Football Special

The away regulars I've talked to are all dreading this trip, perfect storm of pathetic early morning sober bus trip at sunrise combined with our pathetic bunch of wasters masquerading as a football team with zero fight in them, the least streetwise football side that has ever existed ripe to be bullied by a physical skate line up made up of league one standard players. If Saints ever read this forum to be clear this would absolutely be the last straw to break Sport Republic's back, no coming back from defeat in this game. They will have seen the pattern at Hull, Blackburn, Millwall, Norwich, Oxford and know exactly what's required to beat us

I think they have also lost one of their better defenders to AFCON , Bright Osayi-Samuel

I'd add Stuart Armstrong to that list as well, great player for us

The players attitudes or ability? Because if the game was played on paper even a bad manager should be able to get more points out of the players we have. I acknowledge as a collective team we do look absolutely shite though, pieces of the puzzle just don't fit

Makes me laugh when club leaked they had spoken to a few managers but none of them had impressed, setting up Tonda as the default choice when he was clearly Spors man all along. Run by a bunch of amateurs bluffing their way through it , surely behind closed doors they must be embarrassed by how insanely bad they are at their jobs

And yet we kept being told what a big squad we have! But you are absolutely right and probably explains our horrendous 2nd half record, our substitutions benefit the opposition

That's how I felt about Azaz, most frustrating player

What's your secret mate? Still winds me up , I probably need to grow up and learn to not care so much

Spors needs to be pushed in a proper interview why he ignored such glaring weaknesses in the squad , some of us made this point in the summer but plenty of gullible/ naive fans on here still called it a 8/10 window and "more than good enough for the championship "

100% that's the case. They know he has crisp packet hands and any shot on target statistically has a good chance of going in

Is controlled the game by passing it around in our own half? Same old stupid tactics and same old stupid mistakes

When everyone was saying give him the job after 4 wins I said does that mean he gets the sack if we lose 4? Ok we haven't done that but point stands, stupid appointment with no long term strategy He's got no experience as a manager and virtually no one with that alongside him, playing stupid football and being found out time and time again

All true. Blackburn 2 v 1 Saints Norwich 2 v 1 Saints Oxford 2 v 1 Saints Pompey ? v ? Saints

We've sold about 1700 out of the 3000 so far , not surprising considering amount of traveling We've got in a month