Saint_Tony

Being good at winning headers does not make a good footballer. Can't see what else he offers

Was this ever worn for a game? I own this shirt, quite liked it actually

To think people have been moaning about this season. Enjoy it, because if any of these rumours have any truth in them, then things are only going to get worse

Yeah, can't see us having any chance with those 3 out. We won't be able to control midfield with the likes of Ward Prowse playing. Very disappointing news if true as I thought we had a good chance to win.

Because he's the best left back in the country. By all accounts from round that area of the country as well. As much as we'd like him to stay, he isn't going to. I won't begrudge him a move either, he's good enough to play for a better team. We've got to be realistic, if he was playing for another team at our level you'd expect him to move on

Well sadly with our very respectable league position and a number of outstanding performers this season, a lot of clubs will be sniffing around several of our players. It's going to be a long summer, instead of praying we sign someone, I'll be hoping the likes of Lallana and Schneiderlin stay put. Shaw leaving is inevitable, especially if he goes to the World Cup, but wherever he goes, it will be a decent transfer fee.

Rodriguez won't make the 23 if Welbeck is fit. Don't rate him, but he looks a lot better for England than United. I'm not convinced J Rod can handle the pressure of a World Cup. Although if we're looking at form and goals you could argue he deserves a spot. I think Rickie is probably still ahead of Carroll in Roy's plans. Carroll is surely too much of a risk still and has still done **** all so far this season. Let's see how he gets on against United on Saturday

Don't know if it's been mentioned.I noticed there's a sale on in the online store, half price on home and away shirts plus reductions on most of the training gear. Bit annoying for those who forked out £50 for a shirt. I doubt many on here buy club merchandise, but I'm interested as to whether this ever happened whilst Cortese was in charge? can only remember shirts going cheap last when we had the Flybe sponsor. So is this move the influence of the new chairman?

If we were any good at beating the top half sides we'd be contesting for a CL spot. It's obviously an undeniable weakness, but at the end of the day there are several teams in the league who are better than us, hence why we get beaten by them more often than not. Of course, we've shown we can compete with the best sides in the league, but it is always going to be difficult until we continue to spend big for a few seasons. So we can hardly moan at such stats, it's kind of expected really. The season we become capable of picking up 6-7 wins over a season against the top 6/7 sides whilst maintaining a good record against bottom half sides,is the season we will probably have made it to the 'next level'. Is it possible? I'd say doubtful, but there is a small chance

There are so few strikers in the world who are capable of scoring 25 goals in a Premier league season. We moan about J Rod and Lambert, but their goal returns are both respectable already, and with plenty of games left to play. We certainly need a first choice centre back and left back to replace Shaw. Shawcross would be a decent shout, and available for less than 10m I would think. Decent left backs are very hard to come by though. We really need at least one striker, possibly 2. I'd take a gamble on Ings, who I think would come to us if the price is right despite Burnley's inevitable promotion. Griezmann at Sociedad could be a possibility, dependant on Sociedad qualifying for the CL. He can also play out wide, I imagine the transfer fee would be around the £20 million mark. Boruc also needs competition. I've been very impressed with Marshall at Cardiff and would certainly like him here to compete for the no1 spot. Schmeichel will probably be in high demand and for an overpriced transfer fee so maybe not realistic. If we wanted another wide player then Redmond of Nathan Dyer could do a job.So you're looking at around 50-60 million spend for 5-6 players. Hopefully a similar spend to last year. It shouldn't be unrealistic to expect that as we should receive that amount for Osvaldo and Shaw. I'd expect Guly and Hooiveld to depart as well, maybe Lallana. So if anything we might see even more players come in as we don't have a massive squad

Time for us to step it up a gear. Although let's not forget we have won against Liverpool, plus draws against City, United and Arsenal. There's no reason we can't beat Eveton, Spurs, Newcastle and Man United

Thought they looked short on ideas in the final third yesterday. Defence isn't great at all, certainly not the back 4, very much helped by a world class goalkeeper. Bookies have them as odds against so a win for us certainly isn't out of the question. I'd be happy with a point despite all the talk again of a europa place. To achieve that, we need to start beating the likes of Spurs, Everton and Newcastle, something we have so far failed to do this season.

Spurs - 2-1 lose Newcastle - 2-0 win Man City - 3-1 lose Cardiff - 2-2 draw Villa - 0-1 win Everton - 3-3 draw Swansea - 1-1 draw Man Utd - 3-2 win 12 points

15 points isn't too bad a return from those games. All of a sudden we're not all that far from 6th/7th, despite not being in our best form

Think J Rod would suffer from stage fright at a World Cup. Fed up of all this 'Carroll offers something different' ********. Yes, he's strong in the air, but so is Rickie, except Rickie has a much better all round game. He's far more deserving of a spot IMO. And don't forget if a penalty shoot out is looming, he'd be handy to have on the bench to bring on

Fact is the scoring charts for English players show Sturridge, Rooney, J Rod Lambert and Welbeck as top scorers. If less than 4 out of 5 of them go, maybe Carlton Cole or Peter Crouch?

Carroll's total contribution this season is about 2 assists, a red card, and a lot of time spent off the football pitch. If he does something over the next few games fair enough. Although many on here seem to think Rickie is useless and past it now, I still think at this moment he deserves to go. A few more goals needed to cement his place though

So what if they need a win? They've needed wins all season and failed most of the time as they're not a very good side. We should be beating them, simple as that.

News today that United will let Hernandez leave in the summer. Realistic target?

Exactly, how can we replace them with players who are as good? There is a reason the likes of Chelsea and Man City are linked with Shaw. He's top quality.MLG, who would you suggest as realistic quality replacements for Shaw and Lallana?

What was his body language like on Saturday?

Well if an FA Cup semi final and 10th place wasn't enough for me to switch my allegiances then that definitely is!

Yeah I'm thinking of burning my Saints shirts. Going to follow Hull now, they showed us how to beat Sunderland. Can't wait to go to Wembley to wave my Tigers flag

How's Mopos win percentage doing?

Forget the last few games, forget Sunderland, forget about our 'misfiring' strikers and the constant updates on 'MoPo's' win percentage, let's get back to winning ways with a decent performance!