vectraman

Bad back from picking the ball out of the net?

You really are his agent or brother to be so one way aligned 😡 He was part of the 2nd worst premier league team ever, conceding 80+ goals. He is one of the reasons our defence is so shite. He is mid championship level ability wise for a reason. Concentration/ability. Prem players consistently put in 7/10 games. Jack is a 5/10 player on average in the top flight. He is one of the reasons we aren’t good enough. Yep he can put in a 7/10 every few games. He has no consistency which is why he will never be good enough for the prem league. Say what you want, wearing saints on his sleeve is admirable, but not enough if you are rank average at best. We should be aiming higher, and I am disappointed that is our apparent ambition level. I ❤️ saints and would give 100% if I played for them. But I’m shit. Jack is mid championship level standard and we have given rank average a 3 year deal. That is noddy thinking. Sorry, you big him up all you like, he’s a champ average standard player, and if our aim is prem this season it is a 100% shit signing. Literally no one else would sign him. Must be a free mason thing…

Yes, and as a player in his last year of contract I was rather hoping that as we are trying to reduce squad size and move the dead wood on, that he would either leave for peanuts to a lower championship side, or play this coming season and we aren’t renewing his contract. Easy. KWP wouldn’t sign a new deal but he has been a fantastic servant and will find himself a new club and tidy signing on fee, because he is going to be wanted. Stephens was/is unlikely to be wanted by anyone, so why the hell give him a 3 year deal. He is absolutely the type of player that we should have let go. IMHO of course.

I genuinely (although foolishly) thought Jack and Will Smallbone are both out of contract in a years time, they’d stay this season, help get us promoted as the championship is their level, and we would say thanks, go find yourself new clubs next summer. But no. We give Jack a 3 year contract. WTAF are they doing? He is not good enough in the top flight. So we are stuck with him for another 3 years. Genuinely you couldn’t make it up. I am at a loss to see how the club management see this as the way forward. 🤡’s.

Mario Lemina hands down the winner. Potentially decent player, total tool as a human being.. Arrogant, easy to not like, infuriating that he had talent, but could not be arsed to bother trying to use it. Total and utter prick.

Wrexham of league 1 last season vs saints probably unchanged pretty much of the Prem and people talk as if it’s Real Madrid we are playing. 😡. We play well and we will beat them, end of. What a bunch of melts some of you are ☹️. We should be good enough to be top 3 no problem.

Apparently the weird pattern is lifted from a Huntley and Palmers biscuit tin - why Reading are the biscuit men, used to make biscuits there!

I don’t know who you are alluding to, but the premier league is an awful lot tougher to score in than the Championship…

In those 28 games many were for a few minutes off of the bench. He played 1045 minutes in the premier league. Equivalent of just under 12 full games. 4 goals in 12 doesn’t seem so bad… As with all statistics, make of them what you want. I personally think he would score a decent amount of goals in the championship, as he has in Turkey. We already own him, so worth keeping?

Saints 4 Arsenal 0. Boxing Day game under Koeman. 28% possession for Saints. Possession is a stat you can shove up your arse when it achieves very little. At no point sat watching this game was it boring, nor did it feel like we never saw the ball. I’m hoping Will Still’s style will be similar 🤞🤞

Get in there Stewart 👌

Nice feet from Robinson 👏

I get your sentiment here - every manager has some kind of philosophy, even if they aren’t preaching it publicly. However, the Pep and Russel Martin possession way of playing may or in RM’s case may not be successful. More to the point, I believe the issue that fans have with it is that it is a very slow and turgid, boring even, method of play. City V Saints and V Palace were so slow and dull. How many times as a City fan would you be saying for Christ sake shoot during a game. But no, another statistic pass will do instead. It’s a boring style of play. This season City and obviously Saints as a City very light tribute team got found out and that style was pretty effectively thwarted by teams. As a style a high press energetic fast break style of play is far more exciting to watch. Of course it can be countered, but that is where the pragmatic manager changes things during a game to help his team overcome tactical obstacles. This is where the RM and even Pep ‘philosophy’ falls down. It’s my way or the highway, it WILL work and we will continue to do exactly the same thing every game. That is what football fans don’t like. We can see it isn’t working, but the manager’s philosophy is etched in stone and he simply will not change it. Hence RM sacked. Championship - just about got away with his philosophy. Premier league with inadequate players up against good players, no chance. Most Saints fans could see this style simply would not work. It is now so ingrained that the players we have can’t seem to run, play fast passes, press, or last 90 minutes. Unfit, at top flight level is unforgivable, but they sure look the least fit team in the league. Whoever the next manager is I hope has a ‘pragmatic’ style and sets up differently for each match based on the opposition we are playing, not some rigid fixed unchangeable system…

Aribo with an attempt at a shot that he completely fucks up. Still no shots today 😡

Nice one Rusk. Play with no striker. No shots in the entire half and 2 down playing the most defensive shit ever. Everton aren’t even playing well. Absolute shit show of a performance. Change it now, coz you can’t make it worse. Abject.

Liverpool fans giving TAA a torid booing. Bunch of entitled twats. Real Madrid are a bigger more successful club. Fact. Can’t blame him for giving it a go. * PS now you know what it feels like when a bigger team poaches your players - shit isn’t it. 😂😂😂😂

Ruben Dias meltdown because we didn’t want to play properly - what an absolute 🤡. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15ppTExzXu/?mibextid=wwXIfr Hope they lose next week to Palace and end the season with nothing. Entitled nob jockeys. Plus a relegation to league 2 for fiddling the books for years.

Why? Why change the left back with minutes to go? Especially one as shit 💩 as Manning..

Certainly more sensible than the current rule. Why not just get rid of offside altogether? Would it lead to higher scoring games? Would take a lot of uncertainty out of whether a goal is a goal or not that *we currently endure. * Not us Saints fans obviously because we rarely ever score - the football fan in general 😉

I understand what you are saying, we are a really poor team with substandard players, but Luton were no better. But the old saying if you haven’t got the quality you make up for it with effort was simply not there either. If it was simply quality only, we would never ever see a cup upset would we? But they happen because the lower league side run their arses off. The whole side are clearly the least fit side in the division and that IS inexcusable. We should have been the fittest side out there to make up the lack of talent by being at least able to run for 90 mins. No chance. It stems from Russel Martin being too pally with the players, too soft, not working their arses off in training. No wonder the lazy shower of shit loved him. Hopefully he gets himself another management job with some other mugs and takes his buddies with him. Best thing he could do for us.

His contract is up at the end of next season - as long as we don’t do something monumentally stupid and extend it if we were to get promoted again 😱😨

Glad the football didn’t ruin a good day out 👍

Well Simon Rusk isn’t an inspiration for the next three games… Our positive to take was young Robinson coming on today. (Don’t even know if he touched the ball?). That’s it, he even sounds like he’s given up.

Sadly not, because KWP, Ramsdale and Fernandes won’t be in it, and they are the only three who have any quality about them. We can rejoice instead that Bree, Bazunu and Smallbone will be starting instead of them…🤢🤢🤮

No passion, no effort, no pride no nothing. Spineless useless talentless bunch of shit. We should have been 4-4-2 from the start and gone for it. But no, dithering walking football, pissing about playing across the back. Abject performance. Possibly worst of the season against the second worst team. Pathetic. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬