BARCELONASAINT

players bought in the January transfer window rarely work......there will always be the odd exception but generally speaking desperate clubs end up having to take a massive gamble and paying way too much money on the hope of that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Tonights result hopefully makes every Saints fan stand up and realise that we really are not going to have everything our own way this season despite Friday's win. We will lose JWP, KWP and possibly Tella from that 11 on Friday and there is currently no one to replace them in tonights line-up. We have a massive squad of mainly dross and defensively we are dire. If we lose ABK and KWP we are deep trouble at the back. I'm pleased we are out of the Cup because only promotion is important BUT losing like this is just bloody embarrasing!

their chance was just shown on Sky Sports news

Sky Sports news are showing every goal as they go in in tonights games, several goals already!

whats the score with Lavia??? Have City got a sell on clause which means we won't get £50 million if Liverpool do eventually stump up?

i totally agree with you and have had a feeling since the end of last season that he would stay, but then like you i'm biased and think his legendary status with us is more important than Premier league football and European football. I hate to admit it but i think he is off.

I don't think you will ever get all Saints fans agreeing on Bazuna. Personally i think he is a very intelligent young goalkeeper who was thrown into the Lions den last season with a woeful backline in front of him. Yes he made mistakes but he also made some incredible saves. Some fans are all too quick to only remember the mistakes because the mistakes led to a goal and points lost. A goalkeeper probably has the hardest position on the pitch because the outfield players can often cock up several times a game and it not necessarily lead to a goal. A goalkeeper fucks up and it's a goal. I'm confident he will go on to be a top keeper.

i thought he was off to Reading subject to their transfer embargo. He's 34 so if he were to come here i doubt it is as first choice, more of a replacement for willy

Is anyone in doubt that JWP, Lavia, Tino, Che, Sully, KWP and ABK are all gone, it's just a question of when during the next three and a half weeks!

were those final stages where Saints said "stop pissing about it's still £40 million you bellends"?

Although i'm desperate for Saints to get the players in that will be the mainstay of our promotion push and not waste a month on wondering who we will lose or who we can hold onto before the transfer window shuts, I am delighted for the first time that i can remember that we are not bending over and then thanking the big boys for being so kind in buying our top talent for peanuts. If only the players had shown as much fight on the pitch last season!

those that keep saying we should not have let OR go are deluded. He wanted to leave, he had had enough of the Premier league very much like tadic. He had served this club very well and it was the right thing to do to let him go. I follow Barca and Spanish football in general and OR has stepped down to where he can still perform. La Liga is a slower tempo, players have much more time on the ball and are not continuously being marked tightly. He was a great servant to us but he knew his time had come and wanted to go home. Except it.

didn't deserve to lose, ref blind as a bat not to give the first half penalty. Some really nice possession football but we lack a real cutting edge to our game.

ok here we go!!

nothing yet!!

The last 18 months i have become somewhat numb when it comes to watching Saints. I used to get pissed off when we lost, it would ruin the weekend and i would bemoan how shit we have become. However i can now watch Saints without getting royally pissed off when we lose, i accepted relegation was inevitable before Christmas and nothing i have seen since has convinced me otherwise. Really enjoyed last weeks performance against United. Thought we were just not brave enough against Brentford. Really enjoyed todays performance against a side i absolutely hate. We showed fight and character today and it was good to watch. It doesn't change a thing in my opinion, we are relegated because our board/owners screwed around and did not provide RH with a quality striker and then took an acid trip and appointed Mr Bean to replace him. I just want to see the players give their all in the remaining games.

I honestly think we are relegated no matter who we appoint as manager. You just cannot turn around the abysmal slump we have been in for over a year in a sudden spectacular short period of time, i'm sorry it just won't happen.

The owners have backed the manager and spent a huge sum of money which i'm sure they are hoping will get us out of the relegation spots. However i am sure that there has been planning for the worst case scenario as well and they feel they have now put together a strong enough squad to bounce back from the Championship, which financially with the parachute payments they believe they can live with. I personally think we are getting relegated because we are relying far too heavily on the new additions to hit the ground running and that rarely happens. The swing in form we are looking for is monumental compared to what we have seen for the last 12 months. If we somehow avoid relegation i might actually consider there is a higher presence out there looking down on his Saints!

one swallow does not make a summer. We were still bloody awful and just plain lucky Palace absolutely gifted us 2 goals. I'm delighted we have won but i'm not thinking for one moment that we have turned a corner because it was garbage football.

be honest what decent footballer would risk his career on a relegation certainty such as Saints and a manager most of us had never heard of before we signed him and looks so out of his depth it's embarrassing? Unless they are signed on massive wages with a relegation clause inserted saying they can go the moment we are relegated i just can't see us getting the players we need.

Avatar 2, visually stunning......something Saints haven't been for along time!

I said on Tuesday night it was the worst Saints performance i had seen for so long and that Jones is a terrible appointment. I haven't watched any of todays game but did enjoy Avatar. Think my days Saints are playing are going to be different from now until the end of the season. The team can't be arsed and i'm certainly not going to be arsed to pay to watch them anymore.

Ive always been one for getting behind a new manager and not writing them off too early. However i was very underwhelmed when we appointed Jones and after watching last nights horrendous team performance i am even more so gutted by the appointment we have made, I honestly believe this appointment will go down in Saints history as another cluster fuck on the same scale as appointing that idiot Rednapp who had zero interest in us. I so hope i'm wrong and Jones proves to be a masterstroke but on the evidence of last night against a poor Lincoln side i'm so concerned we have made an utter abysmal appointment.

my god what an awful game that was tonight. I'm really struggling to see any positives from that performance. Ainsley Miles should never wear the shirt again, he is a bloody disgrace and he just appears completely uninterested. So so disappointed by what i saw tonight.

Have to say i completely agree with you. There are absolutely no guarantees that a change of manager will suddenly turn results around. Look at the money teams like Everton, Aston Villa and West Ham have spunked and on that basis you would say they should be all kicking on the door of Europe but 2 out 3 are struggling terribly and fans want Gerrard out and Lampard out. West Ham have started badly this season considering the players they have. I'm as fucked off with our results and performances as most fans but who realistically that WOULD 100% improve things is out there. My guess the board are hoping we can get to the World cup break and then see who becomes out of a job because they either lose their job as a National manager or a club manager becomes available because said club replaces them with a newly ex national manager. It is a risky strategy but i wouldn't be surprised if this is whats going on behind the scenes.