CB Fry

Personally I think Jones tenure at Saints will be so long that his replacement hasn't even been born yet.

DID WE WIN THE B TEAM GAME?

But within a couple of months Ralph had turned things in the right direction, Koeman had and (the most accurate equivalent to Jones unpopular appointment) Pochettino had. The new players need to click, quick.

I certainly will, but only when I get really fed up with the "look, we're only two wins from safety" stuff when we're 6 points adrift.

Forecasting that the team at the bottom of the league are going to win every single game they play is a common condition on this forum, and we see it on here every season, usually between February and Easter. Except, of course, when the team at the bottom of the league is us, and then no one thinks that.

Sorry i is washing my hair's. We're never going to agree - fans' means "fanses" and boys' means "boyses" - you don't ever need to say it where would you need that apostrophe. Sorry absolutely a geek topic and right now I've got a girls party to go to.

Possession means ownership. The fans don't own the forum, it doesn't belong to them, it's for them. Fans forum. (Boys' party would be pretty dreadful English as well, to be honest. I can't really think of a scenario where you wouldn't be better off just saying Boys Party)

Oof, that's dreadful. What are they teaching in school's these days?

Sorry, it is normal. The club decided to go left field and recruit someone the entire fan base would not have picked, that guy has got an uphill struggle from day one. Not entirely his fault but he should have known he was not going to get a grace period. Pochettino came in to a similar, maybe more toxic situation. If the club had recruited an exciting name - as we did with Koeman and Hasenhuttl - then the fanbase naturally more patient because there's a level of confidence that this guy should come good. The main difference is all those managerial appointments starting working very very quickly and could build momentum. What you seem to want is the fanbase to hero worship a bloke who has rocked up from Stoke like he's some Alan Ball type saviour and then when he makes a dreadful start, still treat him like some kind of hero. He needed to win fans over, like Pochettino did. He hasn't, yet, and he has a hell of a job to do. But that's on him. Not us.

No it won't contribute. If we win matches because of good team selection, tactics, motivation, endeavour, effort then there won't be a poisonous atmosphere. If we keep losing in the league then the atmosphere won't be great. But just be clear on which way round this works.

We won't get relegated because of a "poisonous atmosphere". Just typical "blame the fans" rubbish.

He has lost 5 league games out of 6, from a bunch of games perfectly placed for a new manager bounce. You're making out that the fans moaning is some unreasonable thing. He was recruited entirely to keep us up and we're worse off now than before he started. Let's see if we can actually "win a few" in your "Sadly, some fans" scenario first, shall we, before you make up what you think people's reactions might be.

Apologies if someone has already posted this. This must be what it was like to support Jack Walker's Blackburn.

Jesus wept, talk about myth making. Hint: he didn't leave fir Liverpool because of a couple of posts on this forum and maybe a few terrace groans from his first couple of matches two years prior.

The write up in The Athletic on our deadline day signings is quite heartening. If this Sulemana really is a Mane Mark two, and Onuacho settles (and starts scoring) quickly, then maybe I will start believing we can stay up. But my worries remain about a liability goalkeeper and an erratic (I'll be generous) manager. As I said yesterday I don't really get why we couldn't have got Onuacho earlier in the window.

How much did they spend over at Göztepe?

Surely Jones is going to try the big man little man pairing up top. Get it in the mixer to the big lump, nippy little speedster picking up the scraps. Made for Adam Armstrong. Look lads, you've heard of Quinn and Phillips right?

Oof - Not quite what you want to hear for our record breaking transfer. Still, a bit of pace if nothing else may give us another dimension. Good luck to the lad.

We needed a goalscorer and we have signed a goal scorer. Well done Saints.

Vitinha went to Marseilles then.

This isn't quite the same - those two were gutting because we genuinely could have got to a semi from those games. I would say more like Hughes vs Chelsea and Ralph vs Leicester.

I've heard that he fucking hates Pompey, so that's a good start.

CHEEEEEEEE

Personally I think it's brilliant the way our new manager has made us into a bunch of nasty bastards who no opposition wants to play because we are so hard to beat

Vitinha sounded Gakpo levels of too-good-be-true anyway. Whatever the transfer window equivalent of virtue signalling is, that rumour is it. Any club can meet a release clause if they want. Never coming to us at the bottom of the league. So forget that. But If we can't even sign a 28 year old from Genk known by our transfer guru then he ain't that much of a bloody guru.