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To be fair to Rusk, he’s frustrated City to get to 0-0 at half-time, with no subs. Everything to play for! 😜😉🤣

Big Les is getting undone, but to be fair with a two man midfield against City he’s onto hiding to nothing.

City player flaking over - never got touched. Why the fuck do these players feel the need to cheat?!?!

Sully doing ok, but no goal threat whatsoever

Wouldn’t have been given the other end

Ref getting bored…just waiting for the opportunity to give City a goal.

To be fair, Bree and Welington are doing no worse than KWP and Manning so far.

What a pointless debacle so far. Just hand them three points.

Bedders nearly had one of his brain fart moments

Getting nothing from the Ref today.

Wonder if Dibling will put in a shift today to show Pep how good he is?

It’s ALWAYS 11 at the back with Saints nowadays? 😜🤣

Yeah but is his social media presence telling us hcdajfu? What do you think @gio1saints? 😉🤭

One thing is for sure - if the squad is not sorted out it’ll not matter a jot who the manager is.

What does bounce back even mean? From the Championship to the Prem? From the utterly miserable strength sapping defeats inflicted by teams that are much, much better than you? There’s so many possibilities!

I think if the players give everything we might get away with 3 or 4-0. If they start the game with a mindset that includes leaving without injury and looking forward to a shower then it’ll be 6-0 plus. I would bet my left nut that there’s no premeditated decision by the oppo manager or players that they’ll ’take it easy’ on Saints - switch off and we’ll be spanked good and proper without any feelings of remorse.

To be fair to Stephens he’s managed to cut himself a football career at the highest level - you don’t get that by being complete poop. The fault lies in the successive seasons of the club diluting the quality of the squad and relying on players such as Stephens who have been in the past 3rd or 4th choice to be first choice and even Captain. It’s no wonder we’re not attracting better players when some of the senior players in the squad are seen to be so sub-standard.

Other than the synergies 😉 the trajectory of how Spors is assembling his footballing related team with ex-777 people would suggest that he’s all in for Rohl - the final piece of the jigsaw? Makes so much sense and who knows, it might be the heaven-made match we’ve been crying out for? 🤞

Mmm, don’t know about that. If that were true then our two 9-0 humiliations wouldn’t have come about and we wouldn’t have stuffed Sunderland 8-0 or whatever it was. Not only that but there is every likelihood that this team will end the season with a relegation and joint lowest points tally ever whatever the score. No, I think the players in this team should be contrite if not broken already, however unfortunately I doubt any of their careers will suffer in the slightest as a result of the debacle we’ve been experiencing.

Agreed - it would be a refreshing change, albeit a significant undertaking to re-train an entire squad in how to play defensively within the new rule.

Probably a bit of all that in reality.

Unless Saints are gazumped by a Prem team with a lot of money to tempt him, I reckon Rohl is a dead cert appointment as soon as Wednesday get their replacement. There too many synergies in place in my mind.

Looks like this is more about Spors re-assembling his 777 team, but to be fair as Head of Scouting he just needs to manage what will likely be a third party scouting network and make it his business to know that they’re providing reliable info. So in reality he’s just a supply chain manager.

I share your skepticism however it is clear we approached Rohl late 2024, but that’s not to say it was the right time for both or either parties for him to come on-board - I suspect he wanted to complete the SW project and we didn’t want to get embroiled in compensation when our season was already over. It’s highly likely that a private agreement for Rohl to join us at the end of the season was made, even with Spors blessing.

Not sure how aware you’ve been of team selections this season, but both Armstrong and BBD were loaned out and I can’t recall Archer and Onuachu playing together. We may have too much about us to finish above ‘rock bottom’ of the league next season, but a mid-table finish is highly possible if the right appointments (and player sales) are not made. Can’t underestimate how crucial the job is.