vectraman

Whoever we sign need to be PROVEN premier league players. No foreign unknowns who have never played here, no ones for the future. Proven, experienced PL players who know what it's about. Straight into the first 11, immediate enhancements to what we have. E.G. Sell Redmond/jwp/Gardos/Tadic/ Macarthy/Bednarek/Long and buy 3 maybe 4 first team starters. We have a bloated squad of averageness, time to cull numbers and improve quality. Dependant on us being able to shift the deadwood, and attract decent replacements. Big If I know...

Andy Carroll. Or a player similar to him, would definitely help us up front. Not I'm sure, a popular choice, but he's a real handful, and what we desperately need up front. Discuss!

Bingo. I totally agree with you. It would appear that some posters now view Puel as some kind of shining beacon of brilliance. Not so. Last season our home form was absolutely rubbish. It is again this season. Both Puel and Pellegrino's teams play the same dull, possession based risk free stiflingly boring brand of 'football'. Both were and are terrible. Anyone who thinks Puel, retrospectively was some kind of Management genius is clearly suffering from a memory illness.

Exactly this. Credit where credit is due, our manager did a great job last night at nullifying the best team in the country, possibly Europe. Before kick off, I'd have happily taken a 2-1 loss, shows how well we played to be gutted we didn't get a point out of it. Well played Saints, 2 consecutive decent performances, now for another one, and 3 points off of Bournemouth

Out. Poor recruitment of players and managers last two years. Dithered over sacking Puel, other than Lemina and Gabbiadini, not a lot of positives to be had

Out. Not learning from his mistakes, unwilling to be flexible in his approach. Must go. No different to the boring football from last year. And Puel is not suddenly brilliant either. He was also a cr4p manager.

Swansea to definitely go - poor squad, poor form. WBA to go - worst form in the league this year, no sign of it improving either. Third team to go - as other have mentioned any one from :- West Ham, Huddersfield (early season success will give way to reality, and a struggle to score points), Brighton (squad is limited if injuries to first choices occurred), Saints - if you can't score, winning is going to be a challenge - change of approach (less caution, more bravado going forward will, I'm sure turn it around), if Pellegrino will do it, if he won't, a really challenging season awaits, tough games to come in next 2 months, 11 games Vs big 6 over the season remain, will see us sink lower over November and December. Trying to recruit anyone decent (if we indeed even try to) will be difficult if we are on the cusp of the bottom 3 in January. Stoke I believe will battle their way safe, Bournemouth will play their way safe... Fingers crossed that MP sees sense and changes our style of play...

Play like Burnley/West Brom etc play away from home, 10 men behind the ball, leave Long up front just in case we get a foot race break away ball, play for 0-0. We might get beat 1-0, we might sneak a 1-0 win. Our players should be good at playing for a 0-0... The point could well be very important at the end of the season.

Exactly this. Romeu gave it straight back to them, when he should have put his foot through the ball, and wtf was Cedric doing trying to mark Murray? I say trying because he made a pretty poor go at winning the header considering he was in a good (goal side) position. Poor defending. I assume Forster was expecting it back across the goal, not near post. Romeu caused it, Cedric allowed it, Forster watched it...

A half volleyed header? Yeah, well let them have it ?

Imagine the meltdown if Forster did this... https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/viral/hilarious-moment-goalkeeper-celebrates-penalty-save-before-ball-bounces-back-into-goal/vi-AAtVx1o?ocid=mailsignout Very amusing though!!

Nope it doesn't make it alright - I'm with you, 10 goals this year at home (4 of them against West Ham!) is pizzle poor. Yet people wonder why the atmosphere is poor at St Marys...fans react to what they are seeing - you watch crap, you will react in a similar way methinks!

But we scored 3 against Leicester and Palace at home in 2017...! So by maths, that's 6...

Tadic is a left footer played on the right, Redmond a righty played on the left... So they can do it, not sure it doesn't make us amazingly predictable though...oh look, redmond/Tadic are out wide and cutting across the edge of the area. Who'd have thought it....seemingly all of our opposition!!

Excitement on the terrace is driven by excitement on the pitch... Go figure... two games in 11 we have scored in

Palace haven't scored all season. We can't score for toffee. Surely, logic says a nailed on 0-0 draw?! Not that football is logical ever!

Sadly, you swear and go, being rude, and don't even realise we have actually lost 2 games. Wolves reserves and Watford. So get your facts right before berating others eh?

Sure have. Saints v Arsenal, Boxing Day - handed their arses to them on a plate 4-0 Saints. Cuco's amazing strike, but Long and Mané played in a 4-4-2. Brilliant stuff. Best performance from us at home in a very long time There two big central defenders didn't know what to do. Ball played on the deck through the middle with pace running onto it. If that's the result of 4-4-2 I'm all for it. Gets my vote

Totally agree. I think a big part of the problem is playing Redmond and Tadic on the wrong wings - a lefty on the right and a righty on the left will always result in the tedious pass the ball from one side of the opponents box to the other, as our wingers come inside onto their stronger foot and the defenders have a simple time ushering them inside knowing full well their shooting from distance is, umm, less than great! We need the AM's to take the full backs on, beat them and cut the ball back low across the box, hugely unlikely when on the wrong wing, and I struggle to remember Redmond actually ever taking a full back on in a foot race, outpacing him, and getting a ball in from the bye line. High crosses into the box are a waste of time, we have no one of sufficient height to get on the end of it anyway, when outnumbered by defenders it makes the likelihood even less... So for all JWP's best crossing in the premier league attributes, it doesn't help our team score. How many assists did he get last year with his amazing crosses...

Completely agree. Really glad we've got him for another 3 years - a great model pro.

The reason we conceded two goals at the weekend was not because our keeper is poor. It is because our defending was poor. Lets not make up facts so we can blame the keeper again. Lets ignore his excellent save into his chest from a close range first half header, the fact that we allowed Antonio to turn and shoot far too easily in our box, the fact it deflected before getting to a (I'm fairly sure) unsighted Forster who would have seen it late, and lets ignore that our defenders were nowhere to be seen to get to the rebound first. Lets also ignore the excellent save from the unmarked by our defenders Sakho which he was unlucky to see come off of the bar straight to Hernandez, who to give him credit was sharp. So, if it fits that you want to blame the keeper, carry on. On Saturday, I don't see how he was to blame. Last season, yes, he had some terrible games, Saturday was not one. I would like to see him be a bit more like Joe Hart with balls into the box - Hart I thought made some good punches clear that I know Fraser wouldn't have come for, but culpability for the goals conceded, no way!!

Well, for what it's worth, my kids love making lots of noise with them! Not often my boys get told to make as much noise as they want, unless they're at the footy of course

Good feelings return - Saints to win 2-0

Hey, go easy on him, he chipped in £5 of his dole money to pay to post on here, he's not all bad Oh, no he didn't, typical northener...

He who keeps looking backwards can never see where they are going...