CB Fry

Charlton 3-0 up at Ipswich.

That was my point at the weekend. This idea that we just need to score a goal and everything is fine is bullshit. Fucking minutes later. Swansea 100% would have equalised on Saturday guaranteed.

Ten more minutes of flattering to deceive before we go one down.

The personal reasons are Nuno doesn't rate him and is never going to pick him. This was established several weeks ago.

3/10.

He's not Rangers first choice, that's for fucking sure.

Not like you to sit on the fence.

Well, SWFC were and are skint. We would have known what it would have taken to get Rohl from back in December but we did not put in an offer, make any move or even sit it out for even a fortnight. What we did do is appoint a manager at literally the earliest possible opportunity.

I do not subscribe to the view that Rohl was our "first choice". We hired Still immediately, in May. There was no prevarication, no options, no approaches, no waiting, no time for rumours or speculation. Will Still was our first choice this summer and we got him.

I was at the game so yeah. We obviously should have scored but remember we have failed to win many times this season so we don’t know how we would have coped if we had scored. We dominated Derby and scored and guess what didn’t win. It’s a live issue that us scoring does not mean us winning. Swansea were utterly dreadful, so an open top bus for a nil nil against them is not justified.

Your going overboard about a nil nil draw against a bottom third Championship team is getting embarrassing. Swansea were absolute dogshit and we still couldn't beat them with one of the top 3 best resourced squads in the league. 2 wins in 10 matches (1 at home) is fucking dreadful.

This "relegation" you speak of, was the multi club model in place for that?

So players just pass through a Turkish club but good enough to move to a top level Bundesliga/CL club and at no point contributes a single playing minute to the flagship club. Exactly the same as if Goztepe had no connection with us whatsoever. You realise how fucking pointless it all is, right?

If he is any good, he'll probably bugger off to a role in Germany and you'd be on here telling us how wonderful that is and how grateful we should be

Look what Sport Republic have done with their flagship lead club since they bought it as a ten-year established Premier League club. They're a bunch of fucking useless cunts so spare me the be patient for the long term benefits bullshit.

Who's the best manager in the Sport Republic multi-club corporation multiverse? There must be an absolute gem we can import into the SR Flagship club to fire us to promotion, surely.

Because hed signed a contract with Sports Republic only months before and we're the lead club but of course not they just flog him to Germany anyway like any other club would. Multi club model is fucking pointless and zero benefit to Southampton Football Club. Zero.

First season down after relegation from the Premier League is pretty apples/apples to be fair. If anything there should be a closer memory of what is needed in the Championship this time than when we came down after a decade in the Prem.

I've no idea why we should keep faith with Will Still when Will Still has kept no faith in two of his biggest and most expensive signings of the summer, Azaz and Fellows not even starting. He's obviously of his depth.

Except he hasn't failed everywhere he's managed and he clearly isn't failing now. His first season at Derby he was doing far better than Still is now (16 points) and without a squad of million pound signings. I didn't want Lampard in the summer but now it is pretty obvious he is a better impact manager than Will Still.

Martin was an absolute mediocrity at Swansea and an absolute mediocrity at MK Dons. The only club he has had any definable success at is Saints. Adkins didn't get the chance to demonstrate any "shortcomings" at Saints. We were 15th when we sacked him and Poch finished one place higher in 14th.

Yes the timings don't quite add up. We signed Egil for far more than double Chelsea paid for Flo (by the time Flo joined Chelsea, Egil had been with us a year or so). Flo just a player we maybe missed out on like lots of clubs do and we saw on players like Dennis Wise or Kevin Phillips.

Sure, she's got her knockers, but i think she's quite nice.

Feels like this entire thread is built on the premise that the club have the next Rooney/Walcott/Owen on their books but are wilfully refusing to play this world beating wonderkid because something something Sports Republic idiots something If he was ready for the first team he'd be in the squad. Maybe he's just scoring lots of goals for the kids teams like billions of other young players before him and billions of young kids yet to come.

Still not sure where you're getting "not a massive outlay" from. This summer only Ipswich and Wrexham (and us) spent more than his fee on an individual player. Downs is about 12th in fees paid for any player in the whole league. His fee is more than half the league clubs paid out in total for all their signings this summer. I don't know why you are pretending otherwise.