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MP decides to pick clubs most natural goalscorer for once. Players get ball into box where Austin scores two and hits the post. There ya go MP, it’s not ****in difficult plan is it ?

i tend to agree. We could well see if the players are behind MP or not today.

ain’t that the truth

dont think there was any sarcasm in FF’s response to be fair.

well said

sorry, i missed the bit with the expiry date on the comments

Bloody hell, thats a massive fail then all round !

We dont use the strikers we have in matches so might as well sell them

We have a decent squad of players - NOT excellent We have seen no signs of excellent man management and certainly not excellent coaching - hes too cautious and we arent even any good at that. If we are going wrong tactically that is the fault of ? The tea lady ? The stewards ? Nope - the manager and his coaching staff Who are the people around who can help and why havent they started yet - are they in denial at whats happening ?

Didnt hear him after the match but before the game Jeff asked him about the decision to bring JWP on for Boufal in the 89th minute against Burnley. Matt said his substitutions, not just his but Puel's before him, were puzzling and didnt show any signs of going for a win especially at home. He didnt seem very keen to defend MP which probably tells you all you need to know about his feelings.

that is one of the most worrying aspects but I suppose if he has no intention of changing anything from his overly cautious approach then he has to say that. Most noticeable for me is the pundits are starting to take the ****. Today on Sky Charlie Nicholas was asked if Saints looked any more threatening in the second half. His reply - “what with this manager ?” That says it all for me.

For what it’s worth all the Puel lovers will no doubt have noticed he is starting to weave his magic on Leicester. They also didn’t have a shot on target today....ok it was Man City but they were at home.......just sayin

unfortunately I have to agree with both points you have made.....he hasn’t and we are.

Gordon Strachan, short term until end of the season. He never put up with this propaganda football as he called it. Would get the players fit, would make them work and would play to win a bloody match unlike this idiot.

Out

His interview in the next half hour or so will doubtless raise our spirits

Same old ****e, different day.....no Gabbiadini, no Austin but plenty of Redmond and Tadic.

Sunderland bound

yes, I wondered if his presence in most of the videos this week was an indication that he would be playing today. We will see in a few hours.

I’m quite surprised VVD hasn’t gained a niggly injury that will keep him out Saturday. Still time I suppose.......

Are we out of this Comp then ?

there was feedback in the centre of The Kingsland, bloody loud feedback too, Jimmi Hendrix would have been proud.

As many have already indicated it started going wrong with the Pelle and Mane sales in the same summer. Now they bought in Austin, ok, not the same sort of player as Pelle so I never really got the replacement thing. What I think went wrong was when Shane Long had his purple patch of goalscoring the powers at be thought "we are ok here, Shane will be our regular goalscorer now" and of course anyone looking at his record will know that Long is just not a consistent, regular goalscorer. He will work his guts out and trouble defenders but its not the same as finding the net. The recruitment, whether its Ross Wilson or not I dont know, but to think that a player like Redmond who hadnt exactly set the Championship alight with Norwich was going to come in and fill the Mane role is plain stupid. They heaped more pressure on him - well Puel did - with this ridiculous Thierry Henry comparison. Hes a winger who doesnt like getting to the touchine therefore he isnt a very good one. His constant cutting in and they losing the ball gets on my tits - cant the coaching staff see it ffs ? I dont know what Eric Black does. But if you are a club that has finished in the top 8 of the Premier League for three seasons in a row why on earth would you bring in someone who has such an appalling record at every single club he has been it. Thats not just bad luck or coincidence, thats him not being very bloody good at whatever he does. Did he come in cos he spoke French ? **** me Michel Roux Jnr speaks French, he would have been as much use !! Believing their own publicity. The media team are wonderful at this club.....well they are either wonderful or off their tits on something. This latest mini series where it proclaims we produce world class players, are always improving blah blah blah is quite frankly embarrassing. At present we are boring and not very good. Everyone knows it, there is no point trying to fool us all with propaganda. That and the bloody constant shooting practice videos they put up on Social Media, they are making themselves look ridiculous. Tone it down until we are half decent again ffs. The young guy who does a lot of comment pieces on Read Southampton - Luke Osman - he wrote a piece about MP before we appointed him stating defence was the most important thing to him, we must not lose at any cost and the football he played was cautious. Alarm bells started ringing at that cos this was Puel all over again. But no, the club assured us MP liked to play they high energy pressing game with plenty of attacking flair, he had the ability and was not frightened of changing things early on in a match if the original plan wasnt working - in other words he was just what we needed. For those in any doubt we now know without fear of contradiction that Osman was spot on and the PR machine had sold us a lot of b/s and more importantly had made themselves look ****s....again ! The only hope is the new owners arent happy and changes are made but I have my doubts, i think they will just be looking at the bank balance and how much VVD, Bertrand, Lemina and Cedric will bring in.

Haven’t you seen the videos ? We produce world class players, we are always improving, we never stop, we are Southampton !

I wonder if Phil Brown is still interested