wild-saint

ITs not roclket science. Thats the team. Foden and Bellingham as 10s with 1 x DCM. Its not as if we are playing Brazil. Saints would have beaten both of those sides i reckon.

Agree, i really like him. A bit of a gamble but fortune favours the brave as they say.

wouldnt it be quite amusing if he then went on a beat the record against west ham?

oh my this thread is still a dull as always. Not quoite sure why it remains on the main board particularly when the key contributor doesnt even bother going to games.

leeds fan clearly

Those who watch on TV or streams can watch from any location I would imagine. Turks credibility has taken a nose dive admitting his wife has booked a holiday over the play off weekend. I can imagine the pleading next weekend .. "please hunnybun would it be ok if i watch the saints game in the hotel room or do i need you need to come with you on the boat trip? My friends on interweb will be expecting me to comment on the match"

He doesn't go to game to be fair.

The issue will be Leeds fans buying tickets at Club Wembley in the southampton end. Leeds end sold out and saints still available. Seen an email from Club Wembley to a Leeds fan offering tickets at the saint end with a weak disclaimer at the end "We can only sell packages to fans of the team and checks may be made to ensure fans are not purchasing tickets in the opposite end." Notice the word "may"check.

yes but not a key as Downes without an adequate replacement. the stats od games with / without Downes tends to confirm that as well.

oh do fuck off. Thats jsut utter bollox isnt it. We beat them home and away easily and finished below them by three points with Downes injured for a significant amount of games. Now he is fit its clearly a straight shoot out.

Just been watching the Road to Wembley on Netflix. The carnage in London and outside the ground was mental. The atmosphere inside the ground that built up throughout the day was electric.

my ticket ordered at the start of the window arrived yesterday after the additional 2 that i ordered.

better hear this at least twice on Friday FFS

If you took the time to read my post nowhere did i say i expected him to give us a "deep dive" of his tactics for the game. My point was the fact they show the opening 3 minutes and then turn off the camera so we have to wait for a transcript or snippets / quotes from random jouno's. Why not broadcast the whole thing to the fans rather than pushing out only selected bits by the echo or waiting 14 hours for it to appear on YT? Just seems odd that fans cant watch the manager of their team talk about their team in the build up to a game. Maybe there is a reason for it but for the life of me I can think of one.

What is the point in putting these on? We get to see about 3 minutes of it before it gets cut off and then if you want to pay an echo subscription you get to see a summary of it by a reporter. surely this medium is for the club to communicate with the fans. We still don’t know if Adam’s is fit or the injury status of the rest of the squad, Utterly pointless.

Chat GPT or co-pilot is the way forward man.

You mean after every missed / saved shot he shouts “next time put it in the bottom corner”?

Utter bollox. Game management yet again costs us points.

Poor game management yet again by Russ. Charles at 60 for smallbone isn’t exactly coaching 101. poor recruitment from Wilcox wasting cash on players in positions that weren’t critical. A defensive midfield player and a left back would have been ideal. oh well one last chance in the play offs.

Oh my you were clearly asleep in your chair when the three goals went in all down our right hand side. You my friend are a wind up merchant, Russel Martin or a fucking clueless idiot, which one is it?

His job was to create a football structure that gets us out of this league and put us on a sustainable footing to be able to survive and thrive when we get there. Here is what we he has achieved in his time here- 1. Failed to recruit a manager that is capable of delivering automatic promotion (IMO of course). Martin allegedly wasnt his first choice so didn’t manage to sell his ideas to his first choice. 2. ignored the need for a striker and sanctioning the purchase of a striker who had 2 serious injuries in the previous 9 months. 3. Wasting £10m on a kid who had barely played any first team football. 4. Implementing a style of football not suited to the league without the required investment in suitable players. 5. failed to address the obvious gaps in the squad in January and then recruiting players not particularly needed. 6. Wasted transfer money in January on players (as good as Brooks is) who weren’t particularly needed. Armstrong played his football as a wide forward this season. Rothwell having nothing when don’t have the ball. So what specifically has he done behind the scenes other than seemingly ignoring the key short term requirements of the job? Clearly long term planning doesn’t include his own integrity as part of his skill set. no it’s not ideal that we are left with out someone with off field planning expertise a month away from the end of the season. The only thing I agree with in your post. I don’t even need to harp on about his finals choice of manager who has built a team that has delivered the same result as every single other team that he has built. Easy on the eye but soft as fucking shyte. If he fails in the playoffs then as predicted next season we will likely see more of the same with worse players as the remaining talent exits the club and the others return to their parent clubs.

I see it’s finally out then. It’s been over a week since it was confirmed strange that it’s finally broken today on our Biggest game of the season. personally I think we are best with him gone and we can come up with a workable plan to get us out of this league

So with Wilcox on his way to United I have to ask the question why do they want him? He sanctioned the signing of a crocked striker and failed to deliver a replacement in January when it was clear that we needed a decent number 9 to push on for auto's. That's a major cock up. He is clearly the man behind the implementation of possession football and is understandably backing Martin to the hilt. Not sure i want to watch another season of painfully slow football with Martin at the helm and slightly lower grade players trying to piss about with the ball at the back. So will the new man back RM next season If we fail to gain promotion?

only poor entertainment if you lose

Exactly this. We have been fucked twice. This season and last! Had we spent the additional £50m on new players (including a striker ) in the summer we have done much better. We also would have had a stronger squad going down if we had been relegated. Either way we were cheated and as such 6 points is hardly an incentive not to cheat