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Terrible, terrible signing, was apparent very early too. Essentially down to one striker now, so desperately need a physical forward in January even more.

Personally think the fan base reaction to him just because he fell out with one of the worst managers we’ve ever had (Juric), is really weird. Even Juric brought him back in after a couple of games after realising how poor the alternatives were. He’s been injury and illness prone since we got him, he nearly didn’t sign for us because he was ill - he hasn’t suddenly decided to down tools just because Juric was shit.

I’d expect we will revert to the Charlton lineup, Bragg back in for Downes and Stephens in for Quarshie as expect his pace not such a requirement.

All he needed was just a bit more time…

He would have a field day with an aerial threat in the box, he is such a good crosser of the ball in so many different ways. Absolutely superb from the first whistle tonight, best performance by far.

You can only play it out once the gap occurs - sometimes it’ll happen quickly, sometimes it’ll take time. I don’t remember us struggling to play it forward under Russell when we put 4 and 5 past Blackburn, Swansea, Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield, Birmingham, Sunderland that season.

I agree with a fair bit of what you post but can’t agree with this at all - this is the third game in a row people are detracting from the performance/result by saying the opposition are poor. I’d say almost every team we’ve played this season have been average at best, I don’t think the league is great this season at all, yet we’ve just absolutely torn apart a well drilled workmanlike side with a decent coach (at this level). Until three games ago we’d made a meal of every single team we’ve played against, even the games we won. I struggle to remember a half of football that good from any Saints side, maybe ever to be honest.

Maybe mate, or given the quality of our squad, if our manager had played a logical setup and not made bizarre substitutions we might have held onto leads at Watford, Derby and Blackburn, and xG wouldn’t have been of any importance?

Your point is that if we had a better striker we’d have won more games, my point is if we’d had a better manager we’d have won more games. Scoring goals has been a problem, but terrible setup and even worse substitutions has been a bigger one.

We’ve kept 2 clean sheets in the league all season despite playing 5 defenders in almost every game so far, there’s no such thing as a 3 at the back revolution because it is an utterly shite way to play football.

I like Corberan, and in a way I think he’d be a decent option if we were promoted to the PL but not so much one to get us there. Very, very defensive minded, maybe an argument to say with a better squad (like ours) he’d loosen the shackles a bit but i’m not convinced personally. I think he’d be ideal to try and make a newly promoted team hard to beat and grind out points.

That’s good mate but as I was in the ground, in the Itchen/Chapel corner, and heard at least three renditions of the song clearly, i’d say it was heard in the ground.

Two of GON’s former clubs looking for a manager now in Boro and Norwich, surely he ends up at one of them. Martin also in with a good shout of the Norwich job, not sure they’d grumble much at Farke returning either.

He was telling this forum we’d spoken to Nathan Jones months before Ralph had even gone, and has definitely had inside info on a lot of stuff over the years. Not always on the money but definitely got some info.

Heard from opposite end of ground

The one that has called numerous things correct over the years on here way before they happened

I think this is really, really important. People keep trying to justify managers who have managed at struggling PL clubs - that may be useful if we get there but we need someone who can get us there. Will Still managed scared, he was used to trying to punch above weight. We need a manager who can deal with the expectation of winning games, because that’s what we need to be setting up to do in this division - teams aren’t coming here to dominate us, they expect to be dominated.

It’s not just because he hasn’t played for Pompey, it’s because O’Neill is crap - Eckert might be too but we don’t know it yet so i’d gamble on him before I picked O’Neill. But as I said, we absolutely should not be appointing either of them.

I don’t want either to get the job but I would pick Eckert over O’Neill. I know O’Neill isn’t very good, I don’t know that Eckert isn’t yet - he also doesn’t appear to be a complete wanker and someone who is loved by our biggest rival.

It’s alright to compare to Redknapp and Crouch, but both of those were proven quality prior to their arrival - okay it didn’t work out with Harry but he was a credible, quality manager. O’Neill is not. All signs so far are that he is at best very, very average - couple that with being a Pompey legend, why would anyone want him? People talk about our fans being apathetic, so I thought it was great that they made their disproval heard today. Fuck Gary O’Neill.

Vieira has barely lasted more than a year in any job he’s been in, and has a repeated history of long periods without winning a game. Not sure he has any more credibility as a manager than O’Neill or Carrick.

Maybe this is all to make us grateful for the more obscure name that is coming instead - we’ll take whoever isn’t GON

I seem to remember Paul Hart being strongly rumoured to take over after Pardew and the JPT game that took place that night was basically one big anti-Hart parade and they went for Adkins. Maybe similar could happen tomorrow towards O’Neill, but expect there’s not enough life left in the fan base to bother at this point.

Yeah I remember reading that too tbf - so he’s a skate, a crap manager, and a bit of a twat as well. What could go wrong..

Maybe Boro will swoop in and snatch O’Neill from us now that Edwards is off to Wolves - played over 100 games there so here’s hoping!