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What a free kick from Stu, technique brilliant - curling away with pace

Think the studs up challenge from Pearson would've been classed as a pretty great challenge a few years back.

Shall we try not to lose today, boys? Is how I imagine Russ's pre-match pep talk will go. Piroe sure to score. The question is: will we?

Not enough aggression, you say Russell? Interesting. Seems he still hasn't learn how to address that issue, a year and a bit later... 🤮🤮🤮🤮

We should start calling him RHCP Russell, with all this repetition of 'scar tissue'. Russell Martin we want you gone Arrogant fucking know-it-all Pack your bags and we'll book your flights someone edit the following to make it work...: With the birds I'll share With the birds I'll share this lonely view With the birds I'll share this lonely view

That was peak Nathan Jones. Classic.

😂 now that's a stretch

The word 'weak' has come up time and time again. We're a squad full of lettuce leaves. As you rightly say, that failure sits squarely on Russell and Jason's shoulders. Fucking abysmal.

Why prolong the fucking inevitable.

4 losses on the trot. Disgraceful for a club like ours in any league, really. Bloke needs his P45 promptly. A fucking fraud.

Agreed. One of the best fullbacks in the league last year. Probably the same level as Manning - not great but should do a job. Will Holgate? Let's see.

Frazer keeps his place but Edozie dropped? Is Armstrong undroppable then? Good luck today boys

Nah, don't worry - Fabrice is right. It's clearly not a concern at all that our manager started a game with Joe Aribo and Will Smallbone as our central midfield wall.

He wouldn't come back to this clusterfuck of a club. What has happened to us. Seriously depressing.

These home fans are just so impatient. Can't they just support the team? Letting out any form of frustration is simply not on.

That starting line up was confirmed to be pretty shite. Weak in the middle. The seriously concerning thing is that Martin couldn't see it. We tightened up second half by making changes that we should have had as part of our starting 11. It reeks of ineptitude. The saving grace is that he actually saw the issue and solution and made a change. Fuck me though, the players are a bunch of soft green eared wankers, aren't they? Couldn't penetrate a house of cards. Embarrassing. Just look at our goal difference. A ridiculous indictment of how bereft we are of belief or passion. Relaxed Russell certainly isn't bringing any of the latter out of the team. Are we now Stoke City? Numb.

It's exactly that. Really sad that fans are feeling this way, a result of the dross of the past year.

I truly hope that team surprises me. Again it looks like our 'spine', the central hub of our midfield and defence, is as flimsy as a fucking wet lettuce leaf. I predict we will be fucked over massively by Ipswich, 4-2. Prove me wrong, boys.

Awful news. Dave seems like a salt of the earth fella and I really do hope he finds solace and comfort in memories shared and created with his wife. She'll live on in that way and in him.

I agree with the 'it is only a game' sentiment. I have managed to begin feeling that way about Saints for a while now. It helps prevent any pain when we concede or lose. It's got to the point now where I don't get angry or sad, but instead chuckle at how bad we are at times. A shame, because it's nice to feel passionately about your club, but hey.

Ipswich will, as Leicester did, cotton on to the ease at which we're countered from corners and any of our attacks. I see us scoring, but them scoring more. A common theme, I fear, for this season.

So sorry to read of this. Your presence at her side will her strength and warmth in those last moments. We're all here for her, you and your family in spirit.

He was seemingly bone tired towards the end of his time with us. We'd drained out any enthusiasm he had for football.

Is our tactic to actually encourage the opposition to press high in numbers in order to make it easier to 'play through them'?!?! Great fucking idea, that one.

The goodwill at the Norwich game was interspersed with people ridiculing some of our tactics and the ease with which Norwich tore us apart. A fair few down in the concourse were pretty livid at half time. Our defensive issues have been clear since then. We were lucky that QPR and Plymouth were wasteful in and around our box - they certainly got into it enough to make us pay if they could finish. We have conceded over 4 goals in half of our league games. That's not on, and the fans are rightly unsettled by it. Teams coming to St Mary's and finding it easy to play through us. It's going to unsettle and disturb the fans, of course it fucking is. I think people are worried. After hoping the downward trend of ineptitude might have been stopped after relegation, we've been faced with the same inept defense we've seen for years for most of our games this season.