lambtiss

Yeah. How about trying excellence into even further excellence. Let's give that a sodding try SR

Legend

Are you Fabrice in disguise?

Manning definitely needs to be replaced, whether from inside or outside the club. One of the worst defenders I have had the displeasure to watch.

I thought Tonda did the same with the Oxford match.

I am so fucked off with this club. We continue with 3 CBs even though our defending is awful. We have continued with Bazunu for 3 seasons even though he is a truly dreadful keeper. We continue with Manning even though he can't defend. We continue with Jack Stephens as a captain even though he is an ever present in a terrible defence. So, he can't even lead a back 4. We continue not to buy a proper number 9 even though everyone knows we need one. Fuck off Sports Republic, you have presided over 3.5 seasons of mediocrity, leaving us struggling in a league below you acquired the club.

Every cloud has a silver lining

Fellows needs shooting...... Practice

I think you need some lessons in Statistics, old fruit. As the quote goes "Some individuals use statistics as a drunk man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than for illumination."

My original comment was that "I seem to remember the run came to an end when Captain Shoehorn became available". Your counter-evidence was that he was on the bench for the match when the run came to an end. So, you actually proved my point despite mis-quoting me.

So 2 games are enough for you to write off trying out 2 CBs? That's silly, and not how stats work We also kept a clean sheet against Portsmouth. So you could claim that 50% of our matches with 2 CBs were clean sheets.

You have just ignored the general point I was making by taking a sample if 1 match. Are you hard of thinking?

Please provide the stats to support that.

You know the point I was making. We had the best run of results in recent history playing 2 CBs. We brought Stephens back into the fold and started to play 3 CBs at the back and the results were much poorer. 3 CBs has never really worked for Saints.

When we had our long unbeaten run in the Champ under RM, wasn't it achieved with 2 CBs .. THB and Bednarek? I seem to remember the run came to an end when Captain Shoehorn became available

Nice to still see the 3 CB lineup that has defended so well all season ..

We hate back 3 and we hate back 3, We hate back 3, and we hate back 3. We hate back 3 and we hate back 3. We are the back 3 haters.

With everyone doing the robot dance while this is sung

Or 4 centre backs?

Anyone who couldn't attend today was lucky. One of the worst matches of football I have ever had the misfortune to watch. My son-in-law and I groaned when they announced at full time that we had to endure another 7 minutes.

Unbeaten this year ...

Some people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lampost, for support rather than enlightenment..

I don't think last nights substitutuons were examples of technical magement wizardry. To me it was desperate substitution bingo at the end. The substitutions were like for like, there was no magical change in formation. Archer has come on on numerous occasions and offered nothing (as he did before and after scoring last night). As soon as we got the equaliser, we went back to boilerplate, crab football which Birmingham were very comfortable defending. The goal put an unmerited varnish on another awful performance, the like of which we have seen again and again this season. We had hoped Tonda had broken this tactical monotony but that didn't last long. One point away to Norwich, Oxford and Birmingham is a dreadful return with no excuses.

The one common factor uniting the management choice under SR is that they were relatively unknown and all with either no experience at a higher level and/or no management experience in this country. Two of them given their first management job. Almost as though the football strategy was more important than the manager. With Martin, the two (strategy and manager) coincided. A strongwilled manager, respected at the level we are appointing for does not seem to be a recruitment factor

Why?