John B

Or turn up with a decent team

He would of been found today too many not outs would have been proved to be out

We do not seem to have any young seam bowlers who are regularly particularly accurate

We just need time to rebuild we are not going y#to get anywhere in the short time with this group of players

It is the fucking players but the appointment of the manager is a bit bizzaire with no appropriate experience

I think that for a team to get promoted there needs to be a nucleus of decent current players which can be added to with new ones Two years ago we had KWP Bednerak Smallbone S Armstrong A Armstrong and Adams and possibly Eidoze to which we added THB Manning Downes and Fraser and later Brookes and Rothwell and used other players which we already had such as Stephens Bree Airibo etc Today I feel we do not have a decent nucleus as Downes A Armstrong and THB have lost form and no one else apart from Fernandes and Robinson are guaranteed starters although THB is likely to improve with more game time So it is very difficult to try and recruit new players to gel in with what we have already got to get a promotion team so I think we will end up towards the top half of the table Just buying players like we have done recently has proved to be a failure so what is the point of wasting money

I agree with your comments but I see little evidence that the current recruitment is based on new players who will enhance the team instead they seem to be low cost players who will develop a bit and then will be sold at a profit But if wages are low not many talented players will want to come to St Mary;s

I expect they did that but getting players to St Mary's is not easy these days as our squad continually Deteriorates

I was quite surprised that we got promoted that time but we did have a top goal scorer in Rickie Lambert and Martin Chivers in 1966 and MacDougal and Boyer in 1978 Last time Armstrong and Adams must have scored over 40 cannot see the current strikers scoring loads of goals with their current performances

They are not good enough to get promoted we need at least one top striker it is just fucking obvious

Stoke is in The north Midlands

You are bound to know if there is any VAT involved in the transaction

But they are not getting Dibling for peanuts if he goes and they thought they were getting an experienced International player like Eze with 147 appearences and 34 goals

What makes you think Dibling can replace Eze immediately and perform well in the PL

Get promoted and then explode again is my worry

The rebuild can only start when we get rid of some of our players and of course not many of our targets want to come to St Marys It is not easy to rebuild instantly

What do you mean by screw up i If an identified player does not want to come to Southampton that is hardly the fault of SR surely

Having followed the Saints since 1960 I know what a decent CF is In 1966 for instance we got promoted with Martin Chivers in Ted McDougall and Phil Boyer in helped us back into Div 1 1978 and of course Rickie Lambert in 2011 You may not have been around in those days but I can assure they were far better than the ones you mention

Do not feel very confident regarding the coming season as like previous windows have not recrited a decent CF Our creative future seems to be in the hands of a teenager who is bound to turn into a genius but does not want to sign a Saints contract and could not get in to one of the worst PL teams ever and a relatively even to Chez unknown Armenian who plays in Russia and wants a decent pay day anywhere but not necessarily Southampton

Personally I too don’t think an offer of £35m + £8m + some sort of sell-on is buttons for him given that he has only 2 PL gpals and 2 U21 Caps

Pretty dreadful transfer window so far for creative incoming players

The team still lacks creative players I hope we get some decent loanees in

I just cannot see anyone paying £40 m plus for him at the moment - he went to Chelsea they did not apparently play him Man U and Liverpool have spent loads this summer Man City and Arsenal do not seem to be interested so where else would he go Abroad possilbly at least with Lavia and Livvramento they performed consistently in the PL like Fernandes who I think is better bet for PL clubs but as he is on a longer contract there is no rush for the Club to sell Dibling has a much shorter contract which I am not sure what length of time is left so the club will want to get a decent fee although all the pissing about has not helped in integrating him into the current team and what is the point if we perform well in the first few league games.

Do you still have the samr opinion of him as I think he could make it on the Ashes tour this summer Captain Phil Salt compared 22-year-old fast bowler Sonny Baker to England great James Anderson after he shone in Manchester Originals' 10-run win over London Spirit at Old Trafford. Baker began Spirit's chase of 164 with five dots and conceded only four runs when asked to bowl the first 10 deliveries. He troubled two international greats in David Warner and Kane Williamson, who have a combined 38,000 international runs to their name, with swing and lively pace. That helped limit the Spirit's scoring and, despite Australian Warner hitting 71, the hosts, who left out Anderson after defeats in their opening two games, were always in control. Warner was caught down the leg side off England seamer Josh Tongue with 38 needed from 15 and Baker returned to dismiss Australia international Ashton Turner for 13 - a deserved reward for a fine spell that cost only 22 runs. "He was outstanding," Salt told Sky Sports. "Jimmy had a rest today but that is the closest to what he did, if not better. It will be hard to pick seamers for the next match." Anderson also praised the highly-rated Baker, who was awarded an England development contract earlier this year despite having never played a County Championship match at that stage. "I have seen a lot of footage of Baker but not seen a lot of him live," Anderson told Sky Sports. "I have been so impressed. "Tonight he bowled outstandingly well. He has got pace, skill, swings the ball both ways. He has a lot going for him."

Yes I fully understand that but if you continually sell off your better players you are not going achieve success on the field and keep the fans happy