Sheaf Saint

Comical. Just comical.

Good save Macca.

Yep. It's not as though they are ripping us apart, but our marking is pretty dreadful. Nobody was watching Kane - you can't let a player like that just waltz into your 6-yard box like that and expect to get away with it. It's just basic stuff that can hopefully be coached out of them by RaHa. On the occasions we have attacked we haven't looked too bad. PEH's shot deserved better and not many keepers would have got the touch that Lloris did. Our overall play is far from awful, and certainly not worthy of being bottom of the league. It's our defensive naivety that costs us time and again.

Enough said.

I find it astonishing that anybody still employs it at this level - or at any level in fact. It doesn't work and it's guaranteed to give away chances. Absolute madness that anybody would even consider using it.

Why do we insist on leaving their forwards so much space in our box? It seems none of our defenders are familiar with the concept of getting tight to their opponents. It's such a basic thing, I find it astounding that none of them do it.

And that was a lovely through-ball from JWP to Gabbi. We're not looking too bad on the attack - just a shame our comedy defending has gifted them a goal advantage already.

That's unlucky. Brilliant effort from PEH. deserved better but looks like Lloris got the faintest of touches to it.

On the bench

All these years later, it still never ceases to make me chuckle

So we still have Hughes to thank then?

I think that was more to do with people wanting the manager situation sorted quickly so we could get on with preparing for the new season, and not wasting the entire summer dithering over it like they did in 2017.

https://twitter.com/gavmacn/status/1069683198379089920

Anybody got any idea when they will announce the date/time for this one? Derby isn't far for me and I'd like to go if I can.

erm.......

I think I can see how this plays out... SFC: "We've sacked Mark Hughes" SSN: "Hello, is that David Moyes? We've just found out that Hughes has been sacked at Saints. Would you be interested in taking the job?" DM: "Well it's the first I've heard of it but yeah, I would be interested in talking to them if they approach me" SSN headline - "David Moyes interested in SFC managerial vacancy" Sky bet: "Oh look, loads of idiots have just placed bets on David Moyes to be the next Saints manager. Kerchinnnnggg!"

https://southamptonfc.com/news/2018-12-03/team-news-tottenham-hotspur-southampton-premier-league-1819

Do you mean David Blunkett?

https://sportbild.bild.de/fussball/premier-league/premierleague/ex-leipzig-coach-hasenhuettl-trainer-southampton-58794494.sport.html Maybe it loses something in translation, but it seems to suggest it's done. Any German speakers on here able to give a more nuanced translation?

Hughes becomes the first manager ever to be sacked by two PL clubs in the same calendar year.

Whatever mitigation you apply to his record, the lowest win rate of any Saints manager with at least as many games as him speaks for itself.

Dementia kicking in? A weeny bit distracted by his impending indictment by Mueller? Or does he just hate having to go abroad where he can't stuff venues full of his lobotomised supporters to stroke his fragile ego?

Meh. Would have taken a point beforehand, but it's still yet more points dropped from a winning position. I though Obafemi did pretty well, and it's a real shame he's gonna be sidelined for a bit now. Another good finish from Armstrong. It's only taken us 4 years (since we sold Lallana) but at last we seem to have a goal-scoring midfielder. Overall we played pretty well, but yet again we manage to give away goals through very poor, some would say non-existent, marking. Is it really too much to ask that - just for once - this bunch of players can hold onto a lead?

Well, you say that... You could genuinely apply his concerns about Rasiak and John to our current inept strike force, while McGoldrick is currently in pretty decent form in a team challenging for the Championship title. So he wasn't really too far off.