Willo of Whiteley

What I would like to see, 4-3-3: McCarthy - shit, but keep the ball away from our goal and we’ll have half a chance. Jelert - impressive debut, better than Roerslav at early impressions Wood - hasn’t put a foot wrong Quarshie - clumsy, but better than Stephens and THB so far this season Manning - decent enough Jander - if he isn’t injured Charles - prefer him over Downes Fraser - in the middle CAM Robinson - shouldn’t have been dropped for these new signings Armstrong - by far our best ST and excellent in this league regardless of what you think about him based on his Prem record Scienza - looks a handful Bazunu, THB, Stephens, Downes on occasion and Azaz have looked poor for the most part this season; and that is being fair. Downs has been beyond shit, the fact we paid money for someone who looks like they have such a lethargic workrate has gone down like a lead balloon with the fans. I’d potentially bring Aribo back into the fold. However, I expect him to go with five at the back for this with: Bazunu; Roerslav, Captain undroppable, Mr thinks he is better than he is, Wood, Manning; Downes, Charles, Fraser, Archer, Armstrong

The thing is he could be great behind the scenes. A lot of player interviews seem to be saying they like him etc. The problem is he has to get the fans onside now, and whether it’s him just being deadpan, saying it as things are are sometimes good routes to go down, it doesn’t inspire confidence.

He’s 100% reverting to a back five again isn’t he…

My concern is you have to pick people based on merit, who’s trained well, who’s not made errors etc etc. Not because they’re captain, or they’re the latest signing, on they’re on high wages etc

Because he fits in the bracket of young and higher potential returns. Funny right! 🤣

100% Jack Stephens, Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Gavin Bazunj start Saturday.

Id rather have a cardboard cut out in goal

RT

How can you rate a transfer window after it’s closed? Surely you can only grade it at the end of the season or the day before the next window opening? (Dec 31st).

We must’ve forget that McCarthy is an extremely shit keeper. He has been for years. Bazunu is far from great but I’d prefer him over McCarthy but leaving him in the firing line will do nothing to help him.

He just looks totally shot of confidence. Take him out the firing line for a few weeks, stick McCarthy back in goal, sure he’ll concede six or seven at his near post over a few games but at least it won’t be Bazunu.

This. Can’t really dwell on it now, it’ll always be a shame we never properly went for it but it is what it is. That is the tactical genius of SR. You can hope they’ve learnt from their mistakes, but given their lack of admittance to learning from past errors, I doubt it.

lovely isn’t it

I wouldn’t feel too destroyed if I was earning £50K a week plus bonus’. I really don’t accept the whole “scar tissue” or “suffering after last season” as an excuse. At the end of the day it’s eleven men vs eleven men every match. And it comes down to who want it more. You can have all the talent in the world but if you don’t try then you aren’t going to get very far. The squad we have is talented, supposedly. But I haven’t seen anything apart from a couple of players which suggests they’ll run through brick walls to get the job done. All I’ve seen is a swagger of “yeah we’re better than them” and then freezing when we’re aced with a team that want it more.

George Long was a comedy loan signing, seemingly with noise of celebrations coming from east anglia when that transfer was completed. Alex McCarthy has been shocking for years, and one of our most expensive players. It’s maddening that this guy was third choice two years ago, yet out of the blue played the final 6/7 games and got a new two year contract! But the fact we’re debating one of the above challenging Gavin Bazunu sums it up really. Too much too soon when we bought him. We’ll never recoup that money. Just another £10m pissed down the drain.

I wouldn’t say last season destroyed them as such. Flynn Fownes threw his toys out the pram when Russell Martin left and seemingly when he wasn’t able to leave in January. He clearly doesn’t want to be here and has started poorly this season. Taylor Harwood-Bellis I’ll give some credit for not kicking as much of a fuss up; but he was poor last season, has been poor this season and seems to have that aura of blaming everyone else but himself. These two are not as good as they think they are and the sooner they realise that the better off the club will be.

What’s Ralph Hassenhutl doing nowadays? 👀

He looks lazy as anything.

Spread those cheeks lads, it’s going to be a drubbing

I don’t normally do computer games but I’m actually looking for to FIFA coming out so I can start a new Saints career and sell Bazunu, Hardwood-Bellis, Downes, Stephens, Stewart etc. The way forward is the Willo Way. 🤣👍🏻 It sounds shit, but honestly it can’t be any worse than what there currently is!

Drop Stephens, Downs, Bazunu and Harwood-Bellis. Even Roerslav sounded abysmal.

Danny Rohl, even if he is a bit of a nob, can’t be much worse!

Fully expect us to replace Will Still with Goztepe’s manager in six months time…

It’s almost like I said an hour ago that Adam Armstrong should be playing… Who’d have thought that a player known for scoring 20-25 goals a season in the Championship would score.

Does anyone want my Middlesbrough ticket next week?