Saint86

They play each other for the last game of the season i believe - could be a relegation dogfight between two former prem winners.

Listening to that, they are in huge trouble - regardless of whether they stay up. 8min on just discusses the training ground costs and wage/PSR/TV money side of things. On the 14min mark, it discusses wage budgets and how Leicester were essentially unfairly doping theirs vs the competition. Apparently Leicester's player wage bill was £107M, Leeds were £84M, Saints were circa £100M. This is the season they ultimately won the league and got promoted. So £23M more than Leeds, £27M more than us... and at that time, the average Championship wage bill was £28M 🙄. And obviously they were in breach of PSR but essentially have faced no punishment other than retrospectively being handed a 6point deduction that likely won't make a shred of difference because Oxford and Wednesday are both terrible, and their squad really is too good to take the last spot.

He's a good squad player for us and clearly loves a stepover, but he shouldn't be starting, and really he shouldn't be playing on the wing (like he was last night). Edozie and Jayrob are both better natural picks for that position.

I mean, don't get me wrong - i'd take it... but the reality is that Convetry aren't going up and Lampard is going to bottle this hard. Besides, we're doing a McDermot inspired push for the title...

Well... he got away with a pretty bad clanger last night 🫣😅. If he learns from it then great, and the second half was a superb turn around in fairness... (although not sure we'd get away with that with most sides in the league rather than the mess that is Leicester). He did revert back to what is clearly a stronger 11, so he is learning - although equally he did wait until halftime to make any changes when frankly it should have happened nearer the 20min mark. And it was frankly a huge error to play archer and not change tactics... Also mad that that was the rotation he made when clearly other players were tired and not on it (Jander, fellows etc). Anyway, a proper Jekyll and Hyde performance from him as manager really. Its stating the obvious that he is young and inexperienced, but he seems to walk into every pitfall with his eyes wide open. I'm prepared to accept that there is something there, but i am far from convinced we can afford to have such an inexperienced manager when its basically a case of promotion or bust for us this season (it will be a lot harder next year, and we will be into our final year of parachute payments).

Lets be honest. Neither of them are really players that are likely to thrive under Moyes.

By done well. Do you mean putting the strongest 11 on the pitch (basically)... I'll give him credit, he did turn it around. But that first half was so bad the 2nd half cannot fully excuse it.

Just amazing 2nd half, but imagine if we played like that in both halves ffs. 🤣

Saturday, 19 November 2005 might be entering the chat....

Can't help but feel like Edozie or Jayrob would have been more effective as a winger than Matsuki though...

Just want to reiterate that the first Leicester goal should have been ruled out for offside for interfering player, that and our manager is an idiot.

Fuck me.

Captain Jack!!! Are we about to do a leeds?

Well done Peretz there. Made himself big and didn't over commit - good hand to it. Stephens and THB though 🤣

Well played Scienza and stewart. Why did we play 45min with 10men?

He's completely responsible for picking the players, the setup, and the tactics. That first half is entirely on him. And what, he knew enough to change it at half time? But not at 2nil or 3nil? Give over. Must win match and he spaffed it.

Yeah, WTF was all that tippy tappy rubbish around the box whilst the clock ticked down? No interest at all to put it in the box - almost like the players didn't know what to do without a target man, funny that...

Wrong thread 🤣

He very clearly isn't good enough to be manager of Southampton Football Club.

Did we not tell Jander about the RB Leipzig bid or something? And he's just found out? 🤣

Could easily have been 4-0 then. Like a knife through butter.

Yup. This is borderline unforgiveable tonight. Win this and we would have been right in the mix, lose like this and wrexham win and it will be back to 7points and probably a negative goal difference at this rate. I was feeling optimistic that he'd latched onto a winning formula, little did i know that the must win league game would be used as a chance to experiment with previously tried, tested, and failed tactics.

Leicester's interim manager has figured this out, and this is his first gig as manager 🤣

Leicester missing 7 players for this btw. Aribo Choudhury, De Cordova-Reid James Ramsay Souttar Vestergaard.

How stupid is Eckert to have no hooked jander and archer? I would bet good money that 99% of the fanbase would sub at least 1 of them ffs.