RedArmy

Careful. Saints might sign you.

He absolutely gets credit for hiring Koeman, it’s one of the best decisions this club has ever made. But he also has to take responsibility for letting him go to Everton off the back of a top 6 finish which started the downward spiral.

His problem was thinking he had much to do with it in the first place. When you look at the important signings we made during that period, a lot of them are clearly heavily influenced by the Koemans (either Dutch or from the Dutch league) The one he could probably have taken credit for if he hadn’t fucked it up so spectacularly would have been Alderweireld.

One thing is for sure, if Les Reed says “we” he almost certainly had very little to do with it.

Not really surprising when he’d just been in charge of their first champions league win, was it?

So Cortese loved him so much and he was available when Adkins was sacked but he chose another manager entirely. Makes sense I guess.

The same Di Matteo that had just won the champions league with Chelsea? Yeah that’s far more believable “Talks were had” I bet they lasted long.

I’m not sure where any of what Les Reed said makes that untrue? The story I remember is that Cortese went out on one of the scouting missions for Coutinho during our second promotion season and decided then and there that he wanted Poch to replace Adkins at the end of the season and had to be talked out of it because the fans wouldn’t accept it. As soon as Poch was sacked the wheels were put into motion. I can’t remember why it took so long to get it done, especially as the timing of it made it worse (as nobody could see into the future or really knew who he was at the time and Adkins was loved) because performances and results had picked up.

Damian Downs was never injured and they fucking shipped him off. Run by clowns.

Don’t tell me he’s cup tied ffs

Not unless he’s changed his name to Thomas Frank

We have Matsuki. We’d have been better of spending £9m on a right winger and having Matsuki as cover for both positions.

Brilliant. Boro dropped points this week though..

A £9m dud.

Two dogshit first half’s this week have cost us top spot.

And he is an upgrade. Abbott looked good today as well. That should be the partnership going forward if both are fit and you won’t find many better CB pairings than that in this league.

If we’d turned up first half on Tuesday and first half today we’d be top of the league right now.

Is the -4 going to magically disappear at the end of the season? So we are 5 points off the top.

Nothing has ever been more “saints” than Lankshear getting injured and Boro only picking up 1 point in their last 2 and to close the gap we pick up 1 point in our last 2.

Because we’ve ended up with a squad with pretty much zero competition for places. Complacency creeps in pretty quickly.

Abbott and Schlotterbeck are the pairing for the rest of the season when he’s fit again by the way.

Worst team in the league by a distance and we cannot even fucking score.

Stephens being dragged across the box with an arm around his neck

Laughable. Their player lays on top of the ball and they get the free kick. We do the same and they also get the free kick.

Still plenty of time to win this. There’s going to be a lot of added time again.