John B

Currently we have a squad without many decent PL players and a manager with no experience of the PL so I am not particularly confident that we will stay up but who knows

Why do you and other posters think Downes is going to me very good in the PL if West Ham do not. I know he was very integral to the promotion but so were Che and AA and they are not really top class PL players

How things change we used have a team with English internationals now Crystal Palace have a few

I understand Brighton offered him a contract but he chose us I hope it happens to other players too

We finished 4th in the Championship and as you may have lost a handful although some may return so we need to rep[ace those not returning and get replacements for half a dozen or so players who are not up to PL standard so ten new players I would have thought at least and a couple of Loanees plus Lallana As many of our targets will not come here we need load of irons in the fire

I must have a rogue Gene because he now has taken a wicket and conceded only 4 in his next

Why have I got a down on Chris Wood I get upset whenever he bowls must be something to do with his first over going for 14

I doubt many people on the football side were here when he left to go to Liverpool ten years ago

But how well?

Your assumming that Stu wants to stay which is probably not the case

Very well put fans sometimes forget that for most PL footballers playing football is their job and a cruel injury can come at anytime so they try to maximise their earnings when they can

So you are no Mystic Meg then

And what is your predition for next season?

It may not have been inevitable but it was pretty obvious to me that we were going to be relegated with an inexperience team a crap goalkeeper no stand out striker and no experienced PL CB. The squad was perhaps one of the worst top flight squads we have ever had

Me also but wished the young Saints Fan I met today a similar experience when he goes to Wembley next weekend

I thought it was because Baz's mother washes the kit and would only do it if Gav played

Very reasonable summation of the situation I have thought Two wins to return to the PL is ideal

In the first thirty years I supprted the Saints we had three managers and were relatively successful keeping manager through lean periods as the club supported them getting in top class players. During the subsequent thirty four years we have had twenty five or so non caretaker manager and have been unsuccessful except for the period after administration when the club invested in top class players . My view is that we have not succeeded on the pitch is because we have not consistently invested in the right players but I do agree that some of the managerial appointments such as Branfoot Sturrock Wigley Pellegrino and Nathan Jones were questionable but Russell has a win percentage of over 50% together with Pardew and Adkins who both had the advanate of the investment of top class players thanks to the investment of Cortese

The policy of sacking managers starting with Puel does not seemed to have worked as we are now on maybe our sixth manager and we find our selves in our lowest league position since 2012

My first season proper was 1962 63 when we had a great cup run finished 11th 42 points scored 72 goals conceded 67 with a pretty useful squad but nobody I knew whinged about Ted Bates Most people were happy and fully supported the club unlike today when everybody whinges when we condede a goal and complains about the manager rubbishes players continually when we lose and appear to find fault in most aspects of the club. You reap what you sow

Are you suggesting that a team playing as well as Leicester did last night did not deserve to win and a player like Vardy should stop playing as well as he did Their front players were fast and decisive last night miles faster than ours its just football

Why should he get out of the club when we have finished fourth with over 84 points one of the best positions we have ever achieved in the last sixty years Clearly Leicester are a better team than us with more pace especially up front and we have no consistent attacking players. We are wear we are today because we have not developed any top class players and our recruitment in general has been piss poor To be a success a club needs decent owners with lots of money which we have never had except for the short time 15 years ago when Markus was around

Yes I think we have been fucked for sometime but now the Fat Lady has sung and we are well and truly fucked

Please no I just cannot cope with being stuffed each week in the PL Lets build a team with some decent players like we did when we got promoted to the old League 1 where we were competive after promotion.

The Poster is a Clairvoyant I expect However I am not and the club bought the player to make a profit and moving to Juventus was a chance for the club to see if could perform at a top club. He does seemed to have made the grade so hopefully he will return to SFC to try to improve next season.