Tom & Gerry

I think you'll find keepers come in all shapes and sizes including fat.

Well we are not in the top half of the Championship so I am not content. I've tried to look at the wider picture of supporting the club for nearly 70 years rather than the current situation. I agree that football has changed, not for the better but the play off final less than 2 years ago shows what it can still be like.

Let 's face it us fans are never truly happy. In the short term we are happy when we win and not when we lose, but even the best managers suffer heavy and embarrassing defeats, there is always at least one player in the team that if he wasn't there we'd be so much better, and no one is happy in July when the squad is looking threadbare and we haven't signed the players yet for a successful season. When I started watching Saints a very long time ago my dream as a fan was to see them play in the 1st Division and my dream of dreams was to see them lift the FA cup. In 1966 and 1976 we achieved those dreams so I guess that was when I was happiest and everything since then has been a bonus. I think where Saints were when you started watching has a bearing on how content or not you are. I started watching in Division 3 (South) so I see the team as predominantly a bottom half Premier league / top half of the Championship club. I'm reasonably content between those parameters and happier or sadder either side of them. Let's hope the present situation is just a blip in an ever fluctuating picture.

I think that is a difficult question to answer for me or the average fan because we don't see enough of the other keepers. What matters now is Peretz better than him and can he instill more confidence in the defence?

I respect and appreciate those posters who know more about goal keeping than me and can explain why Bazunu should save more goals than he does, and I'm all for improving the team in any position. I'll give a pass to those who say he doesn't look like a goalkeeper when to me he looks every inch an athlete, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Those who just swear,well this forum is a broad church and while some want to engage in meaningful discussion others just want a rant , so be it. Those who say he doesn't save anything are just daft, wrong and they know it. I just think goal keeping is a difficult job especially if you are often exposed by mistakes in front of you and most goals I see everywhere come under the category, could the keeper have done better. Those

At least we agree he's slaughtered for every goal he lets in

Bazunu would have been slaughtered for those 2 goals, but then again Bazunu would have been slaughtered for any goal he let in.

Will never forget the run and cross in the last minute against Charlton for Terry Paine to score the goal in the last home game to put us back on track for promotion to the top tier for the very first time in 1966. Of all the big money sales that have left me gutted over the years , he was the first.

Because the Manager always says how great the atmosphere was on the rare occasions that we do win.

The Northam wall is a good thing when the team are playing well and a bad thing when they are not.

All players make mistakes. We only notice the ones that aren't covered by a team mate (its a team game) or ones made by a player we don't like.

It's a funny business. A coach either fits or he doesn't. Most of our best coaches have had a bad time with other clubs. You can have all the experience in the world but it doesn't mean it will work Take Mark Hughes, an International player and manager, managed Man City but although he kept us up few would say he was one of our best.

Who knows, hopefully May 2030

I'd keep Eckert as Interim Manager for as long as we keep climbing the table. Don't make him permanent as we'll only start losing again.

Desperate times desperate measures. I think I'd rather play Jack Stephens centre forward than Downs. At least he can head the ball, control the ball, put himself about,and has scored a goal this season, would probably get sent off though.