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We're still dicking around with it far too much inside our own half.

What's the problem with putting free kicks into the Liverpool penalty area?

Tall Paul getting stuck in.

Put the free kick in the box FFS.

Good run with the ball from Downes but I could hear Russell telling him to stop and pass back from here.

Putting ourselves under pressure.

Russell gambling on another 4-4?

That's quite some tombola machine that Russ has. I don't suppose Liverpool were expecting that line up.

The Russell ego will be delighted to be the subject of so many articles.

Wolves on a roll now 3-1 up at Fulham. They'll be delighted that Saints handed them their first win of the season.

I wonder if that was the plan all along. Not going to make St Mary's a very happy place if the defeats keep on coming though.

Not for the next month or so. Jan has a knee injury.

Decision time for SR. If they want even a glimmer of a chance of saving Saints from relegation then the time to make the change is now (in reality it was after the Bournemouth shambles but we are where we are). If they're happy to accept relegation and a scrap to make the play-offs next season without the likes of THB, Ramsdale & Fernandes then they'll let Martin try and beat the Derby points total. I suspect it'll be the latter. The equivalent of sideways, backwards and no shot on target.

Don't players also fall out of love with the game when they get easily beaten every week? If a professional footballer isn't results driven then maybe they should be turning out for the local pub team instead.

Perhaps Delap and other decent No9s didn't fall for Martin's vision where strikers hardly ever see the ball.

Is this what the players have to listen to at the training ground?

Course not. That's just what they try to tell us. 😊😉

Landed Gentry Saint overseeing the workers is it? 😁

I did read it and simply responded. Debating with a contrarian such as yourself is to be avoided so I'll think twice before disturbing you in your lair again. 🤐 Btw, what sort of farmer gets to spend so much time rambling on in here all day anyway?

Saints lost. Again. Badly. Maybe you didn't notice. Or care.

But they won against an even more abject, powder-puff team. Second half there was only one team likely to score and it wasn't Saints.

Anybody buying into Martin's vision of football (fans, players or SR) must surely be having buyer's remorse by now. The bloke's obviously good at the sales patter but the players surely can't be enjoying getting turned over every week. Let's face it, the Everton game papered over the cracks of what could easily have been another defeat and yesterday normal service was resumed. This con-artist thinks he can re-invent football but his one-dimensional, plodding, backwards/sideways nonsense is easily countered by opponents. If SR really think that this geezer can get Saints promoted next time after this season's inevitable relegation they need to think again. Even Championship managers had begun to work him out last time round and they'll be well-prepared next season. Football is essentially a simple game. If only Martin could come to grips with the idea that it's basically all about scoring more goals than your opponent. Time to ditch him but I bet they don't.

Can I suggest some crossing practice for Saints?

Not quite 3-0 as Saints try to tippy-tappy out of defence again.

Shambles.