Sheaf Saint

Only if Liverpool score again.

Sheeeeaaaaaaaa!!!

He makes Ali Dia look good.

Again he didn't even try and jump for that.

And another hopeless attempt to play the ball from Downs.

It's quite pathetic watching him jogging about. He has zero presence about him.

Seriously - how the actual fuck did Scienza not get that header on target? That's absolutely shocking.

He was captain as well wasn't he?

Agreed. He's a big upgrade on Shoehorn Leghorn.

That's an outstanding block by Wood.

Chelsea losing at Lincoln!

I genuinely think this happens these days when they're so used to not flagging instantly.

A save at the near post from Macca. Isak was offside but no VAR.

I'm fairly sure this team is more than capable of finding ways to give the opposition the ball already.

I don't see there was ever any potential there because he simply doesn't have the most basic skills needed to be even a half-decent keeper.

Probably for Matt Beard.

I don't want us to get promoted again while we are still owned by SR. They will only completely fuck up the necessary recruitment again and we'll just have another season like 24/25. If that means staying in the Championship for a few more years and losing some of our current assets then so be it. I feel so utterly disconnected from this team right now that I wouldn't miss any of them. Until we have ownership that has even the slightest clue about how to build a TEAM, I don't want us anywhere near the PL.

The life of a Saints fan right now...

I wonder if he's still sticking to his insistence that Baz is perfectly fine for us in this league.

I've just watched the highlights of the Pompey v Sheff Weds game on Saturday. Wednesday, despite being an absolute clusterfuck of a club with barely enough senior players to make up a matchday squad, play much better attacking football than we do. It's fucking embarrassing how poorly Still has got this expensively assembled squad performing.

Yeah but stats are meaningless, so Whitey keeps telling us. It's purely coincidental that Gav keeps finding himself at the bottom of these tables season after season. Just really bad luck and nothing whatsoever to do with his actual ability.

He may well go on to become a decent manager one day, given his age and the fact that he has time on his side. But it's starting to become obvious that he is the wrong man for us at this moment in time. Yet another in a long line of failed SR experiments. I don't think we can afford to give him any more time if we're serious about mounting a promotion challenge this season. It might well 'click' for him at some point. But by the time it does it will be far too late for us to salvage the season. The only problem with getting rid now is that I have absolutely zero confidence in the ability of anyone within SR to identify the right replacement.

This is the depressing reality of it. Even without great tactics and organisation, we should have enough quality on the pitch to still, occasionally, dig us out and get something. The fact that we're so badly set up that this doesn't appear possible is 100% on the manager.

Macca already played a blinder in the last round against Norwich. He made 3 or 4 really good saves, of the kind that Bazunu never does, and was of course promptly dropped for the next league game.

Oh he will though. Because there's no way SR are going to let him leave on a free after the amount they've invested in him. So we'll undoubtedly give him a 2-3 year extension in the vain hope that he will improve over that time* and we can recoup some of that £12m. * which of course he won't, because so fundamental are his flaws, like reaction time and positional sense, that no amount of experience or coaching is ever going to improve those aspects of his game.