CB Fry

Massive cock.

I had a quick look at the seasons prediction thread. Lots and lots of predictions of top half or at least very solid mid-table. I couldn't find it but somewhere there is also a post transfer window thread where the vast majority were happy with the business and thought the squad was improved with Ralph's signings of Salisu, Walcott, KWP, Salisu. A huge level of positive confidence when the new season started. Very little of "everyone is a steaming pile of crap". I do wonder why that is.

Branfoot was a shit manager and his failure all his fault entirely. Ralph is a genius manager whose failure entirely due to injuries, VAR, lack of funds, back luck, the shit players Puel bought four years ago, the owner, Les Reed, referees, the weather and of course "the big picture" of the fundamental problems at the club as a whole.

I think what is being compared is Branfoot's league record - 2 and a half seasons of 42 match league campaigns, so about 100 games - with Ralph's entire Saints career. So not a perfect comparison.

Absolutely. That bit in no doubt at all.

The other managerial type I'd like to avoid is the big name ex-player Sky Sports News appointment: Lampard, Henry, Viera. Howe might be a decent fit, although I don't think he's going to organise our defence much better.

Yet after a dreadful performance with a squad and team very much chosen, coached and developed by the manager it's interesting how some just want to immediately start bleating about the owner and "bigger problems at the club" and all this other stuff grandly described as "the big picture". To me it's a fucking cop-out and a knee-jerk reaction to get the manager off the hook. When we were top of the league no one said how great the club was, or how good the owners hands-off approach was. The only "picture" big or small was how brilliant Ralph was. Maybe the big picture now is this manager is running out of ideas and is losing control of this team and how to win matches? Maybe that's the big picture?

If only we had the same management team that took us to top of the league last November and that great run in 2020. What happened to those guys?

A thousand times this.

Jackett gets his coat.

Happy with that team. Confident of a decent result. If we score early should be straightforward. Come on Saints!

You think two from Brighton, Newcastle and Fulham will get to 42 points? Fair enough see you in May. And worth saying if you think one won't get there, then that team will be relegated right? So 42 not required after all. As I said.

I'm sorry I can't help it.

Absolutely batshit insane that people still think we need to win three games to stay up. Fulham, Brighton and Newcastle on a barnstorming surge to 42 points plus are they? Okay then. For Fulham to get to 42 requires top six form for the rest of the season. Fulham, who have 26 points and 22 goals from 29 games. Mental.

It's already clear that this guy cannot and will not replace Eric Black.

Yes but exports to non-EU went up by £200m in the same period. To hundred million quid is a huge number. I'd like that in my bank account that's for sure. Can't believe how negative people can be. Two. Hundred. Million actual pounds. Well done Liz Truss 👏 👍 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Ha!

You don't "need to rely on other teams to lose their tough fixtures" when you're already seven points clear. We can stay up without winning again and with the kind of form a relegated side would deliver: three points in ten matches maybe. If you genuinely genuinely don't think we can do that when we've got 33 points on the board already, why do you genuinely believe that teams with fewer points - Brighton, Newcastle, Burnley, Fulham - can all overtake us. All of them. Why do you have so much faith in them and not us?

One level above abject humiliation. Let's hope we win on Sunday.

Yeah, bring a kid on for one of our best players.

I'm cool with that for this match - those little triangles are just another 30 seconds that Manchester City can't score in. A shit cross and a failed attack from us is just them going up the other end within seconds.

Come on City, just let us tippy-tap it around the middle of the park for the next twenty minutes and we can all go home. Please.

Shit defending is contagious.

CHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Pathetic.