John B

Sorry did not realise your point With probably the best pace attack we have ever had I never thought we would be relegated and if the batting was more consistent we could have been challenging at the top of the Championship

Yes I think all the youngsters have done well this season and hopefully with more experience will become more consistent. I am interested I player from Glamorgan is going to do

We are third and you are still worried about relegation Shows how even the Championship is. Need batsmen to be more consistent next season

In June 1972 I did 4 1/2 Rounds at Coulsdon Court in one day

What about McCarthy I thought his saves were very important it is really great having a decent keeper and a striker who scores

Does it actually matter if we won Any away win is a good result is it not

I just love it when we win

So what would be achieved if Les and Ralph were fired. The owner does not want to invest so we are not going to bring in stand out signings and we have no top class players coming in from the Academy so we will be where we usually are down at the bottom of the PL currently where West Ham are too despite investing heavily in players.

Excellent post which I agree with except for you comments about Cedric who has pretty good Stats I believe But I think you could have added that we dont have any match winners in your analysis of our squad

Stephens is a good player with ball at feet he was originally a fullback so it is not surprising he is not good in the air defensively. Why not give him a chance and see what happens

We were about to sign Walcott in January but he was offered more money and the deal fell through we bought Carillo and that did not work out so they were looking for a striker . But posters like you think it is easy to get in a top class striker when it clearly is not. Who do you think wants to come to bottom six PL club who is half decent and better than we have got

Really What do you think should be done the players must be pretty good to play in the PL and earning Millions of £s every year

Don't you think it is a good job footballers make mistakes otherwise games would finish 0 0

He has been spouting negative nonsense for the past ten years since I have been on this forum During which time we have gone from League 1 to the PL where we have had some of the best league finishes in our entire history. Won the JPT and unluckily lost a League Cup Final played in the Europa Cup twice I don't really understand his whingeing so I have put it down to stupidity but he has every right to post however it is a shame he comes from Southampton otherwise his rantings would be on another web forum.

Surely you are having a laugh if you ever thought we were going to the next level we did pretty well for a couple of seasons but that was never going to last Cortese may have thought it but he was sacked after spending too much of somebody else is money. Don't think Gao is going to waste his money on an impossible whim Running a football club is not easy although you seem to think it is a piece of ****

You are proably right in all you say but why whinge we have a crap squad and possibly a crap owner? Why just support the team and hope for the best? Nothing can be done so lets hope for a better performance next week

Pretty realistic predictions I would have thought

Exactly right but a little lower than average I would have thought unless we get a couple of top class players in or the squad performs better than in the two recent seasons

But Batman is right on the Transfer Window as it shows we are going to be a lower middle PL team at the best I don't think we have ever paid in excess of £20m for a player We have good players but not any really good players I would have thought so expectations of any success are going to be low

Pretty underwhelming Window which followed a shocking Window in January

Don't you know what Maybe means? I did not say he would be playing but don't you think it is interesting that Burnley may be interested in him as both their England Goalkeepers are injured

Maybe playing at St Mary's on the first day of the season according to the Echo

I thought we had a couple of Friendlies before the start of the PL season So I am going to wait until then before suggesting the team versus Burnley. But when McCarthy and Bertrand are the only ones I think will definitely play along with the new CB it just shows that we don't have many standout players

It was the end of the game it was a friendly it was a patched up defence it was hot not sure players knew who they were marking I would expect in a PL game there would be commitment.