VectisSaint

You are then very naive if you think he doesnt know wage bill of his own players. Maybe not other teams, in the same detail.

You really think Koeman does not know the wages of his players? Of course he does. He would only need to refer to Champ Manager or whatever it is that MLG updates, to know it anyway of course.

It was beginning of last season.

Just watched the YouTube highlights on SaintsPlayer and the Saints commentator (not Motty) makes the same mistake. Bizarre.

Looks like some of the issue is that we have given up on him. Perhaps worth considering that there is actually a real problem that has not gone away. Unlikely anyone will take him in January if this is the case, and Ronald seems unwilling to play him, or at least the on-going medical issue is preventing him playing. I suspect he will be with us until mid 2016 when he will be out of contract.

2 yellows this season as far as I can see. This reputation is seemingly ill deserved.

So what do you propse instead! James Ward and Prowse. Your so cslled observations of Davis are so far wide of the mark as to be laughable.

Well if you didn't see that it got worse after he went offthen clearly you were not paying any attention. We became a total shambles and lacked any drive, pace or momentum. Happens every time. Totally agree he had a poor game Saturday, but whether you like it or not he is key to our game. Until we find a replacement Ronald will continue to pick him as one of the first names on the team sheet.a

So actually Liverpool, Arsenal and Man City are looking at him, meanwhile we haven't actually watched him yet because our wonderful scoutung dept hadn't realised he was injured. :-( Les Reed still looking at his old haunts. Looks like a non-starter to me.

Mutual admiration society for the Davis haters. The first goal Saturday was entirely Davis' fault. The rest of what Derry posted is just ********. You saw how we completely disintegrated once he was subbed and we turned into a total shambles for the last 20.

He didn't mention the number of wins.

Nailed on signing then ;-) .

He's scored 5 in all comps. Plus gosls for Ireland.

I don't think you are the reason. Most of us have seen precious few. Even some we didn't lose felt like we had.

You consolidate by following up 8th and 7th with a couple more seasons around 7th-10th. Quite simple really. We shouldn't expect to improve every year, just unrealistic. Consolidation is ok, but out and out regression is just not acceptable.

How do we suddenly get physical? We can't roll Brian O'Neill out (or even Big John RIP). We don't have physical players, unless maybe you want to see Caulker start Our only remotely physical players are Vic and Davis, and look where they got us yesterday (OK, Romeu as well I guess).

So sacking Monk was not a panic? Problem is not getting to the next level, problem is falling way below the last level. A season or two of consolidation would be fine.

There will be a much bigger debt if we don't spend. Its also not a real debt.

Its because of how bad we were yesterday. Not talking about the first 20 minutes, when we did look decent. But after the first goal we became a total shambles compounded after the substitutions when the players that were left had absolutely no idea what they were meant to do, I have seldom seen a team looking so shambolic as that last 15-20 minutes. Spurs had done what Poch always did and decided 2 was enough. When you see us play like that (and we have done it several times this season, think Leicester 2nd half and Bournemouth 2nd half, not just the games we lost) then even the most optimistic supporter starts to see that we are relegation fodder, there are only 2 teams worse than us, Villa (who we couldn't beat) and Sunderland).

Agree, totally. Been saying it for a long time. Our defence and midfield is getting all the blame at the moment, but its our forward players who are the real problem (Pelle, Tadic and sorry to say Mane who has completely lost his way in the last few games, needs to be played centre again)

Davis for JWP and that would be a decent line-up. JWP is exactly the sort of player Ronald was talking about yesterday. Also its always a disaster when Ronald takes Davis off, we lost what little bite and attacking abality we have in midfield. Granted yesterday he had a poor game, and the first goal was completely his fault initially.

I don't think he's low on confidence. Just the opposite in fact, over confident. Yesterday he was a complete and utter donkey. We have to find an alternative, he is just not good enough to be our only option, and has occasional purple patches at the start of the season and then goes months without looking like scoring. I also don't buy it when people say its a lack of service, he gets decent service but cannot deal with.

Carry on believing...

May well be 4 by the end of today. We do still have a better GD though.

Was half decent today, probably our best player, though thats not saying much