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Can we have 9, please?

Slightly vague suggestion that he could get a shot at the weekend (no pun intended). He seems to be the only player in the squad who if he was mugged by two uprights draped in net, would be able to actually identify what a goal looks like...

Is that Cheggers front centre?

Royally a la Epstein island?

Have to disagree with this statement. This squad is nowhere near good enough to stay up, unfortunately. I posted it on the new manager thread, but there aren't 3 teams worse than us, in fact it remains to be seen if wolves are worse than us. Sad state of affairs....

A baffling signing...

This isn't a premier league squad in terms of quality, no chance. Only two league goals scored and we don't look capable of keeping clean sheets! Add to that, there aren't 3 teams weaker than us.

You mean they don't fanny around at the back constantly? 😄

Even Branfoot had to accept he was harming the team by leaving out MLT. ABK won't add goals to the team (he can hardly make it worse as only defenders have scored in 90 minutes). When he played in the prem, he was easily good enough before the shoulder injury. Put it this way, if and when RM gets the bullet, I'm confident the new manager will start him

He came on as a sub in flamengo's copa libertadores 1st leg, qrtr final loss to peñarol this evening. A certain G. Ramirez also made a substitute appearance for the Uruguayans'.

The Chilean coach or RM? 🙂

The new Chile coach is clearly not a fan; i can't imagine why when his sole contribution in 3 games is getting an opposing player sent off.

Did you not see how many times he gave the ball away? One giving the 'oirish a golden opportunity! Today TAA was very poor

Fair points, but many of the players under him are 'his' so why aren't they tactically astute in the prem? Some of them have international experience as well as a season in the championship 🤷 I wasn't at the two atmospheric games you refer to, but surely that is down to those who were able to go, not the manager... In comparison, RM will seem like the second coming to the little welshman, so i see your point, but he had a very low bar. As for 'does he deserve a chance'? Yes, he does. But how long should that be? It's not as if we didn't display implosion tendencies last season and i don't see us getting out of this with him. I'm more than happy to proven wrong, but it's unlikely (IMO)

But it's not that unlikely an appointment in an interim capacity, rightly or wrongly. My question is are the owners looking to stay up or not? As stupid a question as that may sound, if SR view this as a free hit in the prem, and if we stay up then great, they'll stick with RM; if they have ambition then they'll have earmarked replacements already (who many of us may not have heard of), but there's a form of precedent here. When Adkins was sacked after doing better than RM, it was widely met with shock, but Poch...well i don't need to wax lyrical about him.... I hope we get rid and very soon, but if they have someone in mind who they think it's capable of keeping us up. A manager for the championship isn't necessarily as good for the prem (AA illustrates the point well). Rant over 🙂

So we can be grateful for something then

Seemingly a divided set of opinions on RM, so who replaces him (realistically) if said trigger is pulled?

Bullying him? What happened?

It's fairly physical, so that's one aspect that's similar to the EPL, but the quality isn't great IMO. The lad from Corinthians, I'm told from those 'in the know' isn't much kop. (He'll bang in a hat-trick next game now I've said that)

Jumpers for goalposts

With the exception of Fernandes, our best player

Try this, it's working for me: https://top.soccerstreams100.io/event/eng-league_cup/southampton-vs-cardiff-live-soccer-stats/718799

One less goalscoring option, strewth....

Doesn't seem to be any rumours of a genuine striker signing beyond the lad at Corinthians (who my football-fanatical Brazilian friends do not rate at all). So when we got relegated in part because we didn't replace a proven striker in Ings, did we think it a likely outcome that we'd avoid relegation by repeating the no-striker tactic? There aren't enough goals in the squad unfortunately.

Yep 👍🏻 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9enw5xp2qo