StrangelyBrown

I think I'd pu lt Jones, wigley, gray and Pellegrino ahead of him in the shortest category. Arguably branfoot too

Fundamentally while Selles has his problems I can't really see any manager doing any better with these players; we lack the fundamentals to win games - goals, determination and character. Nathan Jones was a disaster, but not getting a decent goal scorer in January was a bigger calamity. This isn't going to get any better until Ankerson and semmens are gone.

We've been heading down for ages nothing has changed. Embarrassingly we've just lost to an absolutely shit team at home. Changes needed throughout the club, the biggest of which are Ankerson and semmens

Being shit is the new good??? 🤣

Goody we've set up not to score again. When will Selles learn that you need to score goals to win matches...

Down we go. No point thinking otherwise. Major clean out required for next year

Unfortunately we've not got enough goals I'm us to win and Selles knows it - so it will be another cautious performance hoping to keep a clean sheet and nick a goal from a mistake, set piece or penalty. We've got too many mistakes in us for this strategy to ever work so sadly I think this will be the game that kills us off. For some mental reason I've still got hope that I'm wrong...

We did a goal thing - not much else to say

xG and xGA so frequently bare no resemblance to the result of a game that they are pretty meaningless stats. They seem to have been created to support narratives rather to give any sort of insight. Selles has more points than Jones from fewer games against arguably tougher opposition - that's the only stat that matters for me.

I can't see the point in getting excited about this one?? Even if we play well we won't score unless we're given a free kick in JWP range or a pen. Roll on next season's championship title challenge.

All done. We're not going to score the goals to stay up. End of

I get the logic of trying to keep things tight early on and trying to get in at halftime without conceding, but that's gone out of the window now. Time to fucking go for it and stop being so bloody cautious.

Our form is 8 points from 6 and there's 10 games to go. On current form we get 13 points - which gives us a decent chance of staying up....

And yet we've picked up 8 points from 6 which if we continue at that rate may be just enough to keep us up? Not sure what your point is?

11th in the form table under Selles. https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/southampton/form-guide Not bad considering the rabble he's got to work with.

We did a goal thing????!!!!????

I'm not sure Aribo has ever been decent - he was good with the ball at the start of the season, but completely lazy off the ball. He's like an anti-elyuseless between them there are all the parts of a decentish player but on their own they are both half a footballer.

Sad to say this is where my head and heart are. Roll on next year and winning the championship at a canter 🙂

He's like mason mount but without any pace - works hard against the ball and holds his position well when we are defending. But just like mason mount when he has the ball he's barely a footballer can't pass, shoot, cross or do anything else that you would want from a footballer. I can only guess that these players are favoured to balance against the luxury players who do nothing to help the team when the team doesn't have the ball. We don't have those luxury players so fuck knows what our managers see in elyuseless.

Bugger... That's probably the last glimmer of hope gone. Unless we somehow turn spurs over... But I can't see how that's going to happen. The appointment and failure to quickly sack mad nate has cost us our premier League status.

Well that's a point I didn't expect us to get. Not conceding against United at Old Trafford this season is some achievement. Hopefully we can take the defensive solidity into the game against Brentford and get ourselves 3 points 🤞 So far so good with Selles' Saints. UTS!!

I've made my point on why I think he's better, we'll have to agree to disagree - after all football is about opinions. But I don't believe that a keeper who invites pressure on his defense through indecision and being a poor footballer is what is required in a modern team - keepers are expected to be much much more than shot stoppers in a modern system. However that said all keepers should be half decent shot stoppers, but neither McCarthy nor Bazunu are a shot stopper.

I don't think anyone is saying Bazunu isn't shit, it's the McCarthy is slightly less shit that some of us are debating. Both are shit and Bazunu is slightly better at kicking a ball than McCarthy which is why I think he should be in the team. Plus so far Bazunu hasn't conceded 9 in a single game.

You haven't proved anything - give the stats on transition immediately following a pass and then you may be able prove a point and also on the completion on long passes, but try using your eyes and actually watch what happens when McCarthy next plays ...

You're not, it's not good at all, but I think everyone has forgotten how poor McCarthy's is