LuckyNumber7

I can't wait for the day he leaves and we never have to see him in a Saints shirt again. Horrendous footballer. Ironically he was slightly less shit in the PL imo but overall he has been terrible for us. He just cannot defend. I don't really get the hate for Welington. He's unspectacular but always puts in a decent shift and is solid enough. It's baffling how so many managers keep picking Manning.

Yes I noticed this too. Not only was there no bollocking, but Manning and Quarshie actually shook hands as they were walking back as if to say 'ah well, you tried'. Thought that just summed everything up, they should have been going mad at each other. (Manning totally at fault btw, not Quarshie). I will give some credit to THB today as I thought he was doing his best, he just looks so confused in a back 3. He gets a lot of stick on here but I do think it matters to him. Also fronted the Northam after the game despite a lot of booing. He should be captain imo. Just don't know where we go. The whole club feels broken and I'm dreading next Sunday.

Yes you can. IIRC we spent around £120M and were one of the highest spenders that summer. You can't just take Downes and THB out of the equation as we spent £40M combined on them, which everyone was happy with at the time. You also didn't mention Fernandes and Archer who I think were another £15M each, and another £3M on Wood. We absolutely did spend the money, just as MLG said we spent it very badly.

It's not mental at all. Last season he scored 3 goals in 35 matches in League 1 for Blackpool and Cambridge. I can just imagine the meltdown on here if we were linked now with a striker from the division below with that record! He may well go on to have a good career but it would have been a huge gamble to be relying on hime to score goals in the Championship. He's also far too similar to Armstrong and Archer in profile. We need/needed more of a target man type striker, a more physical presence. Why? I wouldn't be expecting much. I think there's a good chance we'll loan in a striker before the end of the window but unlikely we do more than that. Not much business gets done in January.

I'm not sure many fans did want Carrick? Regardless, he's only at Man Utd because of his connections with the club. Boro fans don't think too highly of him. As for Rosenior, anyone who thought he'd have left Strasbourg to come here is utterly deluded.

I am sure Onuachu would have scored goals in the Championship but what people are forgetting is how knackered he always looked. There's no way he'd have handled the rigours of a 46 game Championship season. Pretty sure he wanted out anyway. Salech would be an ideal signing but there's no way Cardiff would let him go, and they'll be in the same league as us next season.

I'd argue he's the opposite of a typical SR signing. He's 27 so not some untested kid from Man City that we'll look to develop. We were reportedly very close to signing him in the summer, but I thought he was more of a winger than a striker and we went for Fellows and Scienza instead. So it could just be lazy journalism, who knows. Either way, I think people need to get check their expectation levels. We're a mid table Championship team and it's the January transfer window. Anyone we sign is going to be a punt to some degree. It hasn't worked out for Guilavogui at Lens but he had a decent time in the Bundesliga.

I think Jordan James has been their best player this season. The fact we might (Hopefully) wear the commemorative shirt is the most interesting thing about this game.

That Villa game does seem to have been a noticeable turning point, and I would love to see our Premier League record since that match. It would be horrific. I remember coming away from the home win over Norwich in the previous game thinking we might actually have our Saints back. However I don't think it was that inexplicable. The squad had been on a constant decline since Koeman left and Ralph had us punching way above our weight, it was never sustainable. SR have been disastrous but the rot had already set in way earlier under Gao, and we were heading in this direction regardless. We've had the odd glimmer of hope such as the 2017 cup final, the good form under project restart and the playoff win, but overall it has been a steady decline for 10 years and shows no signs of stopping. It's been very hard work and you can tell it's taken its toll on the fanbase.

Considering his lack of game time you'd expect some rustiness, and will probably take him a few weeks to get up to speed. Some erratic moments but also some good ones. The first goal looked bad but he was blocked off by the Donny player. Thing I liked most was how vocal he was, shouting at the defenders. Seems a long time since we've seen that.

We'll see but I just don't see a PL player in him at all, he doesn't have the attributes, and even his much hyped ability on the ball hasn't been evident. He's looked like a deer in the headlights. You say Wood has been horrific, and I agree he's not been great, but has still been better than Edwards.

It's a beautiful shirt, and well presented. Would love to have it, but absolutely no chance at that price. The cost of football shirts these days is scandalous.

If true about Edwards, that's excellent business. Thought he'd be good for us in the Championship but he's been pretty dreadful, a huge disappointment. Fantastic if we've made a profit.

God Everton fans are such dislikable gobby twats. Ref got those decisions spot on.

The atmosphere was non existant before the change. It hasn't got any worse. The main issue is we have been so shit for a prolongued period of time, that there is a real malaise among the fanbase.