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Why Did Mads delay soooooo long then? FFS!

He epitomises our total shitness.

Yep. Any momentum we had at the start of the second half has quickly evaporated. Struggling to even get out of our own half now.

Hey, we managed a shot that hit a defender's head. Isn't that enough for you FFS?

Probably because we have literally nobody in this team capable of winning headers in the opposition box.

Fucksake Jander!

Commentator on my stream: "I wonder if that means a change of shape?" I actually wouldn't put it past Still to play Fellows at RCB, but surely not in this case.

They are literally all over us. This is worse than bad. And Still just throws his hands up in frustration. He should be screaming at the players from the touchline for what's going on here, but he just doesn't have it in him. I'm actually running out of words now to describe how much I fucking despise EVERYTHING about this club right now.

Players look like they've thrown the towel in. Bunch of spineless, overpaid wankers. If there's any more goals in this they will be for Preston. Just need Thierry Small to get one for them to really rub it in.

Can we sack him at half time á la Russ Martin?

Oh my days. That is the most fucking pathetic goal you could ever imagine conceding. Just fuck the fuck off Saints. All of you. Every fucking single one of you, with the possible exception of Scienza.

IPTV really struggling today.

Armstrong gets clotheslined right in front of the ref - nothing doing.

1/4 of the game gone and no shots on or off target so far for either team. A fucking dreadful game to watch.

Manning gets clattered - Preston get a FK. Of course.

Of course they're going to try and kick Scienza out of the game aren't they.

The Lino was a few feet away and gave a corner, but the ref who was much further away overruled him 🫤

His arm wasn't in a natural position, you'd have to say. How have we not scored there? Oh, this is Saints isn't it. As you were.

Not sure about that. He says we need to stop moaning and finding excuses when things aren't going right, but that's exactly what he himself has been doing all season so far. He needs to look in the mirror before having a pop at the players.

Ok so we've missed a ridiculous amount of chances so far, and nobody is disputing that. But these are the players we've got and are largely stuck with untill the end of the season, barring an unusually busy January window. So when your strikers aren't doing the business, you need to make sure that your defensive unit is. Puel knew this in 16/17 - he recognised that our attacking options weren't great so he made us a much more solid defensive unit. And OK, the football may not have been entertaining, but he had a CB pairing of Stephens and Yoshida for the second half of that season, and managed to make us compact and hard to beat, against PL teams. Can we say the same about Still? Absolutely not. We're not scoring enough, granted. But the system we're employing is leaving us wide open and leaking goals against very poor teams. And when we are inevitably chasing a game because it's gone wrong, our substitutions are making us even worse. That is 100% on the manager. So of the options available to us right now, replacing Still with a competent manager who knows how to coach a defence and set up a team properly is the only truly feasible one to improve results, because we can't just sack the strikers and replace them.

Aside from 30-40 min dominant spells against Swansea and Bristol City, we absolutely have. I watched Stockport beat Port Vale last night to go top of L1. Their overall performance (in a 343 formation) was a whole different level above anything we have dished up so far this season.

Worth also pointing out here that he's got them top of the league playing with 3 CBs, so Rasmus would love that.

While I'm loth to defend SR too much, given the absolute catastrofuck they have presided over, some credit does have to be given for what they did achieve with their outgoings this summer. But despite what deals they did manage to do, we are unfortunately still left with plenty of bad apples because a) we simply had too may to begin with, and b) we can't just give them away or cancel their contracts if we can't find a buyer willing to get close enough to our valuation.