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Be fascinated to hear how you think we are going to get out of this mess or are you content for them to sleepwalk back into The Championship ?

Utterly pathetic.....I think I could hear “you’re not fit to wear the shirt” over the commentary on Sky !

Can’t wait to see what tactical genius the manager comes up with for the second half

depends who is batting to be fair

yeah cos when you are playing a backs to the wall type game you really need one of your outlet players to start running with the ball before losing the bloody thing cheaply.

I wonder what Gabbiadini did that was so bad in the limited time he had against Huddersfield to have Long preffered to him ? Oh wait, he’ll be saving him for the Palace game won’t he :mcinnes:

only for their pace presumably

unless Liverpool are the only ones matching our asking price of course.

Get rid ASAP but it’s not entirely his fault. It was the club who told us this would be a return to the high pressing game etc when even a cursory look at his career told us otherwise. The club hung him out to dry before he even got here with what can only be described as lies.

I think you give the board far too much credit, it’s the hope that kills ya remember

thats pretty much it in a nutshell for me.

and according to his wife on twitter he cheats at Monopoly. I would string him up and let children throw rotten tomatoes at him until he’s really really sorry.

Very out of character. Ban him for the season ? Are some people for fkin real on this site ? It’s hardly Paul Davis breaking Cockerill’s jaw all those years ago.

you didn’t go to the last six home matches of last season ? That really was turgid rubbish, pre cup final yeah, I can see what you are saying, but the last third of the season the home matches were shocking.

Yeah, I’m no fan of Redmond but that’s harsh, he did everything right there, unfortunately it was down to Charlie screwing his shot wide, simple as that.

apart from Sims who is just coming back from injury there aren’t any. When Koeman stated that he was heavily criticised. He didn’t have any issue with introducing youngsters at Everton in his first full season after all. Reed and Gallagher are on loan, Hesketh ? Might be worth a go but I’m not holding my breath on him making it. This is the thing with Academies, you can gave three or four really fruitful years but you are almost certain to have a couple of years of average.

yep, if he is out for 6 weeks or so that’s us scoring any goals down the pan. Striker definitely needed at start of January. I fear we are in the ****e big time.

Has he gone yet ?

every game except our biggest win........

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.