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I still maintain that the Sheffield United game was our worst performance of the season.

Yes but we need someone to stick up front to give us a chance of scoring some goals. Currently we don't have that do we. Edit: that Ballard kid looks great over in league one. I think he has the highest goals to games ratio in the league. Maybe someone like that would be a good idea.

Doesn't really matter if they do tomorrow or Monday. The main thing is that he goes (and Lallana) and we get some fresh ideas and a new setup.

I was saying I think Dyche or a manager like him would have been great for the position we are in. I certainly don't think he would have come here or that we would have persuaded hi.to step down from the prem.

I'm not sure I said he would have dropped down to saints.

Fice at the back today after everything this week and no changes to pace or style of play has made it definitive for me. Like you say there's no way back which is why he will go.

Nah this isn't as bad as the admin season. Obviously no idea what will happen next but if we appoint a reasonable manager we still have the funds to do alright next year. Assuming we avoid relegation of course which is no guarantee.

Well done. You were in the minority clearly. That wasn't the consensus of opinion when he was appointed. Regardless, even the most pessimistic of posters wouldn't have imagined it would have gone as badly as it has.

And yet if you'd run a poll the majority would have felt that the appointment of Still was alright. Personally I wanted Rohl and said so at the time but Still did look like a reasonable option. I thought with all the new players that we'd be able to shed some of the mentality of last year. I'm not sure how we haven't been able to.

Sean dyche would have been ideal. Failing that we need some proper championship experience at getting teams out of a hole. Carrick would just be another gamble imo. Someone like warnock if he isn't too old would be perfect in the short term.

He's clearly just not a manager suited to turning a club in freefall around. He's had success elsewhere at reasonable clubs that don't have mental problems. No reason he couldn't do that again. Look at Nathan Jones. I expect still will go back to France and do alright.

He will be gone I'm sure. With another club with a different mentality he might do alright. With hindsight we needed an experienced manager who is a bit of a psychologist who has been there before and who can turn the mentality of the club around, not a relative youngster in their first job in English football without his brother assistants. I wish still well and it wouldn't surprise me if he succeeds somewhere else but it won't be here.

Yeah I forgot about that one on my list of failure.

The main issue for me isn't the defensive mistakes it's the failure to create anything meaningful and the lack of intensity in our play. We waste so much time in games just not doing anything of note. Good teams play with purpose and looking to get forward and win games all the time. We never do that.

That's unlikely in January. The objective now is to not get relegated and put a bit of a run together to give us momentum for a big push next year. Hopefully if we get someone good in now we can put something together for next year. Feels unlikely at the moment admittedly but I've made my peace with Still leaving now.

We can easily get a bit of presence on loan up top. It shouldn't be a challenge to get a tall bloke with a bit of mobility to put himself about a bit better than Downs.

Neither do I. Woods at least cares to react like that. Better than some of the cowards.

Indeed. If sports Republic think I'm going near level one until they leave they've got another thing coming.

The only time worse than now was when we went down to league one last time.

Still will go but there's so many decisions that have got us to this point unrelated to the manager. Signing Downs as the only striker, giving Stephens a 3 year contract, not signing championship experience where it counts, bringing Trollope in who failed previously along with keeping idiots like Lallana, not signing a keeper. The new manager whoever they are needs to keep things very simple and clear. We need to play the best players in their proper positions with no dicking about and then we need to buy a new striker as early as possible in January.

Even in the incredibly unlikely event that we win this, starting the game how he did should get him the sack alone. Absolute madness after everything that happened

It really is baffling just to do the same thing. Absolutely no saints fan wanted five at the back today or such negative tactics. If you're going to lose anyway what does it fucking matter if we attack and concede goals in the process?

I just don't get it. Still under pressure at least play with a simple formation and just fucking go for it. If you lose at least you've gone down fighting.

Let's say we played four at the back and he lost. He'd be under pressure but at least he would have tried to do the right thing. If he loses now he's really left himself open to relentless abuse.

What does that even mean? Who would force the manager to persist with a formation that is shit and doesn't work? Particularly at home.