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He just blamed the players. Unreal. His tactics!!! He set up to let a 10man team come back and score not one, but two goals... And then he blamed the players for poor defending and behind rattled. There is no way shape or form that a struggling team like wolves (that can barely score) should be bagging 2 goals away from home when chasing a game. The man is a massive fraud.

BBC solent straight onto covering Bournemouth, any idea where the saints post match is?

Really isn't enough for us to get rid of Jones. Rasmus' fingerprints all over every single thing that is wrong with this club. Need Jones out and Rasmus out!

Needs to happen before the post match interviews.

RASMUS AND JONES OUT!!

RASMUS AND JONES OUT.

Lots of Fans (prob the same bunch that promised us we had to sack Ralph and couldn't get any worse), didn't want tella back though 🤔

You really shouldn't need to point this out... Amazing how simple maths escapes some people 🤣😂

Jwp wants him sacked?

2-0 now 😂. Absolutley terrible. How can we be this bad vs a team when we're 1-0 up and have to win. Unreal. Absolutely threw away the easiest 10 points we could hope for in a season. Guy is a joke.

Bye bye Jones!

He's lost 1-0 to 10man wolves in a must win game. He's shit and needs to f'off. If Rasmus can't see that then he needs to go also.

You've seen us play right?!? Would imagine every team in the league thinks we're a soft touch, no threat, no midfield, no defence, no keeper.

Surely needs to be booted after this fiasco. Unforgiveable.

That won't be our line up.

Working class welsh boy done good, but with a chip on his shoulder about it that would sink the titanic. Its a real worry that he is simply unable to articulate the details of what he is talking about, but i tend to agree that he probably does know what he's about to a reasonable level and he was manager of the year in the championship with Luton. Its clear Rasmus isn't going to sack him, and its clear he's fully alienated the fanbase. He's got nowhere to turn now other than results - deliver them and over time he'll start to win back the fans, but every dropped point will ratchet up the toxicity to ever higher levels.

The kid didn't want to sign a new contract and was clearly only interested in going back to Chelsea and the £££ signs. There isn't much we can do. Its not Jones' fault ultimately. Jones could have played him in the first team maybe - but Chelsea would have still likely have signed him and the fans would have been even more annoyed. And it is unlikely that he would have been ready for the premier league at his size and age. Precious few kids do anything at this level at the age of 16/17 - I can pretty much only think of Rooney. Owen was 18 when he burst onto the scene, theo/ox/bale did effectively nothing for their first few years either, Kane was into his twenties... The only thing it may have done is get the fans onboard - Koeman found this to his benefit when we were awful in winter under him, he made a load of changes, introduced some academy players, and i believe we went onto win 3-0 vs everton? I do think their is a lack of awareness from SR about what makes the fans tick at saints, its not just about developing kids, its about developing our kids. They would get a lot more patience and support if 1-2 kids were being given a few minutes. But then if they really aren't at the required level yet its also fair enough - we can't afford to throw away points more than we are.

This is a beautiful post 😍

To paraphrase, "with the greatest respect, respect is earned".

Everton? What?!? They're a club bankrolled by an owner that has been living well beyond their means and at the limit of FFP spend for consecutive windows. They can't be scoring too highly for fan engagement either.

You think we'll see significantly more player turnover than that? From the fan's forum it sounded like the financial investment and backing was there, and a lot of our younger players will be on lower wages and long contracts - i.e. less pressure to sell. Whereas its a given that more established players nearing the ends of their contracts will be more likely to leave - clearing off higher wages and reducing the financial pressure to sell others due to transfer fee income and lower overall wages.

With Jones, a likely worst case is: Bazunu Bree Lyanco Bednarak DCC/ABK Perraud Diallo Alcaraz Edozie/Ely Tella/Djnepo Adams/Onuchua Possible rotations / inclusions for Adam and Stuart Armstrong, Orsic, Stephens, Tino (assuming he makes it back in a decent state), Walcott. Given contracts, the need to generate revenue, and SR view on player ages - we can be fairly confident that KWP, Salisu, and Lavia will all be gone for certain. Can't imagiine that Sulemana will be sticking around but who knows. Whether JWP stays or not is up in the air. I don't know how long Janny B's contract has left, but you would imagine that we'll keep hold of 2 of Lyanco, ABK, and DCC? Perraud and Bree both adequate for the championship, as should Tino be (we'd hope - but no guarantee). I can't see us selling many of our other attackers - the one thing we do know is that Tella, Adams, Armstrong, and you'd think Onuchua - should all be pretty lethal in the championship... Whilst that team is a spectacular fall from grace / drop in quality. You would fancy us to at least get playoffs with that team surely? Even with jones 😰

If they don't act, they'll lose control of football regulation to the government 🤷‍♂️

Playing squad clearly poor for both managers. The main criticism we're all levelling at Jones is his persona and the way he has carried himself in the recent post match interviews. Clearly struggling under the pressure of it all and should never have come out like that to attack the fans and criticise the players. As Semmens said, "stupid", and something that has very likely caused irreparable damage. Take that out of the equation and in fairness he probably does deserve the chance to use the new signings... just as Ralph actually deserved to be given a decent striker, winger, and someone other than Diallo/AMN to play in CDM!! When Ralph had a competitive attack, we were a very good side... Who thinks they'll be saying the same about Jones in a months time?

I remember it as a cold winter midweek(?) evening with the fans being somewhat unsure what to make of it all. The chants were for Adkins and grumbling at Cortese for how he had treated him. I don't remember any flack at all being directed at Poch. I went with my old man, sat in chapel, openminded on poch and gutted for Adkins. We both came away thinking things were going to be alright under Poch. I still think Adkins was on course to keep us up that year and it was a harsh sacking (somewhat cut short his managerial career if we're honest), but Poch was a different class of manager so 🤷‍♂️.