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Really is getting to be a bit of a farce. The concerning thing is players that have proven themselves to be high quality, like KWP, actually worsening in performances under Martin's stewardship...

Happy birthday pal. Hope the boys put in a good shift for you and you get a nice three points as a surprise present.

This scares me as one of those games we get dicked in. A 'fighting performance' or an 'unlucky defeat' against a table-topping side, then followed by an absolute pasting by a focused and high-quality side that are ready to capitalise and take the game to us.

That's fucking tin pot right there. Shit hole of a stadium, no wonder they can't be arsed to light it up for all to see.

This will be like the Red Guards 'storming' the Winter Palace. We'll lie down on our backs and spread our legs, I'm sure.

Sports Republic should be the focus of any ire and frustration, far more so than those were employed by them to fulfil roles beyond their capabilities.

Sports Republic. Sold every Southampton manager they've employed down the fucking river by throwing shit at a wall and hoping it will stick. Russell Martin, taking the Man City style and applying it to Championship squads. A simply divine combination.

I'm going back to my original position at the start of the season. Chopping and changing managers has seen us deteriorate (alongside many other factors, particularly piss-poor player recruitment). I therefore reiterate the idea that Russ should stay even when we get relegated. Let's build something long lasting. Russ is young and has shown signs of adapting and learning - not radically, admittedly - and therefore could easily take us back up next season. Basically, let's endure the shite served up this season and hope next summer's recruitment is sensibly ambitious.

I thought Stewart was still two weeks* away? *Months?

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Absolutely.

I do like Russ's determined positivity and protection of his team. If only we actually turn it around. Can't see it, though. We're soft and lackadaisical against opposition we need to be picking up points against.

Our position in the league is no shock or chance fluke. We are rock bottom, and if you look at our squad it is easy to see why. Bring on next season, eh?

Absolutely. Damage limitation

This'll be a pile of painful shite.

Agreed. I reckon he eventually might be able to build something decent here.

They do have a whiff of those suited hazelnut-and-oat-milk-latte tosspots that think they've seen a gap in the market, only to absolutely have their trousers pulled down by Deborah Meaden because their accounts are pie in the fucking sky.

Another shite weekend of football. That day at Wembley in May seems a fucking age ago.

I mean, can't we say that every game this season, no matter the line up?

We can agree on that. Steve Cooper is bereft of tactical nous and is a fucking uninspiring dirge of a manager.

Same with Lallana and Schneiderlin. Grew with us when in L1 and Championship. Without that experience I doubt Adam would've reached the heights he did.

And had already come to watch a game recently... 👀

Looks like a fucking hotdesk unit in a shopping centre.

Haven't watched MotD for over 58 games.

Decent at times today away to a quality side. It's a fucking shame our total before this was a grand old 1 point. If we had more of a buffer this sort of expected scoreline wouldn't be as irritating.