Fabrice29

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.

Weird dig at a method that has us higher and more successful than we are currently btw 🤣 That’s even without the added complication of it not being true.

It's perfectly okay for a player to go away and do well elsewhere, especially a young one, and it not be a crazy decision to have let him go.

Are we ruling out the ‘tightness’ is a polite and easy way to describe hauling off an ineffective attacker at half time? Not denying the second part though.

You’re not upsetting anyone. Everyone’s laughing at you. Manager criticism is fine, although I would point out that the idea that the thing he didn’t do was the guaranteed way to success is absurd. Players playing badly and the opposition defending well are allowed to happen at and seemingly influence the game much more than tactical plans imo. But anyway, just to reiterate that when it comes to you specifically nobody is upset and everybody thinks you’re a laughable grifter. HTH.

Hahaha he’s back. Absolutely loves that we’ve dropped some points.

Really can’t see anyone forking out the cash required for someone turning 28 in September unless he seriously ups his output. I think we can say goodbye to THB either way though.

On the basis that Larin is currently 1 for 5 in league games here, I'm not convinced that is evidence Onuachu or Larin would get 20 in this league. I'm also not convinced they are similar players at all, other than being relatively big? As Chez described Onuachu as "Terrible first touch, slow, no stamina, shit in the air.", how many of those would you attribute to Larin? Slow. But nothing about Larin performances here remind me of Onuachu at all. I'm not as impressed by Larin as others just yet but whilst Onuachu, did contribute slightly in that 1 period don't think their hold up play or effectiveness are similar in anyway. And, as my point has been throughout, and I'll stop banging on about now, it's all well and good people dreaming up situations in which Onuachu plays differently for us but the reality is he was here for however many seasons, most managers didn't like him and he was literally laughed at some weeks. That says more to me about what he would be like here because it's quite literally evidence of what he'd be like here. And that's much better evidence than his performances in a non comparable league that he's found himself being effective in. Good for him doing so though.

Well done for getting the point so quickly.

Juric tried building the team around him and Sulemana btw. How does it compare? Not sure, never watched it. But I did watch Onuachu play for Saints, in a Saints shirt, at St Mary’s, against opposition that Saints played, in competitions Saints played in so I do have a fairly good grasp of how that would go and don’t need to hypothetically dream up situations in which Onuachu is playing for Saints, in a Saints shirt, at St Mary’s against opposition that Saints played in competitions Saints play in to work out how he’d get on. None of his 18 goals in 21 games this season have been in the Championship either, have they?

Being in and out of a terrible team isn’t a flex. And we know he wouldn’t have got plenty for us at this level because the two times we’ve been relegated to this level he’s conveniently found himself on the end of a transfer move. You can’t score goals at this level if you don’t want to play at it.

4 goals in 40 here I think. It's almost as if Turkey and England are not the same. We don't have to think about what it would be like if he was here, we know, he was crap.

What has Romeu done to be involved? Let alone involved in a match against opposition who are a step up. All well and good not prioritising the cup but sticking him in from nowhere would be unfair on all those around him.

Or maybe I've just watched games and seen that the ultimately conclusive camera angle is not always the first one they watch and shown within 30 seconds.

If you think 30 seconds is enough time to wheel out every camera angle available to spot an obvious issue then please do get yourself into that world and quicken things up. Just last week a Liverpool player clearly used an arm to put the ball into the net and it took more than 30 seconds to come to the correct decision. And just before anyone posts it, the FA’s new idea of 2 unsuccessful challenges each is also a terrible idea. But hey ho, it sounds simple and effective so I’m sure no doubt people will think it’s common sense to do it.

Yes that’s fine and how we rise to the challenges is of course interesting. I’m pointing out that it’s not on the manager to rise to that challenge, but players. Can they cut out mistakes, continue to be resilient and continue to take chances? Because I think it was painfully obvious that’s where the failings have been this season rather than how good our managers supposedly are. All things a manager can influence a bit but predominantly on the players and we should reframe those conversations for me. But yeah, different people, different perspectives.