John B

Great Analysis I thought we would not want to concede at anytime in any match But I know what you mean

I am with Mono Saint you seem delusional to me just stop whinging and support the club people like year are a disgrace as you have little idea of how SFC is run and its values

Yes very true never thought Walcott was that good a player just a lot of pace without the football nous Always thought OXO was the better player as I remember him scoring two goals in a match one a lob when we were in Div1 which I thought showed great skill and awareness

Could not agree more back six are pretty good The front four inconsistent and unable to score although last season we were creating chances but missing them this season not creating many chances but still missing chances created. It is no wonder MP keeps changing them . However finding goal scorers is not that easy look at Bentecke one goal all season but if we had scored an extra goal each month we could be in the top ten

Quite right most wanted him to stay and not go to Liverpool which I thought was a mistake but that and sacking Puel has helped in getting us in the position we are today. It is easy to identify players who would enhance our team but difficult to actually to get them to sign for a variety of reasons. Our recent signings have been reasonably good so I expect us to bring in two or three players shortly .

If I told you this bollix was drivel Reed and Kruegar have got the club to 6 7 8 in the League in recent seasons and to a Cup Final and the last few signings included Lemina Boufal and Gabbiadini would that make you feel better.

Does not mean they are available or want to come to Southampton does it

Yes Long has pace but he hardly ever scores.

Which I think has been the case for many years

We used to have a Goal Keeper as manager and he got us two promotions

The problem is I doubt very much any of these managers would want to come here That is the problem who wants to come here who is anygood that's why we get managers like Puel and Pellegrino We were lucky with Koeman he wanted PL experience so he could move to a bigger club

FFS why would he want to come to us when he is doing such a good job at Burnley

That's very true and I still think it was stupid not to have sold him in the summer

But missed another couple of easy chances according to the bloke at the game on Radio5Live

Get rid of Davis Long and Pied would be great and replace them some decent signings but that said apart from the Top 6 clubs who has been a decent signing?

That's rubbish I thought we replaced Mane with Boufal Juanami by Redmond Wanyama by PEH and then brought in Gabbi Replaced Fonte by Hoedt and added Lemina Not sure there is much wrong in theory with these signings

We have not had a really good performance this season but I feel that is mostly down to the players who are constantly making errors and wasting chances

You don't seem to be a loyal supporter at all You just seem to want to be a supporter of team that performs well all the time. Of course I don't want the team to be relegated and it probably wont be but three teams will be and one day it well be SFC. I have been following SFC for nearly sixty years and in that time only Everton and Arsenal have played exclusively in the top division so all the others have been relegated that's football. Football is a team game and it is unlikely that a team's bad form is down to one individual. I don't think Pellegrino was a good choice but most managers have good and bad periods that's football

Saw this article on the Internet which makes sense to me Theresa May is a prime minister who faces an enormous challenge to recast Britain’s relationship with Europe in the wake of the EU referendum vote. But the Brexit statement she gave to the House of Commons on Monday was based not on reality but on unreality. The picture of Britain and Europe that she painted for MPs following last week’s EU summit does not and will not exist. Mrs May’s Brexit Britain is a fantasy island. The underlying fantasy is that Mrs May is the master of Britain’s fate in these negotiations. This is not true. It was the European Union, united, clear and principled in its approach, that shaped the first phase of Brexit talks, which came to an end last week in Brussels. It will be the same in phase two, which will begin shortly. The final deal about the future trade terms on which the UK leaves the EU will not be settled by March 2019. All that will be settled before that is what the EU in April called “an overall understanding on the framework for a future relationship”. As the EU then went on to say, any free trade agreement must “encompass safeguards against unfair competitive advantages through, inter alia, tax, social, environmental and regulatory measures and practices”. Mrs May probably gets this by now. But a significant minority of her cabinet and her party either doesn’t get it or is recklessly determined not to have it. That is particularly true of the part of the Conservative party that sees Brexit as a deregulatory opportunity, for whom “taking back control” means scrapping as many business costs – taxes, regulations, pension obligations, workplace rights and employment protections – as possible. Reports at the weekend suggested that Michael Gove is leading a cabinet push for the UK to abandon the terms of the EU working time directive – which among other things ensures a maximum 48-hour working week. This is the opposite kind of Britain to the one for which large numbers of working-class leavers voted in 2016. They wanted more security, as they saw it, not less. They did not vote for the freedom to work more hours for less pay and fewer rights. But this deregulated country is the one the Brexiter right is determined to give them. A second fantasy is Mrs May’s insistence that the two-year transitional period that she is seeking is an “implementation” period. This is a trick. In order to calm leavers, Mrs May pretends the framework will be agreed before March 2019 and implemented after Brexit between 2019 and 2021. This is not true either. The negotiation to produce a real trade deal will take place after March 2019, not before. There will be nothing to implement in 2019. That is why there were reports at the weekend that Mrs May is being pressed to stay on until 2021 to prevent trade talks being ruined. But by then the UK will have left the EU and a general election will be upon us. There is no way whatever that this can be the “smooth and orderly” Brexit that Mrs May claims to be overseeing. The third great fantasy is in many respects the most dangerous of them all. This was embodied in last week’s European council decision on phase one. As Mrs May put it on Monday, Britain is committed to uphold the Belfast/Good Friday agreement, to maintain the common travel area with Ireland and, crucially, to avoid a hard border in Ireland. But these goals – all massively desirable – are not compatible with the UK’s departure from the single market and customs union, to which Mrs May remains committed. Any future regulatory divergence between the UK and the EU – between the UK and Ireland – can only create a dangerous situation on the Northern Ireland border with the republic. It is hard to know which is worse: that Mrs May knows this and does not mind such an outcome, or that she knows it and is pretending to parliament and the public that it is not a problem. Either way, this is the politics of impossibilism and of circle-squaring. Either way, British politics is crying out for truth not fantasy on Brexit. But Mrs May will not and cannot provide it.

Personally I don't think it will happen but who knows Portsmouth may get promoted but at the moment despite the team not gelling I don't think Saints will get relegated. I think we have no really outstanding players who can turn a game most are pretty good but not excellent also we do seem to blame Forster a lot but not defenders who continually foul in dangerous positions.

In my lifetime of 72 years we have been relegated four times and promoted five times that's football some team has to relegated but losing to Chelsea hardly means it is going to happen every December it is always the same we play pladly

Chelsea deserved to be in the lead don't they as they are the better team Whats wrong with that

I totally agree that the concerns of the people that voted for Brexit should be addressed but most could have been addressed by the UK government if it had not been obsessed by Austerity scapegoating the poor the vulnerable and migrants. It appears Brexit is going to make most people poorer less healthy and less safe but the most wealthy richer

Never thought Puel had any luck when he managed us as so many chances were missed and a number of flukey goals were scored against us But things have changed

Still there are so many people who have no idea what brexit is really about. Many leave voters have been conned and used, behind it there is a right wing capitalist international elite who have engineered us into leaving so that they can install a low wage, low level of public services, low tax for the rich elite and big business, economy into the UK. Similar to Asian countries but many people who voted to leave have not yet realised this. Look up the book co authored by the Tory MP Pritti Patel 'Britannia Unchained' look at the reviews this is one from Amazon:- 'I have worked around the globe and I read this book with mounting. disquiet , amongst all the rhetoric about "hardwork and self reliance" was a core of the worst sort of libertarian the one that only wants Liberty for their own at the expense of their fellow citizens, this book has a recipe for an economy more redolent of a third world dictatorship or the eponymous "banana republic" Than the United Kingdom. It is at best economically illiterate and at worst fascistic in its outlook with very little to say that is positive and gives a very bleak picture of the life they would offer in Britain under their demagogic regime. This is one more:- 'The only good thing about this book is that it exposes to the British working class and the left-wing brexiter (Lexiter) the confidence trick that is Brexit. The true motivation of the elite Brexiter (Kwarteng, Raab, Patel, Gove, Fox, Leadsome) is to deregulate the economy. They believe in absolute dog eat dog capitalism with practically no protection for the worker or the consumer, or, for that matter, the environment. If you know nothing of economics and know nothing of the drawbacks of trying to run complex systems from simplistic models, you might get taken in by this book. Hence the health warning: This book does not contain any useful information on how to run countries in the 21st century'.