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He’s sticking with Manning isn’t he? Or doubling up with the ever reliable Manning/Stephens combo. Perhaps the idea is for Haaland to be laughing so hard he misses chance after chance that we present him on a plate.

Surely, beyond the familiar names in England, there must be some up and coming over-seas Coach who plays the style of football they want, i mean this prick didnt invent it.....altho he can lay claim to the pointless centre half to centre half to centre half to centre half passing in the most dangerous area of the pitch if he wants..... Havent the club got the tools, manpower and time to analyse these things and find someone ffs? They found Ralph and most of us had never heard of him !

I did think that as well tbf.

I wouldn't be at all surprised either tbh.

She was very good actually.

Who was the ref who sent off Danny Wallace at Newcastle in a case of mistaken identity when the real cuprit was Jimmy Case ?

Thats strange you should say that cos as Durkin was our "local" ref and was the one who went into see the players at the start of each season to explain rule changes etc I always thought he over-compensated by being a little bit harsh on Southampton.

Yeah to be fair to Dean, i mean he is a cock, but he had little choice with that. The fact the kid never played for the club again and was sold pretty soon after tells you all you need to know about him ! It wasnt quite in the Oscar Gobern v Bournemouth class mind you !

Yes thankyou 😒

Peter Walton at home to Leeds in 2010 (didnt realise it was quite that long ago) still ranks as my all time worst ref performance I have ever seen. I have never seen anything more biased, more incompetent, more corrupt, ever !!

They may well believe in it, and it may well make sense, BUT the plan doesnt hinge on Russell fkin Martin !

This might actually prove to be his undoing. Players talk, they will have sussed out long ago who the favourites are, they will hear what he says when he casually throws someone under the bus but then denies he would ever do that cos he protects his players virtually in the same breath. The cracks are getting bigger and bigger, that verbal attack on Alfie House the other week when he asked a simple question was a bloody disgrace, if he'd looked up and asked him "why cant any of your teams actually defend" then fair enough, but he didnt. Team selections are more and more the signs of a man flapping his arms around trying not to drown. How the hell Sulemana comes in and gets on the pitch defies bellief. He was shite ion the Championship, and when was the last time he played ffs? Same with Manning, now Smallbone, Aribo was dropped like a stone and now he's back in the groovy gang. Taylor deserved his chance at the expense of KWP a month ago, now he cant get on as a left back ahead of Ryan Frazer !!!!! And then next week, who's first name back on the team sheet? Oh yeah, Capt Jack ! Its all a complete shitshow and he's orchestrating it.

He has to say "we will carry on with the process" because he has nothing else, this is it, he's a one trick pony.

I can’t make up my mind if you’re just a wind up merchant or if you are totally blind to what’s happened so far this season. Have you actually watched Lallana’s contributions ffs? More so have you failed to notice his constant prompting, pointing and basically coaching while on the pitch? To not bring him on today at the very moment the nerves were showing was absolutely bloody unbelievable.

Yes, he does this regularly, it’s not even a one off. He’s very good at “protecting my players” whilst not actually doing that but ensuring nothing sticks to him.

Well as I put on the match thread to bring on Smallbone instead of Lallana to steady the ship and lead the players on the pitch was absolutely inexcusable and beyond fkin belief !! I would sack him just for that tbh.

Not if this prick is gone this week he ain’t !

Why Smallbone when Lallana to calm them down? For that alone Russ, fuck off !!!!

It’s called desperation

Guys, Manning is only in for this game, he’s smoothing the way for Capt. Jack to come back next week!!

How was Stephens allowed to play? Have they changed the rule about suspended players not playing in ANY competitive game ?

You’re a barrel of laughs aren’t ya? Don’t be so literal all the time ! It’s tongue in cheek mate, of course it doesn’t happen ALL the time……..but it happens quite a lot !!

How long have you been a Saints fan ? You must know by now that if a team hasnt won for ages, someone hasnt scored for ages or is looking for their first goal for a new club it always comes against Southampton - the gift that keeps on giving !

Absolutely this. I still maintain that if he got the defence to get the ball nto midfield as quickly as they can and its then left to them to do his tippy tappy football the amount of goals we concede would go down rather than having the last line of defence risk (and often do) losing the ball and giving opponents a clear run at goal. You can play out from the back without taking 5 fkin minutes to do so !

Yep, absolutely fkin ridiculous