John B

So what do you think now was it a shit appointment or not

I thought Micky Channon missing a Penalty at the Milton Road End on Boxing Day v Arsenal started our decline Met the Arsenal Goalie Bob Wilso years later who said is was one of the few penalties he ever saved and put it down to Alan Ball who told where the penalty was going to go. The same Alan Ball who helped us return to Div 1 in 1978

Just shows it is not as easy as a great many on here think it is to get decent players to come to SFC It's not like buying everyday items when you recruit footballers who have the choice of saying no when approaches come to join the club and no seems the answer to a great deal of our questions

And I am being told we are in the middle of a cost of living crisis

Perhaps it is difficult to find a decent striker who will come to St Mary's and score regularly who do you suggest that we failed to sign

Yes that is true but he has been very inconsistent with two large innings where he was man of the match but with very small runs scored in other completed innings

I feel that the decline in the playing standard in recent seasons has ended and the future looks a great deal brighter than it did a few months ago promotion is a possibility but staying in the PL is by no means a formality

Sunak is a proven evasive liar who leads the worst government in modern times and should be treated as such

I thought this was a forum to discuss Saints not a place for half wits to post nonsense. So Saint Billy what are your thoughts on getting a striker

I agree with you but finding a half decent who wishes to come to St Mary's is going to be difficult as we have seen over recent windows. I doubt the club has not trying to get one in who is your suggestion?

Exactly in our promotion season in 1966 I believe Chivers scored 30 goals and Norman Dean got 15 or so

I think you are being slightly unkind because it is quite possible for the team to get 90 points and still not get automatically prompted because of the form of both Ipswich and Leicester this season In 2011 we were promoted with 89 points with in my opinon a better squad than we have today and Adkins had already had had success with them the previous season, I think Russell has done really well to knit the team together with out a really top striker like Rickie Lambert and I lookforward to the the rest of the season

Also I would have thought cnsideration should be given to opposition we are playing against as Blackburn were hopeless and Coventry and Watford were not if today's results are anything to go by

I agree with your sentiments but you missed out Chivers in your second sentence and I doubt Burnside played with Channon and Davies

Yes if we get in in a few consistent attacking players

Hardly surprising I would have thought as all of the attacking players are solid but not outstanding where as our previous promotion winning teams had some top class players Paine Sydenham and Chivers in 1966 Ball Boyer McDougal and Williams in 1978 Lambert and Lallana more recently

With the players we have we are a solid Championship team what is wrong with that? We just do not have enough consistent top class players to be an outstanding team and as yet I have not seen any evidence that SR are building one

THANK YOU

Yes I agree 8 points from those six games would now be disappointing hopefully at least twelve as we are due for a loss and often under perform in December

Spurs think he is a top prospect despite your concerns Tottenham scouts keep close tabs on Gavin Bazunu - Sources (footballinsider247.com)

Reading is his local club his family home is nearby so why not Reading

I do not think that is the case at all as the poster usually puts forward reasonable ideas which you automatically reject as you possibly have fixed ideas which you are unable to change change. Suggesting somebody is holier than thou does not in anyway show that what he is saying is not reasonable. I think what he is saying is that a number of fans are continually negative on this board it is a point of view which I could agree with .

Ronnie Whelan Former Republic of Ireland midfielder on RTE The Dutch get down the sides of our centre-backs so easily. Gavin Bazunu has had to keep on his toes. He's made some big saves tonight.

Is it worth it ? I have been supporting the Saints for over sixty years it was great for the first 30 years but when we have been in the PL came it has been pretty dire so I do not care if we return to the PL or not

but is the squad good enough for the PL with a few additions