beatlesaint

Has Kelvin Davis still got this job where he acts as some sort of middle man between players and management of the club ? If so I would love to know what feedback he's getting right now

I think I probably would but I worry what any manager would do with the attacking - and i use that word loosely -options we have currently. You cant polish a turd.

I assumed it was to take the corner given he is our dead ball specialist and given most of our corners were near post efforts when everyone was stood at the back post !

Same here. Nobody played off the striker today or if they did they were a bloody long way away from him.

its all baffling - Hoedt back in team last week, benched this week. Why ? Subs prove he us reactionary and not pro-active. As you say, same mistakes week in week out in the blind faith that it will all come right in the end.....newsflash MP - it won’t !

There is no way Southampton will get rid of this manager this side of Xmas - I think they should - but they won’t.

yes he certainly did, think he said it twice but definitely when talking about taking Gabby off, playing with one up front etc. Spoke a lot of sense tonight did Dave, he was fuming though and said what we all know that the Everton game is a must win with Liverpool and Man City either side of it.

Merrington called him tactically inept on Solent tonight. cant argue with that to be fair.

you are right, as usual, Poch is no Claude Puel ! No Sir

yep I thought that when he zipped that cross field pass to absolutely nobody and then looked for someone to blame. He has pace. After that I’m struggling to think of positives.

Players not as good as they think they are. Manager, like the last one, who likes to keep things tight and not concede and is reluctant to be proactive rather than reactive. A board who will not spend big and take any speculate to accumulate risks (which I can understand given their business plan) Its a dangerous combination and unfortunately it was always going to come to a head sooner or later. And we are there now.

No wonder he’s the blue eyed boy with Les and co. He can’t really believe any of that can he ?

and he immediately points and tells whoever will listen that Cedric should have read the pass

Tadic staying on.....bloody hell this manager is as clueless as the last one

yeah, funny that eh ?

the fear for me is that the manager does !

Not surprised, has done nothing to warrant being dropped for Mr Wantaway. Having said that he must know that VVD's time here is limited although I would still have Hoedt and VVD as my centre back partnership and that is with no disrespect to Yoshida.

Indeed. Back for Everton match then, or hopefully Liverpool the week before.

**** me my mind went right back to Saints leading Everton 2-1 the year we went down and Peter Crouch doing the very same thing

Step forward JWP with one of those screamers of a free kick he manages so often in training and for the U23s !

They always put these bout things on players with ankle injuries. It’s what Nigel Adkins used to call “shutting down the player”

Les got him a decent striker last January when we signed Gabbiadini. He scored goals as you will recall until, in his words, "the manager changed things when i came back from injury and it was much tougher".....or words to that effect.

Some ****in **** on Sky Sports (Taggart) trying to justify the appointment with the statement “well look where Southampton are since sacking him” umm yeah, 10th and one point behind the mighty Liverpool you ***** !

home 13 December

So have I got it right ? This group of dicks go around Southampton breaking into places that they shouldn’t to do very little except escape - a thrill of the chase type thing ?