vectraman

Leo you legend 🥇

Baggies have a terrible away record. We have hit good form - 4-0 Saints 🤞 Assume we won’t need to water the pitch tonight 😁😁

Looking forward to this - Scienza back is a huge bonus for us. A lot will depend on how Birmingham set up. We don’t like teams that play deep with the bus behind the ball, also didn’t enjoy Millwall’s quick press and suffocating midfield. It’ll be intriguing to see how we adapt and change as the games progresses. Good luck Tonda in your first official game as boss. My prediction - a tight scrappy 1-1 draw.

Name a manager who has never been sacked!!

My concern is we seem to be welded to 5 at the back. This leaves the team short in midfield and Saturday was an example where going to 4 defenders and bolstering midfield would have been sensible (to my I’m not a pro football manager mind). Fellows is a winger not a wingback, but he’s pressed into that square hole, I would just like a right back at right back (Roeslev), drop a CB (whoever) and Wellington at LB who is a better defender than Manning. Any team we are about to play will have seen how Millwall handled us, and will adopt a similar plan I suspect. Get in our faces and press us at the back, or just sit back, park the bus and hit us on the break. We reverted back to tippy tappy to me to you at the back Russ ball on Saturday, not sure if that was planned, just happened again, or was because we didn’t know what else to do! I’m intrigued to see how Tonda looks at the opposition on Saturday and what he does different. Brum are decent and will cause problems for us. Saturday will be a big test for him, as teams will now know not to let us have space to play into. A manager who will adapt formation and personnel (like Quarsie in for Stephens v Leicester) to counter the opposition and not stick rigidly to formations will get a lot more slack from me than a rigid, this is how we play (Russel Martin no flexibility) type.

Unmarked yet we have 5 at the back. We just can’t defend under pressure. Sadly Romeu with a piss challenge set them up.

Absolutely shit defending. THB with an almost disaster pass.

Millwall manager has done his homework on us. Not giving us any space to pass into.

Thank you. My feeling with Jack is that I don’t believe he, THB or Flynn Downes have been fully committed 100% behind Will Still. Certainly THB and Downes have been way off the standards that they can play at. Jack Stephens I don’t think has played too badly this season. What I have issue with is he has not at any point come out and backed Will Still, and apologised for poor team performances, which as captain I’d expect him to be doing. I don’t see him on the pitch driving the team on and encouraging more from them. It is this nondescript non committal attitude of not publicly backing Will Still, not openly accepting we have played poorly and stating he and the players have let everyone down and it isn’t acceptable and he will strive to improve it with the squad and not let the manager down. Minimum expectation as club captain. Never really got that from him. Why I believe he is part of the issue as a long term player here.

I sincerely hope all of this rumour is nonsense and a smokescreen for getting a decent experienced no nonsense manager in. Saints despite being a basket case to us fans is an attractive job, will pay well, and has great facilities. Any sub premier league level manager would want to be considered for this vacancy - to say there are no suitable candidates for a highly paid, excellent opportunity, in the whole world except (allegedly) Tonda who has no actual management experience of a professional league men’s team is mind meltingly complete bullshit. We absolutely MUST get a respected manager in, who isn’t mates with the team, isn’t being “heavily guided” by Sports Republic to tactics/formations/individual players who should be in the side. TE would be no more than a Sports Republic puppet. My own opinion, but until we bin off Jack Stephens, THB, Flynn Downes who I believe are poisonous to the team harmony, we will get nowhere. Sell them, erase Russel Martin from the team fabric and I believe the team will be all the better for it. If we end up with TE as manager, and suffer 5 at the back, safety first boring football, with Bazunu in goal, then for me I’m done with it. I’d rather have had Gary o’Neil as manager, despite his blue associations, all day long rather than a nobody who has managed nobody, and will have the respect of nobody in the dressing room. SR - get this appointment wrong, and you’ll have blown all of the fans patience and goodwill. Even on the Sainsweb site next manager vote TE got 5%. Says it all. The issue is the underlying player power that certain players clearly have. If you pander to these pussies you are basically selling out on any hope of progressing this season. They need a giant kick up the ass, not an easy life. Sort it, or ship out. You waste £7 million on a German unknown striker who is of no use whatsoever, that will get you pretty much any manager out there. I believe the issue is your leadership SR, your lack of understanding of the English game, and your pig headed ‘cleverness’ which most fans see as unbelievable smugness. Ball is in your court….don’t fuck this up please…

Looking at the realistic options on that list, I’m guessing Carrick is the most obvious? Assuming SR don’t go full SR and appoint Tonda…..

He may be on our fans list, but is he on the SR list? That is the crucial question! I hope he is - about time we got a ‘proper’ manager in.

Daft question I’m sure, who the hell is Sills??

Damn you and your totally logical mind. This will never catch on as it is neither trendy nor smart. Sports Republic would not like such sensible nonsense….

If we get 3 points v Sheffield W the goons will give the job to Eckert. You just know that is what they want to do. Clever, cheap, aren’t we fucking smart option. Just no SR. Do not appoint Selles mk2. Get a proper manager in who will sort these prima Donna wankers out and bin them off. Appoint Eckert, you are appointing disappointment, mediocrity and no ambition. Your choice, you own it, fans defo know better…

Great save Baz 👍

Macca has done nothing wrong but got dropped. Enough said.

It concerns me greatly that Spors is trying to be clever again. If they get this manager wrong we could be heading to league 1. How many German 2nd division clubs come looking for a manager in England? Probably none? So wtf are we looking in Germany for a manager in the championship? 🫣😱 Serious SR you need to get a nasty bastard, hard nosed no nonsense proven championship manager in. Please do not try and be clever - now is definitely not the time.

5 at the back and they all stand there watching Macca save it and then allowing their player to backheel it in. Absolutely total and utter gash defending. Embarrassing. 🙈

Tony Mowbray. No nonsense, takes no shit, knows the league. Available.

Knowing the SR clowns 🤡 they’ll sack Still and re-employ that fraud Russell Martin….

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This is like Sunday morning football. Absolutely no quality or composure at all.

Fuck me you useless twats.

If we don’t win this there will be some extremely awkward question coming your way Still. Scoring a second goal, wraps the game up. Now we are trying to hold on to a 1-0 win against a poor Blackburn. WTAF is he doing?