Miltonaggro

Sad indictment of modern football really when you consider how interesting it would have been had that side been kept together.

There are a number of threads on Liverpool forums where you are able to chart the corrosive disappointment and frustration. When he signed a scouse mate excitedly asked me how I thought he'd do for them? I said, think Barmby rather than Barnes, and I'm sticking with that... http://forums.thisisanfield.com/threads/adam-lallana-2015-16.18384/page-8

And you are very much entitled to it, SOG - even though you are clearly wrong ;-)

Confirmed sighting this morning of Clasie, Stek, VVD, and Martina in Sprinkles despondently eating crepes, Clasie on a booster seat. Clearly a social split in the camp, FFS...

This pretty much, it's just differing views on a virtual forum, with a handful of posters taking it seriously and getting uppity (I told you so and so on et al...) depending on form and fortune. Most of it is tongue in cheek and some of it an attempted wind up, but if you're a Saints fan posting on here you probably want to see your side doing as well as possible, and there are various shades of what that means. I would offer that in the last year our Chairman and Director of Football haven't helped a great deal in terms of fan expectation with comments like '"We have the structure to reach the Champions League in the next five years. But it's important to be established as a top-six club over that period," "We have set our own standards now and we are confident over the course of the coming years we will play in Europe and we are confident we are right to have an aspiration to play in the Champions League," and "We have an unbelievable track record of development so that can bring us to be a big club. We just need to do that for a few more years. Every single club that evolved went through this before they became a big club." This is allied to a period of supporting Saints when we've been more or less an irresistible force. The hope amongst Saints fans, positive or negative at present, is that the current run of awful form is a blip and that we can consolidate and improve, nobody with any common sense will gloat if we don't and nobody with any common sense should gloat if we do.

Agreed, in fact I'd take Ralph Malph over the Krugermeister...

Lol, now when you put it like that! Curly, Larry and Moe...

Final wake up call before slipping into the coma chaps. Utter sh*te. #itshappening - but now how Ralph planned...

Failure to strengthen this time last year started the rot.

Very doubtful, we will probably be trawling the Dutch bargain bin for a loan at best...

That's a good article, and fair towards where the blame lies for the current regression. It would be good to see some finished articles, known quantities, arriving in the coming weeks - but I doubt that...

I thought there would be a stuffing at SMS today, but didn't think Saints would be dishing it out, Arsenal lucky it was just four! Glady proven wrong, Saints magnificent!

Or indeed, the fashion police!

Sorry Dalek, this time of year I always feel a bit like Scrooge as a Saints fan, we usually dip out on the Christmas cheer. On recent form I can see us tonked by Arsenal, and outfought by WHU and Norwich. Squad needs a freshen up to provide quality and competition...

Hopefully it will be a reasonable amount, upwards of £25m...

Three losses, goal difference around - 8 for this trio of games. Lots of thinking to be done...

We need a shake up with the starting 11 for the next match, and major investment in the January window with two or three quality signings in key positions, and perhaps an experienced loan (or two) as insurance. Not hopeful we will get either...

Austin please, the boy has got goals in him and is a known quantity. We also need cover at centre back and competition at right back. For once, the Board needs to suck it up and spend some real money in a January transfer window or it will be a jarring season...

No good will come of this. Currently we are made for Spurs...

First purchase would be a Speak and Spell in the January sales...

Dead right..

Baffling in many ways to go from playing like Ajax to looking like WBA in the space of 12 months! Something not right at Saints, and it doesn't look like getting better anytime soon, lots of bickering and finger pointing on the park. Glad we've got 21 points in December.

Now there's a thought!...

Has there been a time in our recent transfer history when we've been fast to react, or at least faster than our competitors? The screw up with TA was both frustrating and naive, and the number of fans pointing out that signing an experienced back up keeper and a striker (loans would have done) could have turned a good season into a monumental one! Saints seem to have good structure, but you have to consider luck alongside the soundbites and plaudits.

Would be a good call. Much bigger physically than Cedric, and currently refusing to sign a new contract at Leeds - a deal could be done that would give us real options at right back.