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Concur with much of what you say there. The only bit I would possibly question is "his seemingly inability to adapt and change when things are clearly going wrong". I think we witnessed between December and March that he is able to adapt and change; indeed quite a few of the Ralph 'anti-cult' praised him for "finally doing what we've been saying for ages that he should do". The baffling thing for me is why Ralph can get things right for a given period of time and then, seemingly, get things wrong for a similar period of time.

Either of those seem eminently reasonable hypotheses to me

I'd be tempted to go back to our top 6 form of December to March for this one. Call me old fashioned.

I think you should repeat this at least 19 times a week, just in case people miss it the first 18 times

At least that's an improvement on "a few games"

How did "having a lot of heart" help Burnley out earlier in the season when they were performing much worse than us?

I would venture that the majority of posters on here would acknowledge that Broja has been in poor form since his purple patch earlier in the season (when most pundits were raving about him). How about naming, say, 3 posters who "aren't seeing this"...?

I've lost count of the number of seasons we've more or less secured safety then gone off the boil. Very frustrating from a supporter's point of view. Agree that the manager has to take a lion's share of the blame for tolerating players that are obviously not putting in 100%. Only consolation is that Everton fans will be equally pissed off with that Saints performance. Meh.

Indeed

I disagree. We look like a team that is safe and already on the proverbial beach. Burnley, however, do look like a team fighting for their lives

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You should have posted that before the start of the game Appy... We'd now all be hailing you a footballing genius

FFS Adams... Shoot first time

Who was to 'blame' for the players playing well during our December to March purple patch?

Adams in shooting straight at keeper shocker...

Do we know what's happened to Stuart Armstrong? He's gone from being one of our most influential players to being largely anonymous the last few games.

So, we had the ball in their penalty area when the play was stopped and the ref gives the ball to Pope to resume play. What's that all about?

No. That's what annoys me about us. Ward-Prowse should have been in the ref's face insisting that VAR check for the foul. But, no, nothing.

What is? Not being able to spell embarrassing correctly...?

Either that or Ralph fancied sticking with a winning team?

Not bad for an ineffective son-in-law...

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Blimey. Does this mean we should expect pragmatic posts once the match gets underway...?