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It's true there is a lack of quality in the squad, but a competent manager would at least be able to pick a consistent best 11 from it and get them organised enough to be competitive and occasionally take points from other shit teams. I've seen enough of Jones now to conclude that he is not a competent manager. 0 points and 0 goals from open play from the last 3 games, which were supposed to be the start of an 'easier' run of fixtures, says it all. The squad is limited, yes, but it's capable of better than that.

Let's not beat around the bush here. Forest were utter fucking garbage, and showed exactly why their away record is so bad, and we just gifted them a win. Customary brain-fart from Lyanco gifts them a goal, and our pathetic excuse for an 'attack' can't muster a single shot on target. I can't think of an expletive strong enough to describe how pitiful that was to watch. I really wanted to give Jones a chance to settle and give him some time to prove himself worthy of being given the job, but I can't defend what I'm seeing with my own eyes. There's no plan, no style, and no fight whatsoever in this team. Not one of the players understands where they are supposed to be, there's no cohesion, no movement, no running the channels (not that any of our AMs would have the vision to play the right ball anyway) and we're just so fucking easy to defend against. Sorry Nathan. You need to go before you do even more damage. You are quite literally out of your league. SR - do the right thing and admit you made a horrible mistake hiring him. Not that sacking him now will save us anyway. You can't have 3 managers in a season and expect to stay up. Watford have proved that, and so did we in 04/05.

Forest are quite happy to just let us have possession on the edge of the box because they can have absolute confidence we won't do anything with it.

Zero shots on target, at home against the team with the worst away record in the league. But we got a flashy lightshow, so it's all fine.

The total lack of quality in the final third is just horrifying. How can any professional players at any level possibly be this bad? It's just woeful.

Fuck me they are all over us. Forest - who have been utter gash away from home all season - are playing us off the park. The last 3 games have been far worse than anything we witnessed under RH. We've got no shape, no discernible system, no goal threat, and no fucking idea how to stick the ball in the opponent's net and keep it out of ours. In all my years of watching Saints I have never seen us as consistently bad as we are now. Even the Poortvliet/Wotte years were better than this. If Nathan Jones was the answer, what the fuck was the question?

Great. ABK is injured again. No doubt he'll be out for another 2 months and we'll have to watch Lyanco do a poor impression of a footballer while he's recovering.

Doesn't look like Lyanco will be coming off because ABK looks injured again.

Forest fans singing "How shit must you be, we're winning away". The answer to that is: completely and utterly as shit as you could possibly imagine.

Oh fuck off Lyanco you stupid prick.

Big let off. They should have scored there. We were napping and gave them a free shot.

That was never, ever a foul.

Great to see Lavia back in the starting lineup. We've missed him so badly. No idea how Lyanco continues to get picked ahead of DCC. Still not sure how Ely starts every game and Stu gets left on the bench. Other than that, looks about as good as we can muster at the moment.

Nope. I've tried, but I can't think what possible relevance this has to a thread about what is wrong with the UK.

He's got a second now. 5-0.

Caleb Watts has scored for Morecambe with minutes of coming on at HT. Currently beating Burton 4-0.

He is. Watched Everton loads last season and he was appalling. Terrible positional sense and he was at fault for a good number of goals they conceded.

We had players who could play that position - A Armstrong and Mara. Granted they would not have been as effective, but bringing one of them on and staying with the formation that waa looking OK, instead of the very limited Perraud and changing the shape completely, would have been a much better option IMO. As soon as he made that change, we surrendered the momentum to Fulham and gave up any hope of winning the game. It was a bad call on Jones' part.

He did. He changed the defensive shape yet again when Edozie needed to go off, when all he needed to do was make a like for like sub and stick with the formation that had been working OK up to that point. It's no wonder our defenders all look so lost and confused all the time when the manager keeps re-shuffling them multiple times during a game. Overall it was a better team performance today than against Brighton, but there still doesn't appear to be any discernible plan or system from NJ. I really wanted to give him a chance despite his apparent lack of pedigree, but the early signs are pretty worrying. Would we really have done any worse in the last 3 games if we had stuck with Ralph? Can't see it myself.

So depressing. At least there looked to be more effort and desire today, and we looked to be fairly competitive once Stu came on, but we can't keep relying on pens and FKs from Prowsey for goals. At some point soon someone else has to stick the ball in the fucking net from open play. Really don't see any way out of this now. Can't score, can't stop conceding comical goals, can't stay in the PL.

What the actual fuck was Lyanco doing there?

Why oh why did NJ change the formation when we were playing well? Edozie needed to be hooked but the shape was good so why not just do a straight swap with AArmstrong or Mara? As soon as we we changed it, we lost all momentum and gave the advantage back to Fulham,. The goal was inevitable after that.

We were playing well until he swapped Edozie for Perraud and changed the formation again. Since then we've been backs to the wall.