John B

Luckily my family came to lunch I did watch 2 or 3 mins at the start of the game where no Saint had control of the ball and did not watch anymore. My nehew who is at Southampton Uni was quite positive about the result as he thinks tickets will be cheaper next season and he can watch more games

Merry Christmas and lets hope this dreadful year with regards to Saints results ends positively I have been watching Saints since Derek Reeves was centre forward and apart from the time we were in financial difficulty under Wilde/Lowe this has been the most depressing time I have had

I think you may well be right but we have had some success with recruiting decent PL players too Bertrand Romeu Ings KWP Cork spring to mind We have been successful in recruiting genuine international players from Scotland such Forster Davis VVD and Wanyama spring to mind

Of course I must be a knob reading mostly drivel on here for the last 15 years but SFC has been part of my life for over 60 years

Most are young lads who need encouragement not misinformed nonsense from knobs on here

Well Jones is a Welsh name so all should happy then

Do think Boufal/Ramirez/Gakpo/Ramos types are likely to want to come here and get verbally abused on this Forum when things go wrong

The squad and Southgate have been a credit to our country and should be congratulated for what they achieved It is very difficult to win a QF in the world cup If the referee is incompetent the opposition team continually foul but score two pretty spectacular goals and you miss a penalty against a really top class experienced team

Thats football you need the 'rub of the green' which we did not have

Not the first for me but in 1966 I was convinced we would win. But earlier in the year I was far from convinced I would see First Division football at the Dell but we did thanks mainly to Terry Paine and Martin Chivers with Paine being involved with the World Cup

I would have thought that we would have recruited a proven PL type goal scorer by now if there were any available and they wanted to come to SFC I just think we are fucked and will be relegated

Unsurprising really as he has no experience of the PL or a higher class of player

I think most football fans think Marcus Rashford played really well last night along with Stones Bellingham and Foden Certainly the three blokes doing my roof did

Why is it ridiculous for people in Canada Mexico and the USA to watch World Cup matches ?

Does that mean that we have a massive gap in quality [n our Goalkeeper who played 44 games for Pompey last season

David Burnside's goal in the FA Cup QF Replay was something special too bring the score to 3 3 after being 3 0 down with fifteen minutes to go. Terry Paine's goal at Leyton Orient in 1966 was special too giving us promotion to Div 1 Times we different then for 30 years or so we only had three managers and some truly excellent players

Bobby Stokes 1 May 1976 Wembley Stadium The atmosphere was elecric after he scored

Rickie Lambert was the best signing the club made in the last sixty years as he helped us get from League 1 to Premier League and helped us win a Cup at Wembley I know Keegan and that generation were great signings too but Rickie and Terry Paine before did so much in getting us to the top League

If we still had Danny Ings Ralph may well have been still here but Danny no doubt wanted to be else where We were at our best I thought when Ings was playing well

We have been a poor side in the PL for sometime since last March I think we have won 4 games out of 25 or so Not sure how this is going to change without a few new PL standard players

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I feel that the mess that the club now finds itself is because the strategy of buying young players so they will thrive in the PL is far from sound and the post elsewhere regarding Small returning from Port Vale exemplifies this Also our Academy is currently unable to produce PL players. The situation feels similar to 2004 when we were on the way to relegation. In recent years the standard of other teams in the PL has increased significantly for instance Brighton and Crystal Palace overall seem to have better players and better results So without significant investment we in good quality players we are going to stuggle and eventually get relegated I am not sure SR are good owners for us as their priority does not seem to be Southampton and all the PR/Bullshit about the advantages of being in a group of other clubs has not materialise d To continue to prosper in the PL we need an owner like Markus Liebbier his death was so sad on so many levels

I agree with what you are saying but surely it is down to the quality of attacking players we recruit If we had Mitrovic from Fulham Toney from Brentford or Saha from Palace we would be in a far better position do you not think We once had Tadic Pelle Lallana and Mane and we did well but since then only Ings has done well Redmond Adams Lemina S Armsrong Djeneppo have had a few high spots but do not play well consistently

I think they are contriving to get us relegated not intentionally I agree but through their transfer policy I just cannot see us getting enough points with our current attack and cannot see three teams which are worse than us

As we are very likely to be relegated he may like Nigel Adkins get us promoted from the Championship I was sceptical of Adkins when he was appointed as I was happy with Pardew who had assembled a decent squad. I was also sceptical about Poch but thought Adkins should be replaced when we were in the PL However if we had won a couple of more games and Ralph had resigned to go to another club and we had a decent striker I would have thought employing Jones would be madness