wild-saint

There are some right old wet Fannie’s on this board. NJ wasn’t my first or even 5th choice there is a deep rot set into this club and it’s going to take time to change. Is he capable, who knows but I’m prepared to wait and find out. Should we go down there are plenty of positives around to build on. We may lose a couple of players but their is a spine there plus some promising academy players and financial backing. As a betting man I could see a swift return by building a team with more heart and fight than we currently see. Tella, Adams and Armstrong up front would have more than enough goals to mount a challenge. Long term I’m not worried, short term who knows?

Absolutely nothing. I’ve also seen absolutely nothing from this squad (bar lavia) in the last 12 months to suggest that we have the squad to keep us up. The only thing I can see is he has built sides that have heart and spirit and I’m happy to see given a little time if he can do that here. If we go down before he has managed that then so be it. I’ve watched saints for 40+ years and the time watching from the moment Koeman left has been the most dull / boring experience I can remember. I’ve watched enough of that soulless bile to last a lifetime. a promotion challenge would be a damn sight more entertaining than this. I understand 99% won’t agree and want to blindly hope we can continue scraping by each year. FFS it’s got so low at SMS noone really got that upset when we conceded 2 easy goals yesterday. The biggest negative about NJ that I can see is that it looks like the senior players haven’t bought into him either. That 2 me says more about them than him when they should be fighting until they drop. For example ABK has come back after epwearing a Germany shirt and it looks like he now thinks he is too good for us. The whiff of arrogance in the club stinks. yet again I dont expect many to agree but for my own personal interest I’m happy to see us drop to witness whether we can rebuild. That seems far more interesting than clinging on like we have for the past 5 years.

This squad of players are / were completely devoid of confidence long before NJ got here. My feeling is some of the players haven’t bought into him and maybe never will. The squad isn’t good enough to stay up and unless money is spent then we are down regardless of who is in charge. the club is rotten to the core and needs a complete overhaul. I’m bored of the last 5 years watching shyte football and barely winning and zero spirit in the team. IM happy to let the current management team continue and give them time to build a team with some spririt & heart. We will likely go down in the short term but as long as there are signs of something new being built I can live with it. How mad must I be, probably the only saints fan who wants him to stay 😂

My view is that if we continue to push the 3 at the back tactics then we are as good as relegated with the current squad. if he goes with a 4 then i hold out hope that he has enough to get us out of trouble. I guarantee if he persists with a 3 and we lose our next 2 home games the supporters will turn on him and the team really quickly.

interesting really. I didn't see the Lincoln game but went to Palace away. In CM he looked miles better than anything else we had available so am a little surprised the reports i read after this game.

I can 100% answer that I would prefer to be where we are after 15 odd games of the season with a have decent side and the chance (and money ) to sign a badly needed striker in January.

It would be more of a buy now don’t pay later type deal for Pompey

Incorrect. They made 3, they let Romeo go 12 hours after Lavia injured himself for the best part of 3 months.

My initial thoughts were FFS we will be relegated for sure. Spoken to a few friends that are long term Luton fans (from a time i worked there many years ago). They have nothing but great words about NJ and seems to be exactly the type of manager we need. I am little happier now but still slightly underwhelmed but will support him to the hilt until I can bear no more or slag him off when as a success pisses off to somewhere better.

SR are chumps. Wasted 75million on players not good enough to start in the prem, let Romeo go when we lose the best player we did sign after he got injured for 2 months and failed to sign a number 9 &10 which we were fucking crying out for. as stale as it is under Ralph they have a lot to answer for.

If we spend £30 odd million on a new striker in January and he misses as many decent opportunities as Che has missed so far this season then we deserve to get relegated. How can anyone be as bad as Che has been this season as finishing chances? I’d sacrifice a bunch of Che’s great ball holding and strength for hitting the fucking back of the net once in a while to be honest.

CHe Adams is fucking shyte. The only other team in the premier league he would start for is Wolves as they have even less options up front than us. Ralph H is so fucking negative it make Gareth Southgate looking adventurous. What was the point on spending all our cash on young players If the manager thinks none are good enough to start. does anyone really expect us to sign a number 9 & 10 in January. We will probably get someone in at the end of January after fucking about for the whole month.

10 months In and they have paralysed with fear after largely wasting 75m on a pile of shyte. Top 5 mistakes in my opinion - 1. Not changing manager in the summer. 2. Not signing a striker good enough to score goals in the premier league. 3. Ditto number 10 to create enough. 4. Spending all the cash on young players that may be good enough in 2/3 years time. 5. Selling Romeo whilst our only other decent midfield player sits with a doc telling him he can’t play until after the fucking World Cup. And people have the nerve to criticise the previous owners. This new lot communicate about as well as the last lot. The only thing they have achieved is pissing off the home support by closing down sections of seats for standing up to take a piss during the game.

Id bring Edozie in for Aribo. Despite Aribo being one of the few players that can score in our side, his all round play is a bit shyte in my opinion. I cant make up my mind if he is lazy or just doesn't understand what is required from him without the ball. Seems to ball watch and fail to track his man and a liability away from home. He seems a bit of a luxury player in a side that needs to do the basics better and it surprises me not that no other Prem club was in for a player that was available for about £8m. On the other side of the coin he can be a match winner but 1 game in 5 or 6 isnt enough when he offers little in the other games. On a positive note I guess this post will guarantee a winning goal from Aribo against then cherries.

I would imagine it will be garden leave.

Incredible really but with a fit Lavia playing every game and i think we have enough to stay up. The only caveat is that he maintains the quality that we have seen so far. Without him we look effing terrible and I'm just really glad we signed him. Without that injury i think its fair to say we would probably have at least another 4 points.

I would rather we offered Ralph a new 5 year deal than offer the job to Steve fucking Bruce.

Good bloke but fucking shyte manager.

Yeah I can see it now, we sign a striker for £30m but doesn’t play him for 10 Games as he doesn’t know our system but then proceeds to play an 11 year old on loan from Chelsea in his first game.

any streams mine seem to have died?

I think you are right. The fact that Leeds were there with a plane to take him back this morning. We probably knew it was going pear shaped and coincides with the left winger from city being agreed before the news broke that he wasn’t coming.

You can imagine it now, city activate 4 x buy back clauses at 9pm on the 31st January leaving us with half a team.

Seems saints attitude to transfers / contracts etc has changed from relaxed to confident but with the same outcomes. as good as our transfers have been so far this summer, I fear that without the old up front being filled we are going to struggle for goals big time. Would have been the same feeling if we hadnt singed a decent centre back. I hope to god this is a negotiation tactic or we have decent alternative ready to go.

i would imagine the deal will be (if we ever agree) circa £25m up front cash with loads of other add ons that take it to £40m much like the Gibbs white deal. Cant think we would consider doing a deal at £40m cash up front.

Because they are marginally better than the shyte striker we have in our squad.