Charlie Wayman

With Holmes out half the team is missing. Dyer is dire, Wright Phillip gives us the wrong fillip, Surman can do the LMF in a 4-5-1 with Perry at LB

Now it is a question of how long we can afford for this type of performance to go on.. I like the total football approach of Jan Poorvliet but it just ain't working and so he needs a Plan B very soon, or it's a quick flight back to Holland if there are still any budget airlines in existence to carry him home.

Kids are naive, end of story. They have all the talent in the world but running around like headless chickens is not what it is all about... The 'R' Word threatens... That is 'R' as in RELEGATION!

We are poor, that's why!

You pr*ck! It's called bending with the wind. No such fool as one who wants to be fooled. Don't blame us when it all ends in tears.

What is the status of that deal, I recall some money was due to us if he played for England? Presumably we will have ended up with the whole £12m?

Only 96 viewing to night, things are really going downhill since posting was limited to those who coughed up a fiver.

Probably just a punt on the future - not even rocket science

Sammy Hypia is unsettled, now there IS a man WCDAJFU. Forget the subtext of Drew Surman moving to Biscuitland, it ain't goona happen, we need him here FULL STOP. Having rid ourselves of most of the superannuated mob at last surely the last thing we need is to start recruiting the likes of Harte. Shades of Jermaine Wright all over again? At least Sammy is still a force in the Prem, even if in decline. Of course we can't afford him but better to flog the family silver for somebody of real quality than squander what we have on washed-up never were's!

Effing Joke! Especially with our squad. Time for the FA to stick two fingers up at FIFA, if clubs want to play let them play, it would save fixture congestion later on. Most of the precious Ones from the Prem don't want to play for England anyway so what's the point of this charade?

Top Bomb..ey!

The constructive dismissals of Keegan and Curbishly has upped the ante even more. It is now becoming evident, not only the demise of English owners & English footballers from the Premiership (soon to be extinct?) but now the demise of English managers. So what is behind this apparently anti-English strategy? Very soon there will be nothing English about it. Who owns the premiership??? Sky? Murdoch, an Ozzie? Whoever, it seems it is quickly becoming a World Series Exhibition Circus that for now is based in England but not for much longer one would imagine. Very soon it may be touring the world like Formula 1? The international round was just the beginning of an Ecclestone like Circus - is this why Ecclestone himself has bought into QPR?? How long will the English brand names last? ManU, Chelsea, Liverpool etc before they become Red Bull Gunners or Vodaphone Red Devils and Sibneft Blues living out of international 5-Star hotels and all living in Dubai beyond national tax boundaries. Get Used to it! This is the way it'll end. Perhaps only when this particular metamorphises is complete will English football wake up to waht has happened under our eyes with our blessing. Every cloud has a silver lining so maybe by 2025 we will start again with four English Divisions

Uncanny resemblance to Rupert Lowe wouldn't you say? Football's coming gnome?

Uncanny resemblance to Rupert Lowe wouldn't you say? Football's coming gnome?

I don't know why anybody bothers to ask him anything. He is clearly not able to answer any question that we do not already have an answer for. The Echo just lies back and take sit all... who's turn next boys? (with a resigned sigh)!

... and this WAS your light-bulb moment? Better keep taking the sedatives in the hope that in even more relaxed moments you'll come up with even more flashes of the blindingly obvious.

By 2010, promotion to and relegation from the 'Premier" league will cease. Who knows what the future of football will be in this country but for sure the face of football has changed irrevocably since the Man City takeover. It looks increasingly like a Premiership or whatever the new branding will call it of 10, maybe 12 teams only. There is no future there for humble little Southampton so what are we to strive for? If we are left with a rump of two top tiers of 16 clubs called Division 1 & 2 will we even make it to league 1 and will anybody care or even watch except the doggedly faithful? But, how long will even they turn up to watch Windass, Euell and their like?

Alan Curbishley is a free agent again, any chance we could see him here before long?

The playing area at The Emirates is much larger. About time pitch size was standardised in metres +/- 0.

Skacel was overweight, ponderous and couldn't run fast enough to overtake a tortoise last year so an ideal choice for LB? I don't think so!

Jan Poortvliet quote: "...... that will help them both to settle because it's often good to have a familiar face about the place." You can say that again mate! Most fans will feel the same, they don't recognise anybody!

Some of the things Jan Poortvliet says are plain daft! How quickly his "Bring it on!" has turned into "Please, give us some respite!" Sorry to say but I can't see it working out for him after all. No doubt Judas & Co will give him until December? Early Euphoria carries many teams forward but sustaining it is nigh impossible, nobody has that much adrenaline. Look what happened to Stoke and Hull on Saturday, it's always seems easy for 3 games but then the 'norm' kicks in - same with us! Now we must start being realistic, revise our wildest expectations / hopes and accept that a relegation fight seems distinctly possible.

Plan B is a euphemism as I am sure you realise LSC. Ant 'Plan' is Plan A until two minutes after implementation when there is no plan left worth the mullah, at which time it is more kindly called "time for Plan B" rather than "You are a useless pr*ck for c*cking it all up!"

Didn't go. Had a feeling it would go bottom up after all the euphoria this week. Went to The Emirates instead. Arsenal were poor but nowhere near as bad as Newcastle. I have seen two of this year's relegation teams already, Newcastle and West Ham and both are clueless sides in free-fall, lots of long ball stuff that Saints USED TO PLAY. We'd have beaten both Newcastle and Arsenal on our last Tuesday's showing - but obviously not yesterday's!

Typical of Sycophant Scooby - as usual in his eyes Lowe has sun shining from his Rrse! Lowe hasn't changed.. do leopards change their spots? Bring back the gallows on Itchen Bridge and Judas must go with him.