Mboto Gorge

It’s almost as if the genuises in our board room are susceptible to fall for the new age, hipster, oh so clever appointments and get suckered in by this , isnt it? Who’d have thought if after getting lured into appointing Martin based on a similar hipster, maverick style appointment. Bunch of cretins running, or should I say ruining , our club

What was the cut off point / number of games from which people were willing to judge Still? A lot of people said 10 games. If (and it’s a big if right now) we beat Swansea , we will have 14 points from 10 games. It’s more likely to be another draw and we will be on 12 points. Is 12-14 points acceptable after 10 Games with this budget and squad? Don’t get me wrong I’m not 100% against Still, I feel he could be doing better but he’s also hampered by our dreadful recruitment team not identifying key areas to strengthen properly. Personally if we aren’t on the fringes of the play offs at the very least by Christmas , he’s surely got to go.

Yep, every time you see an opposition with a 10th20th/50th of our budget , have a striker who does a good job, keeps our defenders occupied, wins balls in the air, holds the ball up and generally cause a nuisance and provide them with a focal point, it really hammers home the point of how mind bogglingly shit and grossly incompetent our recruitment is, we had 7 million where others have had 100-200k, and we’ve spunked it all on one of the worst strikers anyone has ever seen at this level, and for this club at any level. Fucking pathetic and Spors and his team need to answer some questions about this at some point. He’s not just bad, he’s horrific, barely looks league 2 level and plays like he can’t be arsed. After the record breakingly bad recruitment we’ve had to put up with prior to Spors arriving, for him to pull out this steaming turd of a signing is just taking the piss.

It was really to emphasise the point that even the younger bracket of age groups within our club would show more willing and desire , basics for every footballer, than this bloke and as a result bring more to the table than absolutely nothing, which is what he’s currently giving us. Absolutely fuck all. But hey, your hero spors signed him so let’s hope he comes good. Any comments of your own or opinions about how things are going? Or are you going to nit pick on irrelevant parts of other posters comments as usual?

Surely time to cut our losses with this fucking clown and exclude him from the squad. We must have a big striker in the under 18s who could do a better job than this idiot. If I was Still I’d be banging Spors door down asking him what the fuck is this he’s lumbered me with , and demanding a replacement in January, though it’s worrying in itself that Spors is capable of signing such complete dross. Lost all faith he can find a decent alternative too.

Overall a good win and encouraging to show a bit of resilience to come back from a goal down , helped by a piece of individual brilliance from Stewart, hopefully we are finally going to see the best of him now. I thought we just about deserved to win over the 90. The penalty was soft to say the least but it was definitely a foul on McCarthy, those types nearly always get given so not sure what the comms were moaning about so much on sky, was painful to listen to. Only slight negative was the way we went into our shell in the last 20 minutes and invited pressure, but you could say that was down to nerves and the fact we aren’t used to winning, so confidence is still a little fragile but this should do us the world of good heading into a very winnable match on Saturday.

I’m seriously losing the will to live with this shit. You just know we will start the second half fairly well, tippy it around their half for a bit, then they’ll get a free kick of corner around 60 min Lump into the box , and we will be 2-0 down. Rinse and repeat with these cunts. The club is a joke right now

This is going the way of the hull game so far. Expect more tippy tappy and then concede another one or two in the second half

2-0 saints. Downs to come on and net a double, one a towering header and another bulldozing run, outmuscling the defence before blasting home. Prompting the following headline in the papers the next days; ”Downs downs blades”

Now there’s a visual image I was hoping to avoid….

Don’t worry he’ll come good, after all…., Group Technical Director Johannes Spors said: “Damion is a player we have been monitoring for some time who possesses excellent physical qualities and the ability to disrupt defences. “Strengthening our attacking options was one of our top priorities this summer, and Damion is a player who will add real quality to the group. Despite his relatively young age he is already a senior international, so we are excited to see him thrive in the environment here at Southampton.”

What’s more worrying about that quote from Spors, other than the obvious bit about Downs non existent physical attributes, is that he states that striker was one of our top priorities, which indeed it was. So being that he was well aware of that, this bloke , and this bloke alone, was who he was banking on to solve our striker woes, as the main man this season. Let that sink in

Johannes Spors upon the signing of Downs….. Group Technical Director Johannes Spors said: “Damion is a player we have been monitoring for some time who possesses excellent physical qualities and the ability to disrupt defences. “Strengthening our attacking options was one of our top priorities this summer, and Damion is a player who will add real quality to the group. Despite his relatively young age he is already a senior international, so we are excited to see him thrive in the environment here at Southampton.” im sorry but this is up there with Les Reed saying that Pellegrino was going to bring “high intensity pressing attacking football” to the club

This is the key difference, and where my thoughts are at with this. To do a solid effective job for us, AM doesn’t have to pass it out from the back, that’s not his main job. He can hoof it and still have a good game by making saves. Bazunu DOES have to make saves. Bazunu can complete every pass out as accurately as he likes, but if he’s letting standard shots past him , he isn’t having a good game and is costing us points. It’s an absolute no brainer.

if BBD is Mbappe, then Downs shall be Mcrappe. Actually that might catch on……

Hopefully Still gives him a long break from the first team squad….

I watched him closely at Hull and also last night, I’ve seen enough football over the last 30 or so years to know that he’s never going to be up to it at this level: he isn’t suddenly going to start being aggressive or putting more effort in, and become effective, it’s not in his makeup clearly to put himself about. I wonder if anyone has got him name on the back of their shirt when he signed 🤣🤣🤣

Shite? He’s not even that good! Beggars believe that we’ve spent 7m on this bloke, something must be going on with him surely? He can’t always have looked this bad, I fail to accept even our dreadful Recruitment network watching him play like this and thinking “yep that’s our man”

There is an opta table of “prevented goals” data for every keeper who’s played a minimum of 10 premier league games since 2016, and guess who rocks in at rock bottom, 86th out of 86 for goals prevented? Our Baz. Let’s not pretend he’s anything other than utter shite . All the stats over the last few years show that he just doesn’t save shots! Hes a fucking keeper who doesn’t save anything, he shouldn’t be in our starting 11.

To be fair, if games against liverpool were the only games judged , Sulemana would’ve been our player of the season twice running

Your last paragraph is the most excruciatingly frustrating part of the evening. At actual goalkeeping, McCarthy was fine, really solid. But we all know that error will give the club all the reason they need to start Bazunu again at the weekend: without the error I reckon it could’ve been very difficult to justify keeping Bazunu in goal but you can sure as hell guarantee he starts Saturday now.

Yep, he looks exactly how players playing well above their level look. I know hes mentioned a lot in jest, but Ali Dia didn’t look any worse in the one match he played, similarly out of his depth.

Yep, it’s already fairly obvious that, like Mara, he’s nowhere close to being suited to demands of English football . This will be yet another player who we will counting down the clock until we can get rid of him over the next couple of years as his contract winds down . It was evident with Mara fairly early that he wasn’t up to it, and this guys even worse.

Like to know why people think it’s a definite no re Onuachu? We are in a league with a lot of strikers at his level of ability, or are we still struggling to get out of the premier league style snobbery whereby it would be unfashionable to say that he would have been more effective in this league than what we’ve been left with. Clearly he’s better than Stewart and Downs. So bearing in mind the alternatives are those two, then yes he should’ve stayed if we are simplifying things. The reason most of us were happy for him to leave was because we (stupidly as it happens) assumed Spors would sign a better target man to play up front. But he’s signed a total dud.