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Time to bring in Quarshie for me - hopefully he gets a start against Liverpool so let's see how he copes against Isaac 🙂

A single new player tends to take quite a few games before settling and demonstrating his true form. Will Still is trying to juggle introducing 5-6 new guys at the same time and blending them with others who suffered the trauma of last season so no easy task. Add in the fact that he is saddled with a goalkeeper who continues to make schoolboy errors and it is perhaps not surprising that things have yet to click into place. I was initially very angry about yesterday and the Pompey game but maybe there are mitigating circumstances in which case he needs more time and, to be fair, he's never said any different himself.

Well I can't disagree that we need new owners because SR has been a disaster from day one.

After my initial anger at the last two inept performances has abated I tend to agree - give him more time. Personally I'm not desperate for us to bounce straight back up to the Premier League as we wouldn't be ready. If Will Still can steady the ship and get us playing some decent football with plenty of wins/draws and we look to be progressing in the right direction let him carry on. However, if nothing changes within say the next 10 games it will be time to admit he's not the guy for us. I think gradual build is the way to go with the overall aim to have a side ready to have another shot at PL football within 3 seasons.

Regards Edwards a QPR fan was on here saying he was poor for them first match but improved game by game until he was superb - said he'd love to take him back. Maybe he just needs a run of games.

Yeah, he'll have Isaac in his pocket 🙂

Throw in that he immediately recognises that Baz isn't a goalkeeper and he'll be perfect.

Needs a Sunday lunch sat opposite his future father-in-law being told exactly how limited he looks against only average opponents. Roy should tell him to cut out the billy big bollocks attitude and start doing the basics.

If only our players knew this was a thing or were coached to know how to do it.

Nobody expects to see total football after six games but I think we are entitled to see signs of progress and a move in the right direction.

Where on earth is our high press? Where is the fast transition? Where is the pass and move, find space and play between the opposition lines. All basics that we are just not doing. There is no defined shape and no clear indication of what, if anything, we are trying to do. Surely football is not that complicated. We look like a panic stricken bunch that have never played the game before and are just thrown on the pitch to make it up as we go along. There has to be a structure, a plan, a formation where every player knows his job and performs it in at least a semi proficient manner. We've just spent a week training at Staplewood following the Pompey debacle only to look even worse. There must be at least one coach at the football club who knows what he's doing. Then factor in a goalkeeper who today gifts our opponents their crucial opening goal not for the first time and we know it will happen again. He's not helped by defenders who are weak and mark fresh air. Where are the green shoots of recovery?

Agree, these guys are paid absolute fortunes and need to start earning their money.

I have to admit I was quite excited and hopeful when we appointed Will Still. Here was a young manager with a totally different career path than the norm and somebody who appeared to have a refreshing new opinion on how the game should be played and who had done well at his previous clubs. So far it's been a complete disappointment. Along with others I do not have a clue what our formation is or what we are trying to do as there just seems no pattern or shape to our play. We seem to get worse rather than better and I'm not sure where he goes from here or whether he has the slightest clue how to improve the shit show we are watching.

Yeah, he's fast, strong, big and powerful, everything we lack. I'm sure he can't do worse than Stephens and THB.

In a nutshell and we continue not to address this and then seem surprised when we look like a team of weaklings and roll over under the slightest pressure.

Nor noting that we can't score many goals from our own crosses.

Anyone else absolutely sick and tired of football? Being a Saints fan brings no enjoyment whatsoever and this club just lurches from crisis to crisis with no sign that it'll ever get out of this downward spiral.

Just the one.

Another snake oil salesman who talks the talk.

That's pretty damning but I fear you may be right.

Why is his stock low? Asking for a friend.

When is a rest not a reset? Answer; When it is presided over by SR.

Yes but these are all the positives - can you pinpoint what is going wrong?

Yeah, the time for excuses is over I'm afraid. Things have to start moving in the right direction very quickly or he's in for a very short tenure. Not convinced he has what it takes I'm afraid.

Again? Surely not. We are so unlucky. Has anyone considered buying someone better?