Disco Stu

Highlight was the fistfight in the Chapel stand during the first half.

All together now! We hate Nottingham Forest, We hate Liverpool too. We hate West Ham United, But Southampton we love you!

Another Championship striker, Middlesbrough's Chuba Akpom, on our radar according to tenuous source, Daily Mail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11591999/Middlesbrough-forward-Chuba-Akpom-monitored-Crystal-Palace-Everton-Southampton.html

I suppose it shows which fanbases are getting the least enjoyment.

The board are primarily responsible for the mess we're in. Their failure to bring in a goalscorer, adequate midfield cover or an experienced goalkeeper are factors, as is their failure to replace Ralph before we inevitably tumbled into the relegation places. Saints were in relegation form for the last 10 months of his tenure. The nightmare didn't start a month ago. Ralph cannot be absolved of blame for the position we're in. His baffling selections, terrible game management and 'too late to be effective' substitutions cost us points on many an occasion. Our terrible form and subsequent plummet second half of last season was unacceptable. This was with a team flying high in the first half of the season with the same squad of players and it wasn't the first time our form had fallen off a cliff in the second half of a campaign. Whatever changed, and it wasn't the personel, he couldn't fix. If it was a burnout issue, he had three years to adapt our game. That was on Ralph. If it was a motivation issue, that was on Ralph. Tactical naivety? Ralph. He broke all the wrong records during his time here and in my view, the club were too generous giving him the start of this season to try to turn our poor form around. He should have gone last May.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/23060554.amp/

Yeah, could have been a turning point for us but I fear that will be a defining moment for all the wrong reasons. Morale couldn't be more rock bottom.

I can't see any way out of this situation for us. We're just so poor. Can't be a threat in open play. Can't defend. It's so disheartening.

That's pretty devastating.

Adams has been pretty anonymous.

Referee can't make that assumption.

Never seen a referee order an injured player to make their own way off the pitch before. Wouldn't do that to a more experienced player.

Bazunu needs dropping.

ffs i missed the goal 😂

Simply not good enough. We're a nothing team. We offer nothing.

You just knew Bazunu was going to drop that.

We're shit.

This team can't shoot.

We might see Lavia after the inevitable formation change when it's clear this shape isn't working again.

He's become a key player for the team leading the Championship averaging a goal every two games (176 minutes). If the option is there, we'd be stupid not to recall him given the dross we have here.

Always silverware above anything else (other than the clubs survival of course).

Ah good. Well, there's a weight off my mind.

Then we're incompetent. Anyone that saw him play in the middle before he signed for us would immediately have known he couldn't play as a holding midfielder. I was bewildered with the comments saying he was the Romeu replacement. He's a completely different player.

It's our best bet.

Shame we can't do a Brentford and sign someone like Erikson.