Fan The Flames

His hands tied in what way by whom?

So JWP misses on purpose because he is a Pompey fan - it's official this forum has jumped the shark.

Again you are wrong. Most of the players have left for better football and most on here understand that (we might not like it), has many taken a sidewards step just for more cash.

You out even answered your own question. Of course Puel is going to say he is happy with his squad, he works for SFC and a new employee and he is going to project a unified front. It no big conspiracy nor is he Reeds puppet reading off a script, more importantly he wants to project to his squad that they are good enough. Or should he be like Moyes and publically declare his side is deficient after two games. People were really gutted when it looked like Long might have been moving on at the end of last season but now he is not good enough, people have been knocking Puel saying he can't get out of Long what Koeman did, now we hear that Longs last season was a blip that everyone at the club should have seen. I know this is not necessarily the same people saying different things but it shows you what a knife edge these decisions are on? We as SFC back our current players and that is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. We gambled in the summer that Long and Jay Rod were good enough and that the £40m we spent would have an positive impact, it's not the biggest footballing crime. I would like to see a new striker but other than that I am going to just sit back and see where we are in the summer. I'm calm and enjoying the ride.

that thinking is a bit binary, at that time he was building his career and saw that Southampton was a good opportunity for him both for wages and potential career progression, he was right. Now he is in the twilight of his football career on very good wages, players like him have a decision to make, stay and see you career out at your club and hope that your loyalty is rewarded with a further job at the end, go for a last contract hike but with a danger of not being good enough to play every game and finish at a club that you have no real connection with or drop down a division in football and wages and play more regularly and have another good run with a different club. I have no problems with him wanting a new challenge, good luck to him, but I suspect that money has been a motivation in this as well. I don't like the problems that he has meant to have caused.

That will probably scold your c#ck.

Seriously, drama queen is not insulting. Your op is being diluted if you are going to point out minor things like this. I agree that people should come to this forum with a bit more of an open mindset and a bit more respect but if we are going to get people calling foul for the smallest thing then this forum will go down hill very quickly.

I don't get what you don't understand. It is normal for the section of home fans near the away end to be the most vocal, that's why it's the Northam that's vocal and why there is a vocal section in the Itchen corner, these fans could have pitched up anywhere in the ground but chose to be next to the away fans. Also away fans do general sing more per head then home fans, and when this is matched by the home side you get your atmosphere.

Nordic has been ridiculous for a long time.

Sims was average, didn't really do much in the first half, looked more lively in the second but should have connected from a great cross to make it 3-1 just before the Tadic effort was tipped over.

But you trust the leaks that are negative about Reed, the chairman and the owners.

But it's not guff is it, if we had put a few of the chances away that we have had then things would be different. Where does it say that we want the score early and sit back?

Our not are

No it for the club with the most forum *****s

Do you really think that Leicester's success was due to an honours obsessed policy? The Leicester win will be offered up in moronic arguements for years to come.

I want us to be honours obsessed like Stoke.

It was, I was 15 and still at school in Brighton, I was in the Brighton end (North Stand) and heard this roar then all the Saints fans came steaming down the terraces. It looked brilliant.

It's a great badge, I have always loved it and it means so much to me. My thoughts are with Sotonpride and family.

He is starting to believe his own hype, he's taking things on but then he keeps making the wrong decisions time and time again. This is what happens when you let you best forum wums go and replace them with average also rans. It's not his fault though he's always been ****, think back to his Glasgow days he was **** then, it's Saintweb fault for raising expectations and making people believe he was the next Dalek. Still Saintsweb don't care once they have our fivers, it's all about the bank balance for them.

There is a big flaw in your logic, that statement can only be true for a short period, then we will have a team of average players that other teams won't want to buy. Will you be happy then.

Fans getting on players backs early on, have to shoulder some of the blame.

I guess that Fonte could play in the later stages of the EL but if he is planning on doing the off in January then he won't get his chance, maybe this is why he is stroppy. Footballer convincing himself he is right to leave, we have seen this all before. I would like him to stay.

Of course, I had a bit a Fraser Forster moment there. Still it remains to be seen if this years team worse than last years.

What are you talking about last season we got knocked out by Midtjylland in the play off round, they were brilliant in the league last season and qualified for the EL but this season team has gone one stage further in the EL and got into the group stage and I have loved being in It.

Well last seasons side didn't get into the group stages of the EL or the semi-final of the League Cup.