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F**k it, If Leeds can do it, why can’t we grind out a point with a defensive showing to start Jones’ tenure? It would certainly change my underwhelming opinion of him, giving me some glimmer of light for the season restart. With the prospect of facing a two month break sitting in the relegation zone, would help if Wolves and Nottm Forest get gubbed staying below us and Bournemouth and Leicester follow suit with nothing to keep them all close.

If that’s true, I don’t know where the source is that this happened - but if it’s true and he’s that incompetent, why are SR just as incompetent as to still employ the liability, he’s clearly awful at his job if he messed up to that degree. if I was in a job, entrusted to tie up a deal that could secure the future of the business at the highest level (A striker or two to score the goals we need to stay in the lucrative EPL) and I f****d up that bad that the deal collapsed and put the business in jeopardy of losing its value (relegation, perhaps) why is he still here, SR have no backbone to remove him? Happy to lose tens of millions of their investment? Piss poor all round.

Absolutely disgusting, £4m for an unknown entity, cannot believe they haven’t gone for an experienced manager in this situation we find ourselves in at the cheap price of £4m! - bringing in a expensive gamble when we need a bounce, a guy who has been in this fight before, a guy with a reputation, a manager who will attract a calibre of striker we need to get us out of this mess. If folk done their job in the summer and Ralph had been given a goal scoring striker or even two target men, we’d no have been in this mess having no been able to find the net to win a match. £4-f*****g-million - there’s your excuse for no money for a decent striker in January + Ralph’s pay-off. **On the note of a striker, how the hell does it take a day or two to get a manager in place, but takes a year and more to buy a striker who can find the net in the EPL. If by some miracle SR do splash the cash for a striker this January (they’ll have their pants pulled down for that anaw in the January sales) you’re damn certain they’ll no have them coming in 1st/2nd Jan when we need them desperately, they’ll sign on or the day before deadline day 24 games into the season when we’re seven points adrift of the pack, it’s the Southampton way. It looks bleak and I’m completely dejected by this appointment, it feels like we are gambling with our EPL status and when we only have Liverpool (A) before the break it’s going to be a dour Xmas sitting in the relegation zone. The latter festive period/January games when we have Brighton (H), Fulham (A), Nottm Forest (H), Villa (H), Brentford (A) and Wolves (H) is going to make or break us, he might have to perform miracles as Ralph seemed to muster when he needed to find points, ground them out and possibly without any new striker too, unless we have someone in the door 1st Jan, we are going to struggle for goals to beat the teams that we need to beat around us, are we ever that pro-active, or just with a manager in Jones’ case? 🙄 I just hope it works out, I feel this could be the season that we’ll be stuck back in the Championship for years without a Liebherr-style investment to get us out of it after SR inevitably sell all our young stars we’ve tried to invest in.

2-0 down to Stoke after 14mins. He sounds like he suitably fits the bill, can’t wait to see it at Saints - where does he sign?

Yeah, they agreed to it and made it public. if they hadn’t made it public knowledge, do you reckon he’d be 1/33 favourite with the bookies to join us and all the press, radio shows and us on here talking as if he’s signed on the dotted line already? I said, as context, Nuno Espírito Santo was hot favourite, 1/20 with the bookies to take back over at Wolves a month or two ago, but either him or the club decided against the move and that didn’t materialise. I’m suggesting, he’s only deemed as the hot favourite, because nobody else has been mentioned by the press as a contender or come out publicly, as Luton Town did with Jones, as interested to take charge. Wouldn’t make sense that nobody else of any pedigree is interested in managing a club currently in the EPL. That said, unless he’s been our “lined-up” manager to take over from Ralph for an age, like a manager-style “black box.”

I’m sure, unless I am mistaken, that nobody at Southampton FC have came out publicly and stated that Jones is the definitive man they want. Luton Town made it public by stating that they’ve agreed to let them speak to Jones. Again, I stand to be corrected. It’s obviously why his name is all over the press and being talked about on here and on the sports shows and stupidly short with the bookies, because he’s the only guy that we are supposedly interested in. I remember Nuno being stupid favourite with the bookies for the Wolves job earlier this season until he or they didn’t want to make the move after all. I should think that there must be more candidates that have not been made public knowledge, unless he is 100% our guy without holding talks, which would be a strange way to do business.

We haven’t got time to give him a chance, he’s got to get results instantly, he’s got to inspire and put dynamite up the arse of every one of our guys - are our players going to be inspired by this unknown, did well at Luton but fucked up with Stoke, kind of guy? We needed someone like Dyche, you can see the passion he has on the sideline, he’s the sort of guy that could “hairdryer” the players properly and get them moving - I reckon he’d have some decent contacts to get us a good one or two target men that we desperately need up top to get us the goals to stay up, yet we’ll end up with this dude bringing in Carlton Morris to lead our line and be worse than the two championship guys that we already bought. Probably get shot down for having settled for a guy like Dyche, but I’d have had him in a heartbeat over this guy, I’d have not been feeling as underwhelmed and despondent about our impending relegation, as it feels now, as I do.

Come back Ralph, all is forgiven ffs. Couldn’t be any more underwhelmed with an appointment such as this Jones from Luton. Villa go with Unai Emery, a guy with European and big club pedigree and he’s already got them motivated enough to demolish Man Utd in his first game. But we’ll delve into the cheap Championship option again and hope we get 17th whilst he recruits his Luton pals in the winter window ffs, bringing in Carlton Morris to shore up or striking options, along with Che and A.Armstrong who have lit the premier league alight with their 25 goal seasons since joining.

I’d have rather have kept Ralph if we’re getting this Jones fella. Makes me feel even worse about our predicament if we’re delving yet again into the cheap depths of the lower leagues - that’s worked out well these last few years on strikers 😒

Is that Perraud doing the BBC interview and no Ralph interview seems to have been posted? ..yet?

True. I’d just have felt a lot better for the next month and a bit if we were a few points clear of the zone instead. Theres still a chance for something tomorrow, but I’m going into games right now expecting a defeat - a few years back I used to think we could beat anyone 😒

That’s us in the relegation zone for the World Cup, great 😒

Wow, Nottm Forest and now Leeds in the space of a week. Just when you want the clubs below us to stay there and drop points and both have Liverpool within the space of a week, you’d expect them both to get zero points 95% of the time. Three points for them both is probably how our luck is shaping this season 😩

Obviously the only way it was going to go, those three get three points and we get nothing. Even Nottm Forest showed a little backbone yesterday, what happened to us giving the big guns a hard time at home? I don’t usually worry about us dropping away, but this season is starting to look it, we don’t have any attacking integrity about us.

I love how we have reverted to win it back, hoof it clear, allow them to attack again. Rinse and repeat, what a farse. No wonder they’ve had 92% possession the last 5 mins ffs.

Edozie having the attacking mentality bashed out of him before he can get a full 90. Shown too much promise in the final third to deserve a start.

Possession 40/60 Shots 8/23 Corners 4/12 What have we become? Ffs, we’re at home against a team who had a game Thursday night.

May as well prepare for that inevitable, gut-wrenching 2-1 loss whilst holding a 1-0 lead for half the match.

Another 6 in the second half would do! 😬 But, WHU with 10 shots off target and with ABK out, fearing for their first shot on target 😩

Ralph might be a likeable guy and I’d love for him to be successful, but, just like the latter months of last season, he’s getting no tune from a group of players who are far better than the performances they are currently producing. Wether it’s his tactical style, what they are being coached or just purely lacking in confidence, something has to change and #1 obvious decision is to change our manager before we eat through all our winnable games before Qatar.

Seriously, Edozie. Bring him on, give him more than five minutes. He’s shown more attacking intent than anyone in our last two matches and has had two subs appearances of 10 and 20mins. Give him 45, the guy had a good international break, what does he have to do to get more than 5mins to produce a miracle when we are chasing games?

The tactic of defending for 80mins, hoping we’re still in the game, drawing or only a goal behind and chucking six attackers on for the last ten minutes seems to be the Ralph way and it’ll work every once in a while, but you’re definitely losing more than you’ll win or draw with such an awful plan. Edozie, Aribo and Stu should be starting far ahead of Diallo, Moi and Djenepo and I’d be sticking Mara ahead of A.Armstrong. One of the most likely games to pick up points and secure a good start before the WC and we are pissing it away by playing far from our strongest starting XI.

Edozie should have started after his twenty minute cameo against Wolves. Beggars belief if anyone in the coaching staff actually takes note of anything positive. A blind bloke seen how well he ran at the Wolves defence a couple of weeks ago ffs, 70mins of no SOT’s and he’s still warming the bench hahaha, unbelievable.

Had seen Ronaldo getting off the team bus five times before kick-off in their match v Leicester. The same interview another five times with Man City’s new defender. And they got woman in white, sitting on the couch, to give her examination of Man City’s transfer window, expertly stating it’s been exceptional because they signed Haaland. Groundbreaking.

Looks like a mass ‘Ralph train’ revealing beyond 10pm and it’s looking more and more like it, if we actually have anything over the line yet.. Defenders and Midfielders but not a much needed big Striker would be the only disappointment to end a very very strong window.