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Underachieved? Really?! Fuck me, we really don’t need to go there again, Shirley.

If we sacked the first team squad not many are going to Premier League clubs outside the bottom 4.

You must've missed the first England Greece game. Anyway, despite that cluster fuck of managing the best players the country has, his complete lack of any notable club management experience, his seemingly complete lack of desire to enter club management in the 15 years or so since he retired from playing... he's clearly the man for us! SIGN HIM UP!

yep, annoyingly well run!!

And Brighton have done very well out of sales the past 3 seasons

I don’t think anyone is blaming the shit refereeing or VAR-ing for all our problems. What you can say is that when the score is 1-1 it’s a totally different game as they don’t have the comfort of sitting in a low block and not take any risks.

Fucking joke of a game. Things are hard enough as it is without having a perfectly good goal chalked off or allowing the 2nd to stand after 2 blatant fouls. Fuck you VAR, up the fucking Saints!

I can’t see anyone coming here that would give us a realistic chance of staying up better than Martin, not that I think we will stay up or thought we would at the start of the season.

Playing Jack or Charlie does allow KWP more freedom, I think they are both equally flawed.

Thank fuck we beat Everton. Still a massive game for us but we go there with the confidence of a Premier League victory in the bank. Question mark over Lallana's availability, about to go into a 2 week break so if there's half a chance he's alright then worth the risk against Wolves rather than saving him for the horrendous run we have till Christmas. If no Adam then Joe starts, add Flynn and Mateus as the other 2 midfielders. It must be tempting to start Adam A on the left for this, Tyler on the right and Archer in the middle of the front 3. But for balance I reckon we start with Fraser on the left, Archer in the middle and Adam A on the right. As hard as it is to leave Suga out, KWP has to play and play in his strongest position, THB, Jan B and Jack S to complete the 4.

Pleased you recognise that many styles could give us an abysmal season too.

Not really, many styles could also equal the same outcome.

There you go again... I didn't accuse anyone of shitting their pants about anything. I'm not expecting everyone to agree on anything be that style of play - you're just making this up. You clearly have an issue with my opinion, of which I couldn't give a shiny shit.

No, you're creating an argument that doesn't exist. I'm enjoying the football we try to play. I don't like losing. One does not necessarily equal the other.

Yep, and if you insist on being as base with your correlation then I also enjoyed all 87 points from last season too. Being a proper Saints fan over multiple decades I'm used to a bit of adversity in the top league, the trick is not to shit your pants too often.

An agenda on a football forum? Unlikely these days. All the poster said was he was enjoying the football, some actually do, surprising / alarming / triggering as that is to you.

Chill, Whitey, it’s just an opinion.

How often is that ball or similar actually on for us to play? No doubt it's more than we see happen but equally when we do try and force it we lose possession of the ball. We retain the ball when that type of ball to Suga is not on.

You mean by securing the ball on the edge of our box, allowing Fernandes to break into their half, having gained control 40 yards out he turns back, plays the ball back into our half to our defenders, who eventually switch the play to find Suga wide right who passes into AA for a first time finish…. what part of that is not how we’ve been trying to play for the past 16 months??!! I’m sure I heard somewhere that it was 40 seconds from the ball hitting our bar to being in the back of the Everton net. That’s not some lightning counter attack or huge hoof ball into the box which may be seen as “the antithesis of what Russball is all about…” or some other nonsense that you see on here.

Yes, this, all of this and some 😇

Just my opinion but Gio adds significantly more to this forum than some I could think of..

I actually feel sad for you. We lose because of him, and win in spite of him… ok then.

Waited a long time for a week like this. Definitely got the rub today but think we deserve a bit of luck on our side.

No, we get better at what we’re trying to do, improve that way and hope that results in a change of result.

Adds mental to the list , helpful as ever. The football isn’t that different to last season, clearly we’re a long way off being as successful as last season for obvious reasons.