Saint86

Its a bizarre one... Mainly a right winger, and his minutes per goal stats are terrible. 457min this season, 303minutes per goal the season before... and a grand total of 2 assists in the past 2 seasons of league football. Also, as everyone should be well aware of by now, we don't play wingers, we play wing backs and full backs (depending on how much of the pitch eckert wants to cede to the opposition). Why are we being linked?

He's 20 years old, playing for one of the worst sides in the league, and is joint top scorer. Pleased for him, but thats a right balls up by saints. The trajectory we're on he'll be above us in the football pyramid in a couple of seasons. Wouldn't be at all surprised if clubs look at him after this season if he keeps going like that. Top scorers in League 1 generally get picked up and end up playing at championship level, potentially even premier league level ultimatley. Wonder if he'll follow a similar trajectory as Kane (albeit not to the same levels) - who had his first real senior experience at Leyton Orient as a teenager. Plenty of other strikers that have made their way up the pyramid from league 1 as well - Vardy, Toney and Lambert being just a few prominent examples. Billy Sharp as well, although with less success at top level. Good luck to the lad, really pleased to see him getting regular minutes and goals - if he carries on improving you'd like to see him back at saints scoring for us as he clearly loves the club.

As someone's just pointed out on the bazunu thread - he's just done a deal that sees us getting paid to weaken Stoke's season, whilst strengthening saints with Peretz 😄 I don't think its arguable that he's signed some top talent - Jander, Scienza, Azaz, Fellows, Jelert, Roerslev etc. are all very good players for the champ, at least 2 of them will go on to play at a much higher level given their ability and ages (jander and fellows). There is a good player in Quarshie as well. Downs was a bad buy, but frankly his record on incoming transfers is pretty good. Jury is out on Peretz, but on paper he's his country's starting keeper and had enough about him to play for bayern 3 times last season. Manager wise though, appears to not be so hot - although we really don't know what happens behind the scenes, been plenty of rumours/noise about interference, and it cannot be a coincidence that basically every manager under SR has reverted to a back 5, and that we cannot keep hold of backroom staff or seemingly Director's of football (all of which have left saints for bigger clubs so far).

Even though he often plays 3-4-2-1, if I were SR I would still be looking at someone like Challinor - he's an "unproven mananger", and he's got a smaller reputation - it feels like the sort of stature we tend to go for (rather than big or established names). They got a 1-0 win over Huddersfield today, meaning Stockport leapfrog them up to 4th and only 6points off the autos... (I.e., he's once again on course to maintain his incredible record of at least finishing in playoff spaces as a manager (the bare minimum for saints)... And regardless, I would argue it's basically impossible for him to do worse than the likes of Still, Eckert, Selles, Jones, Juric at saints 🥴, or indeed any other mananger sports republic might pick. It's truly mental how much money we've spent on players and hiring/sacking shit managers that have basically achieved sod all between them and often don't even know the English game - most important job in the club is getting in a tactically good manager 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️. He was getting linked to the Sunderland job the year they went up, it really is only a matter of time before he moves to a champ job (and probably to a club above us in the pyramid the way we're going under SR... Or maybe he'll be above us with Stockport in 1 year time).

Surely he just can't swallow this unacceptable shit that's being served up by SR and Eckert any longer? The entire fanbase needs to turn asap.

Feels like SR are naively holding on and things will come to a head at Fratton... We're like a robin reliant stalled on the tracks in the face of a freight train as it stands... we're going to get humbled - this team has no belief, no confidence, and is the most tactically appalling saints side I've watched. I reckon you'd be very hard pushed to find a saints fan feeling optimistic about that game as it stands... SR could have acted to save the end of the season, so the only assumption any of us could make it that they really are so incompetent as to still being supporting the intern.

Embarrassing.

It's no different to the WBA game, his tactics are to basically cede the entire pitch to the opposition, invite them to come and score, and see if we can hold on. Have we ever had a more tactically illiterate manager?

🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Just how shit are we?

Come on billy, you can do it... End our misery and send Eckert packing!!!!

Plenty of people thought he was mustard @revolution saint being a prime example who was all too ready to rip into anyone who said a cautionary word early doors... 🤣😂

The answer is so obvious, and yet it's just another example of how toddlers could set saints up better than Eckert 🤣😂

Imagine being 3-0 up Vs a lower league side and fucking it up so badly you have to bring on scienza who should be resting.

I'd take losing this if Eckert goes. Edit - Might even adopt Donny as one of my soft spot teams if they can do that for us.

There is no syndrome mate. This is literally how the f'ing tuesday of a manager wants to play. This is his tactics.