John B

I saw him make his debut (taking the place of the injured Kevin Keegan) aged only 16 years and 313 days on 29 November 1980 at Old Trafford, thus becoming the youngest player to be picked for Southampton

Ben Brown: Hampshire sign former Sussex captain on two-year deal Must admit never heard of him has he signed as a Batsman or Wicket Keeper/Batsman

Of course we could do better if we had more financial resources and the ability to sign top class players with the promise of European football but at the moment we do not We are a bottom mid table club with bottom mid table players who have been given contracts by the club but constantly discussing their abilities is not going to make them better. I my opinion SFC have not signed a decent experienced top class PL player for sometime apart from possibly KWP we sign inxperienced young players who are prone to make errors

Very true but Broja is probably going to be a CL performer

At the moment Armstrong is innefectual but Broja is not he may well become a decent player but at the moment surely you must see there are questions marks over him

Although we have done well recently and relegation is very unlikely to happen the only consistent thing about SFC is their inconsistency Hoping for a decent performance but will be unsuprised if invidual errors leads to a result which I will not like Brentford lost because of their errors lets hope Wolves do the same

We won because the players made few mistakes and played really well whereas Brentford did not

You may well be right but how many games do you suggest he plays if he does not contribute to the team's success

Currently he is not a very good PL striker he was signed to replace Ings Of course he could become a 15 goal a season player but that seems unlikely at the moment

Yes I agree but most games somebody does something stupid last game it was Salisu against Brighton it was JWP Coupled with the fact our stikers are shocking with so many misses it is hardly surprising our results are pretty poor Need to cut out these yellow cards as soon as possible

Hopefully we will have a stronger team than that Ralph usually puts out decent teams for the cup

I think buying Carrilo was Reed's worse decision Although sacking Puel with no decent replacement was not a good decision But the players were pretty crap as well although when the new ones were were bought I thought Hoedt and Lemina were pretty good signings

I agree with what you are saying but when do you expect to see results

Thank you By not being practical I meant that a top player in Udinese would more likely want to play for Liverpool than Watford

Just seems far from practical to me why would a top player want to come to Southamton if they we wanted by Liverpool What clubs run this scheme

I do not really understand what linked clubs will bring to SFC can anyone please explain I think I read that Man City have linked clubs but they still buy from clubs all over the world which are not linked to them

To improve we need a decent striker Not easy to get one but we do need one

Why do most people think Newcastle are cheating I have no idea whether they are or not but surely you would have thought there must be something which is available that shows what Newcastle Utd are saying is correct But that said I usually think Boris is cheating or being economical with the truth must be the times we live when we do not trust what people we do not know but dislike do or say

With so many cases being reported throughout the country it is hardly surprising that football is being involved Surely it is better to wait and get the games played well everybody is fit and well Adams has Covid it cannot be nice for him to be under pressure to return to the team

It may be mild to most but of course it is death to some I have had covid for nearly a week it is not nice but if millions of others get it too day to day services will be ravaged my wife has it now but is unable to a get a PCR Surely something should be done to protect the millions who have not had a booster for a variety of reasons I had one and still got Covid

This post is far from persuasive it is just an emotional outburst with little clarity of thought

Surely you can see from today's first half it is the errors of Salisu and A Armstrong that are causing the bad results not the tactics We could be 2 0 up with a complete team on the field and will no doubt lose Come on master tactician what is Ralf going to do to win this one

I am interested to know why he has chosen this team but I doubt we would have beaten Spurs with a different one lets hope we beat Newcastle Livra and Broja need rests Adams Stephens Lynaco are not available Tella has had Covid The only forwards are Long and Armstrong so what choice does he really have

You are talking nonsense how could he check on McCarthy if he did not realise he was injured it was McCarthy's responsibility to tell the bench he was injured Most of our problems are down to individual errors by our players and the lack of quality of our strikers in front of goal against top teams With the squad we have 20 points is reasonable total at this stage of the season no doubt with better players we would be higher in the league

What was wrong with the tactics that day we seemed in control of the game Over the years we have held on to 1 0 leads like most other team Surely it was Jwp's error which led to Brighton scoring