BARCELONASAINT

The lad is young and still adjusting to the English Premier league. He has undoubted class and today he showed some of that.....too many expected him to be an instant hit and to adjust overnight....i'm sorry that rarely happens. I think we will see a much improved and consistent Gaston after a pre-season with Poch. Saints spent on the obvious potential and if we are patient i think we will be rewarded.

wow these Sky reporters are absolute clowns. It's cringeworthy the love-in they appear to have with Reading.....it's obvious Sky badly want Reading to win this. Saying that i thought that was a crap first half from us....and yet we so easily could have gone in 3-0 up...footballs weird!

Nickname: Barca Position: Anywhere in the back 4 or on the wings Preferred shirt number: who gives a Playing ability: played with most of you before, so hopefully answers the question Playing style: no nonsence approach, you know what i mean! Fitness Level: well none of us are getting younger but i typed this so i'm still breathing! Likelihood of turning up: Never let anyone down before p.s. Include mini barcelona......he will be the legs of the team, the boys a freak of nature

Steve, i'm up for this, happy anywhere in the back 4 or on the wings

oh the irony of the above poster.....sums up what this forum has become!

Honestly i swear some of you just totally ignore the truth sometimes because it suits your agenda......our manager DOES SPEAK ENGLISH, he is perfectly able to talk to the players and to have a go at the ref if he feels he made a bad decision. He chooses to to use an interpretur for interviews because English is not his natural language and he is not confident enough to use it in interviews.....now i wonder why that is???.....forget about the press that would twist everything he says because he might use the wrong words accidentally.....can you imagine the idiots on hear that that would have a field day twisting everything.

Personally i would rather the players and the manager show some passion and stand up to be counted and the club have to pay some crap fine than just meekly accept the **** refs we constantly have to put up with!

I hope to god the Saints forum is a fair reflection of most football club forums and every forum has its village idiot!.....still trying to work out if 110-persiant is a wind up Pompey fan or just a clueless idiot that knows nothing about football

lol at the idiots on here saying it was a penalty. The Norwich player actually jumps back into Luke Shaw! He knew exactly what he was doing and the ref fell hook line and sinker for it!

I understand people being passionate abouttheir football and being totally ****ed off about real ****ty performances like yesterdays.....god knows i was so ****ed off yesterday and had to sit right next to the QPR fans gloating at how bad we were.......However i do not subscribe to this continual slating of the club, the chairman, the manager, the players etc. Saints have been playing some wonderful football lately and yes there have been some inadequate performances as well but that does not mean that from the chairman down it is all wrong at SFC. It is our first season back in the Premiership and for most of these players it is a real learning curve......support the side, get off their backs.....the support by a near on full house yesterday was disgraceful, i cant remember the last time i witnessed a home crowd so quiet.....when the team are struggling that is the time to raise the roof and drown out the away fans. Would love to know what the average age is on this forum because we appear to have a very spoilt membership here that think we automatically should be winning week in week out.

we should pay his contract up in full and move on.

Really good read, enjoyed that.

I'm not so confident we will get a positive result today. We havent played for 2 weeks and although thats good for giving players a chance to get over injuries the break disrupts a team that were buzzing after the City result. I wouldnt be surprised to see a flat performance today.......obviously i want the complete opposite and for us to play like world beaters again but i'm trying to be realistic.

Yes i was shocked and disgusted with the way NA was treated (or appeared to be treated!) The more and more i think about it the more i suspect NA knew he had been given the task to get us to the Premier league and that would the be the end of his bus ride....i keep thinking back to the final day of last season and how emmotional he was and some of the comments he made....i am now convinced more than ever he knew his journey was at an end, he had achieved what he had been brought here to do. I suspect NC had a short list of managers he wanted for this next step up and had to wait to get his man, hence NA getting a few months of Premier league football. I hope one day we will find out what was the agreement between NC and NA and was it really a surprise when NA got his marching orders! For today and now it appears our chairman has made a very shrewd move. If my 15 year old son can turn round to me and say "i've never seen Saints play like this" then i know something has definately improved and the future looks bright.

my implication is that there is only one winner here.....Sky tv who are getting a running soap opera!......no where did i say Matt was deliberately doing this for Skys benefit....but any fool can see Sky are the only winners here and Matt willingly or not is making a fool of himself.

I had the pleasure of growing up watching some of Saints greats and then watching the one player i will always remember as the most naturally gifted player i have ever seen. I also had the pleasure of playing several times against Matt. On every occassion he has been nothing short of a great down to earth man with no airs or graces........so it is with great sadness that i say i wish he would just stop his pointless and stupid bickering on Sky Sports....does he think he is harming NC?.....no one outside Southampton gives a toss and i bet the majority in Southampton give a toss either. All he doing is making himself look extremely stupid and harming the image people had about him. In years to come i want to remember the player i idolised, not a an ex pro making a fool of himself for the benefit of Sky!

Thanks Crab Lungs for doing this, i had been wondering how we could let NA know about our feelings. Very nice gesture in what has become a very selfish world

Ok i think my son has the same sense of humour as his father because i found that very funny.....thinking about it, anything after the last 2 days emmotional rollercoaster thats light humoured was going to be funny!

This is a brilliant idea and i really hope he gets to see what the fans thought of him. Still totally shocked by what has happened and in 40 years of supporting Saints i have never been so ashamed of the club i love and support.

You sold it to me Turkish....where do i sign....lol

fantastic team performance, defence was awesome. Yoshi and Fonte outstanding

fantastic team performance, defence was awesome. Yoshi and Fonte outstanding

WOW, it really does go to show that 2 people can watch the same thing but read it so completely different......for my sixpence worth i thought RL was immense today, very unselfish, great holding up, great battling and his layoffs were perfectly weighted. Guly did everything right when he came on for a very tired JROD.

Starting to have a bad feeling about today if Ramirez and Shaw are out. Probably just nerves getting the better of me because this is such an important game for us.

A simple yes or no.....pmsl