VectisSaint

Football people, hah. What do they know?

This appears to be codswallop written by football people. To be honest Kelvin is not really the problem. He is a great shot stopper, but fortunately his weaknesses are not being exposed too much by our superb defensive 6. I goal conceded in 2 games. Just such a shame about those up front.

I've already put my answer in. Already said I expect him to improve. That doesn't alter the fact that here and now he is not good enough for a top 7 PL team. Have to say, and pleased to do so, that what I saw of yesterday's game he was having a good game, until he was strangely subbed off. His shot that Howard saved was extremely good. Maybe the expected improvement is beginning to appear. Let's hope so. I actually think that part of the issue with him (other than the facts that he is awfully slow, cannot tackle and his a liability to the defence) is that he does not fit well into Koeman's style. England u21 play a different system, as do England, maybe if he improves the other aspects of his game he could be good for the national team/u21s. But I really don't care too much about that, my interest is Saints first and foremost.

It was great when you weren't here for a while. So Roy Hodgson thinks JWP is great, well never mind if you think that is a ringing endorsement. Your recall of what I thought about Tadanari Lee (at least I recall his name) is somewhat defective, like the rest of your memory and posts. On the evidence of his first few games he looked good, injuries (self inflicted) cost him, doesn't mean he wasn't good at the time. Problem with you, like one or two others on here, is that you cannot move on and see that things change over time, just because someone was good or bad once doesn't mean things don't change over time. Just as I expect JWP to improve over time, but at least I don't have the blinkered view of you that he is some god-like gifeted player and because a few **** journos who hardly ever see him play and probably wouldn't recognise him if they saw him say he is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I watch him week in week out and can see his limitations, because even a blind man could see them. Now, toddle off back toyour grab a granny night because clearly it is something you know a lot about (I suppose there has to be something that you have expertise in).

So why didn't Ron start Mane? Why would he have been tired. Senegal played one international friendly during the break, and it was played in Le Havre, France last Saturday. Mane played 90 minutes, no great issue there. Not sure there was much luck about yesterday, it wasn't luck that Howard made two great saves, it wasn't bad luck that JWP missed the free kick, however close it may have been. Not blaming Koeman, he is constrained by lack of options at the moment, misfiring strikers and ineffective attackers, though at he is at least partly responsible for bringing them in. Fail to see any reason why we would convert Elia or Djuricic into permanent signings for next season. Without Steve Davis we don't have the pace and energy in AM to make too much happen, not that he would have scored of course, but he does make things happen, assisting the assists so to speak.

No, no, no, burn the witch. How dare anyone question any of our players when we have had such a great season. Heretic. We have an exceptional back 7 (though I still have some misgivings about Forster, and really not happy having good old Kelvin as backup/playing) and we "play out of a good organisation". But quite honestly up front, I would not be unhappy or surprised if any of our current attacking options were upgraded (possible exceptions Mane and hopefully JRod). I like Davis and Long, but we could do better.

Must be true if that bunch of farts say it. Really people do believe some rubbish. That said, England midfield is crap so maybe not as completely stupid as might be expected from that source.

God this response is so tiresome. Yes we are, and we could have been even better if we had a striker. He has made almost no difference this season, in terms of stats 2 points gained. Just be cause we have done well doesn't mean that there are some passengers.

In my opinion the make up of the top 4 is settled after today's results. I can't see Man U losing 8 points to Liverpool in 7 games. What order the top 4 will be is a different matter. Optimistically we could still get 5th, but afraid that our poor strike rate will cost us. Poor decision by the Club in January.

So Burley reckons that Fonte could even make John Terry look good Would seem like a bit of a mistake playing Fonte on the left and Terry on the right though.

Kenwyne equalises 3 minutes after coming on.

We aren't a newspaper, they hate us as a football team Anyway, ignoring that, why would he want to leave us? (1) Because he wants to play in Italy, where he has never been able to shine before (2) Because he wants to live in Italy (3) Because he wants to play in the CL Other than that, difficult to know.

Wenger won it.

Koeman actually said in the presser that he could be ready to play again in 4 or 5 weeks. [11.08 minutes in]

********, hate early kick offs. Still should upset one person who already has a problem with this being a Cat A game and the club ripping us off.

Correct, so that is 2 then (sorry was thinking of our win at OT).

4 I think. We would have drawn against QPR and Manu if his goals had not been scored. The other 4 games he scored in we would have won anyway.

Champions League (and Europa League). Only Europa at Saints.

It would actually be a good idea, only a couple of inches and Grazi would have scored about 7 more goals this season :-)

Down to you, carry on believing there is a charge if you want, despite clear evidence to the contrary. Echo got the details from Saints, but were a bit premature publishing it.

May not be the greatest idea, but to be fair Jones has played quite often as DM, or even RB. It really isn't that shocking. No-one thinks playing Toby at CM is a bad idea (that's not to say that I think Jones is as good as Toby). Actually both play CB, DM and RB, just one does it rather more competently than the other.

They have. Last 2 bullets on the OS: As of the balance sheet date, the financial statements show a total debt position of approximately £50m, of which circa £19m is owed to Vibrac Shareholder demonstrated on going support and commitment to the club by injecting further loan of £20m after the year-end The Echo report stated: The loan taken out in September 2012 from the Vibrac company will stand at £19m in the accounts, but since June 30 Liebherr has contributed a further £20m loan herself that will replace that and be used to fund previous player trading and capital spending.

This is not a quote from Blick, it is how Sky have interpreted his comments. His actual comments are quoted. What he said is reasonable, he just says cannot fully judge until the accounts are actually filed/published. Apparently they have not yet been so filed, everything we know is based purely on the summary in the Echo and on the OS. However, my understanding is that KL made further loan to pay off the Vibrac loan, which makes sense, especially as there may be some toxicity in that loan due to the conflict of interest due to them making loans to 3 PL Clubs (though how that is different to, lets say, Barclays making a loan to 2 or more clubs beats me).

Depends if Premier League regulations are the same, and who was the first of the three PL Clubs to take out a loan with Vibrac (I don't think we were first because Naughty Nic had poured scorn on other clubs for going down this route). This was a Football League disciplinary decision so if not it is not applicable to Saints. The fine by the way was suspended, and will not be enforced if there are no further breaches before May 2016. Unfortunately for Reading they do have to pay costs of £39k, laughable really that the costs are bigger than the fine. By the way we don't owe Vibrac anything, the loan was paid off by KL's replacement loan, maybe this was why it was paid off early, because of its toxicity. Reading don't owe them anything either.