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Most managers will have an expiry date for a club, hopefully this appointment will be longer than we recently have, however, I can’t see Eckert bucking the trend. We’re the new Watford! Only down side to Rogers is the team’s defence tend to be weak at set pieces and crosses. Generally good going forward though and I can see him getting this squad to perform better.

The highest placed team saints have beaten is in thirteenth.

This is the issue, it’s not just changing the manager, but one that can change the culture and get a team out of the squad of players to get the points needed for the playoffs. If Romeu is coming in as the enforcer/respect the badge or fúck off type player, the manager needs to be able to make changes for the benefit of the team, not sure if SR will go that far, partly protecting their ‘assets’ and changing the management dynamic. Not that there are many Clough/Strachan types who are around at this level.

From another thread… He was brought in to get better results than Rose, which he didn’t. In his first season he got 2 points more than rose, despite the fact that he had the most influence on our squad from any our previous coaches since he was a squad planner before and then became coach. Let’s look at the results. 3 out of 4 halves of the two seasons were far below average in our terms, only the second half of the first season in the Bundesliga was good. Champions league run was highly lucky, as to the xGa we should have lost PSG and Atlético. So 3/4 of the halves were terrible, why should he get more chances? On top of that, we would have missed the CL for the first time in a long long time due to only placing 5th. Any coach would have been fired for that, rose and Favre got fired for less. Terzic is the neighbor of Watzke and he pretty much didn’t want to kick out his friend. If he was held to the same standards as any other coach, he would have been gone after 6 months. Transfers were horrific. For over 15 years we have had strikers with depth that could threaten the opponent with deep runs and without any necessity, he changed what made us strong the years before. We got Haller, Modeste and Füllkrug, who were lost up front and didn’t have enough speed to pose a threat, hence we had quite a few problems creating chances. The transfers he was involved in mostly flopped. He was unable to integrate any of our big talents. Moukoko, Reyna, Gittens, Adeyemi and all the others did not make a step forward. This creates an issue when we rely on sales to keep our high wages going. So we signed old players and developed no talents anymore, which will hurt us tremendously in 2-3 years. His playing approach is passive. He wants to overplay the midfield area instead of doing what every top club does: make the opponent tired, control the center. Whoever controls midfield, controls the game. He saw it differently. We were number 1 in long passes (>30m) last season. Ahead of Heidenheim, Köln, Darmstadt. More than double the passes than Bayern and Leverkusen in that department. That’s a big issue because you’ll run into counter attacks because our strikers aren’t good enough technically to keep the ball. So instead of controlling the game, we got pure chaos. Uncountable games where we were up 2:0 and lost 2:3. no big club plays like this, yet he didn’t see anything wrong with it. Lastly, he lost the team with his decisions. Our players wanted to play good football and some spilled the beans in interviews. Füllkrug, Brandt, Kobel, Hummels and others. There were issues with terzic when he started giving excuses and blaming losses on the team not following his plan. This is the short version, I could go on longer. It was the most unattractive football I’ve seen from a coach that was there longer than a few months.

Time for a bus driver and coach combo to save a bit of money with Manolo González.

And this is probably the reason why fans are willing Will to come good given his limitations. I would love to know the dynamics of the coaching staff with a couple of experienced coaches and a novice. Also, how much Still is being led by the data rather than illuminated by it.

Fix requires a replacement and for SR, nothing is easy.

Different set of circumstances. The owner has turned them around since coming in a few years ago. There seems to be more to Saints than the manager position as an issue. Still certainly shown to be a limited manager but would have thought many others would also struggle here. SR record has been awful with most personnel appointments.

If it’s that bad, why don’t I see the new lads plus some u21 players bar the essentials (goalie). This is certainly on the management team. Will Still is a decent manager but this situation is beyond him to fix especially if it’s attitude and player/club issue. Would be interesting to know which players are having problems, Downes and THB most likely? What about Edozie and Aribo? Too big a squad to deal with as well.

It’s a bit strange but the thought of relegation and some forced change than bumbling around like Stoke for years waiting for change to happen by chance is more appealing, however nothing is ever straight forward with Saints! I just can’t see how SR get out of this hole as they have screwed up recruitment and contracts since they have been here.

Troy Deeney to sign

Good fortune in whichever you decide.

I thought he’d taken himself out of the running? Bit of a change around.

Arsenal with Mikel Merino comes to mind as well.

You don’t score the nine penalties* from midfield. I’m sure there are a few direct free kick goals in there as well. *transfermarket website.

We are a team (stuck) in transition with so many changes on the field and have new backroom staff. Game wise, we cannot convert chances and can give an easy chance away. Not strong enough to dictate or disrupt play, so never know if we have enough to win a game.

Hopefully a team turns up rather than a bunch of individuals. There were a few signs in the last match but not having a decent forward as a focal point may hinder things.

Skates stay bottom, Saints move to third.

How was that not a penalty with the shirt tug on Primus?

There is no money for him to buy players.

If it was anything like my experience where I have five separate interviews by different people in the company asking similar questions, it can get pretty boring and tedious. You question the company with that type of process. If it was seven rounds then obviously they didn’t have a clue if it takes that many to come to a positive conclusion.

No he won’t.

Five consecutive home defeats for them since way before 1959!

Their wage bill has been dramatically slashed as well… I bet the rent is paid on time to the Chansiri’s company that owns the ground.

How long was he out after Chelsea? It seemed quite a long time. Another enforced sabbatical with a bit of TV work. Very nice. Third manager to try and get a tune out of WHU squad, counterattacking football probably the best bet.