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THB Downes Manning Stephens Fraser Bazunu Probably Aribo Probably Lallana Would all love him back I’m sure. It depends how much influence these wankers have over decision-making. He also wouldn’t cost anything. I wouldn’t rule it out at all.

I’m sure the ‘senior players’ who hardly had to train, were bezzie mates with him and have thrown every manager since under the bus would love him back. THB, Downes, Manning etc. The same ones who have basically downed tools yet again and are as responsible as Still is for how fucking shit we are. If they have any influence over the decision-making then I would say there is a distinct possibility that Martin could come back. I wouldn’t rule it out at all. SR really are that weak and might even be dumb enough to see it as a quick fix.

Can you imagine listening to a Jo Tessem team talk Jesus

Good ol' Jesse Marsch Surely his time has finally come

George Long, third keeper

fuck off mate

Yeah this is Wotte/ Poortvliet -level bad

Straight across the six yard box where Downs should be attacking but the prick just stands there

Oh cool, Bambi’s come on

The last time we looked this broken, even against shite teams, it was the Wotte era. It's that bad.

Did you not see his five minute presentation on Monday Night Football? It was inspiring stuff

Isthmian Premier?

I think the point is that he doesn't have a clue how to fix this

Try clicking this link: http://www.fawanews.sc/Southampton vs Preston.html When it loads, the first time you click the arrow to play the stream it will probably load an advert instead. But close that down and click it again and hopefully it should work for you. Disclaimer: sorry if it loads anything offensive, streaming sites can have some nasty stuff on them* (*by which I mean Saints' performances)

Boos have well and truly started now ’Sacked in the morning’, presumably from our fans

This is absolutely embarrassing, again

A fucking mess

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So we’re still floating in massive high loopy hoofs up to our twin attacking dwarves then Cool

When it so clearly isn't working, what are these orders from on high - 'make sure you lose every week and get us relegated'?

It's especially negligent given that Spors came out at the beginning of the window and said that the one thing you need in this league is physical presence. And then, Quarshie aside, did absolutely fuck all about it.

‘Expected points’ Fuck me 🤣🤣🤣

I think people are getting ‘changing’ a component mixed up with ‘fixing’ it. It’s easy to change the manager, but that is a very different thing to fixing the managerial situation. Bringing in Jones, Selles, Juric, Rusk and now apparently Still were all examples of changes, but none of those changes fixed anything.

Even if that was the case, if Spors, Still or anyone else thought that going into a Championship season with a strike force built around one striker who is five foot eight and one who is five foot six was going to be enough then they need firing. Any fan off the street can tell you that you need the option of some sort of strong physical presence up top in the Championship, and anyone who's ever watched a football match can tell you that if there's no-one up front to win a header, bully defenders or get on the end of an aerial cross then it's pretty hard to score goals. It's criminal that the need for such a basic and obvious attribute was completely overlooked. Neither Stewart nor Downs should ever have been considered as serious options for this season because Stewart was always going to break down and it should have been blindingly obvious to anyone who had actually watched Downs play for more than five minutes that he is fucking shit. Throw in Fraser and Scienza and when the teams run out at St Mary's I'm half expecting them to mix The Saints Are Coming into Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, It's Off To Work We Go.

Should start in place of Scienza, obviously. Can't be too careful.