Lighthouse

He's the Deutsch Nugent.

My opinion has been consistent all season, I'm sorry I can't make it fit everybody else's alternative version of reality. No manager is going to compensate for the atrocious players we have at the club. Many people believe Martin should have been sacked after the six games, now people want Juric sacked after nine. If it was down to popular opinion we'd get through five or six managers a season because guess what, nobody we can realistically appoint is going to do noticeably better.

😂 How many managers have we been through in the PL since we sacked him? Four, all of which have achieved absymal results, and if you ask a fair few people I'll bet they say we need to sack Ivan and make it five. There is no magic formula by which you can do anything other than regularly lose with the players we've had. The people who need to 'bore off' are the one's whose tedious, predictable answer is always, "the manager has got to go FFS!!! No way he keeps his job after that result FFS!!" 18th, roughly a point per game and fighting relegation, that was it, that's as good as this squad is/was. The fact that a teenager getting injured crippled our season just showed bad the rest of them were.

We were just above Bournemouth when we got sacked and I think only a point or two from safety. If Lavia hadn't been injured, Ralph wouldn't have been sacked and we'd have stayed up. He wasn't 'done' when we sacked him, we just kept giving him progressively sh*tter players and achieved the results they warranted.

No, he took over a side that drew 0-0 with Fulham and lost his first six games. The third was every bit as bad as the Spurs game, the second would have been with better finishing. Palace had 19 shots, of which 10 were on target.

We did not. Everyone got excited because we had an okay half against West Ham, going in 0-0 at half time and TP winning a handful of headers, but that was as good as it ever got. His second game was the 1-2 against Palace that could easily have been 1-5, they were all over us, his third game was the Brentford game which could so easily have been 0-7.

I think you're looking at it the wrong way round; I don't see how anyone can be angry at something so utterly pathetic, predictable and repetitive. Saints are like the kid with the deadbeat dad who 'goes out for a pack of fags' and isn't seen for three years. After enough missed Christmas', birthdays and everything else, the kid doesn't get upset they just stop caring. TBH there's very little any of the board can do at this stage of proceedings. This season was set in stone even before we got promoted, with our failure to appoint any kind of competent DoF in charge of player recruitment. We've tried replacing the manager, at considerable expense, which is basically the default option for any club in trouble, but it was never going to change our fortunes.

I'm not saying Russell Martin is a PL manager. I am saying that I have got a f**king clue what we've gained from the millions it cost to replace him.

Look on the bright side, we did better than England are doing in the rugby.

Yes, that's very impressive but we need to ask you a few questions.

I don't think I was too far off with the 'donut formation'. If anything I'd say it was more of the 'Big Les Bukake' formation. Bednarek Bree Aribo KWP Ugochukwu Welington Dibling Fernandes Archer Sully

Surely she remembers Lothar Matthaus' hit single, 'The Fog on the Rhine'?

Actually there isn't, only seven home games left including today.

You mean the one ten yards out seen through a crowd of legs? This determination from a number of people to hate Bazunu is a bit weird, especially compared to a fair few goals Ramsdale seems to get off scot free for. The guy is just back from a nine-month injury, he's gone to Liege to get some match practice and sharpness.

And that'll achieve what, exactly?

Probably should have stayed on his line for the second but you can't take anything away from an excellent cross and run. I'd be more critical of that #17 at 58 seconds in.

Burnley have made it all the way through January and February without conceding a league goal. Not let one in since Christmas in fact.

Ahhhh, they're bringing Vestergaard on, no way they lose 9-0 at home on a Friday night with him on the pitch.

Such a shame to see this happen to a player as likeable as Vardy.

Overtaking a lorry at 58mph about half a mile from your exit off a dual-carriageway and you're stuck behind somebody doing 59mph in the right hand lane. 'Annoy' might be an understatement, it's a special kind of hatred like no other.

If you’re every struggling to figure out your opinion on an issue, just check out what Beverly Turner has to say and go with the opposite of that, you won’t go far wrong.

Well, we’ve got Aussie all rounder Jack Edward’s for the first couple of months. Looks like he won’t be around for the Blast though.

The problem with that though is that United did give us room, because they’re sh*t. Everyone is winning at OT apart from them and Saints and it’s easy to see why. You can’t really bank on a strategy which is dependent on the opponent playing very badly. It’d be like saying we need to replicate what we did at Portman Road, if the keeper spills a couple of easy shots.

Don’t forget him being brought on in the 87th minute against Brentford, where his calming influence and leadership helped us to concede only two more goals in injury time.

Since we haven’t got a decent central midfield anyway, let’s just play the doughnut formation. Ramsdale Benarek THB Bree Wood KWP Welington Dibling Fernandes TP Sully