Saint86

They were bloody lucky to beat Altringham, has to be said. The team in red and white were certianly the better side and should have had a blatant penalty in the first half not given.

You are very much n the wrong for the vast majority of fans. Its a crucial win, and you're still looking to attack players (match winning players at that), as well as other fans. You seem more annoyed that we won than most Watford and Portsmouth fans.

The rules are that if a hand is involved in the build up to a goal, its disallowed.

I don't think you can say we were asset stripped. We've spent a fortune on players over the past couple of seasons. With multiple £15m+ buys proving to be utterly terrible. A little bit of perspective is required when levelling around those accusations - they carried a lot more weight before we started panic splashing the wonga. As some of us have always said, we just had incredibly inept people making the business decisions and an owner that did want to minimise outlay with the ambition (probably naively) that the club could be self sufficient.

Thrown away 2 points tonight vs arsenal. Absolutely criminal. The parallels to 04/05 are there for all to see... We're going down.

That article is hilarious. Such blatant click bait. It says he has a knee ligament injury, and then says getting him back could be a blessing in disguise as he can make a difference to the first team. I know we're bad, but a lazy injured midfielder with no knee ligaments that can't run (and can barely control or pass the football lets be honest) is not the answer

I've said it before, but Les Reed should go down as one of the worst things to ever happen to Saints. We are inching our way towards an abyss far worse than 2009.

Labour activists/supporters absolutely commit electoral fraud in GE's and referendums tbf. Zero doubt over that. Just have to look at open bragging from students and the reports from the last GE/Ref and what happened in the Peterborough by-election. Our whole system needs reforming as it is far to easy to abuse the system currently.

Thats all it is. We play again soon against Arsenal. Business as usual i suspect.

That should have been obvious to saints fans since the fixtures were released. Quite a few of us even called the current scenario pre-season. It won't change supporter emotions or gut reactions. It is good to see it broken down and quantified like that, cheers for sharing!

Good. If we're going down then we need to start over.

If they don't, Les Reed and co need shooting. It should be standard practice for most clubs in the premier league. Only about 7-8 could consider themselves safe indefinitely.

I think we'll get out of it. Djenepo is fit, and he is a true RH kind of player. With him, Redmond, and Ings, we'll have enough about us. The Leicester result was shocking - and may actually do us some good perversely - but i think a lot of us looked our fixtures and thought we'd be in a relegation scrap by mid November. But I think we'll get out of it and finish somewhere between 10th and 15th.

So hang on, he hasn't actually been sacked? Slightly misleading thread title surely!

We have to support Ralph and the team. He is ultimately a good tactical manager and man manager, but he isn't a coach. Rohl was his linchpin, and he hasn't been replaced. The club fundamentally need to address that. He is also hamstrung slightly by the squad he has available. Its bloated and has a lot of dead weight, and that in turn has prevented us adding sufficient quality in key areas. Add to that the fact that Djenepo (who is easily one of our best attacking players) is out injured, and is it any wonder we are struggling? We can't defend, if we attack we leak like a sieve, and we aren't sharp enough currently to offset that. At the very least, we should get in a defensive and attacking coaches to help with these aspects. The people at the very top of the club need to put up or get gone. But that isn't likely to happen any time soon. And as others have said, sack Ralph and we'll get in another manager who is tactically worse (but may be able to coach better) - a bit pointless when we could just hire a replacement coach and save millions!

Tonight doesn't matter. We have no interest in this game, only the league. Players are being rested and its about damage limitation. We are currently a laughing stock of a club lets not forget.

Wasn't that goal offside?

Exactly.

What did he say? Fishing for a job?

I'd take him in a heartbeat.

Record premier league win very much on the cards tonight, and it will be for an away side. If it happens, the shame will never be washed clean. I decided at the end of the Claud Puel season that I wasn't going to pay another penny into the club under its current management and business strategy. To do so was to let people get rich on the back of ruining our club. We had a fantastic team and almost made champions league football. They turned it into this. If it takes another 10 years of struggling, relegation and administration to hit rock bottom and rebuild... well then I'll welcome it. Because nothing changes the way things are. Even if we sack the manager, get a bounce, stay up... we'll be in the exact same spiral we're in now. This board and club management are entirely unfit for duty.

I don't think people have realised that we're watching the record premier league win tonight. By an away side.

How can they give a red card and the goal. Should be a fecking free kick in that case. BS.

Its clearly a different deal to TM's one because it removes the backstop. However. I've heard that it includes a lot of level playing field clauses which mean the UK can't negotiate better trade deals that the UK has, and we can't reclaim fishing waters etc. In which point, its garbage and true dead duck to hang round our necks. Fact is though, trying to find the truth of it is impossible. The tories will paint it as the best thing since sliced bread, labour will vote against the tories regardless, the lib dems just want the whole thing revoked, the brexit party hate anything that isn't no deal, and the SNP will flat out throw their toys out of the pram until they've (and only them) have broken up the union. Trying to find the truth of it from all the conflicting agendas and arguments is impossible.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7570817/Britains-worst-paedophile-stabbed-death-makeshift-blade.html