Lighthouse

That's the clear difference for me and why they deserve punishment and we don't. It's considered acceptable there and their FA is complicit by way of their inactivity. This kind of thing is neither new nor difficult to deal with. In Britain we've managed to identify most of the trouble makers and they've been given bans. The odd nutter still slips through but when you've got hoards of facists, faces covered, throwing Nazi salutes as they wander into the stadium, it all points to a complete unwillingness by the authorities to try and stop them. Russia managed it, when they actually wanted to. Putin didn't want the humiliation of being internationally disgraced at his own World Cup and surprise surprise, suddenly all their trouble makers were nowhere to be seen for a month.

Don't be silly. They're far too busy handing out punishments to players who compare their mate to a cartoon character. We could try enlarging those 'no to racism' badges on the sleeves from 6cm to 7cm, although that would be an extreme measure.

Does he deserve to die? Possibly. Is it right that vigilante 'justice' has been handed out, in a moral and lawful society, to a man already serving a punishment for his crimes? No. Was the person who did it a kind-hearted champion of the people, who was only thinking of the people? Also no, he was likely an incredibly violent individual himself who just fancied the idea of killing a nonce.

First half against Spurs they were having all kinds of joy down our right and finding plenty of space. That's not the problem, the main issues are: 1. The defence changes every game, sometimes every half an hour and occasionally 20 minutes before kick off. Nobody looks like they know what's happening, be it in a four or a five. 2. Our defenders aren't actually that good.

I'd stick with Gunn and get a settled team in front of him. Valery, Yoshida, Danso, Bertrand. Stick with that for five games, no matter what, and see if there's any sign of improvement. Gunn isn't a bad 'keeper but he is young, will make mistakes and the current shower in defence is doing him no favours at all.

Can't be arsed talking about any of that sh*te. I think what sums up the Premier League for me is watching the Man U - Newcastle game after and all the ads on the electronic boards were in Chinese. They're not even trying to pretend it's for the average British fan any more.

I still don’t think we’ll go down. 8 games and we’ve played 4 of the supposed top 6, plus Burnley away and a pretty decent Bournemouth team. The other two games we’ve won. I’ll wait until we’ve played the likes of Newcastle, Norwich, Sheff Utd, Brighton, Villa and Watford at home before I get too panicky.

Keep Ralph, he’s the best we’re going to get. This squad is absolute gash, aside from Yoshi there’s not one of them I’d give the tiniest sh*t about if they left tomorrow.

I struggle to care at all to be honest. All the Chelsea fans singing about how sh*t our support is might change their mind if they had to sit through what we have for the last 3.5 years. I’ve not been to a game all season, just watching on Sky/Bt. Anyone who pays to watch that sh*te deserves a medal. No, I’m not bothered if we go down.

Absolutely useless in defence. Where were Valery and Romeu?!

Long - WTF were you thinking there?!

That was guaranteed to happen. Sh*t from Gunn and Bednarek.

Here please. Close from Redmond already.

All good except Long. He’s the player you pick when you’re out of ideas and just want the team to sort of look like they’re giving it a go. Would have preferred Adams, he will get a break eventually he just needs that first goal.

Permanently off side horse? Can't be any worse than Austin.

Swimming in an outdoor pool, at night, in the p*ssing rain. Bloody magic.

So if we had just taken 3 points from 6 games or 2 points from 4 games, you’d feel much more confident?

I get that but it’s still a different team, in a different place on a different day. We could play any given team at St Mary’s, five Saturdays in a row, and get a different result every game. Why is every saying this and not how amazing our win at Brighton now looks.

I don’t agree with people comparing our results to others quite so simplistically. This season we’ve done better against: Man Utd than Chelsea and Leicester Liverpool than Norwich, Newcastle, Arsenal and Burnley Brighton than Spurs, West Ham and Watford Sheff Utd than Everton, Palace, Bournemouth You can sit here all day making comparisons like that. We have plenty of faults but other results really don’t mean anything.

I don’t think it’s any factor whatsoever personally. We’ve had players go on strike to go and live in places like Sunderland, it’s all about the level of football and the money.

Don't have kids. If I did I'd like to think there are better ways of disciplining them but I'm not judgmental of people who do. Every child and parent is different and there are probably a few little brats who need a short, sharp shock. More importantly, the thread title would make a great band name.

Well, I did say he would get sacked by Christmas I said that in 2014.

Adams is 10 years younger and already a better player than Long. For a start he can hit the ball vaguely in the direction of that big net. Adams hasn’t scored in 7 games, Long is easily capable of 7 months without a goal.

Pretty sure we threw away at least 12 results after the 85th minute last season.

Disagree on that. Gatwick is only 20 mins drive closer to Brighton that we are to Heathrow, not something potential players will really care about (and even that's assuming they don't take a direct flight/connection to SOU). Brighton is nice but hardly any more appealing than the New Forest if you're stinking rich. London might hold more appeal as a City but not Brighton. Ultimately it will come down to the same basic question. Who's paying the most money and will I get are they a stepping stone onto even more money. Ironically, our USP for signing decent players used to be the fact that we sold them to Liverpool.