hypochondriac

Yep agree with that totally. Quibbling over the use of the word bomb is just semantics.

Err how? What I predicted has happened. Our squad is weaker than last year, coupled with a manager who has thus far displayed poor tactics overall and who has dished up a turgid style of football. It has little relevance to last season.

Seems that my prediction has been largely correct. The recruitment team must take their share of the blame for the summer but they are not responsible for this new system that we introduced that has resulted in so many terribly boring games, so few chances created, so few shots on target and such a lack of entertainment. Despite having poorer personnel than the last few years, the players we have are capable of better. I not also that I pointed out that Koeman had tried a few things that weren't working. I see no sign that Puel is prepared to try any radical changes to find some form (like the 3-5-2.) Unless Claude has something similar up his sleeve (which has not looked likely at any point this season.) Then I will continue to feel he is not the right fit for the club.

There was no need to change the system so radically at the start of the season. I disagree with the tactics of the manager which has seen us bomb out of Europe and has seen us play dull, uninspiring football that contrasts hugely with what we have become accustomed to over the past few seasons and really since Markus took us over. I think we obviously fecked up in the summer by not getting another attacking option but had Koeman stayed with this exact squad, there is no doubt in my mind that we would have created and scored more thus far (and I'm not even a huge fan of Ronald.)

No one is denying that there have not been some entertaining games this year, but on the whole they have been few and far between. We got a point against Liverpool for example and many people I spoke to after the match were not happy with our level of performance despite being happy with a point. The much vaunted "Southampton Way" has been evident over the past few years where we have played exciting football and taken the game to the opposition most weeks. It felt like we could beat any team in the league on our day (I believe we did just that last season) but this year for myself (and many others) we have lost that. What signs have we had that Puel looks like turning things around so radically? That is why people are losing or have lost patience with Puel and it is why most were prepared to give Koeman a lot more leeway to improve last season.

No that isn't what I said at all, that's a ludicrous point to make. I said it isn't SOLELY about league position, not that league position is not a factor. People are much much more likely to accept mid table or below if they see signs of improvement and exciting, attacking football where we make chances and score goals. Turgid, lifeless football where we have one (or less) shots on target and play to draw or hang on to a 1-0 is why people are discontented. For many, league position is less important than that.

Agree with that. It's about more than solely league position.

Because the football is incredibly boring and most people watch football to be entertained.

Don't flatter yourself I haven't posted anything in reply to you in months yet you continue to infect every single thread with the same repetitive nonsense which so many other posters feels just adds to the dross on here from more negative posters. Far from searching for you, you tend to post the same stuff on every topic so it is very difficult not to encounter what you post.

Not sure where you sit, but if you fancied standing in the Northam then you would get a very different impression. Some of the cavemen who froth at the mouth, turning purple and screaming expletives from the start of the match would open your eyes. Thankfully I sit in the Itchen North for most games so I avoid it.

Indeed! A particular bugbear is having a go at the opinions of people who actually made the effort to go to far flung games. I consider the frustrations of those who bothered to go to Prague much more valid than some posters on here who prefer to have a go at those opinions when they didn't make the same effort.

He doesn't think the fans are mugs, he will have been advised what to say by the PR firm we employ.

Doubt you bothered to go. You prefer to snipe at others on here.

Yep. Only those who traveled all that way and paid can truly know the frustration of that performance.

Why at the start?

Cameron's pathetic concessions were a big reason for brexit. I know speaking to other people that it was then that they realised they were being fobbed off and played for fools. It was embarrassing.

I agree with you. I really wanted it to work out but the pathetic capitulations in Europe sealed it for me.

It's jot just about results though. The style of football has been appaling with hardly any entertainment in comparison to previous years.

Abd also don't continually harp on about league one minus ten when anyone suggests we aren't doing too well at the moment...

I was just about to respond until I saw your point in brackets! If we don't spend the money then the figure is largely meaningless for the fans.

Oh I agree and I think most people have got used to this. It was a lot easier to handle though when the football was better and we didn't throw away our chance for more European games in such a pathetic manner. If we are going to play like we have this season then frankly I'd rather give some lesser players like brunt a go.

What evidence have you seen to suggest he will come good? I haven't seen anything to suggest the style of play will change markedly.

Do you not see a problem with how we are set up tactically for most games? Playing not to lose or to contain a leaf all the time is maddening and not what the majority of fans want to see imo. I think that our poor performances this year have been due to poor recruitment in the summer but I also believe we are not getting the most out of our players and we play a poor system which is down to puel. Koeman was much better tactically.

That's true but I can count om one hand the amount of times I have been pleased with a performance this season. I'm not sure how long we can continue with that even if the results get slightly better x

It seems to me that some saints fans are very happy with mediocrity. I think this is because if they called for a change they would also have to admit that our saints project has derailed slightly abd that actually we are just as liable to feck up as any other club. We are in no way superior to the likes of Stoke, West Brom or palace and our tactics in the transfer windows have finally caught up with us. Changes needed please.