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How many of us on here know work colleges that have got promotions based on the fact they interview very well because they know all the corporate buzz words and use examples of work they have done that is usually complete lies and never checked by their employer. These people often turn out to be absolute shit at their promoted roles because they lack any common sense and get found out very quickly!!!

why not, we have shoehorned him in every other position!

Will Still is clearly out of his depth and has not been helped by shit recruitment in vital areas of the pitch. We took a punt on DD who my son said the minute we bought him was a massive mistake and that he was a terrible player and could not believe one of our scouts had recommended him. (He should know, he's a professional scout) Where is the leader on the pitch, i just can't see one anywhere, i just don't understand why we have not bought a true leader. Again in defence we lack a leader, an organiser. Goalkeeper has been an issue for seasons now and yet we have gambled again

I'm not one for sacking managers but even i have had enough of this lacklustre football and want Still out now!

we are very average. Only player that looks decent is leo

Saints have a habit of ruining the weekend just when your hopes are up that a corner has been turned. I'm not convinced at all by Tuesdays win and generally speaking think we have been awful this season. Tuesdays win has raised the hopes that we can now start a good run and certainly on paper we should but i seriously think the team lacks a proper leader on the pitch. I live in hope that i watch a good performance from us this afternoon because in all seriousness i can't remember the last time i actually saw us play good attacking football.

It was great to get the win on Tuesday but it was against Sheff Utd who have 7 loses and 1 win this season! I'm not getting carried away or fooled by the extended highlights i saw of the game. We are still very poor in patches and when we are the team on top we are not being clinical enough in the final third. I'm hoping the win on Tuesday lifts everyones confidence and the players start to believe in themselves a bit more and really go at Derby, otherwise we will end up with another Hull result!

I was at the airport in Egypt last night when we kicked off and it had just gone 2-1 when we took off back to Gatwick, so you can imagine i was nervous as hell hoping we hadn't thrown it away. So relieved when we touched down at Gatwick to see the notice come through that we had won and most of the other teams playing last night had drawn. Watched the highlights this morning. Stewart took his goals so well, really pleased for him and just hope he stays fit. From the highlights it looked like they had a couple of very decent chances they really should have buried which concerns me. The penalty miss was horrendous from AA but his flick onto the crossbar that led to Stewarts goal was lovely. I happily take a scrappy win and hope that builds the confidence of the players.

I have hated pretty much every minute of this season so far because we have been so poor and there has hardly been a flicker of light at the end of what seems a very dark tunnel. I look for partnerships on the pitch but i see none at all, just 11 strangers! I appreciate he has only had the new players for a couple of weeks now so i think WS deserves more time BUT no more than 5 league games. If there are not major improvements by then well i'm sorry it's time for him to go.

can we not just come to some sort of agreement with Liverpool that they win the tie by default because all of our players have caught the Flynn Downes syndrome....e.g. can't be fucking bothered!

Only if you are into pain....but each to their own!

I hate having a go at New managers and believe they should be given at least 10 league games before getting the boot but Will Still is not helping himself. He reminds me of all those computer players who have grown up playing Championship Manager and because they led a computer team to the treble believe they can do it in real life.....at the moment Will Still is one of those players!!

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spoke to a Hull supporting mate last night and he expects us to beat them. He said they were terrible so far this season. I congratulated him on getting 3 points today from us. He hadn't seen us play last week and was surprised to hear how bad we have actually been so far this season.

Flynn Downes being allegedly sick again is very convenient after Will Still has publicly named him in his presser as being one player failing to pass it once to Azaz in the whole game. He has been shocking and a shadow of the player we had in our promotion season. He plays like he's in a permanent sulk and it is no surprise no Premier league team is interested in him. Hopefully Jander plays and we see a solid performance from the lad.

I don't think it was as simple as that. At least half the players played like rabbits caught in the headlights and although they are all professionals they played as if feeling a massive weight on their shoulders because of the Derby. We will never know as fans but how much did having ex-players coming in to talk about the importance of the derby weigh on players shoulders. They played as if too scared to make a mistake and opted to either just lump it up front or like Downs sideways, back or to a Pompey player! It really will be interesting to see if the performance against Hull is very different.

I said after the game he was furious with that first half performance last week and a few on here laughed....you don't need to be shouting and cursing to be angry, anyone that has studied body language for most of their career would have seen he was angry that the players did not execute the game plan.

I agree that at present we have not seen who Will Still really is and i put that down to inheriting an awful squad of players that could only play Russ ball. The time to judge him will be in about 5 games time and if there is no sign of improvement and the players adapting to how he wants to play the game then thats when we really should be starting to ask is Will Still the right person to drive us forward.

I don't believe for one moment that he told his back 4 to boot the bloody ball up in the air in the hope that Archer might win it every time our defenders had the ball. I don't believe he said to the players pass the ball to the opposition every time you have it and more importantly bypass the midfield and play like some poor Sunday league pub team. Will Still was quite rightly furious with that first half performance and what the players did in that first 45 minutes.

I am as disappointed as anyone with yesterdays result and the general start to the season. However i am willing to give Will Still until 10 league games into the season before i start to judge him as a manager. He now has the players he wants and now everyone is back from the internationals he has a full week to work with everyone and the new players start to bed in. He clearly was not happy with yesterdays first half performance and that was on the players! The majority on here were in full agreement with the starting lineup and going 4 at the back. It was the players that started that first half that played like the ball was a hot potato and just hoofed it forward and could not string two passes together. I actually felt sorry for Azaz and Fellows who were starved of any real service with the rubbish we played in the first half. The second half was better and the new guys that came on looked decent in the short time they had on the pitch. I am expecting a very different performance away to Hull next week!!

Jesus that was an absolute shocking first half. Pompey are taking the piss, they are head and shoulders better. Our players look like rabbits caught in the headlights.

I've woken up this morning with that horrible sick feeling in the pit off my stomach, it's either absolute dread that we don't win today or the amount of red wine i drank last night!

factor in the weather and a soaking wet pitch and slippery ball and it has disaster written all over it!!

Isn't that idiot Westwood banned from St Mary's after his antics pissing over the seats??