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With the ever increasing disparity between top and bottom I expect 30 to become the new benchmark for staying up over the next few seasons.

Highly unlikely that we do need to win that many. Absolutely certain that we won't. 7 (as last season) or 8 in total will probably be enough to scrape our sorry arses into another season in this league. That still equates to a spectacular turnaround in form. Over to you Ralph.

Stephens and Bednarek - what a combo to inspire absolute confidence that our CB problems will be a thing of the past. The sad fact is they may well be our least worst option.

Plus 1

Tbf on that basis there should be a statue of Mark Hughes outside St Mary’s.

If my performance at work was as inadequate and incompetent as the performances of this expensive bunch of ****s has been for the best part of 2 years and I was asked to do some extra hours/work harder I would expect it, accept it, and wonder why the hell no-one had asked of me to do it before.

Redmond!?

Scored against Reading IIRC

They're carefully nurturing through apparently, you know sort of treating him with kid gloves.

Totally. I’m still utterly ****ed off we lost to Cardiff after yet another abysmal performance though.

We have. Ings is the best of those four but he’s usually........injured. Then we have Shane 2 goals in 50 or whatever it is appearances Long. Then Sam Gallagher and his patchy championship record. Then Obafemi who might turn out good but is raw and unproven. Deep roster right there!

Well that makes me feel a whole lot better, I thought it was 5 in 47.

Well exactly. We don't have such a striker ergo we ain't scoring. I don't think our approach play was particularly good either. Ok I suppose but not good - and we were playing ****ing Cardiff. CARDIFF.

No. Not his fault obviously at this early stage. But no nonetheless. In fact defensively - as hard as this may be to believe - we were worse.

Really? Does Vestergaard not already know that you aren't supposed to weakly flick the ball into a **** forward's path and gift him a goal he's incapable of earning through his own quality? Nobody should need to teach him that. He cost ****ing £20M FFS.

Yeah just chill the **** out everybody. 5 wins out of 47 matches. What's to worry about. Leave it another 8 weeks and it'll all be sorted.

Did you at any point during that match think we were going to score? I didn't. So the best outcome against mighty Cardiff was a nil nil draw and that was only if their 1 star set of forwards were too crap to take advantage of our numerous defensive **** ups. They tried hard to be too crap but in the end we gave them a chance that was impossible to be too crap to miss.

Problems far too deep and ingrained for just a goal scoring front man to sort. We are going down.

The unrequired statistical proof that we are beyond sh!t. We are going down.

Agree with that. Got lovely touches and close control, but he's score ONE goal in his entire time with us, and I can't recall an assist either. Boufal has done more than that. Christ sake we are clutching at straws when a player with that kind of record stands out as our best player (which he does).

Understandable. We are F U C K I N G AWFUL.

Changed your mind since post 59?

We'll be looking at loans at best, but they're all on big wages so I doubt even that will be possible. Who in the realm of sanity would want to take Vestergaard on and pay him a wage?

We don't. For starters a spine includes as a good centre back. We don't even have a competent one.

I'll say it again, anyone who thinks this is a mid-table squad that is just in need of a good manager is utterly delusional. At least 4 new players who will fit immediately into the first team and hit the ground running required, and even if we get them we may well be too far adrift by the time we get them. We have comfortably the worst defence in this league, and tbh I don't think that would be too far from the truth if the league they were playing in was the Championship. No other team I can ever remember seeing at this level has the amount of ridiculous basic errors in it than this one does. Truly unbelievable.