John B

Being looked at by Arsenal and Leicester apparently Arsenal 'monitoring Mohamed Elyounoussi transfer alongside Leicester' after Southampton wingers stunning start to season (thesun.co.uk)

Yes I agree but we do need a GK sooner rather than later I would be quite happy to sell JWP and get a Broja type striker and a top class DM and GK Getting rid of both Long and Forster

There is a hell of a difference between a top Championship Striker and a reasonable PL one Newcastle did not think Armstrong was PL quality otherwise they would not have sold him to Blackburn Yes he did very well last season but his impact this season with us has not shown that he is a PL quality striker like James Beattie Henri Camara Graziano Pelle Danny Ings Marians Pahars Rickie Lambert plus many more He seems to be like Brett Ormerod David McGoldrick and Shane Long strikers who play in the PL and score a few goals but only time will tell Adams is OK but not consistent enough at the moment and unlike Broya has not scored any international goals that I know of

Why is Armstrong not Championship quality what has he done to make you think he is PL quality I would suggest that Broja is going to be PL quality and so do Chelsea yesterday was his first Pl start

Great Post but most of your posts are usually excellent too Yes experience is a great thing and that is probably why Theo was brought but we have young players who will gain it the more they play

Why?

They probably got rich by not investing in Football Clubs like Southampton

We certainly have had some great players but Paine for me was the best he was so consistent hardly missing games he did not have the skills of MLT but he was a better all round footballer scoring and making goals for well over 15 years

I think her judgement was quite good selling 80% of SFC when nobody else would buy it. If we go back 13 years there were no other interested buyers other than her father it does not seem that there were/are people interested in buying SFC with a spare £500m it is hardly likely we are going to then morph into a top PL Club or the area can be developed into something substanstial

I do not think any system would work for this set of players as we have no PL strikers and relegation seems to be almost certain I have been following the Saints ever since they were promoted to Div 1 and the strike force at the moment is the worst in over 50 years at least we had MLT in the 1990s when the rest of the team was pretty dire

There is no point in having Ron Davies without Terry Paine or John Sydenham to supply the crosses

I saw him countless times in my opinion the best all round footballer to play for Southampton I will alwaysremember his three goals in the last four games of the 1966 season to get us to Div ! especially the one at Leyton Orient where he was carried of the pitch on the shoulders of Saints Fans He scored 188 goals in 816 appearances a feat I doubt will ever be beaten From 1958 to 1969 he only missed 5 league games If anybody wants to learn more about him and the great times I had as a Saints fan in the 60s where we went from Div 3 to Div 1 just read his biography Constant Paine Without Terry Paine I doubt we would be the club we are today

No Cliff Huxford or Tommy Traynor

Paine was so much better than Sydenham him and Chivers got us to Div 1 Chivers went to Spurs Xmas 1967 probably the best Player who came from Southampton he was a Pup[l at Tauntons I would not want George in our team just mentioned him I think you are right about Williams and Ball so I would suggest there iare too many strikers so I would remove Keegan who was past his best from your 111 and replace him with Paine

I think that is a great team but Terry Paine is the best player I ever saw playing for the Saints so I think I would replace Stevie Williams with him It was his crosses and Sydenham's too which made Ron Davies such a Potent Goal Scorer But that of course would deplete the Mid Field It is so difficult as we have had so many wonderful players compared to the ones we have today Peter Osgood Charlie George plus others were really good before they came to the Dell and Martin Chivers was really good at Spurs

That is the key but at the moment I have little confidence that they will score many goals in the PL lets hope they do

The problem was that the cross is actually too hard, it is absolutely smashed across and the only thing Walcott can do is throw his head at it and hope he gets in the way of it.

Why should he be in big trouble against the Euro Champions away when the team has performed pretty well so far

I do not understand why we should sack him without new players quality players we will not succeed I watched our first game in Div we had Paine Davies Chivers and Sydenham we just do not have that calidbe of player anymore and even with them we struggled We have only had relative success when we had top class players but none of them despite them being pretty good stands out and puts in regular high class performances

I agree Surely the problem at the moment the two strikers are really not top class and we lack Stu Armstrong and as yet JWP has not provided any Free Kick goals I think we may struggle to score goals as we no longer have Ings but apparently sacking Ralph is the answer but I do not understand why a new manager will get more out of Adams and Armstrong

Do you not remember we had a top class striker in Danny Ings during that period If you think Adams and Armstrong are a top class Strike force which is going to terorrise PL defences even with Klopp in charge I think you are sadly mistaken

Give Ralph a rest The Players are clearly not good enough no wonder we are scoring goals Adams and Armstrong must the weakest pair of strikers we have ever had in the Top Division Although in the 1990s they were not that good but at least we had MLT who I never though was an out and out striker

They are not shit they are just not outstanding and that is the problem we do not have an outstanding

Very true no doubt would have come on as sub in today's game It is remarkable that all 11 English Players played for 2 hours

SORRY TO HEAR THE DEATH OF JIMMY GREAVES SAW HIM A FEW TIMES IN THE 1960S AT WHL WHEN I WAS AT UNI ONE OF THE BEST STRIKES I EVER SAW PS Sorry about the Capitals too