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How much of a chance are you willing to give him before you acknowledge that he's not up to it though? I was very much with you when he was appointed. There was a lot of vitriol aimed in his direction even before we had played our first game under his charge, and I found that very distasteful. I was all for giving him the opportunity to prove himself first. But I'm not seeing any signs of improvement because he seemingly hasn't learned anything from the massive fuck ups he has already made and he keeps on making them, time and time again. I just don't see that he is ever going to succeed here. There has been nothing on the pitch or in his interviews that gives me the slightest hope that he is learning and improving. Quite simply, he's out of his depth at PL level. People made the Liz Truss comparison, except the Tories (of all people) soon recognised the huge damage she was going to cause and moved swiftly to remove and replace her. If we don't do the same he will take us down, and I don't see how he is ever going to win the support of the fanbase.

They have spent big. And what they need to do now is spend a little bit more to pay off the hopeless clown of a manager they hired and replace him with someone who has even a modicum of tactical nous and can get the new recruits playing as a cohesive team capable of getting the results we need to stay up.

And our goal came from a Newcastle defender inexplicably passing the ball straight to Adams in space. Giving the ball away isn't exclusively a Saints thing.

Newcastle were always favourites to go through but we could have given them a better game of it if we hadn't started with the lineup and formation that we did. Was like starting the game with the players' bootlaces tied together FFS. Enough now. This is all on you Nathan. You are out of your depth and taking us down to the Championship. SR - please have the cojones to admit you've made a mistake and the Jones experiment was a failure. Stick with him and it will only end one way.

Well if you ignore the first 20 minutes where we chucked it away with a suicidal formation, we've won the game on the night.

It's high time the rules around concussion were changed. If a player goes down supposedly with a head injury then they should be taken off the pitch instantly for assessment. That would immediately stop players from using it to waste time.

Get him off the pitch FFS!

Fucking hell Che. Moan at Edozie for not playing it to you but you didn't even try and run in to get on the end of anything.

Right that's at least an extra 5 mins to add on top of what there would have been anyway.

Oh look. Newcastle player down needing treatment. What surprise.

The fact he left his foot on Edozie's ankle as long as he possibly could shows me the cunt actually meant it.

McCoist banging on about the ball hitting Salisu's shoulder but ignoring the fact that his arm was only where it was because he was trying to steady himself after being pushed, so wouldn't have been a penalty anyway.

Pope did well to come out and block that off. Just needed a bit more lift over his trailing leg and it was a goal but credit to the keeper. Those are the kind of chances that some strikers occasionally put away but ours never do.

It really was. He grabbed him with both hands and pulled him down.

And yet he was absolutely outstanding in the previous round against City.

It's especially baffling when you consider that Bree was only signed as emergency backup while Tino is still injured. To throw him in tonight, at the expense of a FB who was our best player on Saturday, is just mental. So Perraud comes on for Lyanco and now we are onto our 4th different defensive formation of the evening. Wonderful.

Just how much more evidence does he need that a back 3/5 doesn't fucking work with the personnel we have? Every time we have tried it so far - and I do mean every time - he has had to end up ditching it mid-game because we're getting carved open. So instead of learning that lesson, he goes and fucking does it again. Sets us up so badly that Newcastle cruise into a 2-0 (3-0) lead chucks away a decent chance of a cup final. Absolute fucking clown.

Che reverts to type there.

So is Edozie going to play LWB? Surely Perraud would have been the obvious replacement?

Oh great and now KWP is injured.

I'm hoping it will convince Jones to accept he is out of his depth and resign.

What an absolute fucking shambles. Pathetic setup, formation, tactics... everything. Just fuck off back to the lower leagues where you belong Jones. This is embarrassing.

Where was the fucking marking!?

Perhaps @Turkish can bob along and keep watch on him for us.

Do you honestly think the board have just been sat on their hands since 1st January and only started trying to do deals yesterday?