Toussaint

That was Wilcox wasn’t it? You might be right but I think there were others who had done less in the game and thought they were hot shit.

If I don't get invited to join the CoT you can expect on onslaught of frownie faced emojis, and some spiteful comments, the like of which has never been seen before! Don't say you haven't been warned.

Come on Brum!

I'm going, I've never seen Saints lose away apart from when we haven't drawn or won. That's got to be a good omen? 3 - 0 Saints

Bring on VAR 😉

Except today

I think we will do well today, Russ does seem to react to criticism, then we will revert to type.

I know it’s not quite kick off but there are a lot of empty seats all round the ground today.

Not by me, he was unfortunate by association with Nathan Jones. He has also done well when called on this season.

In his case I don’t think it’s personal in the way it is with some players. You can’t criticise his commitment or application. I think people are genuinely perplexed as to why we bought him and why he gets picked over a better all round player.

I remember disliking him intensely, but I don't remember why?

Me too

Fair enough Wolfie.

Not for a little kid though, or a dad who’s set his heart on something special for his child, hey?

10/10 for Roland Ratmuson. It’s hard to choose between that and Rambo Wankerson, so I’ll have to use those pseudonyms interchangeably from now on. Good work my man!

I'm getting a bit frustrated with the current trend to laud our "success" in contrast to last seasons performances. Just to be clear, we are a whole league lower than last season, this league is not just a league lower, its pretty much a Richter Scale like difference between the premier league and the championship. We have a lot of premier league standard players and are arguably one of the powerhouses, or should be, of this league. A lot of teams we come up against are absolute dross. So if you are happy with this "unbeaten run" credit to you. I am not, we are massively underperforming in my opinion and have been very unconvincing during this run. The play offs are a lottery, we are by no means certain of achieving promotion via that route.

I’d dispute we are playing that well. I think the possession style creates an illusion of playing well.

We are Southampton the pride of the south, we hate all the bastards ....... oh wait, doesnt work Southampton's a shithole, I wanna go home...... that one neither. That's it.

That’s entirely possible, Russ has done this before after a run of unsatisfactory results/ performances. We will put on an exiting display. Win well, then he will revert to Russball because he is so firmly wedded to it and the whole process will repeat.

3 hour drive through traffic diversions, crap Wetherspoons, crap ground, crappy town, crap home fans, toothless crap performance, crap drive home. Thank god for Henry Weston’s vintage cider that provided some redemption for the day.

3) lack of goals

Everton fans are probably the most obnoxious of all these days.

Can anyone recommend any pubs within walking distance of the ground?

I think he would be exactly the same in the prem as he was last time in the prem. He just won't get the, space, time or chances he's getting now.

You could ask the question another way, which of Saturdays matchday squad would be consistently starting with a "competitive" current premier league team? Baz - No Lumley - No KWP - Yes THB - Maybe (unproven in the prem) Bednarek - Maybe Manning - No Charles - Maybe Downes - Maybe (didn't get much of a look in at WHU) Stu - Maybe, love him, but he's a Maybe due to advancing years A Armstrong - No, already failed miserably at that level, don't be fooled by his tally, he will never get those opportunities or the time to execute them in the prem Che - Maybe Alcarez - Maybe Aribo - No chance Bree - No chance Dibling - No Edozie - No Fraser - No Holgate - No Mara - No So, in my view, 1 definite, 7 maybe's and 11 definite no's. I'm with @saint lard on this one.