OldNick

I wonder why the club failed to give him no more than a 15 word send off? I know his tenure was not good but to be so blunt is a surprise

Hi honey bun, do you want some nylons or some gum. That's what my gran says what an American usually says

We can make excuses. I will end up getting behind him, but iam sure underwhelmed and have lost complete faith in the gang at the top. We are their chemistry set, and they are playing their games, not only trying to play a team with mainly 19-20 year olds, but taking risks on mangers, let alone not getting rid of Ralph sooner.

Or his training methods

I read /heard on here somewhere that Martin Semmens said there were others interested in buying Saints, who were prepared to spend a lot of money ( i know they have spent a lot now, not sure if it is added debt to the club though), but felt SR were a better fit!!! To me he has made a massive error

Not sure Hitler did a deal with anybody, did you mean like Chamberlain?

Why are you setting your sights so low, loser

So it seems Alien spacecraft if they ever arrive will be shot straight down, if the last few days have anything to go by! 'We come in peace' Boom To be fair if they have technology to travel millions of miles I doubt our air to air missiles will ever lock on

Im told the matelot derby went as expected. I assume all your lot had the your tongues so deep down each others throats, you didnt watch any football.

He wont unite the fanbase behind him, that's for sure. Strikes me he is the Manager version of Rasmus

Shame he didnt lamp that Newcastle player who waved him off, instead of breaking up a fight

Also Twitter has Alfie House, etc taking snippets out of his interviews to get clickbait. Fans in the main dont listen to the whole interview and the context the comments are made. It is thenew world but sure is pretty sad

"Thank you Southampton FC for all the memories and opportunities. Wishing you all the best, Saints." his message was probably the most heart warming and grateful Ive seen since Lovren went to Liverpool

As long as we go for a Johnny Foreigner we will be excited, nobody is any good unless they are

Good point CB. Not sure tht Leeds are shitty but they are poor. The first season the teams that are promoted have done pretty well and not straight back down..apart from Bournemouth. Its difficult to see who will go down, even Palace are a bit inconsistent, but may have got too many points early days to slip in it.

Lol, nice one. Have you morphed into CB Fry or are you him, very much his style of work I did mean season but you have pinned me lol

With us its all hit and miss the target lol I yearn that Big Paul becomes a massive cult here and bags a few goals early matches and the team starts to roll. If not it doesn't bear thinking about. The match thread will be its usual fun with 'The idiot shouldn't be in the team,' 'How didn't he pass that' 'How did he miss that' 'He should have saved that' 'All long ball stuff' this will be just in the kick about before the game

That is fair, I still go back to the case that he has until now, the same failing squad that were dire for the past year. It is quite amazing how we didnt go down last season! Personally we would take a jammywin, bad VAR decision or a massive fluke to get us on track a little. I sense there are a few fans who want to see us tonked so that they can hope NJ is sacked. I cant see that will happen, but if the team sheet comes out like last weeks then he is really in trouble

Im still here.....ohhhh

There will be a team of fans with pitchforks who will be hunting this guy down. lol Interesting, obviously a very cut down version of the clubs fortune

so are you saying the fans expect more than we should do, I think that would be a fair assessment

Lol.

That is interesting how they get Xg. Thanks for that. Perhaps I have over egged the performance re Wolves but it was dire and so have many more games been with this squad for a few seasons. I hasten to add that my dislike for Ralph is more recent, mainly from the last half of the previous season and his tenure this. NJ has been a desperately poor choice and the powers to be should have seen how the fanbase were when his name was mooted!. Very much the same as Benitez for Everton, it was always going to be nye impossible to work as he was not only fighting the pressure of our position but the fans own perception of him. He wont have much shelf life left with the board, who fail to recognise they make a poor choice. I feel sorry for Nj as he took the opportunity and came into a storm he never expected, that Im sure. The gamble I assume was, that he would hit the floor running and soon appease our fears, but the just hasn't happened. I hope he can get 3 points saturday for us, and he has seen the madness of some of his selections. I haven't seen Carr play in the flesh and so cant say if he is the best we have, I thought Bella Kotchop with Salissu could have been the best pairing but CC seems to have the most backing from fans. Anyway, I assume as you understand XG you will be walking away with the Fantasy football league, I myself am having a sticky 2nd season!!! Top 3m lol wheras I finished 200k last time. It must have a bit of a use for that game, especially when you are buying in players for certain gmes, I just go with my own gut feeling, so that tells you a lot. Thanks again for the in depth explanation of XG

Have i missed something?

Steve I'm amazed that you use XG as any barometer. VAR certainly cost us points (Imo) regarding the Villa result, is human error put into XG ?. You are a lot younger than myself and perhaps have faith in such calculations but to me a game of football cannot be filtered into a calculation. I have seen countless games in my supporting life where we have mullered teams and they have one chance and score to win. Ralph for me was a dictator, wouldnt take other advice (imo) and gave us the most dire performances I think I have ever seen, Villa and Wolves away. Villa where we didnt look like scoring or even having a shot, it was a most embarrassing performance played out on the Sky audience. NJ has taken on a squad that were disenchanted and low ebb, that had served up those games I mentioned. I also am flabbergasted that we never had a new manager lift, perhaps the 5 weeks off took that away as the fresh impetus was lost in that time. The results have been poor but the magic wand of stopping a players switching off at set pieces has been difficult. Hence the late defeat at Fulham and the goal v Villa. We do not have a dominant centre half who is brave and clear out the ball from crosses. Connor Coady type defenders are in short supply and we IMO dont have one who for 90 minutes can cope. He cannot also (Ralph had to deal with this as well)not help forwards missing easy chances and one on ones. Your research is in depth and so does paint a bad picture, but football is down to human error or special moments that change games. Not algorisms that are based on different peoples definition of an easy chance or a hard chance. Forgive me if my understanding of XG is not correct, it is alien concept to me