John B

What evidence is there that Markhus was going spunk billions of his money to get to the Champions League? I have never found any evidence that he was a billionaire with money to burn

For success the club needs good and exciting players most of these would not want to come to Southampton so the only way is to get in decent players and hope they develop into stars but over the last few years only a few have done so.

It started going wrong when deluded fans believed the hype that we were on our way to be a Champions League Team which was as likely as you starting to **** gold bars. I have been supporting the Saints for nearly sixty years and during that time we have had a few fine teams and played well but mostly we have been average and sometimes downright poor and that no doubt is the way it is going to stay. The only way it can change is if somebody wants to regularly invest huge amounts of money or the club invests in a clairvoyant to oversee transfers . It would be nice to be a top club winning regularly but we are not it is very difficult to replace top attacking players who want to come to SFC so please stop blaming everybody and get behind the team because in the long run it does not help as can be seen by the decision to blame Puel for last season when in my opinion the fact that the forwards kept missing chances and Forster was not reliable were the major reasons for our poor form at the end of the season. I don't think Pellegrino is a good manager and I think we should have sold VVD and perhaps spent the money on an attacker but in general most of our signings have been OK but nothing special but the real problem is we are not developing top class players from our Academy over the last twenty years Cheer Up we are not as bad as we were when we went down in 2005 although we did have a better goalie then

Most people were being small minded and just did not want VVD not to go to Liverpool without VVD the defence was OK last season but the attack was poor so it would have seemed sensible to me to have sold him but it is only my opinion

I totally agree with you but the club has made three really wrong decisions As you say there was no point in getting rid of Puel without a top class replacement and it will be interesting to see how he does at Leicester. Secondly VVD should have been sold and the money invested in a couple of really good attacking players it is not as though we did not need more attacking players last season. Thirdly something should have been done about the goal keeping situation as Forster has been pretty poor for some time and has cost many points recently

Ever thought that Burnley maybe a decent defensive side and it is difficult to score against them. Rather like us actually

We are top 10 side with top 10 players and a top 10 manager whilst loads of fans live in a fantasy world

Because we have better players and have no cup competitions to play in and only 11 players are allowed on the pitch at the same time Also shows we have a pretty strong squad.

If results go our way we could be 7th and best of the rest tomorrow

I think we did it was in 1978 I was at the game first time I had seen Hoddle play both teams made little effort to score as a draw made certain both teams went up but if we won we would go up as Champions and Brighton would go up too. If we lost Bolton Spurs and Saints would go up.

I agree with you he was a very important player in 1966 when we got to Div 1 but yes he was bald but so what

Why change a winning side?

Very true one swallow does not make a summer. Lets hope he moves on from here and contributes regularly like Mane did but so far he seems to have flattered to deceive not helped by injuries and not playing regularly We definitely need some class up front which will relieve the pressure on the whole team

Fraser has been an integral part of our success in recent years this season only five teams have let in less goals than him and in recent seasons he has let in fewer goals than most teams. Goal Keepers do make errors and are very noticeable and Fraser has made a few recently but the lack of scoring goals is a much bigger problem than us conceding a few soft ones. If the forwards could score some it would take the pressure off the defence because if we concede it usually means we lose

I think that is very true and something which was highly likely. I don't really understand why fans don't accept that we have been very lucky recently especially with Mane and it takes time to bring in young players and develop them. We are just a mid table side always have been always will be just accept it and when we do well get excited but it will not last forever football is not like that

I don't disagree with you that we have decent players but They make too many mistakes They never score wonder goals

Also time was spent getting in a new manager instead of spending time getting in a decent attacking midfielder or striker which we still need urgently

Should have stuck with Puel but the club ****ed it up by telling him to change his style of play so he walked and I cannot blame him as he did not do that badly with regard to results . Then we had no one decent to replace him with despite being in the market for a manager a year earlier so we now have poor results and a manager who in my opinion has less experience and success than Puel. There is no point in sacking MP now if there is no one a lot better available because from experience results will bound to get better

Surely other teams are allowed to attack and score goals that is football?

Him and Terry Paine were the best signings I can remember in the last 60 years both helped to get to the top from the old Div 3

I agree with a substantial amount of your post but I think Alsop deserves a further chance as he gives an extra option as a WKTKEPPER but I think Adams Weatherley and Carberry are now not good enough for Div 1 . Holland I think has potential and may provide a replacement for Ervine. But we need as you say two openers and a fast bowler. I have only seen two days cricket watching Hampshire but was not impressed with Bailey as Captain has any regular watcher any comments about Bailey because I may well be wrong. PS if Vince is a success in the Ashes we may well be ****ed I think Holland

Fancy getting relegated twice in two years The whole cricket side needs to be revamped with Giles White out

What type of people Harold Wilson was a clever decent man. I would surprise you could say the same about Cameron Osborne Gove Boris IDS Tebbitt

Hampshire 14 for 3 Warwick 188

I was there on Wednesday and it was in my opinion the right decision at the time we beat the bat so many times in their second innings Our batting is just inept and has been all season