John B

Guaranteed starts in a team which is continually struggling with relatively poor pay does not seem particularly appealing to me Especially as his formed dipped as the form of the team dipped

Or maybe like others he does not want to be involved in a relegation fight I am not sure what advantages a decent striker would think there would be in coming to Southampton at the moment as we do not seem to do large wages

So you do not have any daughters who wish to watch and play football if you did you would have a different perspective Giving young people an opportunity to play sport is what it is about

I agree with your sentiments but how long do you think it will take for them to make an impact in the PL which is a more intense environment than what they have been experienced before. I would be great if they started to influence games immediately but it will take time as has happened with Adam Armstrong but of course not with Tino

Perhaps thy were a better team in the final third because Armstrong was not playing for them is a possible explanation

An extremely interesting question which cannot be answered at the present moment but there are certainly risks with this approach

So has he ever played in the PL?

Was that your attitude when we signed the young CB from Forest Green Rovers I think recently Just two young players wanting to better themselves Surely there is nothhing wrong with that

Surely you will not be paying so does it matter

Very true as our attack was pretty poor probably the worst set of players as a unit I can remember since we got in the top flight Without out decent players we were bound to struggle when Broja lost his form

As a matter of interest do you see yourself as a Saints supporter because you always seem to be posting negative comments. Yes it would be great if we had had better players than we have at the moment but we just do not have the financial resources to buy them. Harrassing other posters who want to support the team seems particularly stupid to me so that is why are asked the question

Terry Paine was the dogs bollix in Div 3 Div 2 and Div 1 and went on the a World Cup Winners Medal Not sure Gavin will win a World Cup winners medal but lets hope he does well here if he does eventually join us

How do you know that

Yes I just realised that he was Irish and he is already an international so that is not bad

If he joins just pretend he is 25 years of age if he joins By the way one of our greatest goalkeepers Peter Shilton played for England in his early twenties and lets be positive and hope Gavin does the same

Not much I would have thought if he had to up sticks and move to the North and get paid probably less whilst he has a contract here The Club would then have to get in another GK to replace him Not a good idea I would have thought

Do not think anybody called Winks can be a decent footballer

We are Southampton F C of course I would like to see better players but our finances do not allow us that luxury I do not like fans continually complaining about players especially Stephens who does his best but he is not one of the best CBs in the PL I am a suporter so I support our players until better ones come along We have only hardly spent mega millions since we have been in the PL and without financial clout the strategy the club is adopting is the probably the only one to stay in the PL Football is all about money the more a club has the more likely it will have success but essentially it is a game and our players although not the best are pretty decent otherwise they would not be playing in the PL sometimes when everything clicks and the opposition is below par we do have some decent results. In the sixty odd years I have followed the Saints the only consistent thing about them has been their inconsistency because they do not have many outstanding players who consistently perform to high standards

I doubt he would agree with you as he has played over a 100 PL games Cost £150k so good business I would have thought

Yes you are right but the number he has scored is pretty low

So what system would work for this group of players ? Especially as we have limited top class PL players and are attacking players are not that good in fact they are the worst I have seen since I starting watching in 1962

What skills do you possess to say whether Ralph is a good or bad coach Most times we lose the other team plays better or we make stupid mistakes or the Ref makes a mistake

Yes I agree with your last comment Norwich Leeds Watford Burnley and Everton all had new managers and three went down anyway Better coaching and better players is what is needed a bit more luck and fewer errors would also help

I do not think coming to Southampton at the moment is a dream scenario for many marquee signing unfortunately In fact I am not sure I can remember the last marquee signing we made although some signings turned out to be marquee signings for other clubs

In general I thought we beat teams when they were poor and lost to teams when they played well West Ham Brentford and Everton were dreadful when we beat them and Villa Crystal Palace good when we lost to them How the opposition plays and how many individual mistakes our players make together the run of the ball affects the outcome of a game which is often out of the control of our manager. No doubt our manager like me wouuld like some better and more experienced attacking players but we do not seem to have any money or desire as a club to get them If we had Saha Ericksen and Tarowski in our team instead of Redmond Eloynousi and Stepens we would be a pretty decent team