Saint86

I thought it was superb for a maiden outing. Obviously the future and I remain shocked and frustrated that we still don't have it as fans in the UK. Currently we have to pay fortunes to attend 3pm kick offs, just so their is an atmosphere (debatable) for people watching in Asia.

We were dead certs for relegation when he joined. So to give improvement / results a 5/10 or 6/10 is poor. Since he's been here the club have weakened the squad bar the signing of djenpo. He's a miracle worker if he keeps us up in both 2 seasons with this squad.

Prowsey having another good game for us. We have some epic boo boys fans, has to be said.

You actually don't know who Chris Marsden is? Thats really sad.

BBC should be scrapped, or constrained to arts coverage, news, educational programmes, free to access sports and the like. IMO anyway. As an organisation it has become extremely out of touch with the population, displays a lot of arrogance/ignorance, overpays its workers, and too politicised. No longer even remotley fit for purpose, especially in today's world of on demand streaming access. It should be revamped as a high calibre impartial information and cultural platform.

Or you can be the Labour party... knowing that a lot of people are gullible enough to lend you their vote

Lol, that ground was half empty vs Altringham. Where does he get 16.4k out of 19k capacity (when did it drop so low ) for the attendance!

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.