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They struggled vs the 4-2-2-2 central press and being forced out wife. We don't have a midfield. Has a team ever conceded 9 at this stage of the competition before?

Sadly i think we're going to have to get used to it tbh, this is is the SR way - 5 at the back and hoof ball.

Have we just accidently won a game - certainly two very lucky goals. Palace had more possession, 8 corners to our 1, 13shots to our 6... and we committed twice their number of fouls. Talk about winning whilst playing shite.

That's one of the most ridiculous free kicks i've seen. So flukey. Bad defending and keeping, and the wind has caught it. Was a cross from like 35yards out on the wing... Right in the corner... They all count i guess.

Win or not, these tactics do not work. Can't keep playing like this at this level.

Is Rasmus a Pompey fan?

Its hard to imagine there was a worse managerial choice out there.

When is he getting sacked?

5-2-3 I'd guess? Unless he is putting Lyanco in midfield. Midfield 2 is anyone's guess though.

Any streams for this one? No idea why i want to watch us get ruined again 🤣

I'd like to see us sack Jones and rehire Ralph, but give give him a good striker and some actual cdm cover 😍😘. (who could have guessed I'd say that 😋🤣)...

if he doesn't know he's joined the team 20th in the league, then he deserves to be surprised...

Hard to get excited about it if we're honest. Who feels confident it will make any difference with Jones' disjointed (hasten to use the word) style But whatever, welcome aboard the good ship Southampton to Orsic...

No one says we're a shit club, just currently being run very poorly 😉. You are ofc welcome to disagree...

Shame they couldn't have got in Orsic and a quality striker in the summer, would have been a very different season

I am absolutely stunned that he wants to join us tbh, we're going down.

I suspect you'd be a broken man if you'd spent 4 years battling tooth and nail to save and rebuild the club, only to be finally promised a striker, let down, instructed to play 5 at the back, and then hung out to dry by the board... Not backing him this season and sacking him now is one very large combined mistake by SR. He has been the main thing keeping us in the league. If he had been backed this summer with good attacker's we'd be comfortably mid table and the entire atmosphere around the club would be better. Anyway, I don't see why are you following me around the board to continue/rehash an argument in which we are diametrically opposed 🤔. I'm not going to drastically change my view I'm afraid. 🤷‍♂️ He should have been backed and kept, instead of being hung out to dry for months and sacked. He absolutely shouldn't have been sacked without having another quality mananger lined up 😔. We have utterly torpedoed the club's season and future... He would have had a full strength team this January as it was (with which he beat Chelsea and outplayed United) before the injuries kicked in, and we absolutely should have had a striker arriving on the 1st Jan. Its one ginormous car crash of mismanagement by SR, and now we are staring relegation in the face and unable to manage a shot on goal at home to one of the worst sides I've ever seen at SMS in the Premier league. All of which is irrelevant to the point myself, Toussaint, and others were discussing re the odd transition to a back 5 this season under SR. Which it seems plausible was enforced by SR and matches the recruitment decisions we've taken and the choice of the new mananger.

I agree, think that definetly happened to some degree. But he was fooked from the moment they stitched him up with no good attacker's this summer. It's no wonder he was a broken man by the end.

Yup. Grim. And people can kiss goodbye to the likes of dibling, Morgan, and ballard, very unlikely we'll even get a year out of them, let alone in the Premier League. We're going to get picked to peices in the championship. And if Jones is at the helm going into the summer you can be damn sure all our best players will be clamouring for the exit.

Probably means whoever we hire needs to play 5 at the back as well.

Naively checked in to see if he'd been sacked yet. 😭😭😭

Fair question, but do you seriously think we can stay up this year anyway? I think he'd have a chance of keeping us up, but having wasted the games we have I think it's a very steep ask now. That home loss to forest a significant nail in the coffin as well.

I'd bite your arm off here and now for bielsa over Jones. Would actually turn us around, be attractive for new signings, and get us out of the championship if needed. He also wouldn't tolerate the shit we've seen from too many players lately.

So, it looks like we've hired someone worse than wigley 😂

Hopefully basically no one attends, time to send that kind of message to SR.