Lord Duckhunter

Not forgetting the way they treated The Greeks. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

So we wanted him to change his style of play, and because he wouldn’t got someone in who plays the exact same style,only worse. I presume the players he lost included VvD, whose shown exactly which side he’s on. Whereas the other players freed from the shackles of horrible Claude , have ,,,,,,,,,,,played a lot worse. Thierry Henry said if players listen & learn from Claude they’ll become better players, perhaps they thought they were too good to actually be coached and educated. I excuse OR who despite being a shadow of last seasons man, has credited Puel for his improvement. As for listening to the fans before making managerial decisions, have you heard some of our planks. Most people I speak to,and admittedly they’re all pretty much 50/60 year old blokes (who saw some of the really good away performances last season), thought he deserved another season. When a good 10% of the ground ****s off early before the end or misses the last 2 minutes of the first half to get a pie or **** weak beer down their necks, I don’t think we should take supporters views too seriously. At the moment it looks like a mistake . We should of backed Claude over the players & supporters. It’s not just the first team, there were signs with Stephens,Sims & McQueen that he was developing these guys and, more importantly, playing them. I’m sure he felt secure in his job, and therefore took a chance on them. This guys on a hiding to nothing, he’ll have to go with the tried & tested , hoping it’ll come good. Take a chance with a nipper or drop an established player & lose a few he’s in trouble . The board have already shown they’ll buckle to player power or fan power, he won’t take the chance. The ramifications of this knee jerk decision will be felt for a while yet, We’re not Watford, changing managers every season may not work for us. It certainly isn’t conducive to developing young players Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Spot on. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Can we merge this thread with the Gaston one? Same arguments, same excuses and probably the same outcome. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

We used to have the same excuses & pony for Gaston. Here’s the simple truth, he’s been so poor that 2 different managers haven’t given him much game time despite our appalling lack of creativity. As bad as Redmond is, 2 managers preferred him. They didn’t do that because they’re told to by Les,they don’t like him, they’re idiots or any other nonsense, it’s because he’s **** poor. A lot of you are looking at this from the wrong end of the stick, instead of thinking why is Redmond playing instead of him, think how bad must he be that Redmond gets a game instead of him. And before anyone starts, he has had as many chances as anyone else. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Anyone who thinks Koeman could do any better with this squad is deluded or related to him. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, instead of shiete? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Taking in isolation yes, but added to Swansea, Wolves Res, West Ham (2 up against 10 men, needing a last minute pen) Watford & Huddersfield , alarm bells should be ringing. We've scored in one home game , and only once against 10 men. We've scored 2 away & one of those was in defeat, whilst the other against the leagues worst side. We have had by far & away the easiest set of fixtures of any side (and with WBA, Newcastle & Brighton coming up). We couldn't of hand picked a better set of fixtures (bar Man U), we've even had one away game switched to home. And we went out of the cup at home to a **** poor championship side. Panic is too strong a word, but it's not just the Stoke result Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He'll start next game, be totally ineffective, be substituted after an hour, spend 3 or 4 games on the bench, come on & look mildly interested (to great acclaim on here), before starting the cycle all over again. A 20 min cameo every 5 weeks is not the basis of deserving a run in the side. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

When was the last time you watched Southampton & one of our players did something a bit naughty. Left his foot in, or roughed someone up. We're a team if ****ing choir boys, or as Roy Keane famously called Arsenal , a team of Son-in-laws. We're soft as shiete Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Bottled an aerial challenge right at the end today, said it all to me. Get rid Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Changing the manager when we finish 8th & get to a cup final is not the answer. The supporters lost their fuvking head after the league cup defeat & the club should have stood firm, but they lost theirs as well. Oh Claude upset the little darlings, so ****ing what, they needed upsetting. Now they've got a guy in they want to play for, they like , and surprise surprise, they're even worse than last year. But we are where we are. The guys been handed a poisoned chalice, hopefully he can grow into the job and our ****ing idiot supporters don't hound him out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

10 real men & Shaqiri against 8 real men & 3 fannies . Too soft, pretty pretty , football . Pelle would have had 2 today , for as well as VvD played, & he did play well , he still mistimed a header that was easier than their guys first goal. Someone needs to kick these twts up the arse. I'm sick of tired of travelling up & down the country and watching the same lackadaisical propaganda football. We're too nice. I bet sides love playing against us, Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'd take a 0-0 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just contrast the people moaning they can't get tickets for big or local games , with the fact Stoke hasn't sold out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Part of me thinks that today's nippers need a dose of Corbyn in practise , so they can see how bad it really will be. The problem is the damage he'll do in his one term. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm not so sure. The Tories need to play the long game & need May to stay in place taking all the flak. Once Brexits over she needs to stand aside to be replaced by someone fresh & young. They'll get a honeymoon period before going to the country. Personally I'd go for Priti Patel. Imagine her, a bird from Ugandan Indian decent in her 50's going up against privileged white old men in Cable & Corbyn. If Brexit's gone, done , finto , the Tory remain areas will probably come back into the fold ( at least the ones without the younger demographics) and can you really see Corbyn winning another 60 odd seats. They'll probably make lots of gains in Jocksville , but that's just rearranging anti Tory votes. They'll probably need to take 30 seats directly off the Tories, can they do that with Corbyn? One thing is sure, the Tories won't run such a bad campaign, and if reports are to be beloved, a lot of labour incumbents went with the line that Corbyn couldn't win, so vote for me to limit May's majority. If people think Corbyn could win, that may put people off. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I doubt he regrets going to Liverpool. If he hadn't he'd have regretted that the rest of his life. He'll look back on Southampton as the pinnacle of his career, but he'll treasure playing for his boyhood club, scoring at Anfield & scoring in the champions league. There's no way he's any regrets imo . Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not his Dad, and not upset about him being dropped. Only showing up the inconsistency of your posts. Jack & Yoshida "never won a header" ( pony by the way, but what you wrote). Yet when Wes not winning a header directly contributed to the winning goal, it's not his fault. It's all the fault of the guy who didn't stop the cross. Laughable double standards. He probably would have been bullied by Lakaku, but one thing for sure, you'd have been blaming him, not the failure to stop the crosses. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Centre forwards have been doing that for years & getting away with it, it's part & parcel of the game. If you watch Wes actually felt for, and got involved physically with Lukaku first. They analysed it on Goals on Sunday and the consensus was that Wes was naive in his starting position and in engaging Lukaku first. His new to English football, so will learn. Whether it was technically a foul or not is irrelevant to my initial point, which is had Jack Stephens been pushed away like that and we'd conceded , people on here would be giving him pelters. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Silly me. I should have realised, when Yoshida or Jack defended poorly from crosses it was their fault, anyone else it's the allowing of the cross. Maybe you should tell the pundits on sky, because their opinion was Wes got out muscled & bullied. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My post was aimed at the posters who keep making excuses for Boufal, just like they did for Gaston. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No, like Boufal, Gaston & Classie. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

**** me, if that's the middle ground what's the far left. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wes' weak defending cost us the goal Saturday. Not saying Stephens would have done any better, but poster after poster would have taken great pleasure pointing that out had it been Stephens. Anything to have a pop at our homegrown youngsters. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk