John B

League and Cup Double perhaps for the Saints

How do know what Hooper is worth. We got £12m for OXO and he played in League 1 If SFC do not pay what you consider insane fees I doubt they will progress

Apart from Fonte who have we ever signed in the window who has been any good. not many i would have thought

Sorry as I could not remember how to spell Liebherr I put Cortese and his chums instead but agree with your point. By the way not sure his transfer policy is much different from Lowe's but is much different from that was expected for a club owned by Billionaires

Again you show little understanding of football sometimes teams do not play well and lose games like Arsenal did at the beginning of the season Man U now and Southampton early last season. So please wind your neck in and see what happens at St Mary's apparently we have a five year plan to get to the PL we are only in year three and may have no more money this year to enhance the team which has performed better than any of us could have expected. It is not our club it belongs to Cortese and his chums and they do what they want to but being top of the League for such a long time is a fine achievement and promotion is still a reasonable probability

Cortese is talking through his backside about Saints and the CL

He may came on in the 110th minute to score the goal and made another substitute appearance in that tournament

Eight Points from Eight Games may represent a crumbling edifice but lets decide that after the next five league games

The last time I saw Fonte play against Hull he was outstanding. If he had been playing in similar form against Bristol City we would probably have won

I dont think they will be relegated

It was a red card as Lambert did not take part in the remainder of the game

I suggest that you just watch him he does nothing with the ball that is the point I am making

I am surprised that people have not noticed Martin's inability to use the ball in effective way It is not nasty criticism just what I have noticed He is OK defensively but his distribution is poor which does not allow the team to counter attack Just watch him and you may change your mind

The Ref had a better sight of the James incident than me and I could see the ball was on the line

Although the team has done overall extremely well and it is great saying Southampton are top of the Championship 8 points from 21 is not particularly good. I doubt if we will not be in the top six by the end of the season but being in the top 2 is not a certainty but with other top teams not consistently winning there is always a chance. I dont recall exactly where we were this time last year but I dont think we were in the top 2 but we were playing well getting points and I was very confident promotion would be achieved. We may very well suceed in promotion but the team must improve and we have some hard away games coming up as well as Leicester and Cardiff at home. We have so far had the rub of the green with regard to injuries but with Fonte and Chaplow out it shows how performance can be affected without key players.

The trouble with Martin is he is not a footballer. Cannot pass has no ball skills not comfortable on the ball

I though 0 0 would have been a fair result but their defence was pretty good got the ball away quickly and challenged effectively

I have heard from one of his close mates we were in for lukas but nothing came of it . He is not desperate to come to us and has not been trying to get a move since we were in league one.

What Laurie said was a team needs 7 roadsweepers and four violinists as per Bill Shankly http://www.donstalk.co.uk/messageboard/index.php?topic=11050.0

Well they are obviously deluded

I am surprised at you even thinking that SFC has bid for this player. Cortese would never do a thing like that he is very ethical he threw Liverpool's bid for OXO in the bin as they treating us with contempt but I did hear there was another foreign player being shown around St Mary's before Christmas

How did he play today because I think he is one of our best players

not very interesting as it is not possible to take a top 6th place

Very true we can improve our team in every position. Not sure how we would be placed if we had had the injuries that West Ham have had I believe we are looking at a foreign RM at the moment But Priorities are RM Striker CB Goalkeeper so that we can cover for injuries and suspensions

Yes Alpine I feel you are correct