
Cabrone
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I never particularly liked Anders Svensson, people would often rave on about him but personally I never saw it.
Michael Svensson on the other hand was a beast....
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On 08/06/2025 at 07:17, benjii said:
Taking some liberties with that midfield, pal!
Too defensive?
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Gianluigi Buffon
Andreas Brehme - Franco Baresi - Des Walker - Paolo Maldini
Gareth Bale - Diego Maradonna - MIchel Platini - Ronaldinho
Messi - Marco Van Basten
Subs:
Lothar Matthaus
Zinedine Zidane
Christiano Ronaldo
Alan Shearer
Paul Gasgoigne
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He's good at this level so keep him.
If we get back up then we don't need him but right now we'd be silly to let him go IMO.
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12 hours ago, gurru991 said:
I don't know any Leicester fan that wants the twat.
You know for someone who is a bang average champ manager to have had a crack at Saints and now Leicester makes him a lucky son of a female dog.
You can expect fitness levels to drop, lots and lots of meaningless passing, favouritism, stubborn adherence to one dimensional tactics, scar tissue, brave performances and lots of word salad post match.
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Would love to keep Ramsdale, Fernandez, Wellington, Stewart and Armstrong. IMO we may keep Stewart and Armstrong, the others will go.
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Have some of that Derby 😃 (our only rivals all season).
Well I have to take something out of this pathetic campaign.
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Sean Dyche.
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19 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:
Bella-Kotchap is a 23 year old German international, THB played for England this season, I’ve seen worse centre halves than Bednerak play regularly in the premier league. A decent manager, with a proper tactical plan and coaching, could make an adequate defence out of that lot….
Forgot about Bella Kotchap. What happened to him? Completely frozen out.
The mind boggles at how this club has been run.
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We have an incompetent board who just about got away with their managerial appointment last season but RM was an average champ manager and was never going to be good enough for the prem. To be fair he didn't hide it, he openly stated that he wasn't going to change his tactics even when the team were being spanked week in week out. A half decent manager would have had a bit of self reflection and tried a different way but not him.
The incompetent board then held on to him for half a season when he should have been shown the door after 6 games.
By that stage it was already too late. Juric was no better but our fate had already been sealed. I really don't have any feelings about him either way, he was doomed.
So we had an incompetent board and incompetent managers following an incompetent strategy hiring players to play a way that was doomed. Heads dropped, morale fell and a self fulfilling cycle was established.
We should have adopted the strategy of being a very hard to beat team from day 1, grinding out enough low scoring games to have at least made us competitive. That is what Brighton did, that is what Forest did and others. You cannot expect to come up and play pretty football straight off, you WILL get run over but no-one at the club seemed to realize this. Ramsdale and KWP apart we never had a defence that even came remotely close enough to what was needed.
No-one realistically thought we'd be anything other than a relegation candidate but I think most of us expected to at least be somewhere in the mix come this part of the season. To have effectively been down by Xmas was abject.
The club has to understand that you need to adapt to your environment, not just stay stuck in one mode of thinking. RM was held on to for far too long.
Off the pitch SFC needs to massively improve its scouting and data operations which over time will reap rewards in the academy and transfer market. We used to have them so what happened? Incompetent board strikes again?
Maybe a new recruitment team will make some differences but if the heads running the show stay the same we'll have the same problems going forward. I also think we are really going to suffer next year on the back of this. A season like this really takes its toll.
If the club gets it right I think it's going to take 2 years minimum to get back up. That's if the club gets it right......
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We're not bouncing back after this, I think we may be on a Stoke trajectory.
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It's just about getting past the 11 points now.
Defend like your lives depend on it and see if we can scrape a couple of draws.
How about a 10-0-0 formation?
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Sean Dyche could get us up. I'm tired of philosophical managers, I want a wily down to earth pragmatist. Also if he got promotion we'd have a much better chance of staying up.
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He inherited a car crash and failed to improve it.
Despite his bad record IMO this season is on RM, he started the nose dive whilst Juric couldn't pull us out.
That said the people who deserve to be sacked more than anyone are SR but we are stuck with them.
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I don't think we'll get anything away from now on so if we are to get past the Derby millstone this is the game to do it.
They owe us that at least.
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9 games left to get 3 points.....
Not sure we can do it.
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Gordon Watson, didn't think he was that bad TBH.
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The biggest priority is to sort out the board. Until they go nothing will improve.
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This is as dark as I can remember, a total capitulation. Even the Dutch duo got more points than this.
The summer we almost went bust was another low point but this actually feels worse. Just relentlessly depressing.
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It was noticeable that when the MOTD pundits went through their post match comments they said nothing about us.
We are an irrelevance now.
Can't say I disagree TBH.
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Not really bothered about him TBH. He didn't blow me away last season and I was a bit surprised that the club pushed so hard for him.
If he really wants to go he needs to get his head down and show other clubs what he's about.
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I can't really judge the guy given the horror show he stepped into.
Whilst both managers had to deal with a board that hasn't got a clue the big difference is that RM started this season with a team high on confidence whereas Juric inherited a dispirited, disinterested bunch of bashed up players. It was mission impossible.
My hope for IJ was that we go down with some dignity and our tails up ready for next season, maybe on 20 points?
I'm still OK to see if he can do it.
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That was a golden opportunity to get another win under our belt and generate a bit of confidence as we head to the champ. Naturally we blew it.
The club needs a total overhaul starting from the top.
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My top 21 (who's counting) based on Saints form and only for players I've seen live ..
Niemi
Shilton
Mark Dennis
Nathaniel Clyne
Wayne Bridge
Van Dyke
Michael Svensson
Deano
Case
Williams
Tadic
Schneiderlin
Dave Armstrong
MLT
Rod Wallace
Lambert
Pelle
BT
Steve Moran
Danny Wallace
Sadio Mane