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He might well have a better career than Lavia who seems to be made of glass but I’m not sure he is a better player Lavia on his day is a beast!

Would be a massive loss if that injury is significant but one injury doesn’t make him injury prone. Stewart on the other hand is made of glass!

I’ll give him a little leeway as he had a terrible GK and only one striker but he failed miserably to get a tune out of a decent squad and persisted in making the same dumb choices over and over again which reminded me of Martin. I’ve decided I’m not a fan of coaches who have a rigid system they want to stick to regardless of the players available or the circumstances managers need to be flexible, able to work with a squad and change things that obviously are not working!

Think I’ll reserve judgement on that, JWP was a key player for us in the premier league and made the England squad! He was just below the standard required to be a top premier league player and is among the best we have ever produced. Bragg has made a great start but let’s not get carried away just yet if Bragg reaches JWP levels he will have done extremely well and we will have another great player.

It is amazing the difference a top quality keeper can make and we’ve seen it so many times before! Boruc arriving on a free turned us from relegation fodder into a mid table team. Niemi took us up a step from Paul Jones and this season we’ll talk about night and day.

The table certainly makes it look that way although we’d still be in with a shot if results went our way on the last day I’d prefer it was in our own hands, two wins should see us finish above Boro regardless of other results.

Can see Bragg and Azaz missing out, Bragg is still so young and Azaz is clearly carrying some sort of injury and both ran themselves ragged at Wembley.

It’s nice just to have two decent centre forwards to choose between! Stewart’s return to something resembling fitness has been a very pleasant surprise an Larin looks a million times better in a Saints shirt than he did on paper before we signed him!

Be disappointed if it was anything other than a decent one, nothing special but he certainly never did anything to warrant a bad reception on his return. A limited player who always gave his all but was never quite good enough!

Bree has been a key component in the teams success since he returned Jelert isn’t getting a start unless it’s a dead rubber and he hardly rotates the centre backs so it’s not surprising Quarsie is struggling for game time as he has been bang average.

Southampton XI Daniel Peretz James Bree Taylor Harwood-Bellis Jack Stephens Ryan Manning Cam Bragg Shea Charles Kuryu Matsuki Tom Fellows Cameron Archer Cyle Larin

Was expecting to loose, would happily have taken a draw before kick off so chuffed with 3 points. so good to see us playing for at the back again after wasting half a season on the 3 CB’s experiment and so good to finally have a goalkeeper who is actually half decent at his job!

The difference being Brighton have got lucky so far, they will eventually struggle as maintaining that level of success in the transfer market while selling your best players is impossible long term. Our club is a mess though, clearly the board are dictating this 3/5 at the back nonsense and think they are smarter than everyone else when it comes to gambling on young managers and inexperienced players. I’d love us to appoint a manager who talks about winning games and fill out the team with one or two senior players (not the totally past it types we have been picking up)

Totally agree writing of this season is mental, I think our shot at the auto's is gone but there is nearly always a team that climbs up into the play offs and we are not that far off.

Can we please fire this clown and appoint someone totally unfashionable who doesn’t talk about ‘the system’ and instead talks about getting results I don’t want a system I want wins, I want us to be hard to beat and in the league relentless going forward.