Matthew Le God

That isn't good evidence, neither are/were the manager. They aren't as coaches ultimately responsible for the style of play.

Can either of you provide some good evidence as to why Sammy Lee is a better coach than Eric Black?

No, but it got me out of a long queue to have a metal detector search. Should security staff really be taken the word of people if they have been searched or not?

After one of the attacks the security was supposed to be increased at St Mary's... Steward: Have you been in the metal detector queue? (I hadn't and I look at the long queue) Me: Yes Steward: Ok, go to the turnstile Me:Cheers

Why do you think a system with 2 upfront is more attacking than 4-2-3-1? The latter can be very attacking if implemented correctly.

I'm guessing you mean Wesley Hoedt, rather than Jos Hooiveld?

It has been our badge for 43 years out of 132 years = 32% That isn't traditional, especially as it is the most recent 43 years.

Not really, as it came into existence 89 years after the formation of the club!

They can't be relegated this season, it is a two league system they are in. In any case, results are not what is important, it is production of players. Our first team squad now has a very high bar for a teenager to break past in order to get 1st team game time.

What are you both suggesting he should have done differently? Once they collided, van Dijk was never going to get back in time.

We finished higher in the Premier League without Cortese (6th & 7th)... than we did with him.

1) He is on significantly more than £50k p/w. We haven't got a wage bill as high as ours with our top earner only on £50k p/w. 2) Can you name any precedent in World Football history of a player refusing in similar circumstances to play from July to January or July to May?

You can watch Part 1 with the TV journalists here or on Facebook... https://southamptonfc.com/news/2017-09-07/press-conference-part-one-pellegrino-southampton-watford Part 2 with newspaper journalists is always embargoed until 22:30

So what? To use it as a kind of insult is pathetic.

What you said was nonsense, over an international weekend the players that stay are given time off.

Even if they win both games and come 2nd, there is a reasonable chance they'll miss out as only 8 of the 9 second place teams make the playoffs. Currently their group is behind points wise vs the other 2nd placed teams.

What do you suggest he should have done with Mbappe running at him like that? He won't need to deal with £160m strikers when we play any Premier League team this season.

I didn't say team, I said squad. There is far more depth to our squad now. The depth when in the first couple of years after promotion was poor beyond the starting XI.

Now the quality bar to be in the first team squad is higher, so the policy has changed due to the stronger depth of squad we have. They need to go on loan to get them to the higher level needed to be in the Saints squad.

I remain puzzled as to what the need for paying for this forum. How many other clubs have their main forum where you have to pay to post more than 3 times per day? This site isn't that busy. Plus, Steve isn't even using particularly good forum software, other club forums have better features.

No pleasing some people! - sell top players = "gash summer" - don't sell top players & make club record signing from Juventus & Dutch international centre back from Lazio = "gash summer"

What evidence do you have for any of that? He isn't even assistant manager any more, so if anything his influence has decreased with Pellegrino bringing his own assistant in.

That article contains the line... Which is ********, as he was photographed and filmed training with the 1st team in the first week back and went on one of the pre-seaosn training camps. If they make up that line... what else have they made up in the article? Hard to take it seriously if they can't get things like that right.

Small steps trousers, build yourself up to world peace. Start with trying to get a peace treaty between me and Turkish.

:mcinnes: It is puzzling what point you are trying to make, you've just highlighted Gray wasn't deemed good enough to play last season for a team that finished below the team Redmond played for!