John B

I thought Boycott was in the waiting room on the way to his grave Nasty little man

Yes I agree with what you are saying but will reserve judgement on Hull for later

I went to the Oval yesterday for the test match the first time for over twenty years. Awful experince beer £8 a pint toilets disgusting England tactics bewildering with six slips and gullies letting Sri Lanki score at five an over when bowling and giving Sri Lanka catching practice when batting. If that is Bazball they can forget my patronage I will stick with County Championship cricket

I saw this while looking on the internet Southampton's club history is marked by notable league and financial recovery. Key signings like James Beattie, Kevin Keegan, Dusan Tadic, and Virgil Van Dijk were pivotal. Players like Rickie Lambert, Sadio Mane and Claus Lundekvam, had important careers at Southampton. Southampton have had a notable spell in and around the upper reaches of the English football pyramid in recent decades, and their club heritage is steeped in Football League and FA Cup appearances that have made them a recognisable institute of the game on the south coast. In fact, alongside being the FA Cup holders of 1976, since first winning promotion to the old Division One 10 years prior to that honour, the Saints have spent just 11 seasons outside of the top flight. But those days as over and now we have so many inexperienced and average players compared with the ones I watched between 1962 and 2020 and I really feel sorry for the ones who regularly watch the Saints today as I saw some really topclass players

Yes but both Nathan managed a team of better PL Players probably I just feel the current squad just cannot hack it in the PL at the present time A strike force of AA DIAS and ARCHER does nit suggest to me that they will score many goals in the PL

We are in the PL with only twp decent PL players although a few may develop into decent PL intime so what changes do you suggest should be made as we meet stronger teams, Like most teams which gain promotion through the playoffs we are likely to be relegated.

I hope Brown stays he has done well when I have seen him. I feel Weatherly is now surplus to requirements as Middleton 65 not out ,Prest Orr and Albert are sufficiently good batsmen for next season. The bowling for next seaon is key as the loss of Barker has shown that we need a top class third seamer. Against Essex Turner who is an attacking bowler could not slow the run rate that Abbott Abbasand Barker have done so well recently. PS I do not really care much about white ball cricket it is over 50 years since we won the County Championship and exactly 50 years that we were robbed of it due to the weather especiall as we thrashed the winners Worsterhire at Portsmouth earlier in the season

Perhaps if he had Mane and MLT instead of Armstrong and BBD you would not be so critical I feel sorry for him trying to win in the PL with his current squad

The is not much quality there not sure any would currently get into our top PL teams of the past

The real solution to winning games regularly in the PL is to have a team of decent players strangely this has happened in the past but with this current squad and a strike force of Armstrong and Diaz it is just not going to happen.

I agree with you first sentence but why would he want to come here anyway

I think after the game we will have a better idea of what can be expected in the coming season

What do think of Chelsea buying up the better players and not playing them Apparently Chelsea have a squad of forty or so players most on high wages including Sterling who would do a great job for us but not on £120000 a week

Football is their job they are not playing football as a hobby so why move

I read it but it did not say that they could not spend it only that they would spend sensibly

But having £100m worth of players to sell shows they have more financial muscle than us where are our £40m players that we can sell now

Yes I agree look at Wolves for instance Wolves have submitted a proposal to sign England goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale on loan from Arsenal with an option to buy next summer. (Athletic - subscription required)

But what about the other teams in the PL who do you think is going to struggle

How does that work then how does he take the foot off the pedal and why Do the other team members know he is doing this Sems a bit far fetched to me

Jose Fonte

Like many from our Academy

I agree with the point you are making but Bazunu and Larious are injured and not PL standard yet and Lavia has been sold

I agree Gao did not invest much but it was Sports Repulic which spent millions on players who never performed well and got us relegated

Probably something to do with Sports Republic

Very true we used to be a club where good young players game hoping to develop and move on to a bigger club