Charlie Wayman

There is another aspect about this that doesn't get mentioned on here and that is 'fame' in the way that everyone in the world knows of and instantly recognises Ronaldo, Messi, Fabregas or Iniesta. Maybe that is a higher goal for very gifted players who have amassed more money than they could ever spend. Fame must be a factor in even being considered for e.g. high level awards of FIFA such as Player of the Year. Maybe Morgan would like to be household name around the world and not just in Northam.

2-0 to Saints, yep really.

OK moaners so he's not very good, in fact just mediocre average? A top six team must indeed be very desperate to have to include such an idiot in their side. Maybe he just turned up with his boots on Tuesday evening and Koeman fancied to give the kid a break 'cos we were a bit short of players mid-week.

..and no doubt walking on hot coals again! Actually they might welcome that especially Elia.

This quote today Manchester United are in talks to sign Porto right-back Danilo, 23, with the Old Trafford club willing to meet the Brazilian's £37m release clause. (Sport - in Spanish) Maybe Nat shouldn't be too hasty, is that contract is still on the table?

Just back from the match. I'll take 1-0 any day. Djuricic looks an excellent prospect. Mane always looks to me like a headless chicken (what trick shall I do next?) but his tenacity and persistence paid off and a little shout from JWP who set up the goal. Elia clearly struggling and Pelle at last got hauled off, guess he'll warm the bench for a while? Our defence under pressure at the last looked like Dad's Army.

There is nothing here to discuss, Koeman is settled he has brought in his own players and he is in the top five this morning... and the sun is shining! What's not to like. Nobody goes to Newcastle unless they have relatives up there to visit. The time to worry is when he is pencilled in for Barca or Arsenal.

Are we about to witness a miracle? Is the improbable about to happen? Morgan Schneiderlin talking up Southampton as if it was his club for ever? Let's just hope that he has had a change of heart and will still be a Saint next year.

Why does it feel sooooooooo good when Pochettino loses? Don't you just love that sulky, sour-puss look on his face when he is suddenly reminded that he really isn't the best manager to have strutted his stuff in the PL as he imagines in his dreams. Nice one Jose and what a great celebration too. Ouch! How much did that suit cost you?

Time wasting? Crap Referees? Parking the Bus? These are reasons why we are no longer scoring goals an winning games? Come off it lads, these are nothing more than pathetic excuses for poor play on our part. Fact is we seem clueless at braking down packed defences and most teams in the PL have good enough players to defend well these days. The real problem as we know is our attackers just aren't performing at the level needed to break down defences. What worries me is that is beginning to look the same week in week out, we don't seem to learn anything new on the training ground like Pelle becoming mobile and running in behind defenders or out to the flanks to draw the CBs away from the centre in the way that Lambert learned to do when he was man make out of the game.

You are joking aren't you. Protein was a journeyman, no more than that and mostly effing useless. Up there with Morgan? What the hell are you on chum?

Time gentlemen, please! Let's just pray we can finish better than 8th otherwise Pochettino really will be crowing. You never get used to Saints losing the plot when it matters even when you have watched them for as long as I have but why is it always us? Guess it's a nailed on certainty that Clyne & Schneiderlin will be off in July and what is the incentive for Toby to stay? Also seems likely we won't be taking up too many of the loan options.

Might as well drop him from the squad for the rest of the season and give one of the Academy lads a long run. Is Matt Targett any good on the right?

One would have thought so but if even Ronald Koeman does not have enough charisma and drawing power to hold onto Toby, Morgan & Clyney then we maybe are over-egging the cake a bit on his appeal to players?

But Toby and Morgan have been injured and Jay has been a non-starter for the whole season so your hypothesis is rubbish.

For sure, I think this is a Top Top thread and the responses truly awesome

Truth is 'stonewall' doesn't mean anything except that if you live on the moors and you want to stop sheep wandering.

Anybody who watched Barcelona last night will see exactly the roots of our current style of play including the multiple square passes followed by a quick ball over the top to a runner behind their back four. We have Djuricic, Barcelona had Messi, That apart no difference and they beat City, good omen?

Hang on a minute, we have only 12 games left and if we write off 3 of them that means for sure we need 27 points from the other 9. That just isn't possible is it? Certainly seems unlikely on current form. Most people on here can't handle reality and abuse will surely follow this but 4 seems improbable at best now, we have slipped up when we least needed to; the 8 points that we have let slip away in our last four relatively unchallenging matches has (I contend) sealed our fate for us this season.

but this is surely?

Here we go again, it was all the ref's fault. People need to face reality, if we need to rely on set pieces for goals to win games then we are in big trouble. This is looking like more than a blip and the blame game is kicking off. Maybe we aren't yet just good enough for top six, no shame in that if we finish as high as last year after the mauling we had last summer.

Who is that gormless ***** that kept asking questions that Koeman clearly was never going to answer?

That really might be very good news indeed do you not think? Where's Victor in training? Enjoy the game chaps, this one is being very actively boycotted by me. By the way when I miss a game we usually lose or draw 0-0.

He was of course already at a top club and only made the bench. Nobody on here it seems has mentioned the Koeman factor in Toby's resurrection as a player, that should not be under-estimated nor the player's own sense of loyalty and belonging dismissed out of hand. Hi might actually like it here and want to stay awhile.

Not unusual in business, it means nobody ends up with egg on their faces if the fit doesn't quite work out as intended, the parties can go their separate ways and move on without undue speculation surrounding any departures. Seen it many times. You'd be surprised how often these things don't work. His new TV appearance should be taken as a very strong signal that all is very well rounded and settled upstairs, the drinks cabinet door is open and the senior management toilet unlocked. Ralph will be here to help unload the wheelbarrow loads of dosh soon to be delivered by Securicor. In Ralph we Trust! Ralph won't move on!