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HUghes is a terrible manager....utterly terrible. Yes he kept us up (fair play) but he has never done anything to suggest he was what we needed. Baffling teams, tactics and terrible decisions. AUstin, Long, Hoedt......and Gabbi, Yoshi (our best defender) cannot make the bench (that has 4 midfielders on it) Utterly embarrassing......and what was the point of keeping Targett, Gallagher and the like when he won't even give them a chance from the bench. Oh, and see Sims turned the game for Reading when he came on............

Terrible, absolutely terrible. Hughes is terrible, clueless in the extreme. Austin and Long - what a t**t. Awful, awful team and manager. I cannot believe how much this club has regressed over the last 2 years

Just f**k off Hughes, and f**k off now...... Austin and Long ahead of Gabbi? Awful tactics, not a clue. Defence is shocking and Hughes has done NOTHING but make it worse. Austin ... ffs, the guy can barely move these days. JWP played well last week then dropped this week.

Beat me to it Jeff.....................

Mark Hughes is a c**t who is a s***e manager. Long - ffs . Hoedt keeps his place despite being absolutely dire. NO idea on team, tactics or anything. Stoke fans were 100% right about this t**t.

I have always disliked Hughes - from the billy big ****** comments from his agent when he signed for Saints, to his awful performances in a Saints shirt. As a a manager he has always struck me as crap - and his 2 wins as a Saints manager have done nothing to dissuade me. Puel or Pellegrino with those stats and baffling team selections would have been slated something chronic. But not Hughes (at least on this board). Clueless, no idea re. tactics. Obviously I hope he does well as that means Saints do well - but I am pretty disenfranchised from Saints these days. Long, AUstin and other underperformers keep their places in the squad week in week out yet some of our younger players are not given a look in. Yoshi benched and the liability that is Hoedt is first name on the teamsheet.

Who don't even get on the pitch............

What has happened to Romeu last season and this? He is shocking now.

WTF are you whinging about Stephens for? He has done nothing wrong. Hoedt again - misses header and the shockingly awful Cedric not even jumping. But heh, Stephens is terrible.

Yep....really

Hoedt is utter ****e....but most of the muppets on here constantly whine about Stephens. Hoedt is an utter liability. Not impressed with Hughes in the slightest. Overall a season of struggle coming up. Our midfield of Romeu and Lemina is shocking and Everton are carving us open because of these 2 t**ts. Where is Yoshi? Our best defender.

Stephens way better at RB than SOares who was awful. Hoedt to be replaced by Yoshida but then pretty much the same side that finished next game please. First 55 minutes was as dire as anything served up by the clown last season and totally unnecessary playing Burnley at home.

Wonderful.....the totally immobile Austin and 3 CBs against a team that will sit back the whole game. A total c**t in Lemina in midfield. Hughes as uninspiring as I thought he would be. So we'll probably win 3-0!

Quite incredible, some of the views on here. JWP for 10 million......which is 10 million less than JRod, about 18 million less than Maddison, etc. JWP is an excellent player, lives and breathes Saints and has been hard done by both the muppet and Hughes. I would far, far rather have JWP in the side than the w****r that is Lemina who turns up some of the time only, Hoj who is not as good as JWP or Romeu who was rubbish last season and looked poor this pre-season. I have never rated Hughes as a manager and he is showing nothing currently to indicate he is a good manager. Tactics, not giving some of the Academy graduates (JWP, Sims, Gallagher) more game time in pre-season rankles when the likes of LOng and co are blocking their progress. 10 million is ridiculous in todays market

Except a very large payoff when a man on the street could have done a better job than this supposed "coach". Simply awful decisions last year

Not true. Trippier and Pickford were excellent. Rest were absolute dog ****e

I really thought they would beat Croatia......and think they would have if they had not gone so defensive so early

THis should be France's world cup all day long. England don't deserve to be in the Final....been terrible since 2nd half but have exceeded all expectations.

Game over - utterly pathetic defending (again). What the f*** were they doing?

Terrible from Henderson again.....we are overrun in midfield and have not created anything

dear lord.....we look like a pub team right now. Got to settle down

That was coming.....ENgland absolutely dreadful this half

And how many times have you ever seen Vestergaard and Marlon play? Typical saints web nutter who thinks anyone is better than we already have despite never having seen them play before. Proper headcases on here

England's to lose on Wednesday. Croatia are poor and will hopefully still be exhausted Wednesday

England having nothing to fear. Both these sides are terrible. Lets hope for extra time