VectisSaint

If he wants a career then he should consider a move to La Liga or the Bundeslige. He will never be suited to the PL.

See that a few of the u23s are taking part in first team training, shame if Sam has done his hammy.

Exactly this, not just duds but experienced duds. Hughes is not prepared to take a chance, he just wants to persist with Austin, Gabbi and Long in the foolish misbelief that they will eventually come good. No one thinks Gallagher is the answer to whatever the question is, but at least give him a proper go in a proper match (maybe Man City is not the time or the place), he may not do any better than the current crew, but then neither could he do any worse. At least given the opportunity we will know, otherwise what was the point in keeping him at St Mary's when we could have eiither loaned him out again or sold him.

Played for the U23s last week, so not injured. Didn't have a good game though, subbed off early.

Of course it could, Big Sam, Tony Pulis for example. Let's rely on the new manager kick, worked well with Puel, Pellegrino, even Hughes didn't. You highlight the problem, people who believe in these myths and think people who have appointed 3 duffs on the trot are now suddenly going to get it right. Unbelievable how gullible some people continue to be.

But if he isn't going to be any worse why not give him a go, an opportunity to prove the coaches wrong. What is there to lose? We don't have any other options, so we just continue playing Long, Austin and Gabbi who have forgotten how to score. What is the point in continuing to flog a dead horse, try something/someone different. It won't be any worse and has the bonus of indicating to these so called strikers that they are not irreplaceable and perhaps make them buck their ideas up. I'd give Gallagher a go with Ings, it may not work but at least we.oukd then say we tried.

It is no good getting rid of Hughes while those who will select his successor remain in their current positions. They have proved 3 times now that they don't know how to choose a new manager, but you suggest giving them another chance to demonstrate their incompetence.

Its time to give Gallagher a go. Our experienced strikers can't do it, if Gallagher fails it won't be any worse than Austin, Long and Gabbi. Put Gallagher out there with Ings and see what happens. Unfortunately the real problem again is our creatiive midfields, Redmond and Moi realy are creating very little quality ball, but our strikers are clearly not up for it when they do deliver. The annoying thing is that we don't have any options for Redmond/Moi, though I would be tempted to try Targett out there ahead of Bertrand.

Don't think you are being over dramatic at all. Of course the game shouldn't be played. There is no doubt people have died, it was very fortunate that more were not involved, imagine if supporters had still been milling around. There is no sense playing a football match so soon after this tragic event, doubt they will play next weekend either.

One of the first to send him good wishes via Twitter.

Why would we not stick with Stephens and Hoedt because Rondon plays? I hope we don't stick with Hoedt, but because with the exception of the last game he has been crap but he hardly needs to be dropped because Rondon is playing, there are many other reasons. Would be good to see Hughes stick with Stephens and play Yoshida alongside, but it ain't gonna happen.

How the fu k do you think Saints would sell Steven Davis!? He will be 34 in January. Difficult to see anyone BUYING JWP either, maybe we can offload him to his spiritual home when the Blue Few return to the Championship.

Possibly because he never made much difference in the past when he did play regularly. I'm sure you will point out a goal or an assist here and there but he never did anything on a regular basis. His set piece expertise is largely a myth.

Maidenhead are playing Chippenham. I hope Maidenhead win so that we aren't invaded by Skates here in the next round. The thought of that **** with a bell and his "mates" at Hardenhuish is too awful to contemplate.

Really don't understand how Hoedt continues to be picked with Yoshida on the bench. Good to see Stephens back but should have been alongside Yoshida. Can understand Vestegaard being dropped, too slow against Boscombe front players.

Doing quite well in the 2nd division.

Until we scored our second if I remember rightly Sunderland were completely out playing us that day. After that they capitulated but it could have been very different.

It was all planned though, VVD was promised the captaincy as part of his contract extension. Fonte was clearly not impressed. VVD captained the team in the Europa League which strangely Fonte didn't play in. No idea what Netherlands has got to do with anything. Anyone who doesn't realise this was what was going on must have been living in a cave or something.

I'm suspicious that you don't actually realise Taylor has left. You really need a source for the latter, did you not observe what was happening at the time, it was not exactly something that was covered up.

Taylor doesn't contribute anything. VvD didn't become leader through skill, he became captain by negotiating it as part of a revised contract deal with Bungling Les, which in turn lead to Fonte being forced out. We all know how well that turned out for the Club.

Who really cares who it is, hardly a big deal, Moi hasn't exactly set the PL alight, another poor bit of recruitment.

Withdrawn from England squad. Thank goodness we have Gunn available.

No it isn't. As usual Nick misses the point completely and also misses the problem with the Academy. In the end the buck stops with the Owner(s). Gao has done nothing, and his hands have apparently been tied by our minority owner who did not have the nous to see what was going wrong after pushing out our last effective Chief Exec. Playe recruitment is a problem but it's an effect rather than a cause, as are the other problems, Academy development, commer ial development, etc etc

Only because we got very lucky and were picked up by Markus Liebherr and Nicola Cortese. Little likelihood of Admin again, and the chance of getting picked up by someone of their ilk again is close to zero.

You forgot Angus Gunn, £13.5m