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Maybe not the best example to prove your point, Postecoglu very specifically has made clear he is not wedded to a single formation. https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/06/ange-postecoglou-on-tottenham-formation-and-harry-kane-19080299/ So, this proves the point that employing adaptable managers he can use the squads to their strengths, not forcing players to fit a preconceived, stubbornly dogmatic pattern, is better.

His indecision on whether to support Edozie or stay central last night in the build up to the second Preston goal suggests otherwise. I admire your optimism though.

Ground laid after the star players left. Pochettino was no idiot, he did his research very carefully before taking over, he knew our squad would suit him, he knew the technical ability was there. See how he has done at Chelsea so far, flashes of good, but square pegs in round holes. I see talent join us and get worse. Shea Charles looked great to begin with, as he tries to adapt to Martin he gets worse. The best managers help their players get better. I cannot think of a single player, except maybe Bazunu and Edozie, who has looked like they have genuinely improved since Martin came in. Managers who dogmatically stick to one way of playing (Which Pochettino doesn't do..... he can adapt) stifle talent, they don't develop it.

That's f**king hillarious.

We don't just grow talent, we squander it

The one thing I am certain of, is that ever since Koeman left we have massively overcomplicated how we have been run. So sure of our intelligence in trying to do things differently that we have disappeared up our own backsides. Football is not a complicated game, you play your players to their strengths. Systems do not win you football matches, football players do. If you are able to match players to a system, yes, it has a chance of working. But putting players in situations and ways of working that do not suit them lead to failure and stops them reaching their potential. Hassenhutl had a system, we couldn't afford to sustain it with a disinterested owner and lost the players that suited it. Martin has a system (not that it has bought any actual prior success) he is making players that are not capable of making it work try it. All a system and philosophy does is tell your opponents how you are going to play. Once they adapt, we collapse..... and have done for the last 4 years. Man City/Guardiola can make it work because they have more money then god and can cherry pick players to make it work. Until we accept that we are not that clever, we will continue to fail. Here ends my rant.

I f**king hate being a Southampton fan. Truly do.

Wow Bazunu.

The best day. The greatest away trip. Singing at the Duomo pre-match will stay with me forever. Although it was the canal bars that were the real chaos I believe. I didn't find Milan sh*t. Loved being able to explore a city like that as an away few days.

Very soon after the last forum. An attempt to get people more onside?

The part I am struggling to understand here, is just what were Hamas trying to achieve with their incursion last week? It cannot just have been death for death's sake. Even if it was a frustrated reaction to conditions imposed on them the reaction from Israel cannot have been a surprise.

Didn't Birmingham do this about a decade ago? Sacking Gary Rowett and bringing in Zola.

Just sorted that for you.

Thinking on it. Happier with last night then the Leeds game. Seeing the players working so hard for each other to see the game out and to actually do it was so heartening. That is the kind of team ethic that consistent results can be built upon. The attack can continue to be worked on as long as we can make this kind of effort habitual.

Oh thank f*ck. Never thought we would ever again keep a clean sheet.

They are working so hard for each other...... 1m 30s to go.

Well. Held. Baz.

More chance of a clean sheet from my 4 year old here.

Time for Charles.

Same here. West Brom away in April 2017. Before that, the Crystal Palace home game the previous week.

Love being wrong at times.

Get Charles on.

Here we go.

What is going on. I don't understand.

Bazunu looking averse to catching.