StrangelyBrown

I was old enough to know better last time round

I can't believe how little I care about our relegation; we've dropped from a league where in the absolute best case we might be able to finish 7th or 8th and we'll never be able to compete financially with the big boys. Last time I was gutted, this time I couldn't give a shit. Roll on next year's rebuild and hopefully a season with more wins than losses.

Adam Armstrong.... Goals goals goals

Down we go.

McCarthy is such a turd of a keeper, might as well replace him with a traffic cone. We are so utterly shit and deserving of relegation. Forest are content letting us have the ball knowing full well that we'll mess something up and gift them the game. Ive never disliked a saints side more.

This hopefully is a unique opportunity for a major clear out of the dross we've kept for too long: McCarthy, Bednarek, Stephens, lyanco, moi, djenepo, A Armstrong, Walcott can all go as far as I'm concerned. I can't see us keeping ABK, KWP, Salisu, JWP, Lavia and by the sounds of it Perraud. Hopefully we'll be able to keep che, Livramento and Alcarez. In which case the first team is going to be a bit threadbare: Bazunu; Livramento, 2 * New CBs, Larios; Smallbone, New CM; Sulemana, Alcarez, Edozie; Che. With the likes of Ballard and Doyle coming through, I fully expect us to neglect a striker unless Che goes. Should be interesting...

I think you could keep McCarthy or Bazunu in goal, bednarek and lyanco at the back and Armstrong up front - better to have proven failures in position to guarantee the result 😉

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 🙂