John B

Well said sir I lived through all that and also watched the Saints keep a 1 0 lead v Leeds to go to Wembley for the League Cup Final the longest 75 mins of my life. Another sort of highlight was when we were in Div 1 I watched Hartlepool a team that always seem to be going out of the Football League but never did until recently. By the way I have a friend who is a Manchester City fan who has gone through what we are going through at the moment but his commitment to his club has paid off. He may get me a ticket for the Saints game but in the last year I have seen two games with him neither of which City

Pretty good goal according to the BBC. Very good players score good goals we don't have any unfortunately don't always blame our defenders

Don't feel very confident about this game Pretty strange team

Sorry Surrey 211 all out not 201

If 201 is hard day in the field I don't think Hampshire will mind Four wickets for both Dawson and Edwards No Berg is he injured

Like most on here not very good at predicting results. Many think it is easy buying in players and getting them to perform consistently like predicting results it is not easy. However I think we should have signed a couple of experience players to help the youngsters and close down games

Top of the League http://www.espncricinfo.com/table/series/8052/county-championship-division-one May go on Monday

Probably one of our best PL positions I would have thought

We got Toby on loan when he had the chance for him to come here he chose Spurs I think you have to be realistic top close defenders do not want to come here. Yes Lovren and VVD turned out well but they were not expensive and wanted to develop in the PL which I think is what Hoedt wanted to do when he signed as he was a Dutch international. Fonte was bought in Div 1 and like Morgan and Lallana developed with us. It is easy to say we should get in top CBs but which ones were available and have wanted to come here in the last 18 months. Like me you have no idea who the club has targeted I still think our main problem is the academy as we have not developed any top class regular PL players in the last five years just like what happened when we were relegated in 2005

It is all well and good saying not replacing with a top class defender but who and where was one coming from. Of course theoretically you are right but practically it was impossible to do. Top class CBs are like rocking horse **** and would not want to come to SFC. Fonte VVD and Lovren were not top class when they arrived and each cost less than Hoedt Like wise Mane and Pelle cost less than Boufal and Redmond Recruiting players is not a science some are good but most do not fit in

A good start to the season I would have thought but the team needs to sort out the second opener

I am a fan of both LM and TP but I feel TP like MLT and Rickie Lambert did more in helping SFC getting to where it is today. LM provided the best day of my life helped by a helpful Cup draw and many memories at the Dell and elsewhere

A delusional post quite agree with Lord Duckhunter above don't you realise football is a job to players and they will move to achieve success and more money. Why do you think Tadic Boufal Cedric Redmond etc join SFC

Perhaps VVD wanted to go to a great club with passionate supporters which has great success over the last 50 years or more.

I agree but because the team is **** it does not mean all the players are ****

I agree with you the team v West Ham was shocking 4 4 2 was disaster this one is better balanced especially away from home but luckily Arsenal are more interested in the Europa Cup unsurprisingly I always thought a point against WH would have been a good result lets hope we hang on today at least we have had a little luck today with Arsenal's bad defending

All things are possible but most are highly unlikely statistically we had one great escape but because it was great I don't really seeing it happening again. We can only survive if we start winning and we can only win if we score goals so lets hope it starts in a few hours but it is not the end of the world there is always the FA Cup and next season

I don't think it is particularly a good way to run a company to listen to a bunch of mostly unreasonable supporters who have little idea of why certain decisions were made

Very true Soggy I have been supporting SFC and Hampshire since 1960 will continue to do so for as long I am live. Live near Reading now I am very supportive of all the locals who support Reading and are going through a bad spell but they like us have had good times recently

If our ****ing strikers cannot score any ****ing goals it is not surprising we are going to get relegated.

I agree with you Duckie the bloke and his cult are on the way out I hope

Corbyn is not the prime minister in waiting he seems to be a socialist orator with little skill in how to run the country surrounded by a cult some of whom appear pretty nasty and do not tolerate other views. I am a Labour Party Member but for how long I am not sure

Not leaving the EU would be even better and sensible news as suggested by most sensible people

But very true never the less and if he was the WBA manager no doubt you would agree