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SR have shown themselves to be clueless especially the snake oil salesman Ankersen. I'm pretty sure there would have been better options when the club was for sale but Semmens had a vested interest and this mob probably suited his needs the most.

Just seen a pig fly right past my window.

He doesn't even adopt an athletic stance or show any urgency. Meekly stands upright, shuffles side on thus making himself as small as possible and lets it all go on around him. I hope Ruben Selles read the riot act to him in the dressing room and, even more, I hope to never see him in a Saints shirt again - wishful thinking I suspect.

You could put a dustbin in his place and it would be in the correct position now and again. It would contribute and create as much as he does too. He wouldn't get in any other team in the Premier league and probably not many in the Championship. He offers zero in practically every element or attribute that a competent attacking midfielder should score highly on. Nobody can convince me he is more useful than Alcaraz and KWP could certainly do a much better job in his position. Like the majority of our fans I am completely baffled as to why our managers continue to pick him.

Shocking all round but why isn't Bednarek launching himself to block instead of turning side on to make himself as small as possible - madness. Bazunu should do better but Bednarek hinders rather than helps.

The sad thing is Bednarek will almost certainly be in the starting line up again next week.

I didn't watch the game but it's easy to judge just how poor we were from the comments in this thread. After last week's brilliant win and talk of a very good week in training it is very disappointing that we couldn't even give a poor Leeds side, without a win since November, a decent game. Ruben Selles looked the real deal last week yet this week we return to square one - it's the life of a Saints fan in recent years I'm afraid - too many false dawns. I'd never play Bednarek again because he continues to make the same mistake of standing right on top of his goalkeeper in his line of sight and failing to charge out to block a shot - he's done it time and time again. Poor as we played it was a scrappy one nil win from Leeds so the sad fact is we clearly didn't need to do very much to have beaten them. As I said previously I'd have taken 3 points from Chelsea and Leeds away but only with a decent performance today and we didn't get it so relegation seems inevitable. I'm sure we'll hear the usual after match platitudes but today was just nowhere near good enough against a relegation rival.

If we did we'd have missed it.

Leeds haven't won since November so along comes an obliging team to gift them 3 points.

I'd have taken 3 points from Chelsea and Leeds away but seems this has been an awful performance.

Janny B always stands in fron of the keeper....it's why he scores so many own goals.

Not watching as not a fan of streams. Sounds like we've been very poor and changes will be needed at half time if we are to get anything from this game. From what I read on here Moi and Stu have been really ineffective so I'd swap them for KWP and Alcaraz. The good news is that it's level at half time but the feeling I get is that Leeds are the likely winners unless we up our game by a long way and start giving them more to worry about. Has the feel of a scrappy 1-0 defeat with nothing to take out of it. Hope Ruben can lift them at half time because we need to be offering more against a Leeds side who last won in November.

If Ruben out foxes his fellow compatriot Gracia tomorrow it will cement the feelings we all had after his impact last week. This is a huge game and a win will build incredible momentum and confidence because we'll find ourselves so much closer to a shot at surviving and might even be outside the bottom 3. It's sure to be a nervy one for both sides and I'm hoping Ruben will have our players more relaxed than theirs. The first goal is going to be key along with being the team to settle quickest and get out the blocks.

This is all flaky shit. For a start neither their boffins nor any computer would be clever enough to factor in shock results and there will be some for us and all other relegation rivals. As an easy example the boffins and computer would not have predicted we'd beat Chelsea last week. A pointless exercise but interesting to a small degree I guess.

The 'slightly fortuitous' win against a Chelsea side in bad form was achieved by a Southampton team in terrible form masterminded by a guy who had been in full charge for under a week. None of us know how Ruben will do but I can see the logic in giving him the job until the end of the season. He does give off positive vibes but the proof will be in performances and results. We still have a mountain to climb and, if he manages to avoid relegation he'll have done a fantastic job and will be offered a decent contract. The big mistake made by the board and owners and, in particular Ankersen, was obviously appointing Nathan Jones - that decision will be shown to have had huge consequences if we don't beat the drop.

They certainly look a happy bunch in the training photos - similar smiles at 16.50 on Saturday would be great.

Leeds forum member lists Stu Armstrong among our injured with a muscle issue - not sure where they got that from.

It was struggling Southampton against struggling Chelsea. Let's not make out only they were struggling.

Do we know if Gracia has a work permit yet? If not he should not be working with their squad yet and, unless he gets it by Saturday, should not be on the bench. As I understand it he does not have enough months at a major club, he's 2 months short and Leeds have had to pay £5000 for application before a board who will make the decision. Hope there are no sneaky shenanigans going on behind the scenes but, knowing Leeds, it wouldn't surprise me.

Presumably with no work permit Gracia will not be able to take training until he gets one.

There's a great video on Premier League official site showing all 17 of JWPs free-kick goals.

It felt a little bit like when Pochetino joined us - he almost totally transformed us in a matter of days and, after his first game in charge against Everton, you felt confident he'd continue to improve the side. Selles had the advantage of knowing the players but, the level of improvement he achieved was remarkable which has convinced me he'll continue to lift us to higher levels. Sure, there'll be disappointments and bumps in the road but isn't it refreshing to feel like there is at least some hope after the months of bleak performances.

Answer: Rasmus Ankersen

And he was managing a shit Southampton team struggling.

I see Dean Hammond is also full of praise for AMN's performance on his podcast.