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Glad to say that I couldn't get to see this one, as I was driving. I was just waiting for updates from my wife in the passenger seat. Less frustrating than actually watching it be all accounts. HTH same -13 points - 6 goal difference. Match day -12 points and -15 goal difference. Next up is Man City. I know we beat them with the worst PL manager ever in charge, but I can't see it happening, not even if Pep picks a team of 11 false 9's. Last season we drew 1 all with a KWP cracker. The equivalent match day was a 1-1 draw at Elland Road, thanks to a JWP free kick. Maybe Elyonousi will score the 4 goals that a player in his position should have scored after 30 games. If so, I predict Saints 4 City 6 !

I still hope our strikers might turn out OK. I was talking with my brother last week and we both agreed that if you replaced Paine and Sydenham with our current wide men, Man U would have won the 4 1 Ron Davis game one nil .

Well that was a big improvement, with a bit of fight in the last 15 minutes. HTH same -10 points -4 goal difference. Match day -12 points and -15 goal difference. Next up is a trip to the London Rent Free Stadium to play West Ham. We won 3-2 up there last time, but we also lost a vital relegation match up there under Hughes . The equivalent match day was a tame 2.1 home defeat to Watford. Fingers crossed and hold on tight !

Great comeback, the 3 subs all made an impact. Soft penalty, but a stupid challenge and there was contact. People wanting Selles to be more positive may be disappointed. Read an article about him where it said he went gung-ho in an early job and learned quickly that you need to concede less than you score. Stu slowed us down to much on the ball today, and Elyonousi was marking someone else instead of his man for the first goal. The international break will give us a chance to get one of the Cbs fit, but I fear that ABK will be out for weeks.

Off the remaining games, we have Spurs, Bournemouth, Palace and Fulham at home , who all play a solid block defence and hit on the break. Away from home we have West Ham, Newcastle, Forest and Brighton, who all play a solid block defence and hit on the break. We cannot beat teams who play a solid block defence and hit on the break. This leaves Man City and Liverpool at home, and Arsenal away as teams that may give us some space on the rare occasions that we have the ball. I would be astounded if we even get to 30 points.

Fuck Fuck Fuck .. that was horrible. Playing a defensive winger in a must win home game !!! We are well into massive negative number theory again . HTH same -10 points -4 goal difference. Match day -13 points and -16 goal difference. Next up is spurs at home, last year it was a 1-1 draw. If the PMU took bets on goal scorers over in France, I would be putting a load on Richarlson to get his first spurs goal. The equivalent matchday was a 2.1 defeat at home to Newcastle, so we only have goal difference to lose on that one. I struggle to pick a first choice 11 atm, so god knows what we will put out on Saturday.

Meanwhile Tella scores a hat trick for Burnley away at Hull. Top Spread sheeting Saints ! I can't believe we picked such a negative team against a side that is crap if they concede first! It will need a miracle after that to keep us up. And If we have to play Bree again, it will take a double miracle ! Bree Chatterly should be printed on his shirt.

I am on holiday ATM, so sorry if the format is not so good. Very enjoyable game on Sunday, shame we couldn't snatch the win. HTH same -7 points +1 goal difference. Match day -13 points and -18 goal difference. Last season we beat Brentford 4 1 , whilst the match day was the 4 nil, shape of things to come, shitshow at villa Park. Let's hope it is more of the former .

Not sure if it just a Saints thing. I watched an Arsenal game on French TV once, which didn't have a swear filter on the crowd Mike and you could hear this guy calling Ramsey an Fing C all game , up until he scored. We moved our Season tickets to the East stand because of the ridiculous abuse the West Stand were giving Paul Rideout. Bally used to get a lot of stick too. Would love the pair of them in thee team now!

Done some actual research after last night's battling win and there definitely seems to have been a game missed along the way . HTH was actually Everton at home H-2-H: -7 points +1 GD . Match Day: -11 points -16 GD Next up is Man United away, where we got a creditable 1 all draw last year. They are a different beast this Season, without the cry baby up front. Our best hope is if Rashford gets involved in solving the nurses pay dispute. Match day 26 was the 2 nil home win over Norwich .

Thanks for the fact check. I am quite lazy so I just continued from the original poster and then get the results off the club site. I will double check after tonight's defeat

Held off writing this until after the Grimsby game in case there was something positive to put in it. Well we don't need to worry about hope anymore as the team and the club is hopeless, almost to a man. Leeds away was pathetic, didn't lay a glove on them and yesterday we did the same at home to a league 2 side. H-2-H: -9 points 0 GD . Match Day: -13 points -17 GD This is getting so bad that I may need to study Large Negative Number Theory to be able to keep up with it. On to the next one, which I don't think I can even be bothered to look for a dodgy stream for. Last season we drew 2 all with Leicester, scoring 2 goals at home eh, remember that feeling. No me neither. The corresponding home game was a 2 nil home win over Norwich, our last win before the terrible run we are on started. In theory, after this one the head to head can't get much worse as we only took another 5 points all season.

Let's just forfit the rest of the season, take the 3 nil defeats and move on. Get ready for the Championship, and start of by laying off the marketing department. If I see one cheery email asking me to come to the Leicester game , I am more likely to get a ferry back from France just to smack them.

What the fuck are the handball rules these days ? Compare that one to the 2 West Ham ones that haven't been given lately, it makes no sense whatsoever. Shit attempt at a header, but his arm was not exactly in an unnatural position. Having said that, we are still shit, apart from Lavia. I would imagine he is regretting not having tall Paul on the bench now.

Same flat performance with a better press conference. Didn't do anything in the first half, bar the shot from Tall Paul. 2nd half got better, until the substitutions lost us the midfield. ELY was especially bad today, his pass completion stats must be single figures. We need to work out how to get Sulemana on the ball a lot more. At least we can relax now, that week of hope was quite stressful. Ps that goal was just awful

I can still remember his commentary for our home game against Everton on an icy pitch in 78 or 9 . Graham Baker scored one of his trademark volleys from a cleared corner "little Graham Baker ! ". I could be wrong, it may have been his debut against Blackpool. Great commentator, full of facts about the teams and the complete obosite of the commentator who did the Chelsea game last week.

Saturday was a breath of fresh air. So much to like about the way the team applied itself, and the confidence exuded by Ruben in the dugout. H-2-H: -8 points +1 GD . Wow a positive goal difference! Match Day: -10 points -14 GD . This weekend corresponds to the 2 nil home win over Everton, whilst we where still in the middle of the last good run under Ralph. The corresponding match at Elland Road was a 1 all draw, courtesy of another JWP free-kick. As someone famous was said, maybe it was Shelly in the sit-com, "It's the hope that kills you". Long may it continue.

After watching football for over 50 years and reading the occasional book on tactics, I never knew that it was more difficult to play against 10 men ! Learn something new every day ! Just watched it again on MOTD and have to say that, as crap as we were and even allowing for the fact that we played completely the wrong tactics for a team with one extra man, the winner should have been disallowed for the push on AMN that caused the collision, and that Lyanco could have stopped the shot if had not turned side on to it. H-2-H: -11 points; -2 GD Match Day: -12 points; -15 GD Matchday 23 was the 1 all draw at Old Trafford, while the head top head at Chelsea was heading for a draw until JWP got sent off by VAR, ending up in a 3 1 defeat. Let's hope for a no manager bounce.

1 nil up against 10 men . A proper team would keep possession, move the ball around. As someone else said , keep someone wide on both flanks and stretch the 10 men, especially when both their fullbacks were on a yellow card. The last 30 minutes were dreadful. Every substitution made us worse. Enjoyed the new boys though, those 3 and a decent manager would make us worth watching for the rest of the season would make us worth watching, although it is too late to stay up .

Does the DJ at St Mary's still do his amusing mix at half-time ? Missed it at my last home game against West Ham as I was in the concourse. If so, I have a few requests . Joy Division - A New Dawn Fades Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot The Damned - Smash it Up Fun Boy 3 - The Lunatics have taken over the Asylum

No we don't, we pay them till the end of their contract on a regular basis if they are still unemployed. That is why Mark Hughes disdisappeared from the public eye until his contract with us was paid in full. Then he was back doing media work and then back into management.

All of the talk about his stats in the Championship, which Rasmus thinks is the 6 best league in Europe, just prove that he was good at that level, and good at working with players at the lower end of that league, price wise. There is a world of difference between how you can treat a group of players who are just happy not to be in League one, to dealing with International Footballers, either at Saints or at Stoke . I have a friend who is brilliant with engines, two stroke and diesel vans in particular. If I had an old van that I wanted to get back on the road, Ben is your man. If I had a Formula One engine to fix, not so much ! My point is that the Stoke experience should have been a clear warning that Jones struggles to communicate with players from the higher end of the food chain, so it should have been an obvious red flag stopping a premier League appointment.

Last season the 3 nil defeat at Brentford was the final straw for Ralph for most of those present. This season was even worse, and the post match comments have put the internet into meltdown. If it wasn't for Salisu it would have been 6 nil. H-2-H: -11 points; -2 GD Match Day: -9 points; -13 GD Matchday 22 was the 3 2 win at Spurs, the last proper performance we have seen from Saints. The head to head was a one nil loss to Wolves, with the inevitable come back goal from Jiminez. I am a bit of a Mathematician by training and I have spotted a definite trend here. We are doing worse than last season. Quite a lot worse. Maybe, after Rasmus has digested Saturdays XG stats, he might start paying attention to the actual League table.

We haven't had any levels to slip from since the 3 2 win at spurs

You obviously didn't watch Everton earlier. Very we.l organised , every player new what he was doing. All in the space of a week. Jones has had nearly 3 months in which every player, bar Salisu, has got worse. There is no system, no clue.