captainchris

1. We are not fit enough. 2. We do not close down enough. 3. These issues have been obvious for a long time but Koeman has not addressed them...... 4. Caulker should be sent home and never seen again. 5. We have several players just as good or better than Clasie 6. We need a Reed type player (hopefully slightly more skilful) who is more tenacious/fitter in midfield. 7. We only have three players as skilful as the Liverpool players...... Bertrand, Mane and Tadic, possibly Vic..... 8. Your Clasie's and JWP's will never be good enough for this league. 9. We need to be far more aggressive and stronger. 10. We have a lot of very average players but Koeman needs to up his game too! 11. The conceited attitude of our 'Black Box' department needs to brought back down a peg or two..... Sorry that's eleven but there are more than five things seriously needing attention......

We played with 9 men tonight and we all know the two that were beyond belief terrible. For once just about everyone agrees too it was so obvious... Classie - complete waste of money. Caulker - what on earth are our so called amazing scouting department doing? Both these players will never make it ...

Classie is bad - never looked capable from day one. Caulker is truly dreadful however!!

Drag caulker off! That was pub defending... Koeman you need to teach our players TO ENGAGE the player on THE BALL!!!!!! You don't and it continually costs us!!!!!

I am sorry but these press conferences need to be managed properly!!! I am sick and tired if the majority of questions being not about Saints . Saints should bann these wallies who come to our press conferences and talk about other teams.... I would make a condition of entry - ask questions about Southampton or be banned. Simple because the pressers are now verging on farcical .....

The buck stops with Koeman who like Yosh makes too many strange decisions. Our preparation for games is terrible, too often asleep early on??? Tactics are so questionable and have been for a long while. The tactic of sitting back and not pressing will not work in this league, this is something RK needs to recognise fast...

Check this spelling out! Get a life!! For the record - shame on me for forgetting Bates in 2nd place.

Lawie Mac far and away top. The year we finished second in the old First Division we played better football by a country mile than anytime since. He is a genuine legend. Since the : Potch Hoddle Adkins WGS Ball Koeman

If we go there and stand off them then we may as well stay home and save the hotel bill!!! Why on earth we refuse to work hard and close down in too many games I don't know but surely Koeman can at least sort this basic out.. Too often RK s tactic is sit deep, stand off and allow the crosses to come in... We must engage with their players when they have the ball - let the fans do the spectating !

Correct - you do.

Dead right. Fox's problem - or one of the main ones was he watched the ball and forgot the man he was supposed to be marking who was free to do exactly as he liked.... It was blatant that his gaze was directly at the ball and he had no spacial awareness at all.. Cost us many many goals and should never have been near the team...

You can't call Fox a 'defender' that is an insult even to the rest of the names in your list. One of the poorest excuses for a player I have seen in a Saints shirt.....

On Sunday's - typo

Seconded - The Albion Band Can we bring back Southern Soccer zone Sunday's too please - or was that going too far!!!

Could you just explain why it's 20m? Who would you replace him with for that money. Are there any compatible players even available ? It's not about the money, it's about what is best for the team.... Forget numbers on a page u less it's 50m. Even then we have seen teams squander 100m and not improved... Spurs and Liverpool to name two.. Though Spurs are improving now unDee Poch... You need players and a team - money is - well, potentially worthless..

Frazer made sever mistakes last year and is not that good a shot stopper.... He struggles with low shots in particular....

Just why does RK tinker with something has been working... What is wrong with a Romeu straight swap with Wanyama ? And right back change ? ?

The weather might play a big part here.... Are our lot up for a wet and windy cold day in the North East ?

I happen to disagree with the concept of paying a fee for the privilege of buying a ticket. This means I end up going less....As the games are mostly selling out I don't suppose the club care and have generated another revenue stream for nothing which fans seem happy to pay for... That is the fans fault - the club will be loving it... In order to grow the club need a bigger ground now. There will be many potential ticket sales going to waste because punters can't get tickets now at shorter notice. The club are exploiting the market and squeezing the margin very effectively but the skill is in growing the business and becoming a bigger club, a more difficult challenge than squeezing a few more quid out fans for a membership scheme...... Big decisions need to be made quite soon on how or if the club expands....

Sorry 'isnt' Vic correction ...

I Fair comment.... Classie is no Morgan and would prefer Romeu beside of Vic ....A few said Vic was poor against Villa too but actually thought he played well.... Ours issues are dropping too deep in games. The issue is Vic it is tactics and we are left wanting in this department on too many occassions...... We should be looking at RK for this not Vic.....

This sitting deep second half is a tactic which Koeman needs to sort out pronto !!!! It is happening happening more than you have actually highlighted. Man U, Liverpool even Villa the other night to some extent and probably others too... We are 30 yards too DEEP - sort it out!!!!

Absolutely - you could not call that an assist ....

Some very dodgy scoring there I'm afraid. Vvd was excellent the whole game. Pelle scored but otherwise contributed little through out and particularly first half, Gaston admittedly was played out of position but was very average or below that... Victor actually played pretty well. He might look lethargic but he's actually putting a shift in..

You can hardly call that an 'assist' it was a pass which Yosh turned into a chance - that's not an assist.... Ok Gaston is not a right winger and shouldn't be played out there but he was very average indeed tonight - along with several others admitedly but still not any where near the first eleven ...