CB Fry

It is made up nonsense. If Will Still is being told to only to play a particular system, why isn't he being told to not speak in press conferences about playing a different system? Why does the SR all-controlling bogeyman controlling one element but not the other? There's loads of things Still says in press conferences like the team working hard, being quick in transition, converting chances, scoring goals, winning etc etc etc but they're not doing that either. Maybe Still says stuff in press conferences that he can't actually achieve because he isn’t up to it? Maybe, just maybe, it's that.

I bet I know who will put the very next laughing emoji on this thread. Your post is absolute horseshit by the way.

Dean Smith. Experience in this division, got Villa out of the shit and out of the Championship. If he wants one last shot in English football then this is it. He hasn't got a perfect record but he might have a bit more presence in the training ground than the ginger computer game boy.

Someone needs to write him an open letter, like NOW

Of course. Because they're full of shit. If they really believed in giving the manager full seasons and full years they'd be saying it now.

They will build a statue of Steve Cotterill in that town for sure. Absolute legend

There are people on here who still think he needs two or three years right? Because chopping and changing never works.

And there is the 'and there it is' post. Hopeless

What "orders" are there that involve paying 15 odd million on the best winger in the league and not playing him? There are no "orders".

The only "orders" he is getting are to fucking win.

If there is one thing that I will never criticise SR for, it is not signing Keiffer Moore - we were never ever going to do that. And I'm fine with that.

Everyone needs to stop going on and on and on about that thing I keep referencing over and over again.

Yeah we've got average poor rubbish but the likes of QPR/Stoke/Bristol/Millwall/Charlton/Preston/Hull/Watford/Derby/etc have assembled glittering squads of breathtaking talent we can only dream of. If we had any of their squads this manager would have us even lower and you people merrily kicking shit out of our squad would be moaning like fuck about the players. Saints players are so average/poor. Yeah,sure. If we dont go up bring on next season, bring on the season after and then you'll see what average/poor looks like.

Last season we were in the Premier League you fucking idiot.

Literally Fellows and Azaz were bought because they were exactly that. Adam Armstrong absolutely is up there on goals record at this level. Charles is. THB is and a fucking England full international FFS. Downes absolutely is. Edwards player of the season on 6 months loan. The other signings are good players, nearly all of them (Downs the exception). And of course 100% proven in the Championship Aribo and Edozie. Stop pretending we have some terrible squad. We have one of the best squads in the league being managed by a fucking idiot.

On the whole we have been abysmal all season. Absolutely abysmal. The only thing saving him is he has better players. If he had (say) the Bristol or QPR or whatever squad he'd be in the relegation zone. Some managers over deliver with their resources, our guy is 100% the opposite of that. This guy is not going to turn it round, we're all just waiting for the inevitable sacking. The only question is how long the management are going to stick it out for.

We are down to the only people saying "give him time, he's building something etc etc etc etc" are the same usual people who would be saying people who would be saying that whoever our manager is. Whoever it is never ever ever sack them. It's always funny to watch those people merrily kick shit out of alternatives - Carrick is rubbish, Robins is rubbish, Gary O Neil is rubbish etc etc. If any of those people were our manager they'd be saying how great they are and how they need time and etc etc etc. They'd be defending their recruitment to the death. "They will be brilliant in time purely because they happen to be Southampton manager today" is not that great an opinion in my view.

Man United, Chelsea and (let's see if it happens) Juventus. Why would they stay? I definitely wouldn't.

In fairness to the club I think they are trying to do that. They are not intentionally appointing people that they know will leave after seven months.

Why does it need to be 5, apart from people on here wanting to moan about "Rasmus" again. This season is Spors "project" and he is clearly responsible for the "good" things - Scienza, Jander - as he is the terrible, disastrous things - Downs and Will Still. He's been given fifty plus million to spend and you're on here making out "his hands have been tied". Jesus wept. I think sometimes people have to take responsibility - this particular disaster is down to the decisions of Spors and an out of his depth first team manager. Not everything is a secret bogeyman controlling everything.

Not sure that posting some platitudes on Instagram is "real leadership" in any way shape or form. Plenty to complain about but that isn't one of them.

Spors hastily clearing his desk and fucking off out of it quicker than the Monorail man off The Simpsons.

Russell Martin is on the available evidence, a far better manager than Will Still.

We can definitely win this despite our idiot manager. Luckily I am on a flight so won't be following any of it. COYR

Let's stick with him though because he deserves at least three years of picking a completely fucking random selection of players every bloody match #trusttheprocess