VectisSaint

I take it back about Wigan.

At least get your facts right, certainly the Wigan bit is ********. Maybe it was you that updated his wiki page to say he left us be a use he was useless :-)

Unfortunately there's one F in Redmond as well.

"Some Argie club" and "another Argie club". You mean Estudiantes and Independiente, two of the biggest clubs in South America, let alone Argentina.

If he continues to perform as badly as last night then get rid in January, clearly not focused any more. Shocking last night, seemed asleep at times, and not alert to the danger for the first (?) goal after Tadic gave the ball away. Could easily have stopped that attack if he had been paying attention. Think his mind was elsewhere, probably same place as his head.

or PEH, hasn't scored for club since May 2015.

You're right but Danny Butterfield seems to have turned the u18s around somewhat since he was brought in.

Being in an offside position is no longer an offence, hasn't been for some years now.

It's still there, not you going mad.. Link in post 75.

Made other mistakes today. Not impressed, really no better than Yoshida and not really better than Stephens, still should have got a pen for the holding by the Boscombe defender.

Great that he scored, but countless offsides, it was like having Shane Long on the pitch.

It wasn't a foul throw though. If it had been Bos Ombersley would have got it. It never crossed the line hence why Bert got to have another go.

The Steve Winwood song of the same name is probsbly a better basis for a football song.

Didn't realise Branfoot had a job.

I think you may be getting confused with Paul Wotton. Morgan was the one with the French accent. Morgan was a superb player when he was with us, looked like he would be classy at any level, but something went wrong at Man U and now he looks worse than average. Still we made a few bob on him when he left after being with us for a good many years in L1, CCC and PL. Would I have him back, no, but because it seldom works to go back (Mick Channon notwithstanding).

We've failed to score in 7 games this season (including Wolves), just because we scored 4 yesterday does not mean yet that we can suddenly score goals for fun. Things went well yesterday against a diabolical side, lets wait and see if we have turned a corner or whether this was a bit of an aberration. Incidentally if we had continued going for it one more goal yesterday would have taken us above Brighton in the League.

Davis will play, as captain and (equal) top goal scorer. Hoj deserves to play based on yesterday but if MP agrees it will be instead of JWP.

Hojbjerg was a huge positive today. Looked good in the tackle, made some excellent passes and crucially battled back when needed, showed great fighting qualities something badly lacking in the team generally. Still can't shoot, but not going to knock him for that on today's performance, MOTM for me. Boufal also much better today, actually attacking rather than going backwards. Charlie's two goals were excellent old-school strikers goals. Only real down side for me was that we were playing probably the worst team seen at SMS in recent years (or even ever).

Managed Fulham from 1994-1996.

If not then would suggest Stephens would be a better bet than JWP for DM.

Fair enough, looks like Koeman did change things a bit, he certainly played 5across the back in the next game against Palace, but some reports show Bertrand playing MF against Everton. Anyway this is not the major turnaround most people remember, which was after the appalling run in December when Koeman was coming under serious pressure and he switched formation and stuck with it for several weeks. It also coincided with Forster's return. Ultimately Koeman saved Saints with his switch but fell out with Reed (Les) which lead to his departure.

Fake news from Batman, there's a first.

It was Watford at home in 2016 when Koeman changed the formation. Stuck with it for a few weeks.

So go support a team that plays in it. Its not the PL that is the problem, its Saints, and specifically our management team (Reed, Watson, Black, Pellegrino, Krueger) and some of our players (Tadic, Forster, Redmond etc). Apart from one season when we were promoted being in the Championship was ****.

and Forster. Austin and Long I agree with but not Gabbi.