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James

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  1. To me it was total mind games from Pep - just saw a team come to their place and implement a system that largely denied them their usual rampant attacks. A better team than us (Man U, Chelsea, Spurs) could implement the blueprint we laid down and get something against them. Pep doesn’t want that so he rips into an opposition opponent in some massive publicity stunt to try and get teams to come out and attack them like Liverpool did so that they can run riot. It’s a subtle way of digging us for our defensive approach - approaching one of our young players and criticising them for wasting their talent rather than criticising our approach directly. It’s a seriously cheap shot and I’ve lost a lot of respect for Pep. Has made me quite angry to read the general media love in about how Pep so loves the game that he is on some sort of divine mission to improve players even when they play against him. I mean seriously, do me a favour. Pep is as bad as Fergie and Mourinho in the mind game stakes but seems exempt from criticism as he’s a trendy, likeable guy that wears bomber jackets etc. all the hipster journalists etc absolutely love it. Not to mention that getting in an opposition players face when they’ve just conceded a last minute goal is totally unprofessional and ungracious.
  2. **** off Pep, **** off Sterling, **** off ref. Well played Saints.
  3. He’s a complete ****. Liverpool scally.
  4. Must have a clause in his contract that he can’t be substituted. It’s unbelievable. Gabbi surely must come on soon?
  5. We need to get rid of Redmond. Complete trash.
  6. Total waste of space.
  7. Austin = goals.
  8. So we will lose as there’s no chance our idiot manager will change his ways. Even if we come out and nick a second we will then sit back for the inevitable Rooney equaliser in stoppage time.
  9. Totally agree but as soon as we scored we sat back and tapped it around as per Pell’s instructions against Brighton. We won’t get anywhere with this guy in charge.
  10. It’s a carbon copy of the Brighton game except Everton equalised earlier. Poor poor management from a negative, hopeless manager. Much better performance but the momentum was sucked out of us by sitting back and messing about playing keep ball. Was so obvious what was going to happen.
  11. That’s what you get for sitting back against a woeful team. **** off Pell.
  12. Quite like the look of that team. Worried about the CMs but can’t help that. Have wanted JWP on the right and Austin up top for a while.
  13. So Hoj and JWP as our holding midfielders...bodes well...
  14. Where on earth did you read that?
  15. James

    Pellegrino OUT

    I don't really get this view/line of argument. Why is it entitled to want your team to do better? Were Sunderland fans "entitled" when they wanted Moyes sacked? What about West Brom fans when they wanted Pulis out? It's hardly just Saints fans is it? With Pellegrino, the overwhelming consensus (on here and in and around the ground, from my experience at least) is that he isn't the right man and we are on a downward spiral which could even result in relegation. We've got the 5th/6th most expensive season tickets in the entire division yet we've delivered a shockingly low number of goals in almost a season and a half's worth of home games and are statistically the worst value for money. Not surprising that a few are expressing their displeasure. I'm not sure whether you attend St Mary's on a regular basis, if you do and are happy with the way the team are performing then fair play, but don't try and make out that those that aren't happy at what's going on are "entitled" and that you are some how superior by being content with us being (at best) mediocre.
  16. James

    Pellegrino OUT

    Its a bit odd as MLT has been less than forthcoming in his defence of MP on Soccer Saturday.
  17. Same as Forster then.
  18. James

    Pellegrino OUT

    You realise that relegation would likely be more damaging than hiring Big Sam right? If we go down (which, IMO, we could easily do with MP) I wouldn’t be at all confident that we’d come back up if we continued our current approach. Even in the Championship there would be teams spending more money than we do now on players..!
  19. I mean it’s bound to click eventually right?! Notwithstanding the fact it hasn’t worked for the best part of a season and a half...!
  20. You're right of course but ultimately we need to stay in the league and we don't have the time to overhaul the squad in January. We need a manager capable of keeping us in the league which, IMO, Pell will fail to do. We need to act and to change something to give us some new momentum. Unfortunately you can't sack an entire squad of players mid season but you can sack a manager. Comes down to whether or not you think Pell is getting the best out of what he has (deficiencies or not) - clearly he isn't as even Puel did a better job with more games to contend with and a weaker starting XI. Our squad may not be as good as some think but clearly its good enough to stay in the league, yet if we reproduce our results to date to the end of the season its touch and go whether we will do that with MP.
  21. James

    Pellegrino OUT

    If Big Sam wanted the job to the end of the season to guarantee our survival I'd take that and rebuild in the summer. Longer term I'd like AVB (I wanted him when RK left) but my feeling is that he's too big a gamble at this stage given our position. Could see us turning to AVB though, especially given his ties to the Chinese league.
  22. James

    Pellegrino OUT

    What I don't understand is that if the delay in sacking Puel was due to us scoping out Tuchel then why did we continue to sack Puel knowing that our first choice replacement had turned us down? It's hard to believe anyone at SFC actually thought Pell was qualified to do a better job than Puel (he has no track record of anything other than a carbon copy of our season last year) so why didn't we just stick with what we had? Whilst I commend the club for being ambitious in trying to bring in the standout available candidate it is frustrating that we've ended up with someone so utterly incompetent as the second prize. If we'd have been a little more realistic we'd have appointed Silva (but, then again, we'd have rolled over and he'd be at Everton in any event so probably doesn't really matter other than the fact we'd have more points on the board).
  23. At home it really wasn't.
  24. I’m sorry but any manager that thinks we played with “good energy” at any point during that dross yesterday or uses the fact that we played well for 25 minutes of a home game against Burnley that we ended up losing is anything but an “excellent coach”.
  25. Completely agree. I think most Saints fans are united behind the fact he has to go. Haven’t spoken to one that thinks he will come good.
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