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I , for one , am massively enjoying the gallows humour on here. So at least we have that. 0-2 Everton.

This is the thing all the Martin fan boys are missing We literally can’t get worse this time. I know this was said before under Hasenhuttl. (Where we didn’t realise how good we had it up in 15th). But this time we literally can’t get worse. We lose every week. Even struggled against Stoke’s reserves. Why wouldn’t we try something new?

Put one good cross into Paul Onuachu in the whole time he’s been at the club. We’ve had one of the country’s biggest strikers for nearly 2 years and he’s received one cross into the box. (West Ham when he hit the bar). Does anyone else remember another one?

Would like to see Cornet, Lesley and Paul given a good go. All players that if at their best could make a difference, but underwhelmed so far

Yeah but there’s no logic in anything he does. He doesn’t use cup games to try new things. He doesn’t try and build relationships between players. Just sticks people anywhere. Then subs them off and sticks new players anywhere. How will the players learn to play with each other with his buffoonery going on? Normally the one thing championship sides have is good chemistry as they come up. Can win a few games on that alone. But we have zero

Pretty fucking easy test 😂 The only team that doesn’t win at Southampton is Southampton

He also won the championship with relative ease. So as a manager he has a much better record already too. It isn’t a like-for-like comparison at all.

Because we are owned and run by incompetent idiots

I disagree. I think the reason people are more pissed off now is because we have actually spent enough money that we should be competitive. Back then, we really had no right to stay up. All we had was grit and heart. Instead we have spent it badly. And we have zero grit and heart, just an insane manager playing suicidal football.

No chance we beat Everton. We can’t stop crosses. Simple cross onto DCL’s head a couple of times and they’ll win 2-0 or something. They’re much better than us under Dyche

Has he gone yet?

All a bit fucking pointless really, isn’t it? Relegated in October is a new low. Even for us.

No wonder he always compliments us in his press conference. We’ve funded them signing good players by spending tens of millions on absolute shit

To put our start into perspective. If we continue as we are, we’d: - Concede 86 goals - Score 29 goals - Accumulate 5 points Some may say it’ll get easier, but we’ve played 2 promoted sides, and only 3 sides that finished in the top half last year. Put simply, Martin is doing a phenomenal job

I Absloutely true. I can think of many games that Martin has lost us with his changes. Can’t think of many times he’s won us the game against the odds. He might be a good coach & man manager, but he’s a bad tactician.

Bringing on fast wingers to run at tired defenders is something a lot of managers actually do plan to do. I know as saints fans we barely get to witness any managerial plans. But other clubs do often make plans for how to beat the opposition.

He is fucking clueless. Awful subs. Terrible tactics. Get him gone now

Get in!!

Martin honestly watches a different game to me. Don’t get this line up at all. Made sense to play Manning against saka. But against Leicester… I don’t get it at all

If we had won the league and strolled through the championship beating everyone, he would have earned more credit. Maybe then, 1 point from 21 would be overlooked. But we didnt. Of course, he had some credit for promotion, but frankly it’s all gone now. To try and pretend his magnificent exploits from last season protects him from criticism this season is insane. We have 1 point from an easy run of fixtures. It’s not fucking good enough.

Malcolm Gladwell’s book outliers talks about this. (Fascinating read if you haven’t read it already.) He looked through loads of data and essentially most professional sports players are born in September or the start of the school year for exactly this reason. I think this was in NFL or Hockey, but applies exactly the same to football.

Absolutely classic saints. If we’d signed Messi in his prime we’d probably have put him at right back

This is the weekend where it all finally clicks! Majestic possession lures Leicester in. We neatly and nimbly pass it around for 147 touches of the ball before Archer smashes it into the roof of the net. Bednarek plays like Beckenbauer in his prime, curling beautiful 50 yard passes to the wingers with ease. THB breaks a record for the best pass completion for a centre back in premier league history. Praise is heaped upon the team as 80% possession means Leicester can’t lay a glove on us. Just kidding. We are Southampton, not Man City. So we give it away at the back, vardy pounces on the counter. 1-3 Leicester. Win the possession stats though.

Pretty awful turnout by the look of things? Bit of a shame.

But we were in the premier league, where the prices are usually double. Carrillo was a joke of a signing so not defending the scouting team, but Stewart wasn’t some cheap signing. He is about on par with Carillo so far id say. Our recruitment, especially for strikers, is shocking.