Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

I love the way he goes up to each player before the game and makes sure they're ready. I presume he's saying something like 'don't try and I'll kill you'. Might be why Mayuka has disappeared off the face of the planet recently. Didn't try hard enough in training. Absolutely agree that we must sign him up. Best keeper since Niemi.

Agree he was brilliant today, pushing Jay for MoM in my view, but realistically not going to displace Cole or Baines at the mo (but maybe in a year or 2). Clyne & Lambo are more realistic options now IMO. And yes we need to sign Luke up at the 1st available opportunity.

With Roy Hodgson there today & having named his England squad this week, I'd be interested to know whether he still thinks Sturridge is better than Rickie. Or even Johnson better than Clyne. Brilliant performance & excellent result. Jay Rod fantastic in a team of great performances. Hope we can keep it up!

He's got a reverse Guly do Prado contract. He's not allowed to play 15 minutes or more in 85% of games.

You do remember we once appointed Steve Wigley?

Simple hypothetical question: do you think we would have more points now had we retained Adkins or has Poch secured more than Adders would've got? Not saying decision was right or wrong, what's done is done, just interested to see who others feel we'd have done better under. For me, I think Adkins.

Shouldn't that headline have said Andy's Crap rather than Andy scrap? Don't they proof read things any more before they publish articles?

Any chance we can put Poch on gardening leave and get Nigel back?

True but to Punch there is a massive difference between being farmed out on loan, getting the odd game here and there & then moving on with a few Champ clubs to pick from and being given the chance to play really well for your club in the top flight, showing what you can really do and getting a large signing on fee for another Prem side. He gets the chance to earn a good move and NC gets some value for money from a player performing well until the end of his contract.

I've always wondered whether there's been some form of gentleman's agreement between Punch & NC that he could go at the end of his contract for free, earning himself a nice big signing on fee, if he came back to the club and applied himself properly, such was the amazing turnaround when he came back into the fold, following his twitter outburst. Hence no deal will ever be in the offing. Total guesswork from me & I'd be disappointed if he left, such has been his transformation.

Gerry Forrest. Decent right back who had the distinction of losing his place to Ray Wallace.

Gordon Hobson. Decent lower league scorer who Saints bought to partner Colin Clarke. Did ok but soon lost out to the emerging Rod Wallace, Alan Shearer and MLT. Seem to recall him getting a hat-trick against someone once, might have been Villa. Just checked: it was Man City.

Can't believe this is the reason Cortese sacked Adkins... What he does on a weekend away is his own business.

Pochettino: "Tell Punch to pretend to wipe his bum if he scores. It'll be hilarious..."

Head not so much held high as in the f**king clouds! Been hoping to beat one of he so called big boys on our return an we take out the multi billionaire champs. And by outplaying them too. Now I feel we're properly back in the Prem!! Poch has made a difference I honestly never saw happening when we lost Adkins. Fantastic. Words are not enough. Beer might be.

Neil Heaney: a poor man's Perry Groves. Glasgow Saint: a Saints fan from Glasgow?

Or a Billy Sharp, maybe? Gutted at result. Think we'll improve at the back when Forren is in the side but seems to be taking forever to get up to speed.

Top idea! I like the idea of picking players based on the proximity to their birthday. It would make the manager's job much easier although could you imagine: "Sorry Artur, Tommy's in goal today cos it's nearly his birthday"...

I guess we will still be able to sign free agents such as Riquelme, for instance, even though the window has closed like we did with Boruc, if we need to? No sense rushing for those if we're based in Manchester ready for Wigan.

Terrible decision this. No way is shouting Steeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvee going to sound good with Peter Kay's accent. Mo's first big mistake.

Not for the Prem...

We'll only know if this is the right decision come May (obviously!). Would've liked us to have strengthened but if Poch thinks he can get the current group to improve and perform I think we have to trust his judgment. Mayuka came very highly rated and if he could get the best out of him, that would be a major boost.

Mayuka may offset that a bit, maybe?

U21s are going to struggle now. Shame.

I'm guessing that it's looking more and more like Mauricio's decision is that we're not going to bring anyone in who's able to improve the squad? The feedback from journos like Simon Peach and Alex Crook hinted strongly that there were likely to be no new arrivals. Would be good if the club confirmed that we're all done and dusted with Forren the only arrival but I guess there's always the hope of a last minute opportunity all the while they don't!