Mr X

If on this evidence our awful owners SR can't see that unless we get a quality striker in in January we are screwed! Then there's no hope

Whole team switched off for the corner

We look like we are at least trying today but unfortunately our strikers aren't of the calibre required!

My stream behind 😭

FFS we need to score from the good patch or it's pointless

Adams is so awful when he has time and space

24% possession whoop

I know there's plenty of games left that much is obvious but the point is our form has been horrific pretty much all of this season and the second half of last season we have an ingrained losing mentality how is that suddenly going to change? Especially with a manager who seems no better than Ralph at motivating players or choosing the right system.

Even 17th is an achievement surely? To stay up now will be a huge huge get out of jail card

Not sure if discussed already sorry can't be bothered to go back through the pages but any truth in this article that the players aren't buying into Jones formation choice or just the usual media stirring up crap when we are at our lowest? https://www.footballinsider247.com/sources-nathan-jones-at-odds-with-southampton-stars-over-formation-change/

The man is totally out of his depth like Ralph was in the last year of his tenure and it's totally not his fault he's here as any championship manager would jump at the chance for a stab at the premier league however brief it may be! The facts don't lie the club that's bottom at Xmas gets relegated 99% of the time. That said it's very tight at the bottom of the table this year and with the world cup break taken into account we have a chance but our form needs to suddenly change and I just can't see that at the moment

Well there was a lot of fan short lists on here and none of them contained Nathan Jones that's for sure and there was a lot of suggestions by the media too and none of those had Nathan Jones on their list either till the rumour that he was coming turned out to be true. So yeah the club kept that one quiet on purpose, probably for the exact fan reaction reasons as shown on here.

Agreed by the people that let it happen I meant the other board members who stood by and did nothing and let themselves be steam rollered into appointing Jones by ankerson and semmens and not the fans

Save the day was probably the wrong wording then but yeah I agree we are looking like we aren't going to survive under Jones but we weren't going to survive under Ralph either as he had a run of like two wins in 20 odd games and both he and the players had lost faith. After Ralph it was sooooo important to get it right, It beggars belief that they got the most important managerial appointment so disastrously wrong like off the scale wrong!

Desperate times call for desperate measures is there a better captain than JWP? he seems too nice for the role and doesn't have the grit and bottle to fire up the team also his form is atrocious at the moment set play aside. Would anyone be any better or is he the best we've got? I'm thinking perraud might be a good shout? Seems to actually care There are more fiery characters such as lyanco and salisu but they don't have the temperament

Unpopular opinion you pay your money and a lot of it so you can say what you like as long as it doesn't cross the line into abusive language/violence/homophobia That said it won't necessarily help the team but at the same time it doesn't seem to make our lot any worse either

And how exactly is Ralph going to "save the day" as you put it?

Exactly this... The only thing that will bring SR to their senses is an empty stadium and we all know that isn't going to happen as long as fans are still buying tickets that's all they care about

There's not a chance in hell they are going to admit their mistake after three games more like when there's three games remaining!

And who would you say is the main person to blame for appointing him? And are the people who let it happen equally to blame?

Yeah we had that period of overachieving under koeman and poch.... It clouded a lot of people's judgement including mine, it goes to show what the club is capable of though with the correct investment and quality players onboard.... Being a selling club to our very core undid any hard work though and we have regressed at a rate of knots ever since

It's such worrying times isn't it? And if like you say SR aren't going to admit any kind of wrong decision.... Which its highly highly unlikely they would.... We just have to stand by as fans and watch the slow (or fast in our case) demise of the club! It's pretty heartbreaking stuff & what's worse is it could have been totally avoidable with a rational appointment, any kind of protest at our club is pointless though as we talk the talk but not enough fans band together and actually have the strength to drive the message through! Likes others have said we are the kind of club that humbly accepts it's fate.... Maybe it is our time to leave the league... The table doesn't lie... But FFS let's at least show some bottle and grit and try for a great escape! Where is the passion?

Make no mistake we have some truly mediocre players but I still say we would be just about good enough to survive had we got an experienced manager in, now is not about pretty football I couldn't care less about that, now is about putting the ball in the net enough times to ensure we stay in this league! yes whoever came in had a incredibly tough task but why not give yourself the best chance by getting in Someone who knows what it takes to beat the drop someone who has experience of a premier league relegation battle or at least experience of this league and if not this league proof that they have some experience at the highest level abroad... Jones had none of those things yet Somone at the club insisted he was the perfect fit! That someone has condemned us to an 80% chance of relegation

We can't bring anyone in if SR fail to act soon enough just like they did with Ralph.. they aren't going to suddenly admit they got it hugely wrong.. by the time they act we will be well past saving!

All SR had to do was get this appointment right it was obvious that after RH the next manager had so much riding on it ie our premier League survival! There's making an unpopular choice in manager for survival which we should have done (big Sam, Sean dyche etc) and then there's doing such a left field bat shit crazy choice in a manager that it alienates 90% of the fan base... Jones came from nowhere and wouldn't have been on anyone's short list both fans and pundits included. This smacks of someone suggesting Jones and driving their idea through to the bitter end and the rest of the people being too scared or stupid to say we are making a huge mistake! There's basically a lot of guilty Muppets in charge of our club