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15 goals leaked is far too worrying for me regardless of who we have played in our first few games,this needs to be addressed but I don't think we have the players to rectify it. If we are still in the bottom three come January and it looks like there is a good chance we will get relegated then cortese will not put his hand in his pocket and spend big as there is too much risk. The most important thing is to remain in this league and anybody who says otherwise needs their head examined IMO.

Buttner just scored a wonder goal

Cortese

I don't think I could stomach a season which mirrors blackburns season last year. I don't want us limping along hoping things will change,with the fans on Adkins back a la Steve kean with cortese stubbornly sticking with Adkins regardless.

The sad thing is we have scored more goals than arsenal in this game and we are losing 4-1

Ha ha fox in the box

I don't know about you lot but I actually wanna stay in the prem,just a shame that some are happy for us to go down and rely on parachute payments to get back up.......here's an idea, why don't we just try and stay up.

4-0 cortese must be sharpening his chopper

Sounds like we are Shiite at the moment

Do any of these work on the iPhone??

As always,represented by the biggest dicks in Southampton.....where do they scrape these people up from?

Managers come and go,I think some of you get a bit anal over it. It's a part of modern day football,out of nearly 100 clubs in the English leagues there are only about 3 or 4 long term managers so that really tells you all you need to know. If Adkins is failing in his task then he should be given a reasonable amount of time to address the problems but there has to be a cut off point,cortese will have a point in mind that he considers to be the time in which a new manager could possibly turn it around and I think it will probably be October/November if we continue to lose......unfortunately it will be inevitable regardless of how well Adkins has done to get us to the prem.

And anybody who then picks him to come on as a sub against manu a few days after the incident is a bigger idiot IMO....what message does that send out to the youngsters.

Lallana didn't seem to bothered,he was too busy yawning all night.

2 season ticket holders near me got to their seats to find 2 ticket holders already sat there.

I think most,including myself are not judging the player but more the judgment to bring him on in the first place. He replaced lambert (scored 1,setup the other) and clearly (for whatever reason) looked out of his depth in that particular 15 minute spell..........it wasn't a game to make your home debut,especially filling lamberts boots who was causing problems all afternoon. for me the blame lies with whoever decided he should play a part,now the lad is going to be under more pressure to impress IMO.

This ^^ This has always been the case IMO and one of the reasons I show little interest in the england team and one of the reasons why the national team will never move forward. I cannot see the logic of playing players who mostly sit on the bench for their clubs,or strikers who struggle to find the back of the net for long periods but still getting stupidly extended runs for England. The whole setup stinks,it's like a tight knit gentlemans club riddled with snobbery and plenty of back slapping. Fools.

This ^^

I agree with you,the new lad shouldn't of had any involvement at all and chaplow should have been the man to bring on. I didn't notice it at the game as I was too far away but watching it back on tv you can clearly see lallana saying to puncheon something along the lines of 'what's he bringing us of for' and puncheon shrugging his shoulders....very strange substitutions IMO

It's not the player I am criticising,after all I have only seen him play for 15 minutes but what I did see I wasn't impressed with,my argument is with the way he was introduced to the premier league,he should have never been allowed to get off the bench in the first place in such a difficult game and at a critical point in the game,this goes for guly and Rodriguez,their introduction lost us the game as they were ineffective in their roles and weren't a patch on the players they replaced. I respect your opinions but I don't respect that you think my opinion is baseless nonsense. When I have spoken to people outside of this forum they are all in agreement that the introduction of the subs lost us the game and all 3 were pretty bad when they came on,yet when I come on here people think they know different.

Are you saying he did well when he came on then?.....lambert came on against city and made an immediate impact,scoring 1 and causing all sorts of problems,the new lad failed to win one ball,jumped too soon when the ball was hoofed up and basically looked like a baby giraffe on ice,Rio must have been laughing to himself when Mayuka came on because lambert had him in his pocket all game,making him work for every ball. it was a highly charged game,Adkins must of thought the same yet he still decided to bring on the 3 subs,replacing 3 of our most effective players, this had a knock on effect as this just piled more pressure on the defence because guly,Rodriguez and the new lad failed in their tasks so the defence just hoofed it out upto a forward that didn't win a thing.....and so it continued until they scored. Not really baseless nonsense is it.

Saints after youngster Harry cornick in the echo today Lives in Poole plays for Christchurch http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/9916660.Saints_chasing_youngster/ Any of you Poole,Bournemouth,Christchurch based saints fans know anything about him?

Unfortunately for him on Sunday he replaced a player who scored 1 and setup the other 1 and had the beating of Ferdinand........that,and he also looked well out of his depth and along with the other 2 subs cost us the points.

Still crap but I suppose it does make the players stand out on the pitch and on tv.

The problem I have with the whole thing is that billy sharp played a big part in the pre season games and scored a few goals where others didn't,I didn't go to any of the games but what I hear from people who did,sharp was one of our best players,and even a couple of days before the transfer deadline he scored in the Stevenage game. After speaking to billy yesterday it seems either Adkins is spinning him a yarn,or NC is deciding who stays and who goes either way it sits a bit uncomfortably with me but the club is owned by a private family and I accept they can do what they want and get whoever they want to make the decisions....I suppose it all comes down to wether or not Adkins can accept it.