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Maybe you missed the Man City, Spurs, Man United and Everton games, all in February, where Broja was outstanding. Ah, forget it. I don't know why I even read your posts. You've made you mind up and nothing I type is going to change that. You are entitled your opinion and when you argued that we shouldn't be spending £40m on him you had a point, but that seems to have morphed into rewriting history.

So what you are saying is you made a mistake, you should have put Broja in your "looked great" category. No problem.

I agree. He said what many Saints fans were thinking, but strange that the manager would say it. In the end, all that matters is how we play next week. We need a performance and a result.

I am starting to think you have a problem with Broja. 😉 To deny that he, like Adams "looked great" earlier in the season suggests so. Did he fuck your wife or something? Not that it matters, but AA, in your words, was completely anonymous today. Adams too, except when missing an absolute sitter. Both needed to do better, but both suffered from lack of supply too - as has been the case with Broja when you have labelled him anonymous.

There is nothing he can say really other than throw himself and/or his payers under the bus.

his tactics have been questioned a lot. His team selections have been questioned, perhaps more than any previous Saints manager (maybe that has a lot do with having a lot of similar standard players???) what did he say in the interview?

You might be right but I tend to focus on confidence rather than motivation. I see you chose to put Adams in your first category and Broja in your second category. LOL.

whenever we get tonked fans always point to a lack of care, fitness, bottle, fight, but usually its just playing utter shit. It was very hard to watch today. We just didnt get close to them, ever. They murdered us. All our frailties were exposed today. We simply ain't all that.

Not sure I agree about him unable to motivate. we are a lower mid table side. it's just when you win away at spurs and are flying, you think perhaps we are something more. We're not.

hell yeah. Losing is bad, but losing without laying a glove is hard to take. It was like watching a lower league side play a Prem side. I guess with the monetary divide in the top flight, it is almost like that, but with a £113m wage bill, I still expect us to compete, even if their wage bill is three times that.

we were very open, Chelsea players ran into huge empty spaces. players weren't tracked. We weren't quick enough to stay with them. Our players didn't keep the ball well.

they did get a little lucky with some rebounds, but equally they hit the woodwork twice when scoring looked easier for one of those chances. 9 or 10 could easily have happened. We created one fantastic chance that Adams completely fluffed, which I found as annoying as some of the defensive fuck ups.

Martin Keown can maybe stop harping on about bigger clubs looking at him.

Players have contracts and it's hard to shift average. We basically have Long and Forster out of contract this summer. We are a £90m debt. We have an ownership that intends to continue the spend what you earn. What do you suggest?

it happens. Perhaps more worrying is the series of performances we are currently in. Lets see how we respond. That is perhaps gojng to be more revealing. It's a bad day, but having lots of them in a row is the bigger issue.

Fair point, but on a smaller scale Ralph had the chance to cull the GK position but gave McCarthy a new deal. Walcott got a new deal and what odds him giving Long a new deal. Viera had a clean slate, which I thought was a fantastic opportunity, but Ralph has had time to shape his squad.

we totally surrendered for the last half hour too, playing like we had ten men (everyone behind the ball etc.)

its the only thing solid today.

it's a good question. I think we are bang average side. This side is not in the same league as the one with Morgan, Ricky, Lallana etc. that could dominate good teams. When we win, by and large we offers at least a few chances. When those don't go in, sometimes through luck we get a result, when they do, we don't. Against the better sides we often hang on for grim life and get a result, but if decent teams get their early goals we've got nothing to hold on to.

in truth it could easily be 9 or 10 by now. We are getting off lightly.

Likewise. We've just played very poorly, allowing talented opposing players to show their stuff.

It's the last time we have to play Chelsea this season.

we were playing like a well oiled machine. Don't know why we changed that side.

you've got me there. Strangely, the following week I didn't feel nervous at all when he or Bednarek had the ball at their feet. I have a lot more confidence in them than say, Claus, or many other CBs that have played for us.

I am glad he has recognised he was wrong, but five minutes later he's spouting bollocks on twitter comparing the Daily Mail's inaccuracy in a story about Gary Lineker with reporting on Ukraine. As I've said previously, he's not as clever as he thinks and the more he talks the more he reveals that.