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It’s very confusing. Away games don’t appear to count as they don’t benefit the club financially. Someone should tell Liverpool they don’t need to turn up on the 17th May as it doesn’t benefit them financially

The point is you said Puels season was the worst ever. Was or wasn’t it worse than when we got relegated from the championship and from the premier league?

How was it a fluke? How is finishing top half in the premier league a worse season than getting relegated from the championship?

Yeah but then you also think a season where we finished 8th in the premier league was worse than one where we got relegated from the championship and went into administration 😳

Yep we lost both but one game the reaction was how didn’t we win, the other was what a dire performance. Then we beat Inter at home, we didn’t beat Mitjyllland over two games.

Well you said away games are of no financial benefit. Which is a weird thing to say

So you don’t support saints when they play away then?

Guess you missed the home game against Milan then which was a brilliant night. We also played much better in Milan than we did in Midtjylland

Puel took us over after the two top goal scorers had been sold, our best midfielder had been sold and Fonte and Van Dijk wanting to leave, but no allowance made for any of that

I thought a season lasted for 19 home games plus cup games, Why haven’t you included any before Van dijk got injured? Or the away games, like the win at Anfield which was many saints fans will say was one of the best nights in their lives.

Because Koemans team served up one of the worst performances I’ve ever seen in Denmark in a qualifying round.

So was I and we were bloody awful in those times. Don’t remember too many fans boycotts, stadium sit ins and organised fan protests when Puel was here how you can say Puels season was worse than when we got relegated twice is to be blunt laughable

Yep and people moaned them too. Pochetino had no plan b, couldn’t win a Game if we didn’t score first, didn’t take the cups seriously. Koeman had people calling for his head when we went on an awful run around Christmas time in his second season. Did worse in Europe than Puel did with one of the worst performances I ever seen in the game in Denmark. Fans moaned and bitched about selling players and not buying adequate replacements. Pelle was booed on his home debut, mane should fuck off back to where he came from. Sheffield United away was the worst display ever, etc etc it wasn’t all the halcyon era of SFC you’re making it out to be.

So you think it was worse than the Branfoot years, the relegation season in 2005 & 09, most of the seasons in the championship, arguably most seasons the around 94-98, the Pellegrino/Hughes season. It’s not even in the top 10 worst in the last 35 years.

I completely agree with you. My point is People are moaning about Ralph, too open, too streaky, too many bad losses. People moaned about Puel, too boring, too defensive. However both managers end result is pretty much the same. Midtable and a decent cup run. Puel got us to a cup final and 46 points, Ralph has got us to a semi final but also had a season where we got more points. Ultimately both managers did about as much as a club like us can expect to achieve with our budget and stature, one did by supposedly sending everyone to sleep (which is BS) the others done it by high risk high reward, fans aren’t happy with either style. So what other options are there?

Which is exactly my point, there isn’t.

Well we’ve lost to all 4 of them…..

A team that is solid defensively and plays great attacking football capable of getting great results but also really hard to beat. I can’t believe we haven’t tried that already.

What else do you suggest?

Not when we don’t have a striker who can finish his chances

People need to make up their minds then. We’re a midtable club at best. Either we have a consistent team which are hard to beat, grinds out results or we have a team like we’ve got now, on our day capable of playing some great stuff but also capable of getting a hiding. We don’t have enough money to bring in good enough players to play consistently attacking winning football

You can see it happening

Didn’t start that way though. Looked a good player in his his first few games, great finish at Everton, looked a handful, he seems to have got progressively worse as the season has gone on. completely agree with what you say, why we are playing Long over him is bizarre. Long will be without a contract in 3 games time, now we should be giving him a few starts to show what he can do

We’ve been culling non performers since he arrived. That was the reason why we were so skint that we had the likes 7 or 8 players on big money not doing much. Now we need to cull another load of under performers. Seems to be one common denominator

Ezes first goal in 11 months palaces first win after going behind all season Teams and players in need of a goal or win must lick their lips when they see us next on the fixture list. It happens so often it’s ridiculous