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Book myself into The Priory ( the psychiatric hospital of the wealthy)

He lives very close to Royston so its very easy by train Besides which he'd have just as much disappointment if he followed Cambridge, unfortunately their glory days were when my son was very young and we went very often He may even watch a few wins with Arsenal I never thought I'd say this but as his other grandparents are moving away from Bournemouth a trip to watch Saints is prohibitevly expensive

I perceive it to be pretty obvious that it is now extremely difficult to stay in the Prem if promoted unless you make some very good signings of underalued or undiscovered players The fact that Leicester are struggling despite having possibly the best squad of the promoted sides pretty much confirms this. WE have to face some extremely talented players almost every week and have not enough talented players to win. it is pointless blaming or vilifying individual players when they are just not as good as the opposition it's not really their fault i feel sorry for my grandson who was really excited at the beginning of the season and had an Adam Armstrong shirt bought for him I rather hope he will support his nearest good club Arsenal as its an easy train ride away. I thought I had had experienced all the emotions possible in 65 years of following Saints but no season has come near to the disappointment and apathy I feel now. I don't even bother watching MOTD most weeks now. There is an interesting article saying the Pep system doesn't work any more against fast breaking teams. Anyway Inow I've got that off my chest I've given up on this season

I agree insofar as if we had really class players it could .However we don't have those players in the Prem but we have them playing against us,. when I watched Chelsea concede the first two goals yesterday I thought it was like watching Saints. However They have got two teams of class players to put a bad start right. I think it was a brave experiment which worked in the Championship (just); but was doomed to failure in the Prem. Its probably too late now but we need to adapt our play to the players we have rather than the other way round. I conclude he must go now, especially his results against some of the teams we had to beat were abysmal.

I was always told that to continue doing the same thing and to expect different results was a good working definition of insanity. Unfortunately we just don't seem to learn.

The worst thing about this season is that now I don't really care any more. Relegation now looks inevitable and I've been avoiding watching MOTD. I've never felt like this about them in almost 70 years of supporting them. Can't even get annoyed anymore, Ha we've just scored [ now can we possibly hold onto a lead. No we've given it away immediately. Unbelievable !!!!!! Can't even be bothered to swear any more. Thank goodness for VAR.

One thing that stuck out a mile to me was that Dibling was being bullied off the ball every time he touched it. I would have thought that he was either moved onto the wing and a striker who could cope with their centre back brought on or replaced. It was embarrassing to watch and none of his team mates helped him. I was also astonished how much pushing and grappling was allowed. They my have stopped the crunching tackles of my youth but in my day these tactics would have been dealt with by our hard men. Personally I think he'll either be sacked imminently or left to play the season out and see what transpires. I'd like to see if "tall Paul" can be effective as a target man.

Thank's Saints for ruining my birthday in the last minute

The main problem as I see it is that the are many fast and skilful forwards in the Prem who will be watching and waiting for mistakes I just can't see how his insistence on fannying around at the back with our players is going to work. I'm dreading seeing what the best Prem forwards will do to us if we continue like this.

How can anyone get so many outstanding players to play so badly? The phrase "Lions led by a donkey" comes to my mind ( With apologies to all the WW1 heroes.)

I just hope we can control Fellowes on their right wing and avoid making stupid mistakes when playing it out from the back. At least the opposition can't score from row Z.

When the going gets tough the Saints .......? My insertion would be capitulate.

Having read the article in The Guardian this morning, I shall be reasonably happy if we don't go up. For instance screwing Everton and Forest in FFP, when their entire team is probably worth less than a coup;e of players from the big boys. Do we really want to be a Burnley? I accept that Brentford have done amazingly well and Brighton and Bournemouth too, but you have to be very lucky to survive unless owned by megawealth.

It's very disappointing of course, but for goodness sake keep some perspective one loss in 25 games!! My worry is that we looked mentally tired unless it was the pitch with so many passes going astray. Friday isn't the best game to recover, and there isn't much chance to get properly refreshed.

From the matches I've seen on TV we are playing against at least 7 defenders packed into the last quarter of the pitch Martin has to counter these stifling tactics how without changing a very successful run I'm not sure. Perhaps we should try going for the jugular immediately and try to score very early which effectively negates the point of the opposition just sitting back. Even Man City are feeling the loss of de Bruyne to find the telling pass. of course we can never hope for anyone so good, but we seem to lack midfield creativity except perhaps S Armstrong.Personally Id start him and take him off at half time rather than the reverse