John B

I think you have comprehensively shown that we have mostly a squad devoid of talent if you think Adams is one of our top players. PS I do not disagree in any way what you are saying but FFS Adams is not consistently good

Nothing has changed because we have not really improved the squad we have got a few young players in but nobody outstanding. Spurs finished 4th in the PL last season and have spent loads of money on improving the squad. WE have not done that so consequently our performances have not improved

Why? This is the worst squad of players we have ever had in the PL

Rather like you perhaps

I have been watching Saints for nearly 60 years and can ensure you that he is not a decent striker he is adequate one like Norman Dean or Frank Saul or Bobby Stokes I have been very lucky to see decent strikers like Ron Davies George O'Brien Martin Chivers Peter Osgood Micky Channon Steve Moran MLT Alan Shearer Frank Worthington Charlie George Colin Clarke Peter Crouch Henri Camara Ted McDougal Phil Boyer James Beattie Kevin Keegan Rod Wallace and a few others in Saints colours

Apart from Ings when did we last get in a decent striker when we were were in the PL We have needed a decent striker for ages

Joe Kirkup came from Chelsea as part of the Deal with David Webb John Mortimore assistant manager I think also came from Chelsea Cliff Huxford who played in two promotion winning teams in the 1950s and 1960s came from Chelsea too

Good performance shows that the players are all decent players lets hope they show that they are decent players in the PL where a great many are more than decent

So what players has Ralph currently ruined not JWP KWP Romeu S Armstrong Tino Salisu surely

Yes I agree but doubt either want to come here

The owners should be congratulated for investing in the club I am not particularly interested where we finish this season as long as relegation does not happen Because these youngsters mature in future seasons and with more aquisitions we should be a much more competitive side

If he is going to be the next Harry Kane why would Man City want to sell him surely if our head of recruiting know that the people at Man City know that too I think they currently want to loan out Delap

Because he does not want to play in a lower placed PL team

The main point I make from experience I am 76 years old is that experience does count especially with footballers. Take JWP he is now our best player but 5 years ago he probably was not but he has improved year by year which hopefully will happen to the young players we have just bought But there is no guarantee for that Getting a team with lots of young players is a risk which the club wants to take but I have no idea of what they want for the club next season and whether that meets the fans needs I do not go to games now but when I did go regularly and was a season ticket holder we had some top class attacking players and I watched some great games and there was little continual moaning about the club

At the moment I think Women's football will improve when there is an improvement in the basic skills will no doubt will come in the next few years The only non positive comment I would like to make is that it often takes ages for defenders to move the ball up the field from the RB/LB positions

Unfortunately I think this is the only way we are going to get a striker someone young who wants to progress We have only had Ings as a decent striker in recent years and only got him because of concerns about his injuries Lets hope I am wrong

You maybe correct but buying a decent striker is not easy especially as a club we do not pay really high wages and are not likely to be in the top half of the PL

Wants £180K a week apparently Nottingham Forest in advanced Jesse Lingard talks after lucrative offer | Nottingham Forest | The Guardian Seems unbelievable to me

I do not know what you consider struggling is but the results and form from the last part of the season suggest to many that we are candidates for relegation including the bookmakers so sending a young player to us is pretty risky I would have thought. City are trying to develop Delap so sending Delap to the Championship maybe a better option but being a striker in the PL is not easy

Why would Delap want to come to a struggling PL side which is probably going to be involved in a relegation fight May be better to go to Burnley in the Championship score a few goals get some confidence and develop

He is obvisiously a decent footballer but being a decent footballer in the PL is a different matter. Although I fully supported the SFC strategy of buying in players like him the strategy has failed to produce a consistent team playing decent football Our Academy has failed to produce PL players and the strategy seems just to avoid relegation. Compare this to Hampshire cricket which develops young players but also brings in proven players like Gubbins Barker Abbas Brown and Abbott and is relatively successful I started watching football in the early 1960s and have seen really good international players playing for the Saints and especially at home they played really well not sure if I was 16 years old today I would enjoy what was now on offer and from many comments on here neither do a lot of you. Sports Republic may invest in the next few weeks but if they do not we may be experiencing another frustrating season

Strangeley if I invested loads of dosh on players and paid them ridiculous wages compared with most if not all on here I would like some of guarantee that a few of them would enhance the team With our academy players we try them out and find most are not of PL standard Especially after Carrillo Lemina Hoedt Forren Vestergaard Osvaldo Ramires etc never played in the PL were flops Of course some will be OK

Hopefully but I would just like a couple of proven PL players

Without investment of decent players there is every chance will be out of the league We are in the PL surely we should be investing in a couple PL players not just youngsters who may develop into PL players or may not I am not sure who was the last player who came in as an experienced player and was an automatic selection and enhanced the team

Of course you need a basis otherwise what you post is fiction and complete bollix Technically it is possibly libelious as your comment could be contrused as defaming Ralph and the club as you suggested they were being reckless