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They may well do but it wouldn’t build up credit. A couple of dodgy results and we’d be back to where we are now, booing the team off the pitch. I don’t know what the answer is but I don’t think it’s Will Still. He wants to play a 4231, they buy him the wingers for that and he leaves Fellows on the bench in order to play 5 at the back. And not a good five, a shitty five that can’t stop making mistakes and making goals. Sick of being so sick of it!

I don’t see a way back. The fans won’t change their minds on Still and any sense of loyalty that Still may have felt towards the fans will have gone. He will only be wanting success now so that it’s his way out, not for the club or the fans. I believe that most of the squad and manager would rather not be here but just can’t find a way out. The place is completely toxic. I do think the team and Still deserve all the criticism they are getting but it doesn’t take fans long to turn at a game. We moan about the defensive passing but then groan when an attacking pass goes astray.

Substitutions have done it for me. Every time he makes us worse. Would welcome a Warnock style figure. This team needs an old school manager, not a master tactician, just do the basics well.

I’ve not been Still out till now. Taking Scienza off has down it for me. Let’s get a proper manager in, none of these “aren’t we fucking clever” appointments. A decent, proven manager who can set a team up properly, defend properly and occasionally score a goal. So sick of being a saints fan.

This is all on Will Still and his substitutions. Utterly pathetic.

In that he’s having to try and pick up the pieces from arrogant useless frauds in the years before him!

We’ve got Azaz on the bench and fifteen minutes left. Got to go to four at the back. Won’t make any difference to the defensive stability.

Archer off, Azaz on, Arma up top. We just need somebody to create something.

He didn’t even look at the keeper, just blasted it goalwards. No composure, no quality.

Hopefully it’ll come back to bite me, but not convinced by Archer at all. Not a great first touch, offers little in the air and tries lots of wayward snap shots. Think I’d prefer Armstrong up there with Azaz or Fellows starting.

I thought we played well today, creating chances and nullifying the opposition. I was sat quite near the Saints bench and it was clear that one of the tactical plans was to get Wellington on the ball more, presumably to tie up their full back and leave Scienza more space. At times Still was getting pretty exasperated when Wood or THB weren’t using that ball to Welly wide. Tom Fellows was good when he came on but always received the ball standing still, with his back to goal, always needing to take his player on before starting the attack. A little more urgency could have meant he was running onto the ball or at least had more space. Alex McCarthy had plenty of opportunities to release Fellows or Jelert with a decent throw but too often took the safe option of passing out to Wood. On the whole, it’s starting to come together. I think we need to find a place for Azaz, maybe for Archer. I am an optimist though. Had a fiver on Saints to win 3-0 and Scienza to score.

Jelert on for Manning please.

Be tempted to bring in Jelert at LWB. I’d stick with Ross Stewart up front. Macca, Jelert, Quarshie, Wood, Edwards, Jander, Charles, Fellows, Azaz, Armstrong, Stewart.

Much improved. Would like to see Jelert come in for Manning as I am still unsure of his defensive capabilities. Other than than, something to build on. Don’t think we’ll have Jansen for too many seasons.

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So much better. The defence looks assured and can spray a pass about when they see one. The difference I think I in the midfield with Jansen. He get the ball and looks forward. I think it was him that got the ball just outside our box and sprinted up into their half before feeding Fellows. Much better than Flynn”The Wall” Downes, not because he is so hard to get round, more that’s the only pass he can produce.

Good team and almost the end of the Russball era. I think he saw McCarthy makes the saves the other night and realised that so long as he doesn’t try to be Rene Higuita, the shirt is his for a while. So good to see THB and JS out. For too long they’ve been the first names on the team sheet when in all honesty, they’ve been pivotal in our decline. The pointless passing, the error strewn defending and general incompetence. Just hope fans are willing to give this new set up more than half hour before they start moaning.

Thats Saints for about the last seven seasons. Miss chance after chance, before gifting a goal. Up till that point we were moving the ball well and looking positive. So much better than the tippy tappy sideways crap we get from JS and THB.

My only gripe so far is watching Manning defend. When their winger gets it, Manning drops back into space and hopes Scienza or somebody else will shut them down. If they do get through 1 V1 with Manning, he doesn’t shut down the cross. Living the fact that the back five are moving the ball up the field with more urgency and purpose.

Onto a hiding to nothing really. Damned if he makes changes and damned if he doesn’t. I’m hoping that the three centre backs show a bit more urgency than Captain Jack and THB.

This absolutely pathetic, embarrassing. If we have made no progress by Xmas then maybe questions should be asked. Chopping and changing manager doesn’t help the club, the players or the finances.

I am hoping that he will come good. The players have got to take some responsibility for being so poor though. THB was a liability today, not Stills fault if he can’t win a header and gives away silly fouls. I’m more concerned with the big difference between the attitude of the front 4 and the rest of the team. The front four are making runs and looking to get in dangerous positions. The problem is that the rest of the team especially the back 4 either don’t see the runs or aren’t capable of making the pass required. Just sideways and backwards, and repeat.

Too late now but we needed to get rid of everybody associated with last season, and Russball. I would rather have Wood and Edwards at CB than these two jokers.

THB believes the hype. He’s an England international. I think he’s a fucking liability.

Get Roerslev off, Wee man into RB and Scienza on at LW.