Rebel

Its not going very well really is it!

it does but football has gone mad! £4 million for Delap was obscene! the £3K a week players in the CCC earn is obscene (its not like we don't all have short careers or have to change career 2 or 3 times nowadays is it) Chelksi & Man Shikh with the £150K a week wages are so far beyond obscene its a different world still if we've got a billionaire we may as well gatecrash the party - even though we might regret it in the morning I bet we'd have fund whilst it lasted I don't know too many Pompey fans that regret spending £80 million or whatever it was to win the FA Cup (and about a decade's worth of luck as well)

Can I have some of whatever your taking?

how about we swap Saga for 'Gradel on loan for the season and £500K' with Leicester I hope there is some movement in and out of the club tomorrow! More in than out hopefully!

modern wingers are more like wide forwards - using pace and width - but cutting into the box, playing a one-two or putting through a diagonal pass for the striker I've never been keen on seeing players runing for the touchline and then hoofing the ball into the box in hope their is someone on the end of it - normally its the keeper we do need pace and width to get behind teams though and create some goal threats!

Rickie Lambert is a big signing for a League 1 club I guess - as we paid a big fee for him and people expected him to move to the CCC but I was talking about big signings in general really. In players like Hammond and Lambert we have made good signings for league 1 but they dont exactly stir the blood do they Hirst was already past it and injury prone when we signed him - and didn't actually play that much for us Palmer did work out better than we expected - I still remember seeing him score from what looked like the corner post from the Milton End and not really believing it had gone in or what I'd seen but both players were past their best and on their way down and that was my point - just like Ripley and Beresford we have never really signed players at their peak have we - well not since the 80's anyway - we have always signed young players who haven't quite made it at another club (Shipperley, Beattie, etc) or veterans on their way out our largest ever transfer fee is still the £4 million we paid for Delap - QED!!!! I'd love to see Southampton spend £8 million, or £10 million or maybe even £12 million on one fantastic player course I'm not expecting it now in League 1 or even if we were in the CCC - but it would be nice to experience that feeling just once more if we ever make it back to the premiership! mind you its not seemed to have done Boro or Newcastle much good over the last couple of years has it! as for now a young fast pacey striker like Craddock, a decent right winger with pace like Chris Hackett from Millwall, a big centre half like Jaidi and a good right back like Ifil would make me happy oh and perhaps a few loan signings from the big boys in the premiership's reserves or academies would be nice! I can just about remember Saints signing Keegan and even for a young'un like me at the time it felt great!

very disappointed - the whole club needs a pick-me up before Satrdays home game against Brentford!

as a Saints fan I've always found the closing of the transfer window to be a massive let down when was the last time we we actually made a big signing - Keegan probably so normally the transfer window closes and as Saints fans we are left sitting there thinking is that it if we do sign someone last minute its always been a desperation signing Kevin Phillps has to be the worst of these for £3.25 million as no one else wanted him and we couldn't sign anyone else - and he didn't want to be here. We drastically overpaid for him as well! Euell and Stern John are up there as well - and pretty much for the same reasons Hirst, Ripley, Beresford, McCann, Le Saux, Palmer to name but a few others! all 3 are players we didn't really need or want! lets hope this window closing brings someting different - I have a horrible feeling it wont though! actually what was the last really good signing we made? Killer for £2 million in hindsight probably - but I don't think any of us were in raptures at the time

Are you a skate on the wind up?

we could get both Surman and Vokes on loan - they're both Saints fans and neither is getting a game at Wolves in the Premiership! (I'm joking about Suran of course but Wolves did say something about loaning Vokes out to a lower league club for a year for his development) we do need a pacy striker to play with Lambert and replace Saga if he leaves - as already said Lambert was a replacement for Rasiak Ideally we need 4 strikers - Lambert, Paterson, Saga and ? so at least one more (2 if Saga leaves) I have a feeling Lallana's best position will be as a second striker playing off Lambert I'd like to see us bring in someone like Tyson or Craddock A front line from Lambert, Paterson, Craddock and Lallana would do for now More worryingly we need a right back to replace Murty and free up James to play in midfield (his best position by a long long way)

I think Tom Craddock is the most likely but I think he will be a replacement for Saga Lambert was the replacement for Stern and Rasiak

we haven't had many for a while it seems to me! if Saga goes as well we will be in real trouble o the song front! that new Rickie Lambert song is terrible for a start!

he's not getting a game at Fulham - and if he gets the same weekly wage why not? Also part of the reason he went there was due to his other half who didn't want to move away from - or to far from - Southampton so can't really see him going up North or to Scotland/Rangers for example if we paid half his wages and loaned Schneiderlin to Fulham for a season in return I don't see why not it shouldn't stop him getting in thr Northern Ireland squad should it - its not like they are all big premiership stars is it!

I meant in terms of premiership not championship - and a club not in chaos like Newcastle (I would have thought he'd had enough of clubs in crisis) besides Newcastle is a graveyard for good players (maybe Nile Ranger will prove the exception) these days!

definatley a case of a late starter as he was never that good when he was with Saints - but he left for first trwam football whihc we couldn't give him Pompey are after Michael Brown, Williamson, Tommy Smith, Gavin McCann, Danny ****tu - all players that CCC standard and not good enough for the premiership are they preparing for relegation and life in the CCC - or can they really not afford any better players with Distin off and Nugent looking likely to leave (possibly Kranjckar and James as well) they are looking like relegation fodder!

Morgan was supposedly on Shearer's wish list for Newcastle! If he leaves I hope it will be for somewhere better than St James Park. Perhaps we should send him out on loan to a club in the premiershipfor a year as if he is as good as some people seem to think he is value will rocket. Personally I think he'd be better in the premiership than League 1 or the CCC. How about we loan him to Fulham in retur for Baird on loan (right back, centre back, centre midfield cover). Also read somewhere that Max Gradel - winger from Leicester - was supposed to be joining us on loan. If Stoke sign Huth can we get A Davies back on loan? Is there a seperate loan window this year!

I don't think he gave it all after his first season with us but I don't think we treated him very well either one led to the other in my opinion signing Stern John - a similar but less talented player - and sending Rasiak out on loan wasn't a good idea I still have no real idea why we signed Stern and Euell when we had Rasiak and Saga - and were in financial problems! we'd have been a lot better off keeping Best and Blackstock on long term contracts at times I think the club tried to force him out in an attempt to reduce the wage bill because of his high wages if that was the case we never should have signed him in the first place or let him go on a free when we couldn't afford him it was the same with Saga - neither felt wanted by the club as well as being worried about their places in the Polish national team

Stern John, Anthony Pulis JR, Le Saux all part exchange deals where we'd have been far better off with the money should have taken the extra money for Bridge instead of Le Saux and gone and bought Konchesky and Malbranque for a start (and not McCann). Stern John - should have just taken the money, we didn't need him we had Rasiak and we couldn't afford his wages anyway (much the same for Jason Euell as well) As for Pulis we should just have kept Andrew Davies - and maybe we would have stayed up! I never understood when we were having money troubles why we went and brought in to overpaid premiership has-beens in Stern and Euell! I'd also add Le Saux to the pointless signings of McCann, Ripley, Beresford, etc, etc

You would have thought James would have learned a bit about playing at right back after spending the whole of last season there! It seems not however! You are right his lack of pace, positional sense, reading of the game and know-how leave him horribly exposed at right back! He gave the ball away which led to the first goal last night - and played his part in the giving the second away as well. He doesn't mark his man or the space - and often trys to play the ball out when he just needs to hoof it! He's OK at right midfield or central midfield - but he's a goal against waiting to happen at right back. Lets hope we dont destroy him by playing him at right back week in week out - he could be an asset for us at CM/RM - at RB he's a liability.

Aren't West Hams parent company in administration and the only asset is the football club - so how come they haven't been docked 15 points!

That's because we fell apart when James went to right back - Brum City sensed the panic in the defence and went for the jugular he trys to play it out when he should just clear it, gets his positioning all wrong and doesn't have the pace to cover it we are going to have to spend some real money on a right back if Murty is going to be out for long

Personally I'd have let both of the Poles go on free transfers to get them off the wage bill so we could bring in new and hungry players that want to be here I have a feeling we might go back in for Tom Craddock from Luton to give us some pace upfront - plus he's a proven goalscorer at this level I'd also let Wotton leave on a free (Brighton were interest at some point I think) Chris Hackett from Millwall would be my choice for right wing - real pace and he can cross the ball! I still think we need some bite in midfield - Prutton would certainly give us this. I also think we will get some players in on loan from the Championship or Premiership once the tansfer window has closed and the loan window is open. Probably be a mixture of young and old players on the fringes of teams. Couple of Arsenal's youth players would be nice! Baird from Fulham on loan perhaps to cover at right back, centre back and central midfield? Andrew Davies on loan from Stoke would be my first choice for centre back? Surel they still owe us a favour or two for Junior Pulis! The return of two former players of the season would be a boost for the whole club - but particularly the fans.

Thomson always makes me thing of Bambi - he's looks as nervous and scared as a baby dear caught in headlights - and about as lightweight as well James cannott play right back - makes far too many positional mistakes and lacks the pace to cover for them

Murty, Mills and Holmes are all injured. So it means we have to play James ar right-back. Unfortunately I think we still need a first choice right-back with Murty providing the cover. As we don't have any wingers I'd play 4-3-3 with Morgan as the playmaker and Gillett and Hammond as box-to-box midfielders. That way Hammond can also provide some cover for James. And Lallana can run at the defence and go deep to pick up the ball - and with Paterson he can do some of the running for Lambert! Sorted: Davis James, Thomas, Trotman, Harding Hammond, Schneiderlin, Gillett, Lallana, Lambert, Paterson That will be 3-0 to Saints then!

people want to see good attacking football - neither kick and rush or pass and pass again Under Poortvliet the midfield was good in possession of the ball, but there was no final ball and we had nothing upfront - and no real defence none of the youth palyers had been brought up to play total football - the youth team played 4-4-2 possibly 4-4-3 at times they just didn't understand the system - and we didn't have the players to play it anyway it left us vulnerable at the back and blunt upfront what we want to see is a solid defence with two fullback that get forward to support two attacking wingers, a centre forward and a second striker up front, a midfield ball winner and a player maker in the middle with the option to switch to 4-3-3 or 4-5-1 if the game demands it we want to see the ball played out from the back not lumped forward, we want to see movement off the ball, the wingers and second striker running at the opposition defence, crosses and through balls to the strikers stuff the youth team of 3 to 5 years ago was very very good at!