SaintBobby

@Dalek. You reckon Middlesbrough are possible champions and we are about 17th best. Surely, you'd settle for a plucky defeat at St Mary's? Draw at best?

I'm sure those who said it was disappointing to dominate Derby and only get a point will now say how disappointing it was to be dominated by Reading and only get a point!

are you still taking bets that we will finish 17th? I've asked about placing a wager with you a few times - but guessed you'd changed your mind about our likely finishing position

Tried and failed, I'm afraid. Sadly, you've been so decisively and determinedly wrong too many times for anyone to take you seriously anymore. That's a shame, because you're obviously not completely stupid.

What confuses me is that you seem to think most Saints fans on here are over optimistic and need something of a reality check, yet you are willing to take at face value their prevailing view that Southampton "dominated" the game! If these guys look at the world through such rose tinted spectacles, I think we should disregard their views based on watching the stream of the match!

I don't care much for England anyway. But would actively support their opponents if Redknapp was manager. Not so much the Saints relationship as the fact he sums up everything wrong with the game.

Correct. In spades. That's why 17th place beckons....

It's a tough one. I was all for a £5m striker. Now I'm not so sure. The present strikeforce looks very good, as 25 goals attest. Maybe a £5m striker wld be a starting XI player. But I think a £2m-£3m player might be behind Rickie, Connolly, do Prado and Barnard in the pecking order. So, I'm now interested in, say, a £500K striker who can make up the numbers - as I think 4 strikers (plus de Ridder and Forte) is still too light. Eastwood? Beattie? someone else?

Is it possible to say you think someone geneuinely has a mental illness without insulting them? I suspect it is, yes.

Wow...what an eye-scorching thread. Seems to me that 32K might be on the low side if we become a stable or even successful club in the EPL. But it would have to be massively on the low side for an expansion or relocation to be sensible. If SMS was easy to expand to 35K or 36K or even 40K, this might just be worth it in a few years' time. But it isn't. You don't need to even start talking about 50K until we're a Champions League team, which is unlikely ever to happen.

Errr, what? Sordell started for Watford. If memory serves, he was replaced by Iweulmo with about thirty mins to go.

Didn't just score. Played fantastically across the front line. My MOTM by a wide margin.

Agree with Dalek. I'd say 17th-ish. There or thereabouts :-)

Just on the train back to London. Shaky first 20 mins. We looked disorganised and tentative. Ref seemed sure about the pen for handball, but from Kingsland I cldnt see what happened. We were then a lot better for the rest of the first half, but still not great. 2nd half was different gravy. Watford, who weren't awful by any means, started to tire and lose heart. Lambert was simply phenomenonal. And my MOTM by a mile. Creditable mentions to Chaplow, Richardson and Lallana. But pretty damned good all over in the second 45. Special credit for playing with pace, guile and ambition right to the end on such astonishing October heat.

I'd find it marginally disappointing if true. only marginally.

Yep. No offence meant to you at all. But I much prefer the club being focused on community activity than ex-player activity. Both could be done, but I'd rather 100% was put into the former.

I'm paid a major retainer directly by the club to post my views on here. I've subtly moved from a sceptical to a pro-Cortese position. I simply can't understand why other fans haven't got their snouts into this trough.

I'd pay 15 quid for one....

Yes, we do have very different views, then. I think the Saints foundation is excellent and community, rather than ex-player, based. good luck to ex-saints, but I don't think they merit any special favours.

Yes. It is. Unless you want some rule that a Benali or MLT backed charity gets special treatment. I love those two guys...but I hate the assumption of some cosy, nepotistic, golf clubby deal.

Why is it that the whingers and complainers are always the most utterly unreasonable people imaginable. If you think X...or "can even consider" X....then you are not a Saints fan. Cortese stands accused of being a control freak and then his critics come up with this extreme, illiberal, dictatorial, offensive, self-satisfied, smug nonsense. Disgraceful and idiotic.

I have a few charities I support. And a couple of Saints players I might be able to persuade to back them. Can I have some free advertising and use of the Saints logo, please?

I've lost track of the number now....but it's something like....of the last 30 league games where Saints have been leading at half time, we have gone on to win them all. This must be close to being an English record for any team ever.

Obviously, it's been a tremendous start. But, I'm not with those who say "so, what, just score one more than the oppo" If you're winning games 5-4, 7-5, 15-12 or whatever, I think you'd identify the need to tighten at the back.

Miller was excellent, I thought. A permament threat and the most likely match winner. I was stunned when he was subbed and put it down to McLaren being clueless until I noticed Miller was actually hobbling towards the bench. I still feared it was set up for McGoldrick to win the game, but he was just appalling.