Sheaf Saint

He's been shown the door plenty of times, but just refused to walk through it. He knows he's not gonna get paid anything like what he's on here elsewhere, unless he goes to Saudi which I gather he was trying to arrange in the summer. Just another in a very long list of terrible recruitment decisions over recent years. He was a useful squad player in our promotion season, but has been utterly horrendous the rest of his time here, never once showing the slightest sign of value for the wages we're paying him.

Yeah that's not a credible account at all. If he'd done his ACL, there's no way he would stay at Stoke for treatment cos he won't play again this season and there's zero chance they would exercise the option to buy in the summer.

They had a higher XG than us so deserved to win, right? That's exactly what Tonda said about us when we lost to Hull on Saturday.

Full time. We won. And got a clean sheet. But I feel absolutely nothing. I've had to emotionally detach myself for my own wellbeing, so I can't muster anything to celebrate a win. Another awful second half performance. Was Leo's header the only chance we had after HT?

Well we couldn't go the whole game without bringing on another CB could we.

Ooof. Too close.

Manning on to protect the clean sheet.

Argh! Great chance but headed it straight at Cooper.

Hoever taken off. Looked sensible from a Utd perspective - he was blowing out of his arse.

Ref just brushed it off.

Bamford coming on. Equaliser incoming.

Leo left him for dust.

God save Cooper. Baz would have let that in.

Oh Azaz.

Welington is soooo much better at defending than Manning. It's fucking bonkers how Manning has been keeping him out of the side.

He's on the bench tonight.

Tequila?

Straight away, Stewart gives us more options. Winning headers in the centre circle and knocking it in to forward runners.

Lino was a mile behind play there. Surely that went out before the Utd player hooked it back.

Downes played a forward pass! Straight out of play 🤦

Yep. RA is clearly right at the initial peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve and has every intention of just staying there, learning absolutely nothing.

Exactly. Data analysis is a very useful tool, but it must always, always, be backed up by ground truthing. I honestly can't believe we've ended up in such a farcical situation. And now the chickens are coming home to roost, cos we've got a captain who wants out and a loaned out keeper not so subtly telling the press what a toxic environment it is at Saints. What a total fucking shambles they've turned us into.

It's just like whenever someone starts a sentence with "I'm not racist, but..." and then inevitably goes on to say something blatantly racist.

I completely disagree. We were going backwards under Still and getting steadily worse, not better. That Blackburn game in particular was without doubt the single worst team performance I've ever watched us attempt. Nobody had the slightest fucking clue what they were supposed to be doing that day. I've seen Sunday league teams still pissed from the night before play with better organisation. As poor as we have been recently, we're still nowhere near that level of utter shitness yet. We at least look a little more organised now than then. The problem is we're still coughing up easy chances game after game because of individual errors, and we've forgotten where the net is at the other end. BTW - this is in no way an endorsement of Tonda. I still firmly believe he was a fucking terrible appointment and should never even have been considered, let alone given the job.

Yep. No doubt with one of his comedy, trying-to-make-it-look-accidental-but-failing-miserably fouls that he is seemingly so fond of. I'd rather put Bragg in for the Pompey game anyway. At least as an academy product he understands the meaning of the derby. Don't think I'll be able to watch Downes wandering about aimlessly and passing it sideways and backwards at FP without putting my foot through the TV.