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Without the pace of Cedric and Bertrand it’s a given he will play

add to that a half arsed VVD and a not fully fit Lemina and we really are.

12. Hope Redmond has a relegation release clause written into his contract

Yep, no good being plucky and deemed to be unlucky against the Man City's of this world if you cant follow it up with a win against a Stoke or Swansea etc

Agree, in a way that 4-1 against Everton was the worst thing that could have happened.

At the end of the day this is absolutely true. Its been an incredible journey BUT the problem is that the club, and whether this is Les Reed steering it or not, have believed their own publicity a little too much. They have got to the stage like a gambler on a winning streak who thinks he can bet on anything and never lose. He always does eventually. The last two years have shown this. Now whether Koeman saw it coming or not obviously I dont know but his timing was excellent for getting out. Since his departure we have gone backwards. We have appointed two managers who are average at best when we should have been looking for another established name. Our stock was high, higher than it has ever been probably but bad appointments and bad signings have wiped that away. You take a long time to build up a reputation, its a far shorter timescale to wipe it out. That old Southampton mentality of doing things on the cheap reared its ugly head again and has put us where we are now. Too much emphasis on the Academy that hasnt produced a really top player for a few years now and this ridiculous insistence that 50% of the first team will be made up of Academy players. Not going to happen if you want to maintain a top ten Premier League finish. If we arent there already then we will soon be at the point we were throughout the 90's whereby we just hope to survive in the Premier League season by season. Thats fine in its own way, there are what ? 72 clubs outside the Premier League would happily swap places with us. The problem with that is throughout our great escapes we had that guy from the Channel Islands to save us year after year. There arent too many of him around, certainly not at Southampton right now.

as usual you miss the point. In those games he has played he has for 90% of the time had absolutely no support, he has been expected to hold the ball up, for what or whom is anyone’s guess, then instead of getting any help as we chase the game he is taken off. He is being asked to play a role he is clearly not good at. Playing Austin has at long last moved us a little way up the field as the penny has dropped that Austin is more a penalty box player. Hey how about playing both as a partnership and see how that works out ? So no I don’t think Gabbiadini should be playing instead I think he should play as well as. Got it ?

im not surprised, has been treated abysmally by this clown of a manager

absolutely. It’s all very well this manager being good at setting up to frustrate the big teams but we are still losing. 1-0 or 4-0 equals the same number of points gained - 0. clueless when it comes to setting up against teams we have to attack and beat. Listening to how good Huddersfield were today I’m fearful of what might happen next week. So all in all he’s not very good whatever quality of the opposition! Wonderful

he is, Yoshida, Hoedt and Stephens

normally I would be most concerned to see that percentage but the way things are I wouldn’t be upset to see the back of the majority of this squad. if this was FIFA 17 you would start the game all over again if you had gotten into the mess the club have with this squad.

he was awful Wednesday in fairness, but yeah some of those selections/omissions are unbelievable

whilst I don’t agree with the decision if we are playing as we did at City then Charlie wouldn’t be the best on the break

Typical Dutch player then, they all have this ability to sulk and be a major pain in the arse

I like Steven Davis but that was the worst game I have seen him have in a Saints shirt. Really struggling to find a positive about anyone tonight, Bertrand was poor but not as poor as the rest.

you enjoy finding what you perceive as moral high ground over fellow supporters and hammering it home don’t you. as you are so pleased for Puel go and support Leicester.

He quite clearly did, watch the replays again, that was no accident.

Well he wasn’t brilliant, he was quite good, much better than against Bournemouth but thereby lies the JWP conundrum. He will have a decent game or two then go back to square one. His first corner today btw was bloody horrendous. We have better options than Prowsey I believe.

Lovren really is the gift that keeps on giving.....and he’s not just for Christmas

Very impressed by the whole team today in general. Tadic very good first half, very poor second half. Not a Redmond fan and nothing made me change my view of him today. I’m not sure he has a football brain, he’s better when he hasn’t got time to think about what he has to do. I despaired when I saw the line up but in fairness it worked. JWP much better than last week, Stephens, VVD and Yoshida very solid. Hojberg very good again. My only issue is why no Lemina ? He is the best midfielder we have and why the hell he didn’t even get bought on baffles me I’m afraid

Very impressed with Stephens today

what a complete nipple this guy is. It’s not just that you signed them David it’s the fact you paid so much for the privilege that’s the really funny part.

He likes the tv cameras a bit too much and as for treating every player exactly the same ? Yeah course you do Mark

well he hasnt given one away yet

More Ted MacDougall than Sheringham. Limited outside the box but stick him anywhere near that 6 yard box and more iften than not he’ll get you a goal. It was good to see both for Everton and Bournemouth games that ball was being put in the area from out wide a lot more. Playing to a strikers strengths - about bloody time