Charlie Wayman

That's wrong. Gao will want his £200m back plus Kat's (20%) £50m = £250m

Simply the buzz has gone from football. It's not just Saints, the average Premier League match is absolute dross and unwatchable, too few goals and far too much physicality. Talented ball players are kicked out of games by thuggish bullies whilst fans have to endure endless speculative long balls into the box that achieve very little other than the recruitment of 7 foot beanpoles with no talent other than heading the ball back again for the process to be repeated. Now we are told by our coach with a straight face that really skilled ball players whom we will pay to watch like Boufal and Djenepo cannot get regular starts because of their deficiencies "off the ball"! So football is reduced to what players must do "off the ball". On-the-ball skills are wasted with manager/coach who is so single minded in his own beliefs that he fail to see the obvious. In some worlds this might be staled as "having lost the plot". In our best seasons we played attractive possession football with skilful players who weren't expected to run 100m in 8 seconds and chase back like headless chickens every time the ball went into our half. Somehow this old fashioned deficient system managed to win us more matches than we lost, resulted in many 3 or 4 goal wins and lots of clean sheets and had fans queuing at the turnstiles to get in. Happy days indeed.

Just a nagging doubt that Ralph's style of play has been well and truly sussed and he has no more to offer. Be aware that this will be the pretty much our same team next season as well. Sooner or later we are going to hit the buffers. Low attendance, seems quite a few older people are getting a bit nervous about the Virus.

Certainly cheered you up hasn't it.

Who said that? St Mary's will be three quarters empty if they do it.

Catch up old lad, the no handshake craze has been around for the last couple of weeks. The only person who offered to shake my hand this week was a Hospital Consultant, naturally I refused.

He's not old enough, you have to be 28 to play for the Under 23's.

That's why we're going down, again. What happened to the clean sweep and fresh start?

They can't find a pen that works, hence all the delays.

They are the Saints Norm!

Not if you want them to be match fit and ready to go. Let's face it Smallbone and Obafemi didn't exactly tear up any trees at the Olympic Stadium.

Guardiola coming here?

Not there yet 'though, these are worst case scenarios and whilst there is a lot of unknowns surrounding this virus there is also hope in that it has not spread out all over the place far more quickly. Even in China, Japan & South Korea their capital cities have not been decimated by the virus as one might have expected by now so containment measures appear to be working and these lessons can be learned. For now it is up to individuals to make their own reasoned choices. Whilst there are no confirmed cases locally that is not to say there are no carriers. At least if you go to St Mary's it will be in the open air.

We can assume that Romeu and Adams will start as they were given a run out in the U23's last night.

He's either chucking it in or has signed a new contract.

As an aside, Cresswell's early assault on Armstrong was quite deliberate and should have been a red card

Should please you then!

An appalling performance by the Saints, huffing and puffing all afternoon but never really offering any real threat on goal. It was a huge mistake to play Smallbone instead of Romeu against a physical long ball team like WHU and we paid the price. He looked a comparative lightweight and was easily by-passed by their midfield. Boufal was hopeless, he got his chance to start and blew it big time. Three at the back at the end was a sign of desperation by Ralph, it's OK saying our defence was a mess but with no shielding mid-field what did we expect. Surely it would have made more sense to start with Valery or Walker-Peters at RB and JWP at right centre opposite Hojberg who incidentally had a stinker as well. That would have given us more balance and a better grip on midfield with more threat in attack.

It's not good that we are still having this conversation about Adams. Surely we have seen all he has to offer by now, others like Carillo & Mo were written off on here long before in their relative times here. From my observations he is very slow to react to situations and is always behind the game. Rarely is he one step ahead anticipating what might happen. It's like his brain thinks "ah! against the ball better chase after that bloke" rather than instinctively knowing what to do next as transition takes place, as Ings does or Djenepo is storming down the ing is I better get into the box by which time of course it's far too late. I used to think he was just lazy minded but now wonder if he will ever be able to change from just being reactive.

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Another comfortable victory in prospect and this time we will take our chances. Boufal hat-trick? Don't bet against it. 4-0 Saints and the Magpies for afters.

Thick as pig **** mostly. Always watch on catch-up so we can skip their inane ramblings.

Fraser Forster's continuing success at Celtic is heart-warming stuff for all who like romantic Roy of the Rovers come-back stories. I was sad for the lad and all his troubles before making the temporary move back north of the border. He has dug in deep and found something inside himself that has rekindled the spark of greatness that once seemed to burn so bright. Will be intriguing to see how the club handle him this summer with none of our retained keepers showing much above adequate performance levels since the Big Man left. Cynics will say no doubt, grab the dosh and get rid but those who understand football a bit more may counsel for the coaching staff to take a second look at him as they did with Boufal.

More like he's trying to walk away from the scene hoping the ref didn't see and pulls a red card on him

His absence may not be bad as you fear you know. If Djenepo & Boufal can have a run of starts don't be surprised if Redmond struggles to get back in. Look what happened on Saturday, Djenepo started and delivered a blinder.