OldNick

when we went down in 74 Man Utd came with us, they only stayed down a season. They took thousands to away games without tickets. when they came to the Dell there was just a pocket of Saints fans in the Milton. It was bedlam

I think Selles takes more time selecting his suit than selecting a team

Jones was a terrible appointment, but I do feel we would have been more up and at them and not been this side who think we can play Pep football if he had stayed. We have the resource of players who could have done a far better job. I doubt we'd be tippy tapping around if he was still here. Yes he was poor but Im certain would have shook the complacent bunch we call a team

Finding someone who runs a lot and sideways and backwards will be hard to replace. He is a good player and his free kicks are superb, it may not be his falut that he is playing a deep position. Only at our clu do we find a perfect spot in the team for him, he scores and creates havoc for us to win, and then we put him back deep.

I thought Bobbin was a Saints fan,

He had been down injured. Whether that was timewasting I dont know, but that extra 10 minutes he could have injured himself for the rest of the season. He had a bad injury not long ago and so the risk factor was there.

Sadly as per against Palace, not straight to their player

There is no way we played that quality of football against Palace. I had quite a few messages from fans of other clubs mentioning how decent we were and how the hell are we where we are

To be fair BP, Arsenal were done, just a bit of skill and a shot in the corner and it was game on again. All of a sudden they had energy and ours was sapped. As with all things another 3 inches would have made a difference to the shot being saved or missed

Surprised he didnt as he makes me nervous how long he takes to release the ball

I dont understand why fans are so surprised. Once Arsenal got a second a third was sure to follow as we had for 45 mins been defending. Also Saints have a history of not holding on. To be fair other teams have done the same against the big clubs. It was great that we didnt lose. Where the extra 8 minutes came from??? If Arsenal had scored mid second half they would have won by 2 or 3. It seems we rarely manage to keep a shot out, and personally I would have preferred us to have bought Johnson from WBA as our keeper as he seems to have developed well

Basically 2 teams who wont be major challengers to us getting back up

Have we? I thought we'd all played the same now. I haven't checked as I am taking a leaf out of Selles book. Dont look at the table and then we can believe we are fighting for a CL place. 6 pointer at Arsenal saturday then

That is fair , there is no way could you be confused with Alpine as whilst you are totally wrong in the majority of your opinions, you have a good sense of humour and dont take yourself seriously

KD added something and has a steely resolve. Its not about coaching per say, not sure that was his role anyway. He was there under Koeman and we didnt do bad then. He doesn't suffer fools gladly and so might have put a rocket up the teams jacksy

I wonder if we can keep them at bay for a while, that the Arsenal fans who are very edgy make it very tense and get on their backs. You never know if we happen to score we could get a surprise win 6-0 loss lol

Did you watch Theos post match inerview? He said something along the lines, I dont know why we kept to our principles and didnt change things. I wonder if he meant , go a bit long rather than tippy tap

I wonder us getting of the likes of Kelvin Davis etc was not such a smart move. He loved the club and instilled a grit and determination. He certiainly made it clear to the squad how important our club was. Iam not saying him for manager Lol.

You are usually quite sensible!!!! Ask Fulham and Cherries fans about him. He is the Mr useless with a smart suit

Frankly we should have kept Jones, not that I wanted him here in the first place, but not in a 100 years would he allowed our team to be passive. We would have kicked the arse of teams and seen if they were up to it. As he was there may of well have gone for it. Selles is the thinking mans Steve Wigley

Id like the fans to be more vocal at the board and give them some abuse. The arrogance of them

McCarthy would have done a lot better. Should have came straight in when he was fit. PL experience, and was a hero when we were in the crap before

Not good at present. Fulham not helping us the last week

Rangers defender must be watching Jan and CC. So worried he may have his hair out of place he missed it for Celtic to score. Pathetic

Never be too sure about that. I get the 'news' feed come up and it is amazing how so much is any connection that may be negative to Saints or that they have some third party interest from an Ex-player who has done well elsewhere. I really dont see the echo being that childish, but there again when that Allen bloke is their sports reporter are we surprised