beatlesaint

He rarely reacts, he's stubborn, he picks a formation that he believes will work and if it doesn't he tends to change personnel, like for like. The only time he's really changed it is the two games against Bournemouth and Man City when he took off a midfielder (JWP) and put on a more attacking option which has left us open. We only got away with it against Bournemouth because they couldn't hit a barn door that day.

well given he's back running it can't be that

yes he did but nah, let's take off the only forward who can score goals instead.

is that it, six home wins ? Must admit I thought it was a couple more than that ! so of our 17 home goals 9 of them were in three games - that's pathetic.

agreed. I don't know why he was still on the pitch to take the bloody thing, although in fairness there were so many that could have been taken off.

you have very low expectations for next season then.

What I fail to understand is how the manager can pick a team that looks on paper to be going for it with Gabby, Redmond, Tadic and Boufal all playing yet when it clearly wasn't working he didn't sacrifice one of Redmond, Tadic, Boufal and put Long up front with Gabby for one to help him and secondly to give the attacking full backs and our little creative superstars a couple of interesting possibilities in front of them. But no the subs are all like for like and it gets us nowhere. People used to moan about Pochettino not having a Plan B. Well neither has this bloke ! oh and it was bloody awful to watch.

agree with all of that, esp lack of aerial presence from central defence.

umm, so the guy who oversaw our return to the Premier League is a lunatic is he ? Ok

I think given all the Liebherr's have done for the club and that they have never let us down perhaps we should trust her judgement and ability in finding a new owner or investor that can deliver on her promise of taking the club forward.

read it again, im talking about getting bulied by Costa, that doesnt take place in the air and Costa scores very few headed goals and most balls played into him are to feet anyway !

It was obvious Costa would bully our central defenders tonight, and he did. I bet he wouldn't have got away with it with Caceres. Guess we will never know now.

He refers to Redmond as having 'one of his spats' as if it's a regular occurrence. Having seen the way Redmond blames everyone else on the pitch when he ****s up I would love to know how often these occur.

if you are gonna play Boufal and Tadic in the same team do it at home not away to bloody Chelsea, we will get murdered !

the ref will be the least of our worries Tuesday night.

it was bloody awful apart from a decent run in his first season. Jeff Stelling's rant about him getting the hell out of Hartlepool today made me remember similar thoughts just before those terrible accusations were made against him.

Jay looks more than just a player out of form though, sad to say that injury has taken something away from him, he just looks immobile.

yep

Costa will totally bully Stephens, I really do think Puel might just give Caceres a run out in this one.

Same mistake with the subs as the Bournemouth game. Brings on Boufal for JWP, gives up the midfield in doing so and get over run. Got away with it against the Cherry Pips but you don't against a decent side like City.

He's been better than expected but i wouldnt go that far, not even "ish" !

Play what side he likes as far as I'm concerned as long as we put out the strongest team possible against Man United !

must be injured again, i hadnt even noticed him go missing from the bench tbh :-)

Funny how people look at things differently. When I first saw their TV ad that's currently running my first reaction was that they must be pretty proud to sponsor Saints if they are putting representation of the club in their marketing strategy.

As long as his freedom to burst forward doesnt include taking it upon himself to shoot from distance