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We still believed that we would survive at that point, a great never to be forgotten moment.

If he hasn't fallen to pieces since his outing at St Marys earlier this season, he could do a very good goalscoring job for us. That rebound shot goal was about the quickest I've seen anyone react to a shot hitting the woodwork.

The fan base has certainly lost its cojones. This is the first time we have flirted with relegation since ML took over and the place is in meltdown. At The Dell we escaped relegation year in year out in the MLT years , primarily due to MLT himself. Now we seem to have a sense of entitlement.

Exactly. We've suffered deterioration after relegation from the Premier last time, and subsequently many years on the up. As football is cyclical we are now on a downward stretch again. Hopefully we won't drop as far as the bottom of League One on -10 ever again, but with no say in it all as supporters we'll still be there, where ever it is, because it is our club and still will be after MP, LR, RK, and all the half hearted prima donnas we watch weekly have long gone.

I didn't read the echo article but listened to Adam Blackmore's interview. Certainly a defensive stop gap / treading water approach from RK - lots of corporate gobbledegook. The only thing of any note was that our anonymous new owners are proposing to invest on the infrastructure of the club. It was a shame the question regarding the change of manager for more attacking football was ignored. #welimpon.

Now Carvalhal leaves as well, what a toxic match that was.When did both managers last get sacked after a match ?

This. I have given up posting on here for the past few months as we have had the best successive four finishes in our history and yet the forum outlook is gloom. This season Burnley and Watford(?) bang their heads on the glass ceiling and await the inevitable player / managerial departures, we rebuild for the next attempt.

Top Man

Hoedt looks a bit leggy to me, he doesn't glide around. I would keep Yoshi involved as long at VVD is at the club.

As a long standing chairman of a Step 7 club, I'll answer that one: QK are step 7- Hants League, seven divisions below Div 2 - i.e. National league; National league north/ south; two divisions of Southern (Bostik) League; then two divisions of Wessex; then Hants League.

If we had strikers who could score goals so we win 3-1, 4-2 etc no one would notice FF.

Stevan Jovetic ? http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/goal-shy-southampton-eye-stevan-11484110

In answer to the OP - after the euphoria of promotion and the first two seasons subsided and reality kicked in is the answer, plus financial fair play. Before us it was Swansea for a couple of seasons then their manager (Rodgers) and all the best players have been taken by the top 6 - Bony, Sigurdsson, Ashley Williams etc. All our leavers are well documented on here. Now it is Burnley, Watford, Huddersfield and Brighton that have the optimism and have yet to reach the glass ceiling of 7th and have all their assets taken to sit on the benches of the top 6. Thereafter the cycle is on the downwards curve as the next lot of teams come through.

Totally agree, and have posted similar both last season and this. As long as chance after chance is wasted we will struggle. We desperately need one of our 'strikers' to hit some sort of form, or we must import a recognised goal scorer in January. Only then will MP, the rest of the team, and us up in the stands get some respite from what has become a chronic problem. #welimpon

The announcement was perfectly clear, no idea what some in the Northam were doing

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Last player left in January - Captain, Jose Fonte last January ?

There seems to be a lot of confusion since Sky and the Premier League started wrecking the game in 1992, the media getting more excited about player movement from club to club than the actual matches, eg the VVD debate after the match at Wembley on Sunday. The ability to spend on individual players, not a team, as highlighted by the recent efforts of our Ron, is not a club's 'ambition' but a manager wishing to get a piece of the financial action himself. It is apparent that Saints, one of the clubs that apparently lack ambition, can build a team of players complementing each other. Hence Shaw, Schneiderlin, Fonte, Louvren etc look good here but struggle elsewhere.

What a weekend - Koeman, Louvren - karma. Beautiful !

Wow, watching that video of us in Milan and remembering those magic moments between equalising and Manure scoring the winner at Wembley - wonderful times. Looking forward to more of that , we seem to be losing our mojo a bit at the moment.

Me , my son and a plethora of Benali stickers !

We seem to have several players playing like rabbits in the headlights. Any decent player would have got his header down and on target from 6 yards; Brain Freeze Bertie checks and passes back to the centre backs way too often, losing any momentum; and poor old Frazer has ( temporarily ?) lost his bearings on any ball in the air.

We need regular goals. think now is the time to get in a striker with a premier league track record - Walcott. Experiments like Osvaldo, Juanmi etc have failed.

Bas Dost and Walcott. In fact a proven striker. Let's not waste money on the other positions this time around

It won't catch on, hardly on a par with the Les and his Lamborghini song