Maggie May

Saints Go Wilder!

Fair enough. I’d be interested to hear your reasoning for this. Just three months ago we hired the Championship manager of the season who turned out to be, statistically, one of the worst managers to grace the Premier League. I would much rather we had someone like Marsch for the foreseeable. He actually has pedigree, won trophies as a player and a manager, and has some international caps. NJ experienced none of this. Say all you want about the Austrian League not being a patch on the PL but we’d be clamouring for someone like him if he hadn’t already been at Leeds. And he kept them up.

The board know we are down. Marsch is likely prepared to drop into the Championship and should be a good addition in that sense. Having time to bed him in for a push for promotion isn’t a bad idea on paper.

Marsch might be the only viable candidate who’s up for taking this mess on. We’re unlikely to attract a high calibre manager in our precarious position. The time to have done that was before we hired NJ.

Lock thread

Oh look, another post knocking NJ.

I reckon we’ll tonk Wolves.

Honest question - what’s so special about Kompany’s speech there? I’m not an NJ fan and have posted my dismay over that mic’d up training sessions on a few occasions on here, but none of us really know how NJ is behind closed doors. He could be just like Kompany here. Or he could be even more engaging - we just don’t know. If there’s one thing to take away from this thread it’s to take all training ground/behind the scenes rumours posted on here with a massive pinch of salt.

Apologies if I’ve got the wrong end of the stick but the prepared for relegation claims from the board are insane. We’ve hurtled faster towards the trap door with NJ in charge, losing six of our total 14 PL defeats this season so far. Looking at past PL tables, we can only really afford two or three more defeats, which makes staying up this season a pretty much impossible task. They were either prepared to go down under Ralph and knew it was a realistic scenario regardless of who comes in, or now realise we have no chance of staying up because of NJ’s failure to turn it around. And if it’s the latter, they should come out and admit they were wrong or take decisive action by bringing someone else in to give us a fighting chance of staying up. But they won’t do the latter because it’s obvious now most efforts will be futile as who in their right mind would risk taking this mess on? I don’t know about anyone else, but hearing them say we’ll have the finances in the Championship makes me very uneasy, and not reassured in the slightest.

He’s seen through NJ from the start. After our win against City, I remember Sutton saying he was speaking “complete rubbish” when NJ said we’d played well against Forest. Everyone can see it.

I don’t think anyone can save us now. We are on 14 defeats already, half of those are down to NJ. We are just two losses away from matching our own 16 from last season. Burnley went down with 17, Leeds scraped safety despite having 18. The worrying thing is we will lose a lot more to come. We can all see it, even the board. The NJ experiment has been an avoidable disaster.

Managers don’t need to implement a style. Just get them playing like they’re competent footballers and we might have a chance. This is something NJ cannot do.

The experiment hasn’t worked. He’s had months here now and we are regressing further and further. He’s garbage. May as well tempt Hodgson out of retirement.

Oh well.

I’m no NJ fan but, if there’s a grain of truth in this, the players don’t really like anyone, do they?

Not all teams will have the Dyche effect 😎

We have to win or we are down. I have a horrible feeling Everton will sneak a win against Arsenal.

Do the players look as if they’re playing for NJ? Does anyone appear to care about playing for Saints? I can’t remember the last time I saw any passion from a Saints squad, apart from a slight glimmer against a dreadful Everton side. No one seemed fired-up for a cup semi across both legs against Newcastle. The same happened against Leicester in the FA Cup semi under Ralph. We seem inherently stagnant, leading to an unsurprising bottom place position.

£15m each for players with only Championship experience - I’d say so. It’s only £5m below the figure being quoted that we are going in with for a new striker expected to save our season.

It’s clear how difficult it is to buy a top class striker. Ankersen can’t be to blame for the previous ownership spending huge cash on Adams and Armstrong. If they were decent finishers at this level then we wouldn’t be in as much mess as we are now.

Clubs can’t be tracking our dealings before jumping in at the last minute to gazump us, surely? It all just seems like bluster to create drama across social media on deadline day for us fans to lap up for the next 24 hours. I just don’t see the Vitinha/Onuachu deals happening.

Danny?

I agree with that. Unfortunately for me, our dreadful form over the past year suggests we don’t have much hope of getting out of this. NJ hasn’t convinced me he will.

I’ve not given up. It’s too early to do so. But the situation is worse than it looks on the table. We desperately need wins and didn’t get them from a run of favourable fixtures. The teams above us won’t keep losing. We can’t rely on luck, we simply have to start winning more games. To be honest, I can’t see us doubling our current win tally unless we buy a good quality striker.

There’s no doubt they would as they’re superior to NJ. I’m not the biggest fan of Jones but our performances have improved over the past few weeks. It’s clear to everyone we are just one good striker away from being a decent side. A goal scorer would’ve buried Che’s chance against Newcastle. We could have won against Villa with a good striker. it’s a travesty why we haven’t signed anyone.