Thripp87

My first memory of this lot is as a 4 year old boy, innocently wearing saints shorts, and having a grown Pompey fan shout abuse at me. My first Saints Pompey game they abused the minutes silence for Mr Southampton before a ball was kicked. My first trip to Fratton in 2011 saw a coin whistle past my temple when they equalised late on. This lot are the pits. We have to win, and win well.

I still think the squad is too big and difficult to manage for Still based on numbers. I would certainly like to see Edozie and Aribo leave in the coming days. It is also a shame we have so many loans out, it would be great to have shifted them completely. What I do like is the fact we have not used the loan market that much for players in. We were handicapped a lot last summer by being forced to make THB perm and then anofher big outlay on Downes just to get back to where we were when we beat Leeds.,

Bazunu roeserlev. Jack. Thb Manning Downes. Charles dibling Fernandes Robinson Stewart That is our best team for me by a clear distance and what I would play. Keep that as a starting 11 and it’s HMS piss the league.

Don’t forget the not playing basketball in his own penalty box. That’s another tick in favour of replacing Sugawara.

Best thing about this is Sugawara won’t be used anymore. One of the worse I’ve seen in years. 94 games for Brentford in the Prem, looks a good option to me.

Positives and negatives for Still here. He’s realised Downs and Sugawara are useless, but he’s persisting with Arma as a lone striker and not playing Manning. Assume Stewart is injured again as opposed to an illness?

You must be on the wind up? It was a pathetic miss. In fact, he was so inept he didn’t even miss it. Between you defending Downes there and someone else questioning why fans don’t rate Sugawara I think some Saints fans have had too much sun.

Well more entertainment in 1 game than the entirety of last season, a great end result and nice to see some decent celebrations at St Mary’s coming from us for a change. I’d happily win the league and refuse the prize of Premier league football. I am not a fan of 3 at the back, especially at home to inferior opposition, also my understanding of this system is the fullbacks provide width and overlap etc. With the exception of Manning they didn’t, Sugawara is a complete joke, and always has been. Massive moment from Baz at 0-1 and nice to see some redemption for Stephens, credit to Still who wasn’t afraid to make changes and showed adaptability.

No chance of getting one as a Pompey fan unless you’ve had purchase history.

I’ve had a season ticket for years but due to work need to look more at the membership option this year. If I was to go down the route of a member should that pretty much guarantee a ticket for the home games I am available for?

So the worse season we’ve ever endured is finally coming to an end. For those of you still attending, please, please please don’t embarrass us further by applauding the cretins on a lap of honour. The stadium needs to be empty for it, and better still the players should be getting some serious abuse. As should Sport Republic. On that subject, when is the next fan forum?

You must be on the wind up? That side is a mid table Championship side at best. Armstrong already being benched by West Brom is a case in point. What exactly are you basing this assumption on? Birmingham who have just been promoted into the Chanpionship would have a better starting 11 by the time they have spent their funds.

All this talk about Dyche is interesting. If we had gone for him as the Ralph replacement when he was available we wouldn’t have had either of the 2 Premier league relegations of the last 3 seasons. Any Saints fan who thinks they can turn their nose up at him is as deluded as the weirdos clapping the players at full time yesterday.

Ryan Fraser, Ronnie Edward’s. The list can go on a little further. Fraser for me, complete waste of money and anyone could see from his little promotional video that Martin was just creating a boys club. £19m on Downes hardly looks good business either.

Can’t wait to see the positive brigade renewing their early birds, then crying on here when it’s £5 a kid in February.