VectisSaint

I know but the post said a keeper and a few defenders, so thats at least 4. We can sign arguably 2 or 3.

Clearly some people still don't get the rules about the squad and adding to it.

3 points down on where I expected us to be. Its not great but things can only get better and I'm confident they will. As long as we don't play as badly as we did against Wigan against some of the lesser teams we will be alright, but lets not kid ourselves, we will ship a few goals until the end of the year, just hope we score more, could be fun, and at the end of the day if we go down fighting then all is not lost.

You're absolutely right Alps, you were saying about it before the Euros finished, and you have been banging on about it time and time again ad nauseum. Its the wallowing in the "I told you so" attitiude that ****s everyone off and makes this Forum and ****ing depressing place to be. We lost today, anyone who has supported Saints for more than 4 years is used to it, it happens. We strengthened at the back (2 defenders and 2 keepers), should have got a LB but the guy ****ed us over when Manure came sniffing and should have replaced Davis. But we didn't. So we have to make the most of what we have. We do still have the opportunity to bring in 1 or 2 out of contract players and I wouldn't be surprised if we do, but lets keep a little bit of perspective shall we, and see how we are doing after a few more games. I heard some complete knobhead who called himself a Saints fan on Radio5 just now spouting some crap that Adkins was not good enough and we got promoted a season too soon. People need to get a grip.

Difficult to work on much with half the team away on international waste of time duty.

Shocking decision by Adkins to leave Guly out, we could have won if he had played. It feels like a lot of people on here must be relatively new at supporting Saints, judging by their reactions. We had a crap game and lost 6-1, well I never did, seem to recall we lost 7-1 to Arse just before the FA Cup Final. **** happens, life goes on.

So that would suggest LB is the weak link then, if their goals are coming from the right.

This may be a good thing, we've all seen how good they can be this season, but look poor at the Emirates, so maybe Winger will stop sniffing around :-)

Having quite a game, yellow card, assist and goal.

ART this is wrong on so many levels, have you been on the whacky backy or something?

Maybe, maybe not. Stupid question to ask when the bloke has only been on the pitch 5 minutes. Stupid question even if he had been on the pitch for 5 matches.

Maybe the Grauniad have mixed up their pounds and euros. Given they mix up letters all the time, it wouldn't be a shock to find they can't tell the difference. Would explain most of the difference.

Praises Nigel Adkins' Southampton, not Praises Nigel Adkins. The Echo feel the need to clarify that they are talking about Nigel Adkins' Southampton, just in case you thought they meant Ian Branfoot's Southampton. They could have just said Arse praises Saints and most of us would have known who they were talking about.

Wrong, innocent until proven guilty. There could have been reasons for him not being found guilty, mostly technicalities, but nevertheless, it is still the case under English Law that you have to be proven guilty.

Nothing to do with player development, it clearly states that it is for release of players for international matches for qualifying matches and finals matches weighted with the FIFA categorisation of clubs for training compensation. Shrewsbury almost certainly released some players for the Welsh team in qualifying matches, probably more than we did for any European teams.

I see that the Club is actively looking to build up the Bath satellite academy again, with new Recruitment Officer and Lead Coach being sought. The Bath academy has never ceased to exist but certainly has not been to the same standard as previously for the last few years. The Bath centre is critical to our success at Academy level, bear in mind it was responsible for Gareth Bale and I think Nathan Dyer at least, almost certainly others. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/job-opportunities-at-saints-358513.aspx

95 minutes against Team GB, and played in the other 2 group matches as well, so definitely not his first 90 minutes this season

Nearly half the PL teams have the same awful design. I thought it was just some contract we had got into that we couldn't get out of, which explains why besides us Reading, Norwich, Swansea and QPR have the same design (though Wet Spam seem to have avoided it, presumably because they did not sign up for the contract when they were relegated). But how do you explain that Stoke, WBA and Wigan also have the same "design".

Who has dismissed this? I just questioned why Castrol come out with football stats? If they are based on OPTA then their stats are probably pretty good, and probably exactly the same as any other company who want to jump on the advertising bandwagon that is the PL, but can you tell me why Castrol?

I see Walcott is sick, and so was Sturridge, Hodgson hopes its not something going around in the camp. Would be just our luck that it is, Walcott recovers by the weekend while new recruit Adam Lallana is laid low with Englanditis.

Just a thought but what the **** do Castrol have to do with football? If they were rating F1 drivers I might be a little more impressed.

Actually it is, when the body begins to tire the brain begins to switch off. This is why under Strachan we were so good in the last few minutes of matches, we were supremely fit and were still mentally alert in the last few minutes, the time when most goals are scored in games. I would suggest that Fonte is perhaps not quite as fit as he needs to be, he makes very few mistakes, but they are crucially during the last few minutes. Clear that JWP and few others are already very, very fit, including Lallana, which is why it was a surprise that he was subbed against Manure, you need people on the pitch who are not going to switch off in the crucial last minute or two. I believe NA has ensure that our players are very fit, but perhaps a little of the stamina work that WGS used to put in would not have gone amiss for a few.

John is one of the lecturers associated with my daughter's course (Multi Media Journalism)

Part of the reason why Cortese wants to move the away supporters to the Kingsland/Chapel corner. Cameras are primarily located in the Kingsland, so don't see the Kingsland corners. Its what should be done but some folks think it would ruin the atmosphere - like it would ruined the atmosphere against Wigan.

We made several chances, hit the bar twice, Wigan keeper made plenty of saves. We really should have buried them, they were woeful, but they had 2 clearcut chances and scored both (although the second one was really inconsequential as we were going to lose anyway). Our problem against Wigan was our finishing, we could have played all night and we still would not have scored. It is really the main difference between Championship and PL, the clinical finishing, and we are just not clinical. We should have scored many more against United, we certainly weren't denied by their defence too often which was **** poor for the most part, though they did prevent Prowse from scoring.