Gloucester Saint

Sorry you and your son didn’t have a better experience today - hardly encouraging for our younger fans - but at least the fans gave them both barrels. In the real world if you don’t put the work rate and organisation in, customers and suppliers let you know, so no reason the wallflowers should escape.

And not appointing managers who actually have a higher profile than the club who insist on getting on with the job and won’t take any crazy bullshit from owners or Chairmen - Lawrie moved himself into that category and Ronald, WGS and Poch were already there. Imposed themselves from day one even if the results took a bit longer with WGS, but come they did. Until the club appoint a manager who will tell them what they don’t want to hear about Bazunu, Downs, Stephens, in public, and tackle the empty corporate soullessness and unwarranted complacency within the whole club environment, re-engaging our fanbase, it’s a one way trip potentially out of even the EFL or at best League 1/2 over the next decade.

Even if he did fuck dogshit, most of it would drop limply on the pavement. Gloves would be clean though.

Hope as Duck would say, the players and manager got some serious ‘clog’ from the away end in terms of pulling their fingers out.

I broadly agree on the club and SR - only prospect of any sustained improvement is them selling - but there’s no pattern of play whatsoever, Bazunu is still in goal and the defence looks every bit as bad as when Martin was here. Midfield doesn’t exist. There’s nothing to build on. Someone like Carrick knows the division and should stop the worst of the stupid goals. And stops the successive relegation we are on the way to.

It really isn’t counterproductive he’s been the worst ever goalkeeper at the club for the last 2 seasons and a bit. Our fans need to do the club’s job for them (yet again) so he can clog up someone else’s wage bill. At a loss as to who’s though at the wages we are paying him to be Tommy Forecast for the 2020s. SR and their fucking projects.

Which is why I appreciate your post about Will Still and agree that last season was bound to be damaging but I’m 100% certain Will Still is NOT the answer. And for the reasons you’ve put here. No DoF working with me makes those two decisions. Or they get a blast in public if they did it regardless. So he’s either a piss weak yes man (SR speciality) or as I suspect more, he has a dreadful lack of judgement. I cannot believe that Bazunu suddenly turns into Gordon Banks in training.

Sekou Mara is crap but still light years ahead of Downs. Downs is far worse than some Conference South strikers I’ve seen at Torquay Utd.

💯 sometimes a performance tells you all you need to know - Jones v Lincoln and Forest, Martin v Forest, Brentford and especially Bournemouth. Today was worse than any of those. However many games they want to give Still as a benchmark to improve, he isn’t going to.

Carrick or Rohl next please.

Still safely in possession of the keeper jersey in my worst ever Southampton XI for any division.

Probably about as effective in the air. Downs is a blend of Paul Moody and Jason Lee. Good work Johannes!

Mid-table? I’ll have some of what you’re drinking. Paul Trollope Championship relegation double more like.

So would 99.9% of the forum. Sod it, 100% actually. Damion Downs is a poundshop Paul Moody, Paul was hopeless at PL level but at least scored 20 a season for Oxford in League 1. Downs would struggle in the National League.

Brondby

Swap Armstrong for Sesay and I’d agree. Need someone to carry the ball and break the opposition lines. Lack of movement and athleticism with and without the ball is a disgrace to the sport.

Not that slow if this 🤡 stays in charge. This is a relegation battle if he’s allowed to go on beyond the weekend. Does anyone believe SR has the bollocks to make a decision like Sheff Utd did though? Admit your mistake and put it right next 24 hours.

Need to do what Sheff Utd have done, not double down on a hideous error, and put it right tonight, get one of these two in place for early next week.

Can’t survive today’s debacle, will be doing a Luton 2024/25 if this 🤡 stays in charge. Today worse than anything Nathan Jones, Branfoot, Pellegrino or Martin served up.

Yep, he’s joined GM and Osvaldorama on ignore.

Reform’s polling has much to do with the fact that they spent several times what the other parties spent over the summer on Facebook advertising, all of it about immigration and ‘lawless UK’. A lot of it from funding sources even Portsmouth FC would’ve baulked at in the 00s (yes, Trousers, I know it’s a different club now 😉 They are finding local government rather harder than they thought and the post-austerity issues even more intractable. The hiss coming out of the tyres is coming.

Reform not finding it any easier to cut locally and regionally in office and not lose core support https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/reform-doge-unit-struggles-with-local-pressures Welcome to mainstream politics in the 2020s.

I know America doesn’t have leaders of the opposition in the same way most of the European Parliaments do but where are the Democrats? Unless something is happening to their individual state from Trump eg Californian wildfire arguments e.g. Gavin Newsom hits back nicely, they just aren’t coherent or cohesive against a really unpleasant and dangerous authoritarian government. Sanders is the most public and he’s now an independent.

Used BBC last night who are returning to Met Office - looked up Met Office instead as the beat source and looks similar Weds/Thursday as they don’t go further than 7 days and looks dry first two days at least https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/forecast/gcp185f25#?date=2025-09-25 Leeds similar for Yorks v Durham https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/forecast/gcwfhf1w0#?date=2025-09-25

Forecast midweek onwards full sun so survival will have to be earned unless Durham implode at Headingley.