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Couldn't disagree more. This is a Wednesday team that is by all accounts a basket case of a club that should be fighting to stave off relegation. People forget Shea's age (still only 21). Stoke fans were not raving about Smallbone when he was on loan there. Bree, Smallbone and Fraser are seasoned professionals who weren't even stand out stars in the Championship last season (Bree hardly had a game). He is our player, has huge potential, is doing really well and will be extremely useful next season after gaining a full season's experience of championship football. The question should be whether Shea wants ro stay at another basket case of a club in the Championship having already more than proved himself at that level.

I think Shea has huge potential and would have been a better option in the PL than Ugochukwu as a DM. He started strongly last season but his form declined under RM as he was asked to do things that weren't part of his game at that point in his development (i.e new to senior professional football).

I'm afraid I have seen plenty of matches where the effort shown by Sullemana was negligible. Not showing for passes and then spurning the opportunity to take a player on have been typical of his performances this season. Contrast that with the player who tore Liverpool apart in the last match of our last PL season where we saw that the ceiling was potentially very high with Sullemana. Whether it is a lack of confidence or effort I haven't seen anything approaching that form this season (or last for that matter).

Well put Trousers. I've not met one Saints fan who held the opinion that if we dispensed with RM we would suddenly become a solid PL team. It was just clear to most that his stubborn insistence on playing out from the back allayed with crab-like attacks was making things worse. His unwillingness to adapt was the final straw; it was just unfortunate that the management (sic) typically held on far too long giving a new manager no realistic chance of keeping us up.

Sullemana has been so poor and disinterested that the only reason I can see for Saints starting him is out of forlorn desperation that he plays well ahead of the transfer window.

North?

IQ?

Sorry, my bad 😊

It could happen. He should be tempted to return to a club where he had a good scoring record and will get games. At Southampton he is not even getting any gametime. He would also be swapping a club that is getting relegated to a club that may will be promoted into the PL (possibly on the back of his goals).

Brentford 1 up

Are we even trying to score?

Our corners are actually an advantage to the opposition who are more likely to score on the break than we are from the corner

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Either weariness (still maturing) or his agent is getting into his head.

He was on the bench

And not for the first time. The only reason that I can see for the club playing him is in the vain hope that he scores a goal and we can sell him in January. I was disappointed that Archer didn't come on for Armstrong who was anonymous throughout

I think we are all agreed that we are not good enough to play it around ad nauseum at the back in the Premier League. So, sending it long (occasionally) when we are being pressed is a more sensible option. So, we then need to look at employing a target man (e.g. Che Adams) to make the use of the long ball more effective, when we use it.

For context, we conceded 2 at home to Stoke reserves and only a goal line clearance stopped a third.

Originally, people said that but there were plenty of critics of Woods after his first few outings for Saints.

I would like THB to be given a chance as captain.

Of course, in any normal situation you would be right. However, as things are we are going to be relegated, and Dibling will leave, so we don't have the opportunity to see him mature gradually. So, as we are in the last chance saloon I think we should try anything. Rather than thinking that we base the whole team around him, I see it more as, get the ball to Dibling as much as possible. (when the pass is on). I would like to see the new manager tighten us up defensively (much fewer silly mistakes) and use the pace and guile of Dibling & Fernandez to get the ball as quickly as possible to Archer (and possibly Onuachu) on breakaways. We have already seen several times in the past few matches that we are capable of this.

Ivan Juric and the blockheads?

That is a pointless and unanswerable question. The point is that the chances of Saints surviving in the PL were much higher and the job therefore more attractive to a wider pool of managers. We would also have had international breaks coming up. Finally a new manager would have been in place well before the January transfer window enabling them to assess the areas of the team that most required strengthening. The fact that SR have allowed this shitshow to dribble on for more than another couple of months is an act of pure negligence. To then not even have a clearly identified target is incompetence.

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