Jack

Exactly

How many Arsenal attacks are we going to start from goal kicks knocked around our 18 yard box? Fuck off Russell you stubborn goon

Never mind

What do I know about football

Clever tactic from Arsenal. Drop 10 yards, let us play ourselves into trouble

The Southampton Way™️

It’s all Arsenal but they haven’t had their shooting boots on. Won’t last. We’re defending ok but racking up the bookings and will get tired, still a comfortable win for Arsenal in the end IMO

Will we never learn to mark or get out to players on the edge of our box

Possession stats far more important. The creativity has been coached out of them

Got to be Tall Paul for this one

Fuck sake. He was looking ok too, made of glass

Route 1 almost gets us in. More of that please

Absolutely ridiculous to persevere with playing like this. I just hope it loses him his job early enough for us to have a go this season

Players are going to have to take responsibility, ignore Russ and clear our lines early today

Fuck me. Shambolic

I wonder if he’s giving himself the excuse that he got the lineup wrong, rather than having the blame pointed at his tactics and philosophy being absolute garbage and not fit for purpose. As was the case on Monday, where he said the blame was on him but then threw the players under the bus

Was just about to post this. No mate, we need to be as far away from being ourselves as we possibly can

Regardless of formation, starting Manning over Taylor is madness and is surely only happening for reasons other than tactics or footballing ability

As a manager you’re asking for it if every lineup makes no sense, and you’re still getting dicked every week. Starting Ryan manning for his first game at Arsenal away when you’ve got a prem experienced left back on the bench. Fucking joker. Can only get away with it if it actually works and it won’t

Three fucking full backs on the pitch and 2 more on the bench after a bench with 5 strikers and no defenders last week? Absolute clown. I think he’s trying to get sacked. Or throwing in one of last season’s scapegoats to deflect attention.

Since the start of the 22/23 season in the Championship with Swansea, he’s conceded 139 goals in 98 league games, 1.42 per game. I hope the media press him on why he’s so stubbornly committed to his possession at all costs philosophy, as it doesn’t achieve anything unless you’re banging in shitloads of goals which just isn’t going to happen at this level. He’s going to take us down with no sign of a fight.

I’d 100% take a 3-0 defeat at this stage

I completely agree that we switched off and shouldn’t have given them the opportunity to take the free kick quickly. But also you see quick free kicks like that get pulled back all the time as it was taken several yards from where the foul was

The sheer quantity of shit goals conceded last season and poor draws away from home was it for me. Outside of the top 4 that league was dross, and we made a right meal out of it due to poor tactics and game management IMO

I said this on the first replay I saw, a lot of refs don’t let that slide. He was awful, and in their favour a lot I felt. We’d still have lost comfortably but it didn’t help. RM needed to set us up to play to our strengths and he did the exact opposite again, and played right into Bournemouth’s hands. Sick of it