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We’ll be sticking these up in the home end soon for all the away fans sat amongst us.

Just watching the Southgate press conference, he states one of the reasons he picked Maddison is that he likes the fact he always looks up for a forward pass, and not enough players do it in the modern game. Could be a subliminal nod in the direction of JWP who has often been criticised on here for that.

Missing out on the Euro 2020 squad was harsher on JWP for me when he was a lot more involved in the squad in the run up. It’s probably not in his nature but if Southgate comes calling again for some pointless friendly I hope Prowsr tells him to shove it

Right decision on JWP, he’s offered next to nothing this season and Rice is clearly ahead of him. Wouldn’t he surprised if he’s known from the summer he wouldn’t be going hence apathy in his performances.

Talking of back up coaches I’d love to know what Kelvin, Dave Watson and the other scapegoats that got sacked in the summer make of all the recent goings on.

You’d hope we’ve got a compensation clause in there somewhere otherwise that’s going to cost us a fortune come April when he gets sacked.

Bloody hell I’d argue Cowley is a bigger name than Jones. THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE SOUTHAMPTON,THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE POOR, WE HAD POCH AND KOEMAN, NOW ITS FUCKING NATHAN JONES, NATHAN JONES

It is rather disgusting that the EFL have the power in this situation to blackout coverage of a Premier League club.

No bbc aren’t allowed to have it live due to the ifollow deal Sheff Wednesday have. You can listen on their website for £2.50 😂

Voted no, purely because I don’t think this is the time to be fucking about with a gamble like this. A third of the season has gone already and we’re clearly in big trouble as it is. Perhaps if he’d been bought in during the summer and had some transfers behind him then it would be worth the risk, but by the time we find out if he’s the man for us it’ll either be safety or relegation, there won’t be another chance to make a change and keep us up.

Christ. This really is a weird fucking gamble, I sure hope SR know what they’re doing. Suddenly the thought of Sean Dyche, a man that constantly over achieved on a shoestring budget doesn’t sound so bad.

Nice big name signing to get all the players on board then. Fucking hell how underwhelming. A decision based on having one eye on requiring promotion next season it seems.

At least 4 months later than it should have been in fairness.

Exactly this, after our atrocious end to the season it should have been thanks very much for all you’ve done, golden handshake and a whole new coaching team bought in with a summer of transfer activity for them to build a squad. Instead we’ve allowed this to fester for far too long, and in the meanwhile thrown away very good opportunities to get more points on the board from some kind fixtures. Allowing it to drag on is just reminding me of 2004/05 all over again when Lowe persisted with Wigley for 14 or so games after sacking Luggy and gambled with our Premier League status claiming that it was worth giving young coaches a chance before the board forced his hand into a decision. It’s poor in SR that they’ve put Ralph in this position, I’m sure he’d love to walk away but it won’t be of his own choice as it’ll cost him a huge severance package. Don’t wait around until after the Liverpool game, just fucking sort it now and give the new boss the whole World Cup break, and some decent time with the squad.

With Ralph at the helm and no decent striker yes we absolutely are. There’s still time to save the season but SR need to act quickly.

Some line up that. Probably still get battered. With fairness we should be giving the bench players more game time in the B team, as football used to be back in the reserve team days when it was a good chance to see a mixture of first teamers returning from injury, bench players and youth team.

We haven’t played that differently in our last 3 games, we’ve just been lucky the opposition haven’t been on their A game. Those 5 points just paper over the same fucking cracks that are always there with Ralph in charge. Just fucking get rid of him please Saints for fuck sake!!

Easiest £50 I’ve ever won thanks to Lyanco. He needs to be hooked IMO, he’s a red card waiting to happen today.

Diving prick, where’s the yellow for the dive

What are we playing at!

Is that still the case? Seems like Zaha has really had our number in recent matches. Really hoping the team don’t get too complacent after holding Arsenal to a draw and they go for a win here. With 2 incredibly tough games coming up after against Newcastle and Liverpool this is our best chance at getting a result that would see us going into the World Cup break with a bit of breathing space from the bottom 3.

Harsh on Brett tbf

Yep. Shane would probably have scored more than AA in the same number of games too in fairness. It’s a shame, because I really want him to do well for us and for himself, but he just isn’t a Premier League quality player. You can get away with being a small striker in this league if you have the speed, awareness and skillset as history of smaller forwards has shown us. Using the example of our other Championship striker purchase, Che has grown into this league both physically and mentally, and despite his average goal return he looks a Prem player, AA just doesn’t. If we kept the receipt maybe we can take him back to Blackburn and give Brereton-Diaz a go instead 😂

I’d rather have Tella on the bench than Walcott tbf

Completely free hit this one. Anything better than a 0-3 loss is a good result.