Lighthouse

He gave it a go but honestly, nobody was ever going to achieve anything other than 20th with the squad we’ve baffling managed to assemble. Different style, different attitude, same results. Best of luck to him but honestly, the whole thing was just a waste of money from our PoV.

Losing every week like we do has to be very tough emotionally on any player, particularly some of the younger ones. With that in mind I’m glad the fans in the ground have mostly been behind them. There were a couple of times I think they may have downed tools, Spurs and Brentford at home, but for the most part they look like a group of players trying their best in a hopeless situation. Screaming abuse at them achieves absolutely nothing.

Absolutely pointless comparing him to four managers I don’t particularly want next season either but no, the man who got sacked by Everton after failing to score in 8 of his last 10 games is not the man I can’t wait to see leading us into next season.

Controversial opinion but I’d quite like to be a lot better next season. That’s going to need some recruitment of better people at the club than we have now.

We’re better than bloody Dyche.

That Manchester derby was almost as good as the Grand Prix.

I doubt he’ll want to stay and the £40m-ish we can probably get for him should buy three decent Championship players.

If this team wasn’t trying their hardest, they be losing 10/11-0 every game, not 3-1. We saw in the first half of the home game against Spurs how bad this team is when they down tools. Apart from that 45 minutes I’ve seen very little to suggest they weren’t trying. 3-1 is basically a fair reflection of us versus the rest of this league. Against teams of comparable quality we’re P3 W1 D1 L1 GD 0.

Unless his contract has appearance abased clauses, none of that means anything.

I think it’d be nice of you to sell me your house at half its market value.

It’s doesn’t work like that, you can’t build a PL team slowly in the Championship. Anyone PL quality will very quickly get poached and you’ll end up back at square one, minus the parachute payments. The goal has always got to be coming straight back up. We just need much, much, much better recruitment next time.

If I was there, I would applaud them. Most of them have tried their best and the main candidate who I have my doubts about didn’t play today. It’ll come as something of a relief to most of them to be back in the league where they belong next season, rather than being humiliated every week.

Wait, what?! My hope died the day we signed Nathan Wood.

I can think of no greater slap in the face to the fans than to put out the worst team in PL history, get relegated and then drop the very small number of competent players for no reason whatsoever.

I’ve added a multiple choice poll, for arguments sake let’s say you’re allowed three votes. I went with: Lallana - Hasn’t been anywhere near any kind of fitness for years and was so obviously going to struggle to even get on the pitch that I haven’t a clue what we were thinking. Gronbaek - Because he came after all the absolute garbage from the summer, we set ourselves an astonishingly low bar to find someone who was a marginal improvement… and we still failed. Wood - He’s a bottom half Championship defender who even Swansea fans didn’t rate. He is and always has been so far below the standard required at this level, even as cover, I once again haven’t got a clue what we were thinking. What the actual f**k!?!

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I just can’t get my head around why on Earth you’d make so many obviously pointless signings of players who clearly aren’t good enough, just because they’re cheap. There were a solid 8-9 signings this year where we’d literally have been better off just buying nobody instead. Our transfer strategy can be summed up with the sentence, "I couldn’t afford a holiday in Mauritius, so I bought a dog turd for £50 instead."

Because he was cheap, Championship quality squad filler, in keeping with our transfer strategy. No different to Wood, Archer, BBD, Sugawara, Taylor, Lallana and Cornet.

I’m not sure it’s the club who are fixated with Bazunu.

He’ll try anything to get into that Euro96 squad.

No matter how certain you think you are of a certain result, you can never actually be certain when it comes to Spurs…

Please may I have a VAR check on Marcelo?

Like I said, we’ll see what summer brings. He could probably do alright in the Championship but then again so should Archer and Armstrong. I think the £25-30m other PL clubs will pay for a 15+ goal a season striker could be better spent elsewhere.

He’s scored two headers, which is a fairly tepid return for a striker who’s 9ft 4in, and tapped in a couple of rebounds off the keeper/post. The fact that people are actually bigging up a striker with four goals by April, one ahead of Jan Bednarek, just shows how ridiculously low saints fans expectations have fallen. If I’m wrong then we’ll be entertaining bids from other PL clubs in summer, possibly from those just promoted, however I suspect I’m not and we won’t be.

Slightly misleading phrasing of that stat, it’s either 2 goals in 9 starts or 4 goals in 23 apps. He could do alright in the champ next season but he is not a PL standard player.