LuckyNumber7

Salisu is our best CB, why would you leave him out? Especially as he had an enforced rest at the weekend. I would drop Bednarek who is a liability and play either Stephens or Lyanco.

Puel deserves credit for the cup run. The quarter final at Arsenal, both semis against Liverpool and the final which we should have won gave us some great memories. Unfortunately they were the exception and most of our league performances, especially at home were utterly turgid. We failed to score in our final five home games and I think only scored more than one in three of our home games. I accept that the squad had been weakened but every week felt like we were just going in to limit the opposition rather than have a go at them, similar to Rafa at Newcastle. There was no intensity, nothing to get behind, it was just desperately dull and uninspiring. I'm still baffled how we finished 8th that season.

Hearing Martin Semmens speak on Solent he is very reassuring. Maybe I'm naive but it feels like he's a good and intelligent bloke who does actually care. Very pleased he, Crocker and Steele are staying. If he feels this is good for the club then I'm on board. Whilst we could have had a much worse owner than Gao, it feels like SFC has had a millstone removed from round it's neck., but only time will tell.

Until we know more details it's hard to know if this is good or bad but I'm cautiously optimistic. One thing is for sure, we needed new ownership as we were going nowhere fast with Gao. As others have said, I really hope Semmens and Crocker are staying on.

But they are only three points from safety so you can say the same about the other clubs down there. Watford have lost 6 in a row, Burnley still only one win and Norwich are hopeless. With three or four good new signings Newcastle should be able to stay up with ease.

Since when has finishing 15th with Brighton been such a great achievement that the likes of Man Utd should come calling? I think Potter is ok but some people go way over the top with him. I mean they have just come out of an 11 game winless run in the PL. They play decent football but like many clubs in the bottom half struggle for a consistent goal scorer. In many ways they are similar to us and I certainly wouldn't be touting Ralph for the Man Utd job as much as I like him. I certainly don't buy the idea that their squad is so poor that finishing 15th is some huge achievement. I would take Bissouma, Trossard, Cucarella, Lamptey and probably Dunk, maybe 1 or 2 more. I would say their finishing positions have been around par, but if he got them into the top 8/9 then rightly bigger clubs would probably take notice.

Mr dependable, was excellent again today. He really needs a song though. He plays on the left He plays on the right Kyle Walker-Peters Makes Cafu look shite

Fantastic Saints! Would have been delighted with a point before the game, never mind playing more than half the game with ten men. Brilliant battling performance and everyone put a shift in, very happy with that. Well done Ralph and team.

Apparently it's Broy-a in Albania but it's always been Bro-jar in this country and he is fine with either. That was according to a commentator on one of the games recently. But yes he needs a song!

He was excellent in his first few years here, especially under Koeman, but had been in a steady decline ever since tbh. All those criticisms mentioned by Leicester fans echo what has was said on here even going back to the Puel days. Bad attitude, can't be arsed etc. I think he has a rather laid back style which can wind fans up the wrong way. Either way I wish him no ill, he gave us seven years of good service but was well past his best when he left. Sadly doesn't look like he's up to top level football any more.

Probably because we're not living in Nazi Germany and he has just as much right to an opinion as you do. It's people like you who want to censor anything they don't agree with who are the dangerous ones.

I was caught out by the 7.30 ko so missed the first twelve minutes, but from when I tuned in we were the better side for the first half, aside from Edouard's chance Palace barely threatened. Second half was better than what we've become used to recently and was pretty even, so frustrating to again give up the lead but a draw was a fair result. They have better players on the whole (Gallagher is class) and their bench options were way stronger than ours and have only lost once at home this season. Didn't think anyone played badly (well Djenepo) so a bit confused at the negativity towards some, thought Lyanco did ok (not brilliant) and Tino had his best game for a few weeks imo. Aside from the first goal Caballero was much better than the Arsenal game. Broja is clearly our best striker right now, wish there was some way we could make his move permanent but that seems very unlikely. If he's fit he needs to start as he is a real handful for the opposition. Tella is lively but still lacking in end product. Respect the point, but we really need a win against Brentford. That's a big game now.

Norwich were dire tonight too. Still irks me that we lost to them.

The point is it's nowhere near 100%, and debatable whether it does at all with Omicron. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/omicron-wave-driven-by-young-healthy-vaccinated-population/ar-AARLYs6?ocid=msedgntp Which all renders vaccine passports pretty useless, aside from the ethical issues.

Well that was bloody depressing. Regardless whether you blame Ralph, the players or the ownership, we are just not good enough and struggling to compete with most of the league. Can't remember the last time supporting Saints actually felt fun. I almost find myself thinking relegation might do us a favour in the long run as right now it feels like death by 1000 cuts.

Damnit, thought Bednarek was out? Would much prefer Lyanco in there. Other than that it's a decent team, still not expecting us to get anything though.

My original post said the vaccine does not stop you passing covid on, your reply does not counter that. between 38% and 49% less likely to pass the virus on than unvaccinated people, PHE found." Unless that is 100% then they can still pass it on. It's not even close. If every single person in the country got vaccinated covid would still circle. It is here forever and I'm afraid some people will be living in fear forever.

Even if that's correct, put another way it means they are between 51% and 62% as likely to pass it on as unvaccinated, and that is three weeks after having the vaccine, when its effects are at their strongest. The numbers will wane with time. Vaccine passports are not only an affront on our freedom, they are a complete waste of time. Vaccinated people are plenty capable of passing it on.

Prejudiced nonsense. The vaccines help prevent serious illness, they do not stop you catching or spreading covid. Funny how France has just closed all it's nightclubs for four weeks due to a spike in cases, despite only vaccinated people being allowed in.

I guess you could argue Villarreal are quite a big club, yet they come from a town of only 30,000 which is incredible really. Outside of football you have the Green Bay Packers who are quite big in American football but Green Bay's population is just over 100000. They are exceptions to the rule though, generally more people = more fans/revenue = more success. I have family in Leeds who are big fans so know the place fairly well, they are very passionate about their team and have a very big catchment area with lots of surrounding towns. Saints and the City of Southampton by comparison are very small, there's no shame in admitting that. We do alright for our size but it would be nice to have some ownership with a bit of vision.

It's not like that at all, Pompey always have been and always will be our rivals, I don't hate them any less because they are a couple of leagues below us. I'm sure Newcastle fans still sing about Sunderland even though they are in the same league as Pompey.

So so predictable. I've been very supportive of Ralph but after that I'm edging towards the Ralph out camp. Sick to the back teeth of these second half abominations and throwing away leads, which renders any good work in the first half meaningless. That said, JWP shoulders the majority of the blame for that one. Utterly brainless. So pissed off.

I do think Ralph got the tactics wrong as we gave them far too much space in the middle of the park, so the back three were constantly faced by Liverpool forwards bombing at them with little resistance. It's great having three forwards but if you've got no-one to feed the ball to them it's pointless, and we were just overrun in that first half. However realistically we would have got humped regardless of formation as Liverpool are just on another planet to us right now, we have to expect these results every now and then. The two upcoming home games are far more important and we need to be looking at taking at least four points from those. As for positives I thought under the circumstances Lyanco looked pretty good again, certainly our best defender on the day. Bednarek is truly dire and should be relegated to fourth choice once Jack is back from injury. We had our moments in attack and were a bit unlucky not to score, and Broja looked a menace again. We're just lacking that quality end product.

Really poor second half (again)! Tbh I think we really missed Redmond and Stu and even Djenepo as playing Diallo further forward didn't really work. Problem then was Theo was our only 'ten' on the bench and sadly he's just not up to it any more. McCarthy really poor for both goals. No-one played well, nice goal from Che aside. Bad day at the office

Around 3 years ago I delivered to Paul Williams who was still living in Bassett. Unfortunately he was a bit distracted at the time so didn't get chance to chat with him. No idea if he still lives there.