Lighthouse

It's not a typo, we'll need a calculator to keep track of the score.

Eh? You can’t change your captain after the teams are released for the first game.

It'll be tactical. They aren't that long international trips. Bit of an odd team but whatever, I'm expecting a loss anyway.

It really wasn’t if I’m honest. As crap as we were, at least you could get tickets for away games, usually for a reasonable price. You also had a chance of winning every game, as I learned to my astonishment when we I went to Reading that season. Yes those days were bad but no worse than this as a fan.

I'm honestly not sure I can bring myself to vote for any of this lot. Having said that Swinson gets bonus points for not wanting to scrap Trident, despite what that dipstick in the audience just said about the environment.

Prospective buyers are not going to care 1% about the fans. It's a risky investment which means Gao might be willing to sell at a knock down price and someone might be willing to buy. Both on the assumption that we will get relegated anyway.

I think putting Fonte and Virgil in this team would more than make up for the differences between Puel and Ralph. I'm not defending everything he has done but we can't just keep changing managers in the hope that something will happen. It's basically a roulette wheel of managers, continuously throwing money on one number until you eventually get one that pays out. There's no strategy and it will just fail long term. Before we sack him we need to address the issues which are DEFINITELY wrong and that's the squad. Then if he is still failing, we can look at another manager.

Dream on! We will struggle to give Moi away with his wages, let alone £10m. Cedric is out of contract in summer, nobody is going to pay for him. Nobody wants to buy our CBs As for signings, I'd be surprised if we brought in more than one player, let alone four.

I've got ham but I'm not a hamster!

I honestly wouldn't wear that shirt if you gave it to me free. Right now I'd sooner walk around in a gimp mask than ANY Saints shirt, let alone the hideous rag UA built this season.

Puel did not have the same squad, he had Fonte and Virgil for half a season. Those two are easily worth six points in six months, compared to our current defence. Take those away and Puel finishes 17th. Nobody has covered themselves in glory here but that’s four managers in a row fighting the drop. Our squad is crap.

It's part of a long term plan (I hope) to turn us around. There will be little he can do in the short term; we will still likely get relegated and I doubt we will see much if any movement in January. His time to shine will come over the next two or three years. As the contracts start to expire on the likes of Long, Cedric, Hojbjerg, Forster, Lemina, Boufal etc. it will be interesting to see who he brings in.

I think our problems run deeper than that and TBH Targett never really looked good enough. He'd be a bit better than Danso or Hoj but still a very limited, Championship level player IMO. Valery was a better player last year and look how poor he has been.

I would rather have a goal scorer than a reserve LB and if we genuinely are that tight I think selling Targett to buy Adams was a sensible choice. There are two obvious problems with that: 1) So far Adams hasn't been a goal scorer 2) Good grief, are we really that tight for cash. I still think we made the right call on that and that Adams will come good eventually. Supposing Ings' injury problems continued, would you really want to go through most of a season with Long/Obafemi up front?

I remember when he got sacked by Chelsea, not long after we won at Stamford Bridge. When interviewed about the match he insisted the ref. had cost them the game by not giving a penalty (which replays later showed was dubious at best). When asked about two more blatant penalties not given to Saints he just said, "I'm not going to talk about that" and stormed off. He comes across as a delusional narcissist and I can't see him as anything other than a massive downgrade on Poch.

I know that, I was referring specifically to his time at Newcastle. About five years, same as Poch. Didn’t win anything but got them playing some brilliant stuff and CL regulars. Anyway, all down to opinions. Personally I’d call him a great manager, trophy or not.

Why is that different though? Poch’s team is only as good as the resources he has available and I’d say he has got the absolute maximum out of that squad. I have no doubt he’d have won the league comfortably with those early 00s United and Arsenal squads, later 00s Chelsea or modern day City. I’m trying to think of other managers. Sir Bobby never won anything at the Toon and they built a statue of him, probably a reasonable shout.

Spent f**k all compared to the other top 6 and even Everton. Despite this he achieves: - 4 consecutive CL qualifications (what the shareholders are really bothered about) - CL final - 1 domestic cup final - 3 domestic S/F Wow. Just wow, Levy is off his trolley.

He was on a train to Charlton once (packed with Saints fans), when we went there in League 1. Couldn't figure out why everyone was suddenly singing swing Lowe until I overheard someone explain on the way to the ground.

We used to play on the AstroTurf at Fleming Park every Sunday night. That was yonks ago now, probably c.2007-08.

I've met a few people from here and generally found them quiet agreeable in real life. Even the people I thought were idiots on t'internet. I think the anonymity of a forum tends to dehumanise people's attitudes towards each other and make them say things their social filter would usually block out in a face to face scenario. Plus a lot of what is written down loses it's nuance and may come across badly.

Are the paper clappers still there? I’ve not actually been to SMS this season but if they are it’s the most ridiculous environmental f*ck you I can think of. I’ll bet they just go straight to landfill in the other plastic bags full of rubbish. We’re about ten years behind the times with Dyson hand driers too.

I’ve just about had enough of you and your elk.

No doubt things have been said within the privacy of the dressing room etc. but having them in the public domain serves no purpose other than to satisfy the morbid curiosity of the fans and media. It's like posting step-by-step updates of your divorce on Facebook. Sure, your nosy friends will want to know and no doubt there is plenty to be said but not there for everyone to see.