Oldandtired

That is a seriously twisted comment. Halve the medication or get help.

……unless they watch PL football on a regular basis. It’s like the officials all have a different rule book to each other.

Isn’t the whole point about VAR to do away with inconsistency in implementing rules. If it isn’t then what is the point of it?

You don't seem to be allowing for that in your very black-and-white analysis of yesterday's decision.

They might as well as from what I've seen this season especially no two of them seem to have the same interpretation of the laws.

Than of the average football fan? Hmmmm…..

This. Imagine the team with no Ramsdale, KWP, THB, Downes, Fernandez and Dibling. No bright young things from the academy, nobody worth a damn wanting to come here. That could well be us in the Championship next year, still playing suicide football. I don’t think this is unwarranted pessimism, I would rather think of it as being pragmatic. And yet there are those who seem to think we will once again take it by storm (not that we did last year but you know what I mean).

Based on what? It can’t be on much of what we have witnessed this season.

Saints in the first half was exactly why I spend my time moaning about them. Saints in the second half was a team, win, lose or draw, with which I could start enjoying my football again and have something to cheer about.

From the amount of time they took to make the decision it had to be subjective. I thought the whole point of introducing VAR was to take subjectivity out of the equation.

As things stand it wouldn't have stood in the championship either as the ref called it offside.

I thought he told him to get a haircut

I don't understand football anymore. They have right royally fucked it up

I think they're brave and I'm proud of them where's my tenner Russ

So are all the rest of them

Or even worse ruffled his hair.

Local derbies against Eastleigh

Then why didn't they do the decent thing and make that abundantly clear before we all bought season tickets?

I note that he doesn’t make the obvious point that the team is better without him in it.

Since you ask yes. Pretty much 100% of the pompous crap you pen is.

What do you base that on? He said countless times he won't change his style, it's failing miserably now, it will fail miserably next time, if indeed there is a next time with this manager in charge. Sorry but that's absolute nonsense.

Right now I wish we were Leicester…

Can we really afford ourselves the luxury of waiting and seeing, and then shrugging our shoulders and saying guess it was the wrong option? The current situation is death by a thousand cuts, it surely must be better to at least try something dynamic such as a change in management?

That's not the future, that's our here and now.

Would it not be fair to say though that the majority of the healthy attendances at Saint Mary's this season are those who were suckered into buying season tickets on the premise that we were at least going to give it a go, play a competitive style of football that is not every opposing managers dream to play against under a manager who is at least pragmatic enough to realise that what he believes in does not work? As has been said so many times here this is not his personal vanity project. It's our club and because of the trust and belief we showed in record season ticket saleswe deserve so much more than what we're getting now. in simple terms the club does not deserve the support it's currently getting.Both board and manager display an arrogance and self belief not born out in playing style, points gained or league position. Bitter? Certainly, this has been my club for over 65 years and they are ruining it.