Graffito

Somewhat negative and pessimistic but makes some good points. http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/sport/11239113._/?

You have to question why he brought him into the squad at such a late stage, having ignored him up to then, and more so now, having brought him in and not given him any game time. What was the point of that?

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/11239092._/?ref=mac

Like this from MLT: “We can look back now and see he was stalling and keeping his options open, but that’s his prerogative. “He clearly had a game plan that he had set out, worked it to the best of his ability, and got a new job and a pay rise to boot, so good luck to him – as long as he doesn’t start whinging in a year’s time if he’s finished outside the top four and been sacked.”

It's good for a few thrupenny bits.

Agree.

Levy's dithering. Good at sacking them but can't pick them.

You'll find one or two reasons here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26847888

Are Spurs dithering?

On bbc radio 5 just now. Dodd and Williams didn't get on with hunter. Les Read backed Hunter. Therefore suggestion that they were sacked for relationship reasons.

Actually I did understand your point, I just disagree with it.

Pochettino's a young coach not an old dinosaur. You are not comparing like with like.

I can't agree with much of this. Pochettino is a quality coach who has improved the players as individuals and as a team. I would have thought that fairly obvious to anyone that watches Saints regularly. Likewise there is much quality within the first team. If that isn't obvious then explain why else so many are so regularly linked with top clubs.

"As Uefa debits their Champions League money this summer, it is worth remembering what City’s new owners paid for. Yes, Sergio Aguero, David Silva, Yaya Touré et al. But also the clout to keep the young players they produced, which unfortunately is not a benefit that every club with a good academy can rely upon." It may give City the clout to keep the young players it produces but how many will get a run City's first team?

Salt of the earth person who does it because he loves it. The kind whom football, with all it's hangers on, prima donnas and parasites, couldn't do without.

He scored another brilliant solo fluke away to QPR if I remember correctly.

Agreed though it's more relief than humility.

Arsenal. Blase in 2003. Ecstatic in 2014.

Most I speak with up here in North London do indeed want him out.

Tony Banks is cockney rhyming slang. I jest. Fingers crossed.

I agree that they were heavily reliant on one player, who wouldn't agree. That's not to say they'd be nothing without him. Interesting to consider what Saints might have achieved with a Suarez.

Fair enough if that's what it was. Wouldn't have got them CL if replicated over a season. But hardly a one man team is it.

Is Nicola standing in his seat?

They did very well with just Sturridge didn't they?

Depends on the traffic mate.