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Which sensible follower of football would’ve thought we’d start the season with number of goals in the squad that we did. Terrible work by the recruitment team, they owe the club big time.

I think that principle is not unique to us

Pretty certain Solly was about 20 yards out. Is hyperbole like bullshit?

Take the 3 points, why would you do anything else?? Jones is here till at least the end of this month and I hope he starts picking up some points.

You need to manage your expectations

Do they?

Of course he / she wouldn’t; just like most of this thread it’s all hot air.

Why would he refuse to rule out??

Exactly, aside from a keeping us up bonus what else is realistic.

3, 4 or 5 at the back debates count for very little when the central midfield is so porous. Brighton’s only real goal showed that all too clearly.

You give someone time to earn respect

Hilarious thread. The conviction of some based upon one game is ridiculous. Let’s see where we are come the end of January. The board owes the squad some proper improvement. Jones needs to start digging out some results.

Struggling to remember what this thread is about. 2 way thing my arse. If you call yourself a supporter or a fan then by definition it’s through thick and thin, grow a dick stop acting like an entitled prick.

No

Bollocks

It was ABKs worst half for us, JWP still looks lost, Adam A is stealing a living with what he offered on Tuesday, Lyanco was plenty of puff with little quality, the wing backs look unsure of what’s expected from them. AMN gets called out for being lazy and I genuinely believe he is anything but. I’d really like to see him alongside Lavia as a 2 in front of a back 4, currently he’s trying to cover a particularly weak area for us.

It wasn’t and I was. A (hopefully) ring rusty performance. No Saint had a better than average game and we continue to look susceptible to a team that moves the ball quickly. If the same level of performance happens on Boxing Day we will get thumped.

A couple of miss passes from AMN and the haters are out for him. FFS give it a rest. People judge him, incorrectly in my opinion, because he "doesn't care", these same people are gushing over Lyanco because he chucks a couple of fist pumps to the crowd and seemingly don't judge Lyanco's poor quality with the ball as much as they do AMN. AMN is stoney faced on the pitch, so what? That's just him, it doesn't seem to change, even when he scored the 4th penalty in a penalty shoot out for Arsenal v Liverpool in the Community Shield he showed no emotion at all. He can play CDM and RB to Premier League standard, give him a break.

1000 more Premier League minutes, really?? The goal involvements I quoted were Premier League only. Evidence that he’s happy to ride the bench?? You could be right but you’re purely guessing here.

Antonio 18 goal involvements last season, Che had 10. Antonio is quite dissimilar to Che if you ask me.

I'd be happy to see Michail Antonio return. Strong, experienced, goalscorer; not starting for West Ham.

Nothing wrong in being a committed knob, you're not on your own.😇

To what question? For me he was a purchase for the future.

If not Saints; then who.... cares? A lot of this thread is for the wrist slitters, the wetters of beds; they'll claim to be realists and then later on "pleased to be proven wrong". What other teams do is beyond our control. We need to be laser focussed on reaching 40 points, doing whatever is necessary and I mean whatever. I was at the Brighton Villa game (long story) but the shithousery from Villa for last 35 minutes was at epic level, not helped by a piss weak performance by the ref. Unai has Villa battling, feeding off the scraps, their support was fucking loud too. Our team needs to harden the fuck up, start imposing themselves on the match, if that means Lyanco plays to force the game then so be it. St Marys was buzzing when we dominated Arsenal - why the hell did the team retreat into its shell in the games that followed? Nathan has already mentioned the word passive, several times now. I expect he means both in and out of possession, he won't stand for it and he'll be looking to sort the players out for the 5 month battle that lies ahead. Nathan has a massive job ahead to turn this around, it's not as simple as finding a striker (although that will help) it's getting the mental attitude, physical presence right, from the first game back against Lincoln, all in.

Ooh win win situation