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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.

I mean, we have had seven managers in three years. They’re not exactly renowned for sticking with them through thick and thin.

In our dreams. I think that ship might have sailed!

Reminds me of that Sunderland documentary when they were in free fall in league one I think and brought in Chris Coleman. Not a superstar by any means but had lots of experience, had managed an international side, had a bit of swagger about him for that level and you could just see everyone instantly respond to him, from the players to the crowd to the tea lady. He just commanded instant respect and injected positivity and hope into a club culture that was on its arse. Not him obviously, but someone like that.

Yeah I doubt we’re attracting any particularly attractive candidates at this stage. We’re going to need to get lucky with someone who might not look much from the outside but who turns out to be a ‘right time, right place’ appointment, like Strachan and Adkins were. I actually thought Still was going to be that person and would quietly get on with it, show common sense, do the basics well and actually build something. He just seemed a good cultural fit to me and his honesty and down to earth approach seemed like a breath of fresh air after the endless smug bullshit of you know who. But he’s just not showing anything at all at the minute that suggests he’s got what it takes, it’s so disappointing. I really do desperately want it to click for him, but as it unraveled yesterday in one of the poorest performances I can remember from a Saints side, and he just looked lost and alone and started making mad, panicky decisions which turned the game firmly in their favour when all we had to do was be competent, and it became apparent that after a whole pre-season and a good chunk of pretty kind fixtures that we’re just getting worse and worse, I just got that familiar sinking feeling again where you realise you can’t kid yourself any more and it’s just not happening for him. I really hope that by some miracle it suddenly clicks into place against Preston and that we can build from there. But there are absolutely zero signs of that being likely to happen, and I think if we lose again and slip into the bottom three then they’ll panic and he’s done. Then we’ll probably be saying hello to Wayne Rooney’s Southampton and a season in league one. Fucking Saints. Honestly.

You do all realise Robins is the Stoke manager, right? Who he’s already got into the play-off places? He’s got a very decent shot at getting them promoted. Why would he jib that to drop into a relegation fight at a club in turmoil?

Net / net yes, but the club he bought was 12th in the Premier League and he has now ‘steered’ it to 20th in the Championship. By surrounding himself with idiots he’s tanked his asset.

Denmark. Appointed Brondby manager in September. Currently third with 7 wins from 12.

Same

Do you think they’d come if we offered them enough?

What do you think the strengths are that another manager would play to that would see each of them score 20 this season?

Subbing off Scienza for Stephens when you're playing Blackburn and you've already got 3 CBs on the pitch?

Black?

The keeper saved the one that hit the post too. Got a small but critical touch.

Just hold me Please

"Probably" Like Prince Andrew 'probably' needs a bit of help with his PR

I'm a huge fan of shrugging, frowning, mumbling, scoffing and sounding bored and lost So yes

Fuck me imagine having to listen to his press conferences

Not to be a dick or anything, but didn't you also say that Brereton-Diaz, Archer and Armstrong would score 60 goals between them in this division if we played to their strengths and they stayed fit?

Immediate unemployment, hopefully

Then after 68 minutes go up to your one and only beautiful tree, hack it down with a chainsaw and replace it with a load of barbed wire and a bucket of shit

Honestly, what are his ideas? What is he trying to implement? I wanted him to be given a chance but I just see someone who doesn't have the faintest idea what they're doing. He just looks lost and scared.

That substitution is the worst thing I've ever seen a human be responsible for. And I include 9/11 and the bombing of Hiroshima in that.

With a squad the size of ours how the hell can our bench be that shit