John B

Well getting both teams promoted to the PL seems pretty positive to me compared with your negative response

Quite right it no one is to blame we are going down there is only a faint chance that we can get over twenty points in our remaining games JM currently has a contract with Leeds for another two years it would be stupid for him to sign another contract with SFC for anything less than that similarly it would be stupid for SFC to sign a long expensive contract with a PL manager at the present time. I would be happy with somebody like Scott Parker to manage us in the Championship as I just cannot see us surviving especially after we were 1 up against Wolves who had 10 ten and we lost The squad is too inexperienced and error prone and I just do not feel they are a team just a collection of young players who have found their way recently to Southampton

I am fed up with all this despondancy these wins two wins got me really interested in the Saints although I lived 130 miles from the Dell MANCHESTER CITY 1 SOUTHAMPTON 5 FA Cup 3rd Round 9th January 1960 Southampton Reeves(23, 32, 67 & 86), O’Brien(64) 7th January 1961 – FA Cup Third Round – Southampton 7-1 Ipswich Town (O'Brien 3, Mulgrew 2, Penk, Paine) and I still support them today after moving back to Southampton in 1962 and watching them regularly In those days they were a team not a collection of millionaires with no passion for the club

Southampton 1-0 Arsenal 16 Apr 2022 But you are off course right in highlighting our dismal record and that is why I have thought we are going to be relegated since September

Very similar to Liz Truss becoming PM with little exerience and crazy ideas

That is why sacking managers without a decent replacement is clearly wrong has now happened twice with both Puel and Ralph Worked well with Adkins and Poch

I have been watching football for over 60 years so I probably know more about than most What was the point you were trying to make

DCC maybe a knob got red carded in the last game and may have been told to calm down

I have found the last two windows pretty bizzare and realise that now PL football is not for the fan but for the money man We have brought it something like a dozen players got rid of Romeu and Forster have Livromento on a long term injury We also sacked a manager who had kept us up with limited resources and replaced him with a manager with dubious credentials who only Mick McCarthy thinks is anygood Plenty of the old guard have also gone out on loan and we are currently bottom of the PL do not play in red and white stripes so it hardly seems that the team is Southampton anymore None of the new players have really proved to be consistent PL players except for Lavia who appears to have injury problems even the latest three who have actually played have question marks over their ability With so many so called first team players in the squad I feel it may be difficult to form a focused team of players most of whom I expect had never thought they would be playing here this time last year to start turning out quality performances to get us out of the bottom three The fixtures that we have in the next two months are Brentford Away Wolverhampton Wanderers Home Chelsea Away Leeds United Away Leicester City Home Manchester United Away Tottenham Hotspur Home and I would have thought we needed a minimum of ten points from these games to have much chance of not being relegated

Where do think the money was coming from in the past for more investment the club just did not have any and they did well to keep us in the PL If Ings had signed another contract we would possible not be in the position we are now. SR have invested heavily but in my opinion it would have been better to have done in gradual steps instead of gutting the squad and bringing in young and inexperience players .

Really I doubt that it is unlikely that a person n his position would do that but of course some people on here would like to believe it Any idea who alledgedly the player involved was

Why would he do that ?

I am not sure they would if the players keep making mistakes or missing chances At the end of the day it comes down to what the players do Doubt Ralph or Jones planned for Adams to miss numerous chances

City played pretty badly that night and we played better than usual so we deserved to win

and played pretty dreadfully as well

Of course I know all that but you have not answered my question In the past we regularly produced players from the Academy to play in the PL contribute to the success of the team and then in some cases move on for large transfer fees The ones you mentioned apart from JWP who started playing years ago have not contributed much to our PL team As Pilchards alludes to in an earlier post the lack of Academy players is causing us to buy sub PL standard players to fill up the squad making the team uncompetive. You may well be right that there are young players who are going to make it but I have heard it all before and they may not Our club was well known for producing PL players which made us relatively successful keeping us in the top flight for such a long time now it does not and is contributing to our decline and our eventual place in the Championship

Surely the title should have when instead of if

Very true - something that annoys me is that the Academy has not produced a regular PL for SFC for years in fact yesterday there was not even an academy player even on the bench So what is the point of the Academy

Sometimes Saints win because the ref makes the wrong decision that is football you have to live with it We squad is poor the manager is probably poor so relegation awaits

My daughters brother in law a Chelsea season ticket holder is pretty devastated about the injury Most Chelsea fans think Broja had a great future before the injury

and Denis Hollywood one of the hardest Saints players I ever saw Forgotten Heroes - Denis Hollywood - Southampton News | The Ugly Inside (fansnetwork.co.uk)

Yes he is doing OK it was a shame that we did not hang on for a draw at Fulham like we did today and against both Palace and City Not only for the extra point but also for the confidence we could have brought into the Forest game Things are looking up with new players to come into the team the future looks brighter than it did in 2022

Looking at the players playing today and on the bench just shows how ineffective our Academy has now become which I believe maybe one of the reasons why we are in the relegation zone PS I am not Jones IN or OUT he is doing OK and it is a shame we did not hang on for a draw at Fulham as I thought his tactics there were spot on

Yes I agree but do not feel confident as I have seen Saints so many times be woeful after playing really well in their previous game. I am not underating Saints performance at all but my friend a City Fan sent me a text Only one team in it! but we were shocking well done

But Everton have better players than us Pickford Gray Gordon and Coady would significantly enhance our team