Tommy Mulgrew

Unless we appoint the right person, and that is not Tundra, I doubt you need concern yourself unduly about that. ☹️

What are we waiting for? Let’s pretend that we are a mid-Championship side: Speaking on the Stick to Football podcast, Solskjaer confirmed that he would be open to managing in the Championship. "I love living here as well, yeah. Of course, mid-Championship and up [he'd be willing to manage]. I'm a football man. It's about working with people. I love just trying to make the most, or make them, be the best of themselves

Quote from bbc website: Southampton interim boss Tonda Eckert is expected to remain in charge of the club on an interim basis for the time being. Despite reports the German was going to be made Will Still's permanent replacement, it is more likely he will continue in his current role. Prior to the international break, Eckert, 32, won both of his matches as interim boss, beating QPR and Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship. "What I do think is that after two wins he has a shout," BBC Radio Solent's sport editor Adam Blackmore posted on X, external. "But it more than likely could depend on the next three-game batch after the international break for which he could well still be in interim charge. "Saints have spoken to candidates but they can afford to be patient with Eckert's good start and it allows them time to see the market develop so it's highly unlikely anything imminent occurs either way." After the international break, Southampton have three games in the space of a week as they travel away to Charlton and Millwall either side of welcoming Leicester City to St Mary's.

West Ham women v Saints women 2nd half just starting 20.02 watch here:

bbc coverage of our problem: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cz0xjdn5zz0o no new insights.

Malak and Yildiz.

Another good game from him today but without a goal or an assist. He is at present by far our best attacker and looks as though he could score, with either foot, from almost anywhere in the final third of the pitch. He usually looks to go forwards, which makes him almost unique in our team, and does so with real pace. He is direct and runs at defenders and knows how to support others who have the ball: just watch his positioning in support of AA for the third goal; not many of our players would have moved so intelligently and offered another outlet if Arma had not fancied a shot himself. I hope he gets through the season uninjured - his legs and ankles take a battering every game. His corners are pretty good. And I like his can-do attitude. Two things he could do better imo: not go down almost every time someone makes contact (he’ll get a reputation for diving) and insisting that he should take some (if not all) of our scoreable free kicks instead of Manning. I hope we can keep him beyond the end of this season.

One has scored two in three minutes. 🤫

A perfect fit, @Doctoroncall. Well researched.

Contrast SFC with Athletic Bilbao: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwyne3dnld2o Amazing that, in this day and age, a policy like that can be so successful. Some lessons in it for those who think player trading and recruiting from the lower reaches of the German leagues is the way forward.

Well spotted. My mistake; I thought they overlapped one season but they did not. So, nothing at all useful from Ratty yet in the last two years. Btw, although he did not get one with us, Romeu did get a red while playing in Spain, if I remember right.

I’m far from his biggest fan but I would not be surprised if Ratty had something to do with getting Romeu here and convincing him to re-join us. If he did, that would be the first decent thing he has done for us since several weeks before he left for Liverhampton.

Harry Lewis played for Carlisle yesterday in a 3:2 win at Reading. He made a couple of useful saves but what was more notable was the grit that Carlisle showed to score twice in normal extra time to force proper extra time and score the winner. Sub striker scored a hat-trick. Properly demonstrated what we’re missing. Highlights in the bbc report of the game, for those interested.

0.16xG from open play. At home. Against a team that is hardly in a run of away form. Absolutely pathetic from one of then best-resourced teams (us) in the league. Manager’s fault for setting us up so negatively and overloading us at the back and lacking in midfield and persisting with a non-CF at CF. Coaching staff’s fault for our shapeless, pressless and slow build-up play, our inability to break teams down and prevent them from pressing us into mistakes and breaking us down almost at will. Why do we persist with Manning taking free-kicks and corners instead of Scienza? Why do all our throw-ins give the ball to the opposition? Why do all of our opponents look better coached and better prepared than us? Players’ fault for playing without guile, passion and skill ( one or two honourable exceptions). Except for Leo and Jander we never looked like scoring. SR’s fault for lack of a decent CF, CDM and GK, appointing a DOF who thinks DD is the solution to our striker problem and appointing a manager who is patently not what we need atm. All this on top of the clusterfuck of the past few years is enough to try the patience of a Saint. I’m out. Hopefully not for ever. But certainly for as long as SR and Still and the present coaches are stinking the place out. Hasta la vista, baby.

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