John B

I would like to be in the Championship next season instead of being uncompetitive in the PL

I have been following four succesful chases 1966 1978 2012 2024 and found that there were twists and turns unlike relegations where nothing went right Just keep confident one day we will do it

Championship predictor is not real life

Hindsight is a wonderful gift that you over the last twenty years or so in your various guises have shown in abundance

I think they realised that Bree was not a PL player so brought in two fullbacks but unfortunately they seem to be duffers not easy recruiting players Overall I feel SR have recruited reasonably for this season

So what a lot of players over the years have been in the same situation that is Football

Not got a mortgage then

Do you not realise we cannot win every fucking game

My mate has been supporting Wrexham for over sixty years thinks you are a right miserable bastard

Lets hope we do not go up because we are more than likely to struggle

And it is nearly fifty years ago that we won the FA Cup - One of the best Days of my Life

Despite BBD playing regularly for Derby County and Adam Armstrong playing the PL and they earn thousands playing football each week for sometime so they must have something

Well you certainly are not

We had a much better team sixty years ago and less whinging fans all set for Division 1 no VAR no PL really good times Since the PL we have been dreadful apart from a few seasons

How many points do you think we need

It could also be something to do with having better full backs with the return of Bree and the return of Welington from injury

What was Adkins record when we had Lambert and in my opinion a better team

Very true but managers of stature do not seem to want to come here As a matter of interest do you know any suitable managers who have not been employed

Perhaps other strikers were not interested in coming to Southampton Apart from an injured Ings we have not signed a decent striker when we have been in the PL for over twenty years except when Koemann was the manager We are unlikely to recriut a manager of his standing in the foreseeable future and as a club which is on the downit is not a place where top class players want to play except for youngsters who are not certain to develop into PL players The club have been in a decline since Puel was sacked not helped by the lack of investment by our Chinese owner.who could not release any money

I am slightly more positive we just need to get in better players who can regularly score goals which does not seem to be as easy as some on here think

What would you think he should do if they offered a significant increase in his wages

Thanks Donald

I think Trump must have hacked him and posted his usual rubbish

The club is in the position it is because it has players like Armstrong and Bazunu who are not PL standard and a large proportion of the the fanbase are demanding for the Club to be in the PL It is not going to happen for sometime we are just an average Championship club as our League position shows with no outstanding players I have seen over the years promotions where the teams had international players like Paine Chivers Melia Forsyth Ball Williams Boyer MacDougal Lambert Fonte Llanana plus very good other players I just cannot see how we are going to get to the PL and stay there with what we have now

One swallow does not make a summer and I remember vividly you making comment during the era you mention that we should enjoy the success as it would not last I have been following the Saints from around 1960 with the first thirty being great with decent managers and some great players but since the Premier League results have been poor and the standard of players generally worse than before the Premier League We can only be a decent club if we have wealthy owners who employ independent experienced football people to run the club