Whitey Grandad

Oh do give it up. There was nothing wrong with Forster last night.

From The Times this morning: 'Southampton still attacked but moves tended to break down when Boufal became involved'

The midfield don't get forward quickly enough to support our lone striker. That much is obvious but they must be playing this way under Puel's instructions. We are set up too defensively and that will get us nowhere in this league.

It's been a sh1t season. Whatever went before is no longer relevant.

Redmond had signalled to the bench and then went over to it a few minutes before he was subbed.

Are St Etienne after your wife too?

I'd leave out Yoshida and Stephens too.

I don't agree with that.

He's never broken into a run in his life.

You got one bite. You should quit whilst you're ahead

I'm afraid that for some people winning is everything nowadays. The EFL game against Sunderland was an example. A terrible game lit up by one moment of brilliance from Boufal. The FA Cup home game against Norwich was even worse. Thank goodness we scarped a goal in injury time and avoided another 30 minutes

Not at all. I'm happy with real football, the sort that gets played in the lowere divisions, the sort where the players actually put in some effort.

At least he's cut out the horrendous finishing. There were bugger all attempts against Hull

I feel your dull pain too.

Scoring that penalty and winning 1-0 would not have made Saturday any better, for me. I also had to sit through the home cup games wagainst Norwich and Sunderland which were both awful to watch and both of which we won 1-0. Winning is definitely not the be-all and end-all. League position is not important to me either. if we're above 17th and below 7th then I couldnt give a toss.

But if he is to leave at that point then the players should be privately informed or their agents will be working overtime for the next three weeks.

.5/10

I would never let him and I suspect many others feel the same.

Er... from what I recall you don't go to many home games?

It looked to me like a traditional go-slow. Sometimes called a work-to rule.

Would you trust him with a load of money? If he can't motivate the current lot then why should he be any better with more expensive players?

I remember discussing this with Ivan Golac. He said that as a manager he liked to leave three players up front so that the other team would have to keep four back to counter them.

I could have written that myself "...the man regarded in his homeland as Arsene Wenger's protegé" ? I see a solution coming up. If only we could persuade Wenger to stand down.

What struck me on Saturday was the number of our players who had their heads down and were just strolling through the actions.