Lord Duckhunter

Nail on head.

My mates are laughing at me over Saints. However, when I get into conversations with strangers about football not one has laughed over my support. Nobody really pays any attention to us or our tribulations.

I’d want my keeper saving Middlesbrough’s fist. Yet again he got his hand to it and couldn’t get it round the post.

You absolute fucking blagger. It’s football, he’s been playing it his whole life. It’s not rocker science and your not Cruyff or Pep redefining the game.

When Nathan jones walked out the door deep down he must have thought “fuck me, I’ll go down as the worst Southampton manager ever”. Little did he know that within 6 months, that would become debatable. There’s no way on earth we’d be in a worse position today had Jones had taken over a relegated team. Who would have thought it. A year ago I thought Branfoot was the worst Manger we’ve ever had, within 12 months he’s out of the relegation zone thanks to Nathan, Selles & Lego head. Fuck me!!!!

Yes.

Fuck me, he’s calling him Janny B as well 😂

No shit? Every club that’s been relegated is “used to losing”, and every new manager is brought in to change the culture of the relegated club. It would be bizarre to think otherwise. “I’ve been appointed to continue the losing culture we’ve had around the club”, said absolutely nobody. I didn’t hear him mention this losing culture much until HIS team started losing. Jones said the same thing and got accused of passing the buck, what’s different this time, instead of the hair, and the delivery of the spiel what’s the difference? We’re in a league lower as well.

Canford cliffs I think. Someone told me Lallana bought his gaff, don’t know if that’s true or not.

Being brave is not being afraid to make the same mistakes over and over and over again, to keep trying the same thing , even if it costs you…..Russ is the bravest manager we’ve ever fucking had.

This is what Prowse told the BBC the day we were relegated. “From the first day of pre-season until right now you can tell the standards at the club have slipped,"

I found Puglia a bit cheaper than most of Italy if you’re on a budget.

If they had a trendy algorithm, why would it pick diametrically opposed managers like Jones & Martin. Did this algorithm throw up a front footed aggressive Brentford like outcome, followed by a possession based RussBall. If so, it’s a bit of a coincidence that we’ve ended up with a bloke who thinks he’s Pep. If Martin was a success I think I know who you’d be putting it down to, Wilcox. We’re a pound shop Man C, yet the bloke we’ve hired from Man C didn’t really want the pound shop Pep. He actually wanted the bloke that’s doing well at another relegated club, amazing isn’t it. Spin worthy of Alister Campbell. This is what the club said was his role when first appointed “responsibility for all football departments, including the men’s first team”. If Wilcox had said, “fuck me don’t employ that Lego headed chump, he’s a blagger that can’t set a team up defensively “, do you think he’d be here?

Brilliant, can they play in midfield?

Based on what? He played for a team with a good manager, Jesus fucking Christ, let’s get Andy Cole in, shall we. Nobody can fucking tell me Wilcox wasn’t fully on board the Russ bus. He’s part of the shit show. I’m glad you think he’s our only chance of recovery, because I fucking don’t. He may well “intervene”, but it’ll be for job preservation, rather than not thinking Martin was the man for the job. He was another smug wanker that thinks he’s broken the mould and reinvented football. Martin & Wilcox are two checks of the same arse as far as I’m concerned.

I can recommend Puglia in summer. We went in June, beautiful. Gallipoli a personal favourite and funnily enough I met an Inter supporter in a phone shop there, who was also in San Siro for our game.

That Utd keeper is good with his feet though.

I think it’s about not getting caught. Id imagine most “sex addicts” are just blokes who got caught doing something they shouldn’t.

How many tickets were they given? Don’t get me wrong, going there with 2 of my sons to watch Saints will remain with me forever, but weren’t we given more tickets because they didn’t sell many. Are you saying Newcastle failed to sell their allocation.

The scar tissue stuff is just pony & reflects badly on him (as does implying the supporters carry some blame). Firstly, we’re getting worse. Our best 3 performances were the first 3, what’s he trying to say, Che Adams & AA who were banging them in for fun suddenly thought “shit last season was horrendous”. Had they forgotten until recently? The more Martin coaches them, the worse performances are getting. Only Baz seems to be getting better, the rest are getting worse. And Baz, due to him having a specialist coach is the probably the player coached least by Martin. Secondly, some of the shite has been served up by players who weren’t here last season. Are scar tissue injuries contagious? Thirdly, STFU. Even if it was true, the time to bring it up is when you’re winning games, not when you’ve lost 3 in a row. I don’t think I’ve lost confidence in a Manager so quickly. I’m normally pretty patient, but not with this bloke. It’s not the defeats, even if the points total is lower than it should be, but the nature of the defeats. My mate sent me an article where an Ipswich player said it was easy and they knew exactly how we’d play. That’s fucking damning, particularly when we played exactly the same and got dicked in the two previous games. I can’t think of another manager we’ve had whose reaction to a 5-1 then a 4-1 was to play exactly the same fucking way. Even if we win Sat I’ll still be concerned if we do so playing like this. Any will be down to Middlesbrough’s inadequacy, rather than our managers tactics. There’s absolutely zero chance we’ll finish in the top 2 unless he changes his off the ball philosophy.

Players are treated badly & forced out of clubs by behaviour like that, it’s not just Nathan Jones. However, the bloke did come over a bit whiny to me, what’s wrong with the offer of paying up his contract, why didn’t he just accept that and fuck off? He had nowhere to go? Fuck me, I bet he was on 100k a year at least & they offered him 7 months. Poor soul.

The space we gave Leicester in the middle of the park was unbelievable, to go and do exactly the same thing a few days later is fucking criminal. It strikes me as arrogance in the extreme. A worse a set up than Jones or Selles ever delivered, Hughes & Pelegríno set us up miles better that & a it’s million miles away from what Ralph or Claude did tactically. It was probably the most incompetent tactical performance that I’ve seen from a manger in over 45 years of supporting Saints. How anyone can watch us against Leicester & then come to the conclusion that playing Joe Aribo in the centre of the park will address the problem. He’s been smoking his own dope, putting his own ego above the needs of the club, and it looks like it’s only heading one way. Im not a great fan of this particular brand of football when it works, when it doesn’t it’s fucking horrendous.

If it was me I’d go 4-2-3-1 Baz Bree… Janny B…THB….KWP Charles. Manning Edozie. Alcaraz. Frazier Che

Did fuck all again tonight.

If he losses the players, this could get really messy. Imagine trying to play RussBall when your hearts not really in it. Fuck me, Ralph’s 9’s could be in jeopardy.