VectisSaint

Thing is, it was OK for a while, and there were undoubtedly some highlights, but after the LC Final he turned us into a turgid nightmare of a team. It was awful. First half of the season he was living on what Ronald had done for us. Disliked the way people took the piss out of him for his speaking, but in the end he had to go, we may have survived with his football, but there was no fun to be had. Still it was better than what followed.

Nearly half of Crooks' team current or ex Saints. Strange really, don'think JWP was that good against Sheff Utd, nor was Che for that matter. I don't believe Crooks actually does much research, just goes for the headline grabbers. Saw Crooks recommendation of JWP for Liverpool quoted today in another newspaper as being reason the Bin Dippers should sign him. Ridiculous that people give him credence, he is a twat who keeps this job for one reason.

Must win game if we are to keep our slim championship hopes alive. 😉

How do you know they are all his wives? A couple of them (2 to be precise) are dressed in yellow, they may not be 'wives' . Since polygamy is illegal in most countries, none of them are likely to be technically his wives. Actually a couple of wives may be a more accurate description than 'five'.

How do you know they are all his wives? A couple of them (2 to be precise) are dressed in yellow, they may not be 'wives' . Since polygamy is illegal in most countries, none of them are likely to be technically his wives. Actually a couple of wives may be a more accurate description than 'five'.

How do you know they are all his wives? A couple of them (2 to be precise) are dressed in yellow, they may not be 'wives' . Since polygamy is illegal in most countries, none of them are likely to be technically his wives. Actually a couple of wives may be a more accurate description than 'five'.

Armstrong

How long before the most points lost from winning positions caption comes up?

Tella starting. Deserves that from what I've seen.

She didn't. Following the tragic death of Markus the ownership of the Club passed into the probate system of Switzerland, and the Club, like other assets of Herr Liebherr was run by a trust (not sure that is the correct technical term). It took nearly 2 years before KL obtained control. Once control was gained things changed dramatically and quickly, but to credit her with 2 promotions is a gross misrepresentation of the reality.

It may not be a "must win" but it is certainly a "mustn't lose".

Are they planning to hand out more than 3 points for a game?

He's scored twice now. 1 goal in each of 2 1-2 defeats. So both goals have no value (in terms of results), still good to see he has equalled his tally for Saints 3 years ago, and only needs 1 more to equal last season. Waiting for the next Long goal could be a long wait (pun intended).

Good point, we actually let 3 CMs go before this season, I'd forgotten about Mario (as you do). Even worse than I had recalled, 5 CMs to 3.

I clearly said JWP made Hammond superfluous, but it doesn't get away from the fact that we started the season with 4 senior CMs. Can't believe that someone actually writes 'Reed was never here', dear me some people. Of course he was here, he was our player. You clearly don't get it, I give up, wasting my 3 posts. 🙄

Schneiderlin, Davis, Cork and Hammond. JWP quickly rendered Hammond superfluous, but we sure did have 4 senior CMs when we came up. Our current situation is different to when we came up and is stupid, with only 3 (senior) CMs for 2 positions, especially given the system we play where the 2 CMs are integral and hard working. We lost 2 last summer (Hojbjerg and Reed) and only brought in Diallo).

You are joking, 2 CM positions and we have 3 (first choice) players. Even Diallo is only 21, not exactly experienced and younger than some of the kids that we don't trust. Yes we have some kids but that's not the same as having squad depth. Full backs and CM are the two areas we are short. We should have two for every position.

Doesn't matter if Jack Stephens plays DM, RB or not at all, the hard of thinking on here will blame him for everything regardless.

That would be the Jack Stephens recalled from Middlesbrough loan because Ronald was unhappy that he played only 1 league game. Did well? He only played once!

Always used to work on the basis of having 2 for each position. Really that means we are short at LB, RB and CM unless you count Smallbone. LB is actually the biggest gap, because Vokins was never really considered backup, whereas Valery was. Unless they thought that McQueen was going to be back (which I doubt).

4 years ago today FB reminded me this morning. Seems longer.

or at least below 10 😏

I thought we were trying to get the kid from Accrington Stanley (Toby Savin), who would be the backup to McCarthy.

I am firmly in the "not sacking" Ralph camp, but the one thing that I think he is to blame for, at least partly is the squad size and depth. He was very public in his desire to work with a much smaller squad, hindsight though being a wonderful thing he did not take into account this last crazy year, with far more intense schedule due to Covid, lack of facilities for recovery etc. This desire for a small squad has come back to bite him (us) very badly, I don't think this factor can be wholly blamed on others, although of course the club management were instrumental in downsizing. I also don't believe that Valery and Vokins would have left if Ralph had not sanctioned, even encouraged it.

Actually I don't think that's the case. Our reaction after the disallowed penalty, the disallowed goal and after going 1-0 down was actually pretty decent. It wasn't until they got the 2nd that we seemed to give up. I thought we had a good chance of getting back into it after their early 2nd half 1st goal. Until we went 2-0 down we actually played quite a decent game, and should have been 2 up at half-time, even without the disallowed goal, we completely dominated them without having too many clear-cut chances. Problem seems to be that Ralph/players don't seem to be able to adapt when the opposition tweaks things at half time, as they invariably do.