John B

Koeman and Puel have both done decent jobs in different circumstances But Puel looks a better fit has he seems to have more confidence in the younger playersi

Well done Daws a fifty that will show Vincey how to bat in Test Matches

Well done to Liam now a Test Cricketer who would have believed a couple of years ago when he was loaned out to Essex

Puel was bought in to develop this young squad so they will be better next season which it probably will be if we are not in Europe. He has done pretty well in rotation because of the sheer number of games but having a settled team playing week in and week out would probably have led to better results in the PL. In previous seasons other English clubs in the Europa League have performed badly in the PL. Losing Mane and Pelle obviously has had an affect which is not surprising but if Long and JRod had scored three or four goals each things would have been a great deal better as the team is based on a tight defence I think only Chelsea and Spurs have conceded less. Of course another striker would be welcome but finding a suitable one to come to SFC and fit in with the other players may have been difficult.

What a lot of whingers Semi Final of League Cup 9th in League after lots of games in Europa Cup youngsters being brought through not many goals being scored but quite a lot being missed. Long and Rodriques are International Strikers it is hardly Puel's fault that they are not scoring if they were things would look a great deal better I dont know what the fans want but realistically 7 to 10 in the PL and a good run in a cup is what we can expect from the team. But yes a new striker and a few goals would be great and probably this will happen soon

Why is the manager rubbish when the players cannot score goals surely the players should be doing better. Jay Rod is on about 50k a week but may have cost us a place in the Euro League and two points tonight

Yes but by not letting in many goals you dont have to score that many to win

I would settle for a draw

10th in the PL Semi Final of League Cup unlucky to be knocked out of Euro League on away goals with ten or so minutes to go. Not bad I would have thought with lots of injuries to key players lots of games and a young team which is going to develop and become better. Yes we need an outstanding striker but there are not many of them wanting to come to Southampton . I think the future is looking good

I think the tactics were correct you are only saying they were wrong after the game where hindsight is wonderful The most important thing was not letting them score which seemed highly likely to me until the we conceded out of the blue . The point of the game was to proceed to the knock out stages conserve energy for the game on Sunday not put on a show of attacking football especially as we have not been scoring much recently

We should win but maybe we will not All to play for

By the way do you know what the word logic means as your post makes no sense at all but your next post does which I fully agree with

Have you just come on here to be nasty and not particularly nice I thought this was a forum to discuss Saints What actually is wrong with my logic

Just shows we are not a top club but just a staging post for footballers to earn obscene amounts of money when so many people are not and some are on the streets

This season we have won 9 lost 7 drawn 7 which I think is good with a new manager a few injuries and lots of travel I think some fans should be more realistic we are mid table side with players who will sometimes make a mistake and sometimes the team will play badly

I did remember about the ZDS and JPT that is why I mentioned proper cups which probably mean European qualification if you win

To some extent I agree with you but we are surely going to get to another proper cup final at Wembley again it is nearly forty years since we were last there. Liverpool are a great club one of the most consistent and successful ones over the last 50 years so it is a huge task to beat them over two legs

I did not think we would beat Leeds in 1979 but we did and went to Wembley. After Terry Curran scored early the semi final at the Dell was the longest match I have been to as we held on to the 1 0 lead

I saw his Southampton debut in 1966 scored a goal at the Archers Road end if I remember to help us on the road to Div1 A very important goal as we drew 2 2

You seem to be completely out of touch with reality as you did not understand what I wrote. I spent lots of time canvassing prior to 2015 talking to thousands of electors but not before the Referendum because I left the Labour Party in July 2015 but I am not out of touch in any way. Before 2015 there was of course concerns regarding immigration many of them based on misconceptions but there is no real solution because we need immigration as we have an ageing population and there is not much evidence that foreign workers take British jobs and they do pay their way and do jobs which many UK people do not want to do. Perhaps if your read this you might be surprised https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/20/reality-check-are-eu-migrants-really-taking-british-jobs The Tories could also have alleviated the problem if they had built more homes had not cancelled Labour's emergency local fund in area with large immigration and had made certain that incoming EU citizens were not paid less that UK born citizens if there was a problem. They also could have done more to invest and to train young people. But in times of austerity it is the immigrant who gets the blame

I think this team selection is very important and one of the most important Puel has had to make all season. I personally would go for bust and put out a very strong team Forster Soares Fonte Yoshida McQueen Romeu Classie Davis Tadic Long Redmond and hope for the best against Palace I think it is next weekend

Seems to be working to me still in League Cup a win away from the knockout stage of the Europa League and in 10th place in PL with four games against lower placed teams coming up. I thinking he has done pretty well considering injuries and the lack of form of J Rod

It was the the right wing press and UKIP which convinced the working class that the EU and immigration was responsible for falling living standards and losing their jobs. When in fact it was the Tory's choice to shrink the state with Austerity invest less in housing and training so that trained immigrants from the EU were blamed when they came to the UK. The Tories could also have alleviated the problem if they had built more homes had not cancelled Labour's emergency local fund in area with large immigration and had made certain that incoming EU citizens were not paid less that UK born citizens

I doubt that would have been the case but blaming Brexit for Tory Economic mismanagement is a change from blaming Labour they were very unlikely to have met this years targets even if Brexit had not occurred Brexit is just part of the reason that the UK Economy is in a bad state the main cause however as DuckHunter has said recently is down to Cameron Osborne and the Tories Especially as there is little evidence that Business is investing http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-economy-idUKKCN1290ZR Just because more people voted for leaving the EU on one particular day does that mean that Brexit was the right decision. with many unable or could not vote. I heard of somebody that voted out by post had died before the 23 June and probably there were some that voted Remain did not make it either. Leave said things that would happen if we left the EU which were plainly wrong and untruthful Such as Extra £350m each week for the NHS Turkey was going to join the EU and the country was going to be flooded by Turks A new points based immigration system was going to be implemented to reduce immigration even though we need it to grow the economy as we have an aging population. We could still have tariff free dealings with a market of 550billion people Inward investment would continue and we could get fantastic trade deals with the rest of the world. The incompetent Cameron and Osborne scared people with there economic rhetoric so much so that people like Batman did not realise that there would be economic consequences for leaving the EU as sterling would fall inflation would rise and growth and productivity would fall which is very likely to happen. We joined the EU when I was a young man because we were economically unsuccessful and in the forty years or so since we have grown to be a very successful economy with average growth about 2% every year with both Tory and Labour Governments It has been the policy of all Political Parties during the last forty years that our economic future was best served by being in the EU . So I find it strange that we are now out with no plan on how the EU is going to be replaced but many are estatic about the prospect as they hope that it will be alright on the night. But there is a very strong chance that millions of us will be poorer live for a shorter life and will be very unhappy

'Workers in Britain face the biggest squeeze on their pay for 70 years as a Brexit blow to the economy knocks wage growth and stokes inflation, according to an analysis of the UK’s government’s latest tax and spending plans.' And that's probably the best we can expect. The worst is hyperinflation, mass unemployment, and a reliance on a bankrupt state to fund the growing demands on the welfare state and NHS, which will both collapse. All in the name of 'taking back control'. I have seen no details or value estimates of the 'huge trade opportunities' that await Brexit Britain. Unless posters can give tangible details instead of waffle and hype they should shut up.