Fabrice29

No, why did we suddenly stop playing 3 at the back if someone from above has insisted we do so all season?

If there was something in it why did it suddenly stop? And try not to mention because we just recalled a fit right back. Again, whatever weird gymnastics people want to do to convince themselves something is going on is fine. But the simplest answer is ‘some managers thought 3 at the back would get them better results but player performances, especially in quite important areas like saving shots and shooting at goal, weren’t up to scratch so when we got new personnel, new results and new ways of doing things on the pitch started happening’ Also I’m pretty sure more than one manager has referenced the lack of height in our team as a reason for team selection. Which again changed in January.

One of the analysts themselves.

I thought this for a long time and still do really, especially the 28 bit BUT I found Matthew Benhams comments recently about Beto quite interesting. Basically saying players who get into positions to score are much more appealing than clinical ones that don't as much. Think Leo would appeal to a lot of like minded recruitment teams in that sense. Presumably given what we spent on him and only being 1 year into a contract we would want a hefty price though so maybe that would be enough to deter onlookers.

Don't think there is any TV choices to be made is there? Both games will be on TNT.

This kid has spent a fair few games this season watching us at St Marys. Know for a fact our analysts were watching him too before his injury. I'd be shocked if the possibility of him joining hasn't been muted but I'd also be shocked if he isn't wanting first team football wherever he goes next season and presumably that wouldn't be with us.

We battered Swansea that day. Still find it weird people made conclusions about Will Still that day and not the awful finishing. Found BBC's graphic about the difference between us under Still and Eckert quite revealing tbh. Shot conversion and save percentages the obvious upgrades and it's interesting that two things that the manager cant have that much affect on can really dictate a managers career.

On the ball as always. I see you've stopped watching the games now too. Never change hun.

A weird conspiracy regarding the Southampton way that doesn't stand up to any scrutiny/common sense or we didn't have a fit right back. How many times do we have to go through this.

Man City fans are 100% convinced the opposite of this btw. Football fans are silly. It'll be Saturday. We have a game on the Tuesday they won't want to rearrange again.

Weird.

This is not a farce. This is a farce. You can’t just pick teams based on vibes. Countries qualifying through a set out qualification process is not odd. The World Cup suddenly deciding Denmark and Italy should be in because it feels better to Europeans would be odd and probably something we aren’t too far away from tbh.

How’s JWP and GON getting on?

As TBS pointed out the exact example you’ve used is a carbon copy of the one we used against West Brom under RM. And yeah, this manager is doing really well, I’m a fan, which is a good sign as I was also a fan of the last one who got promoted too. The one you seem to be having weird little digs at for actually getting promoted. So top posting all round really. You’ve been quiet lately, welcome back. Did we drop some points?

If Oriol Romeu comes in from the wilderness to start against the best team in the country something’s gone very wrong.