Dusic

Mad that once Taylor goes, 4 of our summer signings will have left by the January. Can argue it was a likely path for Edwards but pretty damning overall.

Liked in his interview that he specifically mentioned he likes to run and press. Hopefully he does well and financially is a viable option for next season.

My understanding is the FA have asked us to consider Tim Sherwood for the role as part of a campaign to realise the benefit of Brexit and #backthebrits

West Ham making a very public bid for a striker they have no chance of signing? Surely not.

The rationale at the time was that the Championship has extra ganes with typically smaller squads and so a style where you have the ball much more is physically easier and to a large extent it worked - we scored numerous late goals in part because of it. Clearly the issue has been the transition to a higher level and certainly the style of play didn't work with the players we have, because we have conceded way too many goals and just arent enough of a threat in the final third. As much as the style has been an issue the recruitment is equally or more to blame IMO. Only Fernandes has really worked out and we are already getting rid of players we signed 6 months ago. To have a situation where we signed BBD, Cornet and Fraser who could all play wide left and 2 have left and the other massively on the fringe is a good summary. Likewise signing a RB when we needed a proper LB instead, giving McCarthy a new deal, not loaning Edwards out in August once it became clear he was got even playing in the League Cup. All the clubs this season who have pumched above their weight have a very good track record of recruiting and managing contracts to keep their better players until they get big fees for them. Hopefully Spors can sort this side of the club out because its the only way we have a chance to be successful in the PL. The fact our best player is probably still on a first pro deal on a pittance when he is a generational talent is also poor management and will probably see us receive (and have to actually consider) stupid £20m plus add on bids in the summer.

Chances of a Nathan Tella sitaution playing out again with Shea Charles?

Results poor but I think Juric has at least sussed out most of our players, and knows what our issues are - intensity has improved and at least he is honest with supporters. He just doesn't really have the players to solve them - as would have been the case whoever had been appointed. It will be interesting in another 10 or so games to assess the liklihood of him still being in charge come August.

Is there really any benefit in developing a player for someone else given the situation we are in? IMO any signings now should be with a view to that player more than likely being with us next season.

He would be more suited to this style but we effectively swapped him for Fernandes who is miles better (and will surely turn a big profit in the summer). Fernandes our best signing for many years IMO.

After the dross he has served up over a couple of years I can't believe anyone would think he was anything other than superb last night, for the first hour at least. Juric has worked out that he needs to be given space to run into rather than marooned out wide against a team with men behind the ball. He can create a chance from the halfway line out of a nothing situation. Few players can rip someone apart like he did to Yoro last night, and whilst his final actions clearly werent perfect, they were getting closer and were productive in the Swansea game. Defenders hate facing players like that with 50 yards of space, and he is our only forward (Dibling aside) that will actually trouble defenders. At the very least if he continues to show this level we might get some good offers in the summer.

A return to a high intensity model confirmed then after Juric hired too. Lets just hope for some stability.

We did this brilliantly tonight and it really contributed to how well we played IMO. Much more purpose to it. Yes third goal was a big error but it was gone by then anyway.

Whatever the manager has done on the training ground recently is clearly working...very well setup and great attacking fluidity. Depth wise we don't have it, but think he has pretty quickly sussed out the best way to play with these players. Will be quite interesting to see who comes in for Fernandes because he is top but obviously a bit under rhw radar because we have been so poor and Dibling gets the attention. Wouldnt be suprised if almost all the top PL clubs want him.

Quite noticeable in the press conferences so far that his English is very good but he chooses not to get drawn into lots of chat and just gives pretty direct and straightforward answers to the questions. Certainly comes across as quite authoritative, but probably quite hard work for local media especially. Intefesting the club havent really made much effort via their channels to build much rapport with supporters - I guess the situation is so bleak its possibly counterproductive. Would be interesting to see how he would go about a season in the Champ where there would be some level of expectation - this job feels like a thankless free pass for him really, still quite suprised he took it after a short stint at Roma too.

Very disappointing to read that he hasnt been regularly training with the first team because we have too many players. https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/24850154.southamptons-sam-amo-ameyaw-responds-loan-suggestion/ Can see him leaving in the summer as must be fed up with seemingly a lack of a coherent club plan for him.

A lot also commented about how Wilcox hadn't done anything and why on earth Man Utd wanted him (because he is good at it). RM was certainly not the same after he left.

Ankersen doing very well with Goztepe too... We need a DoF style appointment to knit the whole thing together like Wilcox did. In hindsight a lot started unravelling once he left.

Hopefully, an end to a bizarre situation and stop him being brought up despite never playing.

Strange. I thought the problem was he had a massively demoyivated squad without enough quality to have a hope of staying up. Pretty similar to Juric, although possibly some better lads in the current squad attitude wise.

Very poor if we can't even beat Wigan to Brendan Wiredu.

It is sustainable if you buy well. We will sell Fernandes for considerably more than we paid and someone like £20m Liam Delap will probably now be worth double that (and maybe a bit more). As ever, recruitment is the most important thing for a club to get right. Sadly, we have massively failed at that over the last 8 or 9 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/7493096.stm Was this move ever officially confirmed? If he still contracted he could do a job next season.

He is a young player in his first season at this level. The issue is that because we don't believe in having any experienced senior pros who are proven at PL level we never really have the chance to take someone like THB out for a few games because the drop in quality is so big to the other options. Dibling also being flogged much more than he would be at pretty much any other PL club. Ditto Fernandes. Ramsdale was rushed back with fingers taped together, Sugawara thrown straight in and then has noticeably regressed.

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/crime/ryan-fraser-wanted-appeal-leeds-4932227 Seems Leeds want Fraser, Rothwell connection mentioned.

An idiotic appointment such as Juric who you think we would have a "good chance" of promotion with? Or the last guy who actually got us promoted?