Tom & Gerry

To be honest - yes, To do their best as they see it for the club- yes, To get every decision right - no (they are human)

At his best he makes it look easy. I personally prefer his type to a smaller jack in the box type keeper. He made some good saves on Saturday, go on give him some credit...........thought not.

I suppose it's good that a few of our players want to take a penalty. The time to worry is when noone wants to take it.

There's only one position on the pitch where arguably we could not do better and unfortunately he doesn't want to play for us at present.

I think some are being incredibly harsh on Fraser. With the first goal he had a fraction of a second to deal with a hard shot with a light ball at full stretch. Try to turn it round the post and there is a danger you will get too weak a hand on it and it will end up in the net, get too strong a hand on it and it can go back to the opposition, it's really down to luck and every goalkeeper can and does get it wrong sometimes.

Does this mean we no longer have to bow the knee to Liverpool?

I must admit having Pompey as rivals is a bit like Man U having Oldham as rivals. I know nothing about them or what players they have. I'd imagine the Liverpool game should produce an atmosphere of at least similar bitterness and intensity but that's up to you the fans.The authorities and Liverpool have done nothing to dampen the situation.

Dear Liverpool, You can buy the whole club for £200m. Just build a bigger ground and pay the transport costs for us season ticket holders so we can carry on watching our team.

Dear Virgil, I'm so glad you share the club's ambitions We would have achieved them by now if it wasn't for players like you, Lallana, Lovren, Clyne, Mane, Wanyama,Schneiderlin, Alderweireld,etc,etc. And why would you want to go to Liverpool, a team we so comprehensively outplayed over 2 legs last season?

And of course we comprehensively deprived them of a little bit of silverware last season. They couldn't score against us in 4 games in which we made them look bang average, which they were in most games when their ex Saints players were not playing. Still VVD wants to go there because they are in the Champions league (allegedly). They might only play 1 round and there is no guarantee he would play especially given his state of fitness or do the players choose which games they play at wonderful Liverpool. In future seasons given the strength of Utd, City and Chelsea there is only a 33% chance they will qualify as they fight out 4th place with Spurs and Arsenal, and with Everton improving the odds on qualifying are lengthening further. Why would you go there?

I'd sell to Liverpool but it would be for £20m more than I'd sell to anyone else. Actually on second thoughts no I wouldn't sell to Liverpool.

The trouble is Saints are on their own on this one. The Premier League could help by taking action against clubs that illegally approach players or introduce a wage cap. They won't though because they are too afraid the big clubs will break away and form their own European league.

It's very funny in parts and grim and sad in others. A great read.

Wonder who they are working on for next season, Bertrand, Romeu, Cedric?

So VVD expects to be a Liverpool player by the end of the window. Teresa May expected to have a bigger majority by the end of the last election and look where that got her. I don't expect Saints to sell another top player to Liverool. We will see where that gets me.

If the rules had been applied in the past we wouldn't have to sue and if they were applied now there is a good chance we wouldn't lose anything now or in the future.

I thought the ambition was to have a team of academy graduates or has that changed since Cortese left?

WE shouldn't have to sue if the Premier League did their job. People say it happens all the time and that's the way it is but the Premier league have rules and they have in my eyes clearly been broken. To not take action is corruption. Fans are now saying we should sell.That's just want Liverpool want to hear. Saints fans are now doing the job previously done by the ex Liverpool players. They will come in with their original valuation of £45m and expect it to be accepted. Saints should not sell for less than £70m rising by £5m a week as the end of the transfer window approaches and it gets harder to replace him.

Ok Premier League what more evidence do you need that the player has been tapped up? If you are to maintain the honesty and integrity of this league you should ban Liverpool from buying any players for 2 years. All transfers between Liverpool and Southampton should be banned for 5 years and a wage cap should be introduced to provide a fairer and more equitable league. Failure to take action to provide a fair and equitable league should result in further sanctions from FIFA including banning English clubs from Europe and the transfer of players from abroad to English Premier league clubs until such time as the league puts it's house in order. ( I am a little bit angry)

Yes we are very lucky and I agree with what you say but football is a passionate game and everyone has the right to express the frustration we all feel at times and to say things that if we are honest we have all thought and then maybe dismissed as daft and to challange the accepted thinking. Most of my frustration is not with Saints but with the game itself. If I sell my house I expect to buy another property of similar value with the proceeds. Saints have sold over a complete team in recent years to improve Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs and Man U so by rights we should now have purchased a team as good as those teams. For all the reasons you have stated it is not a fair league and it hasn't happened, but it should be and then young players who show a semblance of ability would be proud to play for us and not wish they were elsewhere.

Fear not, the only public comment from Liverpool is to say they are no longer interested in the player. Now an honorable club like Liverpool wouldn't lie would they? The highly esteemed Premier league have investigated the matter and could find no evidence that that Liverpool had spoken to the player other than Klopp saying well done after the League cup semi final. So unless Van Dyke was so star struck by the mighty Klopp saying well done he couldn't possibly be seeking a move to Anfield as he doesn't know what they are offering him. If he were to go to Liverpool for less than £70m it would meen that both Liverpool and the Premier league are corrupt and the venerable FA would come down on them like a tonne of bricks. That is of course as long as the FA is not corrupt. Oh well there is always FIFA.

No one who was privileged to be at White Hart Lane that night will ever forget it. RIP Ken.

Isn't it his job to fall out with the players if they are not performing?

Perhaps it was the players that needed to change /adapt. I expect he was used to playing with better players in France if the recent International is anything to go by. From the comments by JWP and Romeu it seems he hadn't completely lost the dressing room.

If Lallana and Morgan had started out in the Premier league instead of league 1 I can only imagine the comments on here about their abilities.