Charlie Wayman

Jimmy Greaves was famous for that, they used to call him goal-hanger Greaves.

Don't think so, it ws because the throw-in was given to Liverpool when it should have been ours

So the players he picks tonight deserve to play whereas the ones that don't didn't deserve to anyway. Pretty devisive don't you think? What kind of message does that send to squad members who don't make the starting XI or the bench? Very clumsy choice of words that will come back to bite him. I'll wager a bet that Will's mates Shoehorn, Wee Man and Manning will get a game.

Odds are 6-4 this morning, he is way out in front https://www.sportscasting.com/uk/news/championship-sack-race-odds-2025-2026/

19th in the table suggests we are now battling relegation not play-offs, an even greater and more realistic achievement on current form. Kicking the can up the road is what most people are good at and why 70% on here say give him more time. I want rid of him now he comes across as clueless in his PCs and on the pitch. When is too late?

Hope so

Bloody hell, it's getting worse by the week. We thought last week's first half was rock bottom now it looks like a fairly good performance. Just get Still out now no humming and hahing. He's clueless, miles out of his depth. He has no system of play, has no idea of his best XI and relies solely on his players making it up as they go along. The omission of Robertson is unforgivable. He'll be looking for out at this rate. Our back four must be the worst in the League.

Still told us that Downes is still nursing an injury and not 100% Downs is in cos Archer is also iffy Otherwise it's all the usual boring suspects being selected. Where's the adventure Still?

On the evidence of last week's match, he's made excellent progress. Nearly all our forward passes went to opposition players dressed in blue and white. Prediction? 0-0 again

Thanks Badger. We can't give up it's in our DNA. I am determined to hang on in there until we win the bloody First Division…...

We were a really good side in the late 1940's and unbelievably missed promotion to Division 1 three times by the narrowest of margins. Many fans thought it to be deliberate, that the board didn't want promotion for fear of having to spend big money to stay there - very much shades of today! (Nothing new in conspiracy theories). I remember particularly a match against WBA in April 1949. We had built up quite a big points lead at the top of Division 2 and looked certs to go up but we lost form on the run in and dropped to third. The WBA match was crucial, in today's terms a 'must win'. If we won we would probably have gone up. The then largest crowd ever turned up at the Dell hoping to see us triumph (30,826). Then the PA announced that Charlie Wayman our top scorer couldn't play as he was injured, a huge groan rang out around the ground. Saints played well but WBA scored midway through the first half and kept their lead until the last few minutes then out of nowhere Eric Day equalised. The Dell erupted but it was too late. The final whistle at 1-1 meant that bar a miracle Saints had missed out on promotion again. Incidentally Ted Bates played the striker role that day. There was another away game after that but we lost that anyway and ended up 1 point behind the Baggies. We missed out again in the following season. What might have been eh?

Heading should have been "Who has been the longest suffering Saints fan" My first match was v Swindon in the FACup in 1948.

Utterly ridiculous stats.

Evidently, Will Still is a very poor communicator witnessed by his painful press conferences. Is there any reason to suppose that he is any better at communicating with his players especially the more stroppy and arrogant ones. That could be part of his problem, players take little notice of him because he can't get clear messages across

First class post.

The clock is ticking certainly with some fans after a series of turgid performances against very average sides. This cannot have gone unnoticed even upstairs where management always seem to be chronically tone deaf. There is no sign yet of Saints stamping their mark on this division as many had hoped and expected including the board. My own expectations were much lower, for mid table mediocrity (14th) and so far that's how it is turning out. In fairness Still has not had much to work with up to now, our best players having bolted through the stable door as soon as the lock was clicked. It remains to be seen if we have recruited well and if Still is the right man to forge a new Southampton from the remnants of the old and the pick of the new. Probably, that gives him a free pass until Christmas but if at the end of October we are still churning out performances like today's then the flames will start rising from the embers.

Clueless bloody rubbish, if Still has a plan and a way of playing we've yet to see it. Today it looked like Sunday League kick and rush, awful and I'm surprised the booing wasn't louder at HT and FT. If this shapeless mess goes on he'll be under pressure before Christmas. For all his fauts and failures, Martin at least taught our players how to pass to one another accurately and they became quite good at. Today in the first half we seemed like a team of strangers, how in hell's name we couldn't differentiate between red shirts and blue is beyond me. Don't get me started about team selection. Robinson has been our stand-out creative player so far this season, yet he gets benched for all but ten minutes. Make sense of that if you will. Wood and Edwards cannot be worse than Stephens and Harwood Bellis on today's showing and Downes should have been hooked long before HT. Charles didn't put a foot wrong all afternoon and Fraser played his heart out. At least they rose to the occasion. Manning was Manning, busy but largely ineffective.

Still will stick with what he knows best tomorrow simply because he has not had enough time with the new players and the full squad to integrate them into a functioning collective as he likes to call it. We'll probably line up as we did last time out with five at the back and maybe the new left back in place of Manning. One or two of the newbies will be brought on after 60 mins to see what they can do in this physical league which they won't be used to. Don't expect miracles from them. For me likely 0-0 or 1-1, probably the latter as Shoehorn will almost certainly concede a silly goal.

I mis-spoke. Should have said 1948!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwyn15619dxo

Top 5 recorded attendances at The Dell (ranked) Rank Match (competition) Date Attendance 1 Southampton v Manchester United (Division 1) 8 Oct 1969 31,044 2 Southampton v West Bromwich Albion (Division 2) 23 Apr 1949 30,586 3 Southampton v Sunderland (FA Cup) 16 Jan 1937 30,380 4 Southampton v Tottenham Hotspur (Division 2) 8 Oct 1949 30,240 5 Southampton v Swindon Town (FA Cup 5th rd) 7 Feb 1948 29,134

Withdrawn. Poor taste

Thank goodness.

He drives a vintage Porsche so must be a great guy

We have different opinions on this. I think there is a very big economic issue