Tom & Gerry

If you are bored with slow passing football then Pulis style football seems to be exactly what you are asking for.

If he had lost the players as well as the fans he would like Puel have been gone. His main problem has been not improving the goals scored column which leads people on here who couldn't manage a premier league team in a million years but have wonderful hindsight to criticise his game management and call him silly names. If you only score 1 goal you are always hanging on at the end. Otherwise the football has been fairly decent.

A lot of very clever people were certain we would get hammered on Sunday. It seems a tad pessimistic to me to think we can't win 3 home games and 3 away seeing we've played all the top teams away apart from Arsenal but perhaps it was just a blip on Sunday.

What if Silva is a Manager that starts brightly and then crashes whilst Pellegrino is the opposite?

Fair point. I was just thinking of Saints present predicament where they need midfield players to support the main striker.

I think your campaign lacked a certain simplicity that say the "Wenger Out" uprising had not that is going terribly well. Our previous attempts were also much more punchy. "Bates must got was a good one but that didn't work either thank god, nor did "Lawrie your a let down" "We want Branfoot Out" worked better but he was here much longer than our present Manager and the football was much,much worse. You see it is usually events that decide the future of Managers not protests.

Just wish he was a bit better in the air. He could become quite an attacking threat then.

I believe nearly everyone on here is a fanatical Saints fan, otherwise they wouldn't be on here but people react to adversity in different ways. Some try to adapt to the new reality, make the best of it and offer support whilst others see themselves as victims of a disaster and want to blame and fight everyone. I'm not saying either is right or wrong, one position is probably too passive and the other too aggressive. In this rapidly changing world we all have to adapt to some extent to changing situations or we are toast. It is hard to fight because you are going against the tide and as far as football is concerned many people have more important things in there lives to fight. The best you can hope for is the tide to turn. Sometimes it does as in politics and sometimes it doesn't (technology). In football it often does, eventually.

What ever you think of our Manager he is an honourable and decent individual so calling him calling him insulting names would only I imagine make the board dig their heels in further. Personally I think the team need a psychiatrist not a new Manager to sort out their mental approach.

It seems that only players win games and only Managers loose them. So the first half was down to the players but the second was all down to the Manager.

What hope does any Manager have if the opposition are allowed to throw the ball in the net. Clowns and idiots don't get points in Manchester.

Nice guy, means well and his use of language probably goes down well in the US of A but sounds very annoying to us. It's good to know someone is there but as always actions speak louder than words.

Short memory?

There's no hope then. I take it you're off to support Liverpool.

Is there anyone at Southampton football club we shouldn't get rid of? Anyone at all doing a half decent job?

Why go for a Manager who's stock is so low, who couldn't motivate players when things were going badly. We should go for someone who's stock is on the rise like that Leicester Fella. Alternatively we could give a Manager a reasonable length of time to find out if he is actually any good or not.

Any one remember trying to work out goal average and how much better or worse ours was to the teams around us?

Didn't Derek Reeves get 4 that day? He was a sort of latter day Charlie Austin that I think we got from Bournemouth Gasworks but I might be misremembering. A sad day to see the end of the Football Echo. I will probably never read about East Cowes Vics again. Reeves 4 Paine1

Last Saturday was the last ever edition of the Sports Pink. It went out with a whimper and hardly anyone noticed. It is surprising that it lasted this long given the access to news these days via the likes of Sky, Radio Solent and the internet but back in the day it was the only information you could get on the day of the game other than the score. My ritual like many others was to run down to the paper shop (Newsagent to you young uns) in Woolston at six pm where a crowd would be gathering (bigger if we had won). We would expectantly wait for the van to arrive (how did they get it out so quick) and the kids would all rush for the honour of carrying the batch of papers in to the shop where they would soon sell out. I can still remember a report from 1960 that began "What a great and glorious day it has been for Southampton" after Third Division Saints won 5-1 in the cup at First Division Man City. It was such writing that helped make a 10 year old a Saints fan for life.

When are these difficult games coming? Nearly drew at Man City Should have beat Arsenal Where are these teams we should be fearing?

David Prutton's not bad funnily enough.

I think De Gea is making all the rest look bad. Well done Fraser in the last few games and well done the coaching staff.

The critics want us to play more centre halfs and more defensive midfield players, drop forward thinking players like Tadic and Redmond and then attack more. Totally muddled thinking. They are out of their depth.

Why do people want us to play more defensive midfield players ? I thought we were supposed to be not attacking enough?

Old news, the glass is half full again.