Sergei Gotsmanov

Great idea to mix a good cause with a good read. Where can I buy it locally?

So people will buy local? It has boosted farming.

I think your assumptions about Brexiteers are unfounded and the inability to emphasise would suggest that the intellectual gulf between stay and leave is not as great as you would believe. Were you one of the nearly three quarters of economists who predicted a post Brexit recession? Do you think change is more likely now we have voted out than if we had voted in? I hope that I am on the right side of the argument but I cannot of course ever be sure.

What is a typical Brexit post? Sorry I should have said biggest European fishing fleet. Like others in the remain camp you cannot accept that Europe's dysfunctional, inflexible and undemocratic ways was a major factor in people voting for Brexit. It's unwillingness to change will threaten its very existence. Its parliament has become increasingly full of protest parties and the next European elections will probably make it completely unworkable and full of crackpots. I think we should go out there and fight like hell for the best deal using every tactic and bargaining tool at our disposal. 'Manning up' and accepting that our GDP will fall is what I would expect of those that were happy to stand by and accept that the EU needed to change but never would.

Was our fishing fleet not the largest in the world before we signed up? Publicly there is plenty of bravado but behind the scenes one would obviously like to think that people recognise the damage done to both sides if it is not an amicable break up. You talk us down again, this is the UK not Norway. Believe it or not the benefits were two way. David Cameron went to the EU and asked for concessions and he could not even persuade them to allow us to demand that people had a job before they came to the UK. It was no surprise that we voted out. How exactly were you expecting the EU to embrace reform. The referendum result was ultimately a good result because if we had voted to stay in then nothing would have changed but now there is a political will to address some of the issues.

So under your logic the UK fishing industry would have been very keen to stay in the EU? Not sure too many voted in especially those hard working west country fisherman abused by Bob Geldof and his shipmates. I am not sure I would be alone in detecting an appetite to 'punish' the UK in certain circles of the EU. You also seem to be suggesting that democracy is the price we have to pay for being in the Union. What I find a little odd about those that voted to stay in is that there is no willingness to concede that the EU has some very pronounced issues to address.

Despite some rather vindictive noises coming from a Commission that increasingly resembles FIFA in the way it conducts itself, we have to hope that the pragmatists will triumph. Some fine tuning to the existing arrangements will be more straight forward and will be in everyone's interest than the political posturing of some of the EU's higher profile bureaucrats. Do you really think that the French and the Spanish want to lose access to our highly productive fishing waters, the ones we gave away to join in the first place. Do the Germans want to lose out on their second biggest market for their cars. Do you think that the Irish can risk playing games with their biggest export market. Do you think the Dutch want to stop selling flowers competitively to Covent Garden. Will Danish farmers not be petitioning their government to protect their bacon exports. The list goes on and on. In fragile economic times for the region, a bitter divorce is in nobody's interest. Hopefully Brexit will be seen as an opportunity to fix the EU not damage it further.

That hair is sensational!

Verbal part of the problem for the 'remainers' is that they genuinely believe that they are more intelligent and rounded human beings. It seems that the remedy being put forward by another highly paid, unelected bureaucrat is a more rigid, less flexible and undemocratic Europe. Who will be in this new hard core of Euro Super state? Germany, France, Belgium and all those countries who are so skint that they have no choice.

Welcome. How good is Boufal?

Would be fantastic to have him back. A player with a point to prove who knows the set up. Level headed as well so I am told. We could hardly begrudge him a move to Arsenal could we.

I am not trying to justify atrocities just trying to point out albeit clumsily that I do not really see this as a clash between good and evil; both sides are just as bad.

I meant to say more qualified than my own opinion. Why is the foreign office full of the right people.

I think that as Assad represents this minority party of the country it is probably appropriate. I do not condone the bombing of hospitals but I expect that understandably the hospitals were probably not just full of civilians. I think that it was great that Syria was a relatively secular society under Assad but I doubt it ever will be again. It saddens me that it became a focus of conflict between Russian and the West. I do know that Syria before the war was a good country and if we should never have let it deteriorate into this tragic situation. That is a crime between us and the Russians. I also greatly respect your opinion on this part of the world and enjoy your viewpoint because it is my qualified than my own. It genuinely shapes my understanding and hopefully others.

Assad is an Alawite a branch of Islam. I expect that he would argue that the hospitals did not just have civilians in. Personally I hope that the West has learnt that dictators in the Middle East are far better at keeping the peace than democracies. The region would be a lot more peaceful if you still had Gaddafi and Saddam even if it offends our western sentimentalities. I imagine that most Syrians would dream about turning back the clock to before the war. We allowed it to be a stand off between us supporting the rebels and the Russians supporting Assad and years of tragedy unfolded.

I would argue that the country is not as split down the middle as you would think on this issue. Project fear persuaded many people to vote remain whose natural instincts would have been to vote out. My heart says out and my head says in was regularly quoted to me. If 10% fell into that camp then your split down the middle is not as clear cut as you would think. Incidentally I voted out because the polls and the bookmakers made it clear that we would remain in and I did not want to endorse the EU. I went through the regretting it phase but now see it as a very positive thing. We can now negotiate from a position of strength and hopefully the EU can address its issues. Nothing reflects those better than Claude Van Juncker. In fact watching him gave me feel better about having voted out.

I like to think that most authentic Saints fans are realistic to agree with you. I am grateful that we are owned by people with good values and a prudent outlook!

Totally and wholeheartedly agree. He has always shown great passion and commitment to the club. We are always looking for heroes and club stalwarts yet people want Pelle moved on and moan about Davis and Warde Prowse.

Very sad. We salute you Sammy. Created goodwill.

How can you want a yng hungry manager who either does well and leaves or does badly and leaves! Pellegrini is very unlikely to be poached

Why pellegrini would be fantastic; He is a big name who will keep existing players He will not be poached He has point to prove He will attract players Sign him up!

Very fair point. Moyes will not walk out on us as nobody will come in for him - except ironically Everton. I am bored of managers doing well and then leaving.

I am backing Alzheimer's. It is he disease I fear most.

Martin Samuel seems to have no understanding of the mechanics and structure of football. Which players did he think we could stop leaving. It is not as if we are selling players to teams like Villa, Everton or Newcastle. In his cloud cuckoo land you just get the cheque book out and everything will be OK. Sadly unless you have an owner like Citeh then the money runs dry and you plummet down the league - what's his take on Newcastle who broke the bank last season and got relegated. We have the best model for our size of anyone in the premier league that has proved resilient when fire sales happen. Our players leave because our model is so good and it makes players look better than they are.

With our existing squad and realistic ambitions we must be a very attractive proposition. Koeman has sacrificed his long term footballing aspirations for money. He will fail to ignite Everton and they will bumble along just above mid-table for a few seasons before the locals turn on him. He has missed out on both the Arsenal and Dutch jobs now.