Jack

It’s not just moving the extra man further up the pitch, it’s moving the ball forward from those positions and then scrapping and winning second balls further up the pitch. Something we don’t get the chance to do with an 5 as we give it away so much deeper and with the midfield the wrong side of the ball. And then with your 2 wingers actually playing on the wings, Sheff Utd were forced to double up and leave spaces elsewhere. We looked rusty, a bit edgy, butchered some good chances and conceded some stupid ones. But overall the intent was so much better. It’ll have to be far more like that to have a chance on Sunday

I’ve been saying it all season, that he should be nowhere near the starting XI if we’ve got another option. He’s somehow managed to get even worse the last few weeks and if Tonda puts him in again tonight, he should be gone for that alone. He sums up everything that’s wrong with how this side plays. Slow, predictable passing, no movement, no intensity, no running, switches off every time and then tries to blame everyone else for his fuck ups. I detest him

It’s almost like an experienced, respected manager can get a tune out of a decent but underperforming squad, weed out any troublemakers and start climbing the table. Groundbreaking stuff

Grim isn’t it. Sport Republic have sucked the life out of the club and the enjoyment out of football for me recently

He’s clearly uninterested in playing 4 at the back. His stats tell him we’re perfectly creative with the extra man in defence and our xG will turn into wins any minute now. I’d love to see his stats and analysis that back up his selections defensively, maybe the new guy has been brought in to flower those up

Absolutely sick of him coming out in the press and claiming things that haven’t happened. Just listened to the presser for tomorrow and he’s saying that all the stats say that we should’ve beaten Hull, and lots of the other games we’ve lost. So infuriating, I’m sure he’s trying to take the pressure off himself with that line but he’s only increasing it in my book. If you come out and gaslight the fans, tell them they’re seeing something that they’re not, you’re not going to last long at all. Hasn’t got a clue

To have any hint of optimism about not getting done over on Sunday, we need a performance and a win on Wednesday. My guess is Saints 1-3 Sheff Utd. I’m close enough to SMS to wait until the lineup is announced before leaving home. If it at all resembles what we saw on Saturday and Boro away, I’ll be watching on the sofa instead of bothering to use my ticket. Tonda has to grow a pair and make some serious changes to how we approach games

A proper manager would get so much more out of this squad. Like others have said there are too many that have been here too long, and too many egos, but some quality for this level. It’s a really shit division this season and we’ve managed to be awful in it. SR have got to admit they’ve fucked up, appoint a serious manager with some actual experience and who commands respect, and fuck off the last of Martin’s backwards and sideways merchants so they don’t infect the rest, if they haven’t already

It’s getting louder. Agree that the majority are soft as shit but it’ll pick up momentum. I remember the days of forcing Rupert Lowe out, it was grim but we got there in the end. Squad and performance wise we’re not quite as bad as those days yet but lose midweek and at the weekend, which I think we will, the majority will have turned by then

Exactly this. Sadly through thinking they’re cleverer than everyone else they’ve taken an established Premier League club and dumped us in a Championship relegation battle. The fans need to remind them of this every week until they fuck off and destroy another club instead

It’s almost like a 32 year old kid, with no prior experience being a football manager, is completely out of his depth being a football manager. Who’d have thought it. It’s not really his fault that he hasn’t got a clue, he shouldn’t be in the position, but he’s completely lost it by telling fans he’s seen a different version of what’s actually happened on the pitch. And by playing Ryan Manning, I want him out tonight just for that, have been saying he’s a joke of a player since he’s been here

Every time we go forward there’s no space at all as we walk it up to halfway and try to play in tight spaces. Every time Hull go forward they’ve got runners and space, because we’re stood still. Complete lack of coaching and intent here. We know we’ve got decent players but they’re completely mismanaged

Welington for Manning asap and never play Manning again. Ever. Been saying it for 3 seasons, he’s a fucking shocking footballer and thick as mince

Sums up SR’s tenure. Completely ineffective

It might have to take a relegation to get rid of these cunty owners. Worth the risk of longer lasting damage?

Cunt should be sacked for persisting with Manning. Manning should be sacked for being as bad as he is. Fuck me

Attacking throw in - back to the keeper in 4 passes. Fucking hate this

Fucking criminal playing Tom Fellows as a right back. Get rid of these cunts asap. Manager, owners none of them fit for purpose

🎶 backwards and sideways, everywhere we go 🎶

He’s full of shit. Says he’s not concerned because we’ve been creating plenty. And that defending is more important than attacking. Can’t wait for more Manning and Stephens in a 5 tomorrow to show us what he means

Championship promotion winner* *because he got injured and we brought Macca back in for the rest of the season. 32 premier league games* *because our manager was a moron

Stoke fans have got us worked out: As Southampton's modus operandi seemed to be to pass it about a lot at the back and then give it to the opposition striker somewhere around the penalty spot there may be mitigating reasons for those poor stats?

They mentioned it on TSP and it’s how I’ve felt about this game - feels just like the Preston game. A decent but unspectacular side are coming to SMS with some belief, a team that on paper we should be dealing with but we just don’t do that these days. It’s going to have to go fairly well from the start or this ever increasing noise of discontent is going to take off again and it’ll be a vile atmosphere, and likely defeat. Can easily see us picking up just 1 point before the Pompey game and we know how that’ll go. Spors massively jumped the gun coming out and telling everyone how clever he was after Tonda’s temporary uptick in form, he’s back in his box now and I hope he’s working round the clock to sort this mess out that SR have caused.

This has been done to death, but with the squad and budget we had that season, playoffs was the minimum requirement. The undefeated run brought us no closer to the sides we were chasing down as there were about 9 really poor 1-1 draws that papered over the cracks. Clearly I’d take that sort of form now, but it just shows how far we’ve continued to fall under SR

Absolute madness that we persisted for so long. It’s been clear since 3 years ago that he just doesn’t have the basic goalkeeping instincts to get his hands in the way of shots, put any confidence in the defenders in front of him, command his box, or any of the other stuff a goalkeeper is supposed to do. Somehow he’s racked up nearly 100 caps because he can pass the ball with his feet and is a ‘decent lad’. Fuck SR and their spreadsheets