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Tbh I don’t see anything wrong with what you’ve said, recruitment is a very big issue admitted but they’ve put up more money than Gao ever did and let’s face it SR aren’t that lunatic at Sheffield Wednesday to name but one.

Yep then take them straight back down again UNLESS he's learnt his lesson, but nothing he's said in interviews since his being sacked suggests that to be the case.

Well there's a track on there called Nice Guy Eddie.........🤣 There's also "Statuesque" which could refer to the re-incarnation of Ted Bates (hey fits in with Nice Guy Eddie too 😉 ) OR another word for statuesque is still.........Will Still !!! Fuck me this is like the clues to 3-2-1 for those old enough to remember 😁

I had been clinging to the hope he’d be decent in the Championship but tbh he’s just awful and obviously doesn’t want to be here.

Maybe so but it’s hardly huge is it? Anyway they struggle to get a full house as it is, where are the extra 7-8,000 coming from?

Bournemouth will. They cannot maintain what they are currently doing on gates of 10-11,000. The big boys will, as they did with us and many others, come along and take their best players, probably the manager as well, and that'll be that.......but hey, nobody seems to care about the little guy punching above their weight. If the three promoted teams this season go back down again next then surely even the hard of thinking who want to ignore it will have to acknoweldge that the draw bridge to the Premier League has well and truly been pulled up.

Wouldnt be a total surprise to be honest.

No, we got a point against a bloody awful team, we might pick up another point or two, might even beat Leicester but we arent getting anywhere near.

He isnt the greatest defender, lets not pretend he is, BUT overall what an excellent player he's been for us. Never (appears) to kick up a fuss, just keeps his head down and gets on with the job. After 200 games he deserves his move, not that many players get to that landmark these days. As stated above, I too wont miss many of this lot if they go but KWP I will.

Yeah, Dawson on Sky made it sound like he missed a sitter, ok he probably should have scored but it was hardly a Che Adams stood on the line special !

Only talking shite if either if your two interpretations are correct and niether are so the talking shite award, not for the first time, is all yours ! In simple language, just for you, my point is if players are happy to sit on a big contract and not move on or who are not wanted we aren’t likely to get shot of them.

Are you being deliberately stupid? Totally missed the point which is that he is happy to sit around doing fuck all on his big fat wage, its happened at three clubs now in the case of him. Its got nothing to do with refusing his wages, all to do with happily taking them whilst contributing nothing or even looking to get another club. If RM hadnt come along for his ex room mate he would have been kicking about at Newcastle training on his own still.

You would hope but in latter years Ryan Fraser for instance has virtually made a career out of being frozen out and happily picking up his monthly salary - Bournemouth, Newcastle and now Southampton. There will be others in the squad no doubt of a similar mind. We wont get rid of even half the shite we want to offload. We didnt last time, why would this be any different.

We will be left with a load of shite, nobody will want them. Pray Russell Martin gets a job and comes back for his mates !

I feel sorry for these poor souls who are being instructed to ring an audience that they know are going to be disgruntled at best. Thankless task.

I don’t know if that makes us great or a bunch of nods. Calling Lord Dunkhunter to clarify 😝

A low point today for me was after Stephens made a successful and decent tackle to be fair a guy two rows in front of me started singing “Super, Super Jack……” 🤦🏻 Give me strength

You do when said team barely break sweat in the first half, they treated it like a training session, barely over walking pace for much of it.

Christ almighty, if your aim was to spread positivity you’ve failed, reading that line-up I feel more depressed than before.

That’s what they tried today…..didn’t work out too well did it?

Very good 👊🏻

You do know the circumstances surrounding Wednesday at the moment don’t you?

Stupidly (and as it turned out like Dave Merrington did) I thought with absolutely nothing to lose the Rusk/Lallana combo would put out a team that would give it a real go. Hopes dashed with the teamsheet and 3 central defenders but two up front? At fkin last…..but no……Villa barely had to break sweat first half, it was like a training session. The pissing around at the back and sideways passing reared its ugly head yet again and it was pretty obvious Rusk was looking for a Fulham result and 0-0 scoreline. That was undone by ridiculous subs and Villa scoring, it all went to shit pretty quickly after that. Needless to say Rusk/Lallana blew their first audition if they did have designs on the job full time. All in all a thoroughly depressing 90 mins……well 85 for me.

That’s a bloody ridiculous statement. I’ve been a season ticket holder since 1979 and apart from the Branfoot era I have never been as fed up with watching Saints as I have been this season. It’s got fuck all to do with what league the club are in, the “prem” only supporters don’t tend to become season ticket holders by and large !

"..but the expectations were still there to win every week like it had been in the Championship" I dont buy that for a second, nobody expected us to win every week, not by a long way. And, things definitely were NOT improving, the mistakes were exactly the same, nothing had moved on. I realise he's gonna sugar coat things from his point of view but come on, that Spurs game and a few before it were just shocking.