Galway saint

Morecombe ?

seems inexplicable that Bazanu was ever preferred over McCarthy

Put simply - not everyone need do it; just us.

Yes but those squads were assembled for a small fortune - those who can’t spend that big have to compensate to some degree with physicality and athleticism. We didn’t do that. remember the crazy gang ?

Not convinced anything will change until whoever decided to give stephens a contract extension, have Bazanu and McCarthy as GKs for the season and appoints mangers who play 5 at the back moves on. If we are going to sack Still appoint someone who is experienced in this league and has a strong personality and clear idea of how he wants to play and it’s not 5 at the back. Feels like although Martin has gone we are still playing the ‘Southampton way’ and that has to come from upstairs at the club.

I feel nothing

I read above we have won 4 out of 47 games If we fail to win the next game we will have won 1 league game for every 12 we play and that stretches back way before Still. It’s soul destroying stuff and I no longer expect us to win a game. I wonder if any other side in league history has had a worse run over such a lengthy period. Thought we did ok today in the first half and would have won that with a decent No.9 and that’s on SR. However we are clearly less than the sum of our parts.

I’m hoping the club can make at least a 30% return on their investment on Charles - if they can then that’s a great outcome and we can all celebrate a superb bit of business. Maybe I am getting old but it’s difficult to see us ever building a decent side under SR as if by chance we buy someone decent we sell and more often than not we buy crap/mediocrity which just adds to the doom loop we are in. I just don’t see how we will ever build a side that can compete at PL level but perhaps that’s not really what SR are primarily concerned with. The days of lower/mid table PL seem a very long way off now

Nice to win a game. Pleased to see Still has had the gumption and balls to drop Baz and Stephens and good to see Stewart scoring. Still looks very disjointed abut there doesn’t look to be a stand out side in the division so maybe there is time to gel. All that said does anyone really want to spend next season in the PL with this team or one anything like it as it would be carnage again

Good save - stayed big

If I had to pick his worst aspect it would be his positional sense. Like you I played as keeper to town standard and I watch this guy and think why does he take up the positions he does. He doesn’t have the size or athleticism to make up for that. The justification for playing him when RM was here was that he was part of the club’s philosophy to play out from the back but RM has now gone but he’s still playing. I find it inexplicable. I suspect he will continue playing until the end of the calendar year and the club will then replace him with McCarthy and take him out of the firing line again. If the club’s plan is to put him in the shop window to try and increase his value ( what other reason can there be given our business model) then it’s not working and I can’t see who would pay money for this bloke at the moment. All that said the last time we were in the Championship, Baz was the weak link, whereas this time around he’s got some competition.

Continuing to play Bazanu, new contract for Stephens, the signing of downs, not signing a decent CF- nothing has really changed at the club. y 2 wins in gods knows how many games Watched the game yesterday and felt nothing when we conceded.

I can’t understand why we want to play Stewart up front as a target man as he’s so ineffectual. What are his strengths ? Maybe once had had some but to me he looks slow, lumbering and brittle. Has he scored a goal yet for us ? I had he mind he might have got one at some point.

I understood his style to involve pace and wingers with plenty of crosses into the box. If that’s his style then it would make sense to play a decent sized target man yet he plays Archer. Maybe he thinks Downs and Stewart are shit and he might not be far wrong. My point was SR employed a guy who plays a certain way and then for the umpteenth transfer window in a row fail to sign a decent CF. What was the point in appointing him if you aren’t going to give him the tools to try and succeed ? That said he hasn’t looked great so far with or without a decent CF but then no manager has at this club since Ralph

People keep saying we haven’t replaced Danny Ings - the reality is we haven’t replaced Che Adams who would walk into this side. Dont know if you can blame Still for transfers as we don’t know how much influence he has had. I’d hope he wouldn’t have said I want a small guy up front to feed of the crosses from two wingers so at the moment it doesn’t look to me like he has been given what he needs but that’s the SR way

I am not sure how much influence Still has over transfers so this may not be his fault but we have ended up with a manager who likes to play pacy wingers ( presumably to get the ball into the box to try and score) and a short guy up front on his own as our first choice CF. The back up is a guy who has been injured for several years and looks like Bambi on ice, another short bloke plus Downs and where ( being polite) it’s early days. Today was poor but we did get some balls into the box into the second half but had no on to attack them and hence didn’t look like scoring from open play. I’m not sure how we correct that with the personnel assembled.

We play two wingers and a short arse up front

Just a poor coach who has been found out

West Brom away 23/24 he made a good save and we won that game. ultimately if the club want a keeper that is good with his feet, doesn’t make many absolute howlers but rarely makes any saves then they’ve got their man. Personally I like my keeper to make saves and will forgive them the odd error as they will all make howlers even the best

I suspect Baz will continue until around Xmas and by that time Still will have had enough and McCarthy will play for the rest of the season. The clubs isn’t prepared to give up on this ‘project’ so we have to endure another season of this.

Need to wait until the window closes and you see how the team shapes up in the coming months We have been here before and it’s pointless speculating Id say a team that still has Baz, Stephen’s as captain and no stand out CF still requires work

Typical SR signing Might be good but probabaly will be worse than what we have as the squad quality continues to deteriorate season by season.

I could see him on strictly - think he would do well

he’s an articulate guy but a terrible football coach

Guess they will just need to trust the process