what would and should have been an important victory.

Win, lose or draw can we at least have a right go at them from the first minute rather than meaningless possession that creates nothing. What I don't want to see is a negative display with no ambition which will probably result in a one nil defeat. Let's have a right good go at them and start on the front foot at a high tempo.

Would like to see us come out of the blocks and have a go at sides in away matches. I get the impression this season that we set up to play for a point. With three points for a win we may as well have a go at teams and the odd win comes in very handy as it equates to three draws so why not go for it.