beatlesaint

I don’t even blame the inept, passionless players anymore, the finger has to be pointed at the manager who in four must win games in the past 6 weeks, three at home, has gone into the games WITHOUT PLAYING A STRIKER!!!! We play with something called a false number 9 which presumably fits in well with the false numbers 1,2,3,4,5 etc we also play. It’s absolute suicide. He decides in the latest all or nothing must win debacle to pick a team including this false number 9 and two players who were pathetic in the last match yet somehow get picked again!! As soon as you see the team sheet the alarm bells start to ring. But wait, the first 5 minutes Saints look lively, pity there’s no striker to get on the end of this….aah here we go, minute 6 onwards and we are back to no threat, no pace, no passion, no idea. Just waiting for the latest bang average at best team to score….and they do…..game over! Only then does the genius in the polo neck and jacket combo on the touchline decide to introduce a striker!! Whoop effin whoop. Five mins left and said introduced striker scores!!!! Oh no, no he doesn’t, VAR determines the nail on his big toe is offside. Ah well, another dream dashed cos we obviously would have scored another in the 5 mins injury time left…..yeah right Bastards

i thought it was because we are crap but i could be wrong of course.

They had only won 2 home games before last night since the World Cup break. They ain’t that great at home.

Let’s hope that’s sunk in with Selles and he sets up to go at them and actually win a game rather than set up a “don’t lose” team

Yeah I know. I found myself saying last night "if we win Thursday...." then thought, no, the bastards are dragging you back in only to shit on you again !

well a draw obviously but looking at the remaining fixtures a Leicester win would be slightly better ..............not that it matters to us really.

Jo Tessem desperately wants to talk well of us but given he’s had to watch every match this season it’s been a trial…..although he does get paid for his punishment !

It was a joke mate, hence the emoji 🙄

They’ll be strengthened in defence as Jack Stephens can’t play 🤣

Only one of the 4 teams directly above us win, it ain’t far off ideal to be fair.

He really isn’t.

If he’s not injured that’s the most ridiculous sub I’ve seen in 47 years supporting Southampton

Jesus Christ 🤷🏻‍♂️🙇 Selles has found Ralph’s bingo balls and machine

I think next season we will be on TV a lot more than this season so things wont change much, just be more frequent.

Once, my sincere apologies

I dread to think what starting eleven Selles will put out. I bet Moi is back in ! Play Tall Paul and get the ball into him as much as possible with someone (Charly) running onto any knockdowns. I have wondered, whenever Selles has bought Tall Paul on for the odd 20 mins why our pinpoint dead ball specialist JWP is totally unable to find a 6ft 7in guy loitering in the penalty box ?

Following their early 2-0 leads against Liverpool and West Ham I fully expect an almost similar pattern……..with the exception of us scoring a goal never mind two !!

I noticed when the first goal went in all our players gathered around in a circle. I thought they were giving themselves a pep talk and telling wach other "right, we have to go for this" ! I was wrong, absolutely fuck all changed. Interesting also that quite a few crosses went into the box first half, inc a lovely ball in from Theo. Yet as soon as Tall Paul came on we stopped worrying about putting crosses into the box.......

🤣youe not giving up home lasted one sentence 🤣

You can add ABK, Adams and Orisic at least to that list, they will all be wanted......well maybe not Orisic but he wont stay.

I will be interested to see the calibre of club that comes in for him.

With the goals coming from??? im sorry but I just don’t see it. I think Pep would struggle given the quality…..or lack of……striker. Tessem, for once, was right on Solent. This all started to unravel 2-3 years ago.

i think you may need to manage their expectations a little 🤣

If we had Niemi in goal and Phillips, Crouch, Ormerod and Camara up front we wouldnt be in the shite this season. The defence and midified this season is, in my opinion, much better............but I am haunted and possibly swayed by the memory of Olivier Bernard and especially his "performance" on a wet, miserable day in Blackburn that season.