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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.

An absolute awful game to watch. We were garbage, we could not string 2 passes together for 90 minutes and then actually found some composure and pinged it about for the last 5 mins. Bazunu was excellent, Che put in a great performance and deserved his MOM. How the hell Bournmouth did not score is beyond me, let no one actually think they were not the better side by a country mile because they were. We got very lucky and we defended like our lives depended on it. Our morale and self belief is very low and that was painfully clear to see by the way even our best passers of the ball kept giving it away. I'm delighted to get 3 pts and beat that lot down the road BUT we really are very poor ATM.

He has barely featured for his new club since joining them, 2 starts, 3 sub appearances, no assists, no goals........he really wasn't that good!

I can't remember the last time i actually thought we would win a game. There is no chance tonight!

pretty sure Ralph will retire after this job comes to an end. No way he quits, he will wait to be sacked and walk away with his millions and i don't blame him.

They play Thursday night and we can but hope they get some knocks and are knackered for Sunday, then at least we might only lose 1-0!

games in London are those under threat because of policing demands in the capital. Police are being drafted in from other force areas and that includes Hampshire who are looking to provide mutual aid to the capital. Our game will probably be unaffected.

all games off, officially announced

Gakpo is in PSV's starting line up for the game that kicks off in 20 minutes. Very strange gambling he doesn't royally injure himself!

In regards to Gakpo's recent game for PSV against Rangers i totally agree with the above. I remember watching a couple of Celtic games when we were in for Van Dyke as i had never seen him play before and i was very underwhelmed by his half arsed performances.

Thank god we only have to read 3 more days of random completely made up bollocks of who we are supposed to be in for at the very last moment. If all these ridiculous rumours were true we would be buying as many players as Forest. This has been an excellent window for us so far, the new lads are excellent acquisitions and i trust in our new regime.

There is an incoming but not a player and not tomorrow.... Cheltenham Town Under-18s coach Pete Haynes will leave to join Southampton's academy next month. The 27-year-old has been the Robins' lead professional development phase coach since 2017. Haynes was in Cheltenham's academy as a player from Under-14s to Under-16s and has been coaching within the club since.

Only my opinion but Che's body language all pre-season has been that of a player that has wanted out and has told the club he wants out. There is no point holding onto him if he has already said he won't sign a new contract and the club will be right to let him go and hopefully for a half decent fee. I only hope to god we really do have alternatives lined up and that the/or those alternatives are real quality and not massive gambles.