OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint

You can still stay onside and make a nuisance of yourself. This guy is costing us points by being out of his depth in the premier league and not scoring and now by getting legitimate goals cancelled out. I'm sure someone else can take his penalties.

But did you see that showboating 'look away' pass? The bit where he fell over but the ball still came with him? His exaggerated stepovers? To be fair to him, I haven't seen many others in the squad raise the crowd's expectation like he did on Sunday. He's got more about him than a lot of us initially gave him credit for and hopefully he get a run in the side where he can be judged based on a number of performances.

Surely enough of the squad can get together and say we have to change - give us a chance to play the game the way we want to play it. They are not a bunch of nine year olds all wanting to play Centre Forward or Centre Mid, they know their best position and their strengths, so if enough of them say to Russ, we need to change, he will need to listen.

And then he places his fulcrum as centre back...more ridiculousness from RM. It's frustrating watching talented players not being given the licence to show what they can do. Suga doesn't come across as too talented but he does come across as a workhorse who likes to go forward - so if you put him in the team give him that licence.

For Forest I was waving the Japanese national flag for him but must admit, have put it away ever since. He really is quite average. Defending is woeful. Often out of position. But I do like his forward play and he has a reasonable cross. For that reason, I'm keeping the faith.

Yes he's been close and speaking to a couple of lads at work who know much more about football than me, they watched Sunday's game and asked why hasn't he played more for us. Ask RM. Must admit, never really thought TP is the answer but he did look good on Sunday and i'd like to see crosses pumped up to him.

Not interested in yo-yo either and I'm hoping his turning on the fans is the beginning of the end. That's a line not to be crossed. Interesting taking a glance back at the earliest comments on this thread. So many saw this coming. And I don't buy in to this "we can't afford to get rid of him" idea. Surely even SR have made a provision for the manager not working out. That Bulgarian fourth division manager is looking a better prospect than RM. SR, we have the players...come on do the right thing.

And he genuinely looked quite chuffed to be receiving the ovation. When he got the ball, there was a hum around the ground that something might happen. Indeed, I remember him taking the ball and laying off I great pass to the wing and there was a ball dribbling skill moment. One of our best players yesterday and hope he's fit for Friday. Didn't think I'd ever be saying that!

I don't mind Ralph's two 9-0s and our record defeat record because there was always the likelihood that a game or two later, Ralph would turn it around and we'd play better/different and win. The lowest ever points tally tells another story. It tells a story of incompetence, not learning from mistakes and apathy. And if/when we get relegated, I don't expect RM to get lucky twice and get us promoted again. We've got a squad good enough to stay up, but many of the better players will disappear. The only slight hope is that we scored twice last Sunday by going forward with purpose, so come on team, ignore RM's instructions and play your own game!

Their first was a complete nonsense. You'd think at some point the instinct of one of the players would kick in and they'd ignore what RM preaches and just boot the ball upfield. The way the players have been told to play lost us the game today just as it did at Newcastle, Brentford, Wolves... And unless ABK has lost a leg, there's no way he is worse than Stephens.

Normally think crap weather is a leveller but that's when the teams are a little mismatched. The gulf between us and them is so mismatched that the weather won't make much difference. They'll win 2/0 or 3/0.

Exactly. Now 4. Wins breed confidence but our clowns in management don't seem to understand. Squeeze a win against Everton and we could have got going. Wolves were crap but our style of play let them in. Now they'll go on a run

Sadly, there's many of us that agree with your sentiment. I guess most people are little compared to Tall Paul, but Archer is extremely fast. I can see Onachu challenging for a ball, getting a head/shoulder/back on to it with Archer being the first to the ricochet. In fact, I can see that being a route to goal more than any of our other ways we've tried this year.

ok, pass it 100 times up to the tall guy.......

Some of the summer signings were good, but this must go in the crap pile. Totally one footed (more so than Che); liked his antics at Newcastle but soon realised that was a disguise for his crapness, and while some were saying for £7m he was worth a punt, I don't want to see him in a Saints shirt again.

Really like this guy. Some are comparing him with Alcaraz. Alcaraz could shoot but doesn't have Mateus' skill and Mateus sees a pass. Hoping he'll now he be the main attacking midfield option but, I agree, we'll lose him at the end of the season if we don't don't things around.

Without Ramsdale and now Bednerek, our defence is starting to look as strong as our attack! I'm guessing Jack will play alongside THB, so just when THB was finding his feet in the premier league, he'll be all over the place again. Still would like to see Onachu start with Archer. Admittedly, it's not Batman and Robin but hoof it up to the tall guy and watch him lay off to the speedster and RM might just realise there's potential for a partnership there.

Really like the visuals but don't agree with any of the three points. There must be performance caveats in the contract, I reckon the majority want to see the back of him and personally, I don't believe our squad is that much worse than quite a few teams in the league.

A few years ago, we used to sing the anthem: Sali....Salisu...Sali...Salisuuu. Used to hate it because you could tell he was a journeyman. But I reckon I'll enjoy singing Danny....Danny Rohl....Danny...Danny Rohl... a lot more 😉

So now what do SR do? Are you suggesting SR concentrate of the structure of the club and they invest in a new Director of Football & Technical Director and leave the manager in situ? Problem is, I can't see that happening and I reckon SR are just weighing up 3 options with Russ M: 1) Leave him in for the next few weeks and see how it goes and when we inevitably lose these games, get rid of RM. 2) Hold out for as long as possible and panic fire him around beginning of February. 3) Keep with him even when we're relegated. THey'll probably completely arse this up too and settle with Option 2 😏

Does anyone else think his haircut makes him look like Adam Armstrong? Both equally clueless.

The problem is, as I understand it, the gang of three (Dragan, Ankersen, Kraft) are inextricably linked. So while there might be agreement that Ankersen has made a complete pig's ear of our club, I can't see Dragan getting rid of him without Dragan going himself. So, they need to be persuaded that this obsession with RM is totally wrong. Problem is, I'm sure they've already made approaches to other managers and they've said no. So do we go for some unknown manager or stick with what we've got? I think we go for some unknown manager. It really has got that bad!

The problem with all this comparison with Derby is that they were last in the premier league in 2007. 17 years ago. With our main players being sold off on relegation, there's a very real threat that we will float between the Championship and League 1 for a long time to come. And I don't think RM will get up promoted next year either. He has to go, and like someone said, he expects to go, so put him out of his misery.

And has anyone else noticed that ever since Pep told everyone how much he admired Southampton FC and learned from RM, Man City have lost four on the bounce? 😀

What doesn't RM get? Apparently he is frustrated that we "completely dominated the ball" but didn't win. Will he ever realise that it's goals that win matches. I'll tell you who is frustrated. I'm frustrated and I bet there's thousands of other Saints fans that are also frustrated that he's still serving up this style of football week in week out.