saintant

Doubt it.

Whereas at the moment we have both a squad and manager who are limited.

That's ok then. For a minute I thought it was another of Ralph's many poor days at the office. Carry on Ralph.

Ralph will see this as a decent result but will completely overlook the performance which has been dire, clueless and lacking in any courage. He'll then trot back on the training field next week and carry on in his own sweet, stubborn way because he is either unable or unwilling to change anything. He's as stale as a pair of old socks that are never taken off. Get him gone today.

And that must be what they are being coached to do.

Hasn't looked happy all season from what I've seen.

It's not so much about who else is fit it is more a case of wondering why we are so bad under Ralph and he seems incapable of getting the team set up to do even the basics. That is the concern and one of the reasons he should go.

Not this week I'm afraid. If West Ham beat us at home and it's another pathetic performance he might get the bullet then but I get the feeling he's teflon coated.

Bournemouth sacked their manager after a nine nil defeat. Seems to have worked quite well for them so far - maybe we should try it.

Being hammered and not had a shot on target. About as gutless as it gets Ralph.

Big half-time team talk for Ralph. The next goal is crucial.

I know and it just makes no sense to me. Wish someone could explain it. I'm sure there is a whole list of stat which prove if you mark zonally you are less likely to concede but it's never made any sense to me.

Nil, shots of any kind and nil corners is basically cowardly football.

What is the point of zonal marking? An attacker runs from one zone to another so the bloke who might have been marking him ends up marking nobody. Meanwhile the attacker has run into another zone and chances are he'll not be picked up cos nobody sees him coming. Weird system.

Get to half time at 2-0 and that's acceptable.

What is there to be scared of? We've already suffered two defeats by 9-0 it can hardly be worse than that.....or can it? Gulp!

For the vast majority of this game I very much doubt we'll even have one up front 🙂

Not much chance he'll take it easy on us and Haaland will just want to keep on scoring goals. Looking at their recent average goals per match we'll do well to restrict them to four or five.

Be interesting to see whether we manage to get through the first ten minutes without conceding. I don't think we will.

Very interesting read and he seems to be a switched on guy who has some innovative ideas. I see the second article mentions he had a spell working at Brentford. The only thing is his club's emphasis seems to be very much tailored on bringing players through their accademy into the first team. It might work for them but not so much in the Premier League. Still, one to keep an eye on for sure.

If we sack Ralph my hunch is that SR will appoint another foreign manager. Don't believe Cooper will be considered.

Fans of every team get on the players and manager's back when they are doing poorly or misplacing lots of passes - it's human nature and impossible to rank us 3rd worst with any certainty. I remember Man City fans chanting 'You don't know what you're doing' at their then manager before the big money extracted them from being a struggling side. It's the way of fans up and down the country - we are no worse or better than most others. Personally I think Ralph has gotten away quite lightly considering some of the crap he's presided over and I do get that he's never had the luxury of being able to spend big. I reckon the average Saints fan just wants to see some better football than we're getting and a few more wins especially against sides outside the top six. For whatever reasons, and many of us have speculated on what they might be, Ralph doesn't seem able to turn the ship around. He's had some good spells but more bad ones so, for me, we should be parting company with him and bringing in someone with fresh ideas. It would probably the best thing for Ralph because for a while now he hasn't looked like someone who is making a very good living from an exciting job due to the stress he's putting himself under. He talked recently about retiring so maybe the time has come.

Yeah and then he has a quick look at his bank balance and things don't seem nearly so bad.

Agree with all this.

How much is your mate willing to pay people to take the tickets off his hands?