Nathan Jones

[coalman]

2 minutes ago, DT said:

Jones: “We’re not massively further ahead than when I first came in and that’s to my own detriment. That’s because I’ve compromised on certain things, which won’t happen anymore.” #saintsfc @solentsport
 

it’s over. Surely?

I sincerely fucking hope so.

[DT]

Jones: “I have to go back to being me, and to my way.” #saintsfc @solentsport
 

goodie goodie

[DT]

Jones: “There’s certain things we’ve done and we’ve done well. It’s a big job, we need wins, points. We’re not a team that, normally, I am associated with.” #saintsfc @solentsport
 

what does that even mean?

[Elmore Saint]

7 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

I don't think he's even that good.

At least Dia only lasted less than half a game before he was found out….

[Weston Super Saint]

1 minute ago, DT said:

Jones: “There’s certain things we’ve done and we’ve done well. It’s a big job, we need wins, points. We’re not a team that, normally, I am associated with.” #saintsfc @solentsport
 

what does that even mean?

It's his first prem job  

[Saint_clark]

Fucking hell he's lost it. I can't believe the staggering arrogance of the man. I've never seen someone so blatantly try to pass the buck to others when he fails.

 

[Saint NL]

1 minute ago, DT said:

Jones: “There’s certain things we’ve done and we’ve done well. It’s a big job, we need wins, points. We’re not a team that, normally, I am associated with.” #saintsfc @solentsport
 

Not in a million years should he be associated with a premier league team, so he's correct

[Grim Reaper]

Just now, Weston Super Saint said:

It's his first prem job  

And last !

[LegalEagle]

13 minutes ago, Crab Lungs said:

Wow, what an interview 😲

He’s dead man walking. This interview is the beginning of the end.

[saintant]

16 minutes ago, coalman said:

His interview on Radio Solent is mental. "I was the best". "That's not my team". "I don't recognise myself in that team".

 

Do Hummel do straightjackets with their logo on? Think we might need some very soon.

[SotonianWill]

hi nathan and his family 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

[S-Clarke]

Just now, Grim Reaper said:

And last !

By the way he's going, this will be his last ever managers job.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at his Family's house (was it his mother in law's family who are saints fans?). Surely they're going to be telling him some home truths.

[Mixedkebab]

Did I read somewhere that Jones was a mate of some dickhead on our board of directors?

[Toussaint]

22 minutes ago, saintant said:

He survives because Ankersen is desperately trying to save face.

Or Ankersen is dictating play

[DT]

He has thrown everyone under the bus. If he thinks he will get any respect going forward he’s even more of an egotist than he sounds. Sincerely hope SR feel it is now untenable and get ride tonight. Maybe he wants the compo now. 

[Mr X]

Surely the players will be calling for his head soon.... Not that I condone that.... But maybe I do in his case 😂

[DT]

Is it Fat Sam time yet? (Now Dyche is taken)

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

What do you think that does for Lavias confidence? Fucking arrogant twat

[DT]

Jones: "Really poor. At spells in the first half we weren’t aggressive, didn’t play quick enough and didn’t play with any tempo, and when we did we looked the better side, but defending our box we have to be better." #saintsfc
 

pick the right players then?

[Mr X]

1 minute ago, DT said:

Jones: "Really poor. At spells in the first half we weren’t aggressive, didn’t play quick enough and didn’t play with any tempo, and when we did we looked the better side, but defending our box we have to be better." #saintsfc
 

pick the right players then?

Delusional.... We didn't look the better side at any point today 

[DT]

Jones: "The same things that have been happening for a year are still happening because, for a year, they've (#SaintsFC) been losing games in the Premier League, conceding goals, not defending the box well enough, not scoring enough goals and that has been exactly the same.
 

 

‘They’

[trousers]

4 minutes ago, DT said:

Is it Fat Sam time yet? (Now Dyche is taken)

It's taken me a while but we're now both on the same page! Sad to say but BFS is probably the best option right now...

[hypochondriac]

1 minute ago, DT said:

Jones: "The same things that have been happening for a year are still happening because, for a year, they've (#SaintsFC) been losing games in the Premier League, conceding goals, not defending the box well enough, not scoring enough goals and that has been exactly the same.
 

 

‘They’

It's so weird how he continually talks about the team before he got here and about his time at Luton. 

[bpsaint]

Do football managers have a probation  period like in most normal jobs? Hopefully this clown did so we can bin him off without spending a fortune.

Theres no way back from this, I can’t ever recall it working out for a manager after a start this bad. Really wish Dragan would get involved, it’s his investment after all .

[Weston Super Saint]

Just now, hypochondriac said:

It's so weird how he continually talks about the team before he got here and about his time at Luton. 

Buyer's remorse.

[Bakovnetski]

Who seriously said "no" to sacking him?

Really?

After that meltdown?

[DT]

Asked Jones what he meant by "I've gone away from what has been successful in the past" :

"At Luton we were a real aggressive, front-footed side, statistically, there weren't any better than me around Europe for aggression, clean sheets, defending in your box & xG."
 

Starting to think they interviewed a parody of Jones

[hypochondriac]

Just now, Weston Super Saint said:

Buyer's remorse.

Seriously who other than Nathan Jones and his family gives a fuck about what he did at Luton last year? It has zero relevance to Saints in the Premier league. 

[Baird of the land]

Honestly don’t see the point in trying to bring someone else in at this point. Let it run to the end of the season and re-evaluate then. 

[DT]

Just now, DT said:

Asked Jones what he meant by "I've gone away from what has been successful in the past" :

"At Luton we were a real aggressive, front-footed side, statistically, there weren't any better than me around Europe for aggression, clean sheets, defending in your box & xG."
 

Starting to think they interviewed a parody of Jones

I mean he does realise that was a different league, right? Right?

[DT]

Just now, Baird of the land said:

Honestly don’t see the point in trying to bring someone else in at this point. Let it run to the end of the season and re-evaluate then. 

Point is staying up. Hurtling down at present. 

[DT]

Hope SR are seriously pissed off about these comments

Edited 4 February, 2023 by DT

[stknowle]

16 minutes ago, LegalEagle said:

He’s dead man walking. This interview is the beginning of the end.

It needs to be the end. He has to go now. It's probably too late anyway but with him in charge we are guaranteed to go down. Never ever been so sure of anything in my life, football related or otherwise.

 

 

[maysie]

What village? What the fuck is this loon talking about?

[Baird of the land]

2 minutes ago, DT said:

Point is staying up. Hurtling down at present. 

No team has ever stayed up via 3 appointments. Just wasting more money, when there will be better managerial options to come in afresh in the summer when they aren’t being asked to come into relegation fight.

[DT]

Just now, maysie said:

What village? What the fuck is this loon talking about?

Ocean Village?

[DT]

Just now, Baird of the land said:

No team has ever stayed up via 3 appointments. Just wasting more money, when there will be better managerial options to come in afresh in the summer when they aren’t being asked to come into relegation fight.

But we will disappear.  Need to do it now. 

[Weston Saint]

“I’ve compromised in certain principles because of personnel and the way people want to play and so on, and I’ve compromised because of fans and so on – it’s a few little things,” he said.

“But no more, I’ve been very successful playing a really fluent style and tried to implement that at Stoke but couldn’t because of certain things. I came back to Luton and was successful playing an aggressive, front-footed side.

 

"Statistically, there weren’t many better in Europe in terms of clean sheets, defending your box, balls in the box, XG and all those things. Pound for pound we were the best because we were spending next to nothing and getting results,” Jones added.

“I’ve gone away from that, maybe because it’s the Premier League, maybe because of certain players and internationals, I’ve had to compromise on certain things but no more.”

Asked if he has listened to outside noise, Jones responded: “No, not at all. We’ve thought what have we got, because at the end of the day there are certain players in the building we have to work with.

“Now we’ve got a little bit more aggression and firepower and so on. We will be able to step that up. There are a few little things but I haven’t listened to outside noise, now I will live and die by my own philosophy.

“I was recruited to transfer certain things into this football club and I haven’t at the minute, but I will.”

Asked by the Daily Echo what he meant when listing supporters as a reason for compromising, Jones answered: “Not just because of fans, I’ve compromised because of certain things. The chants have come after my decisions so it’s nothing to do with fans.

“Certain things like fans and outside noise have come in afterwards. I’ve gone away from what brought me to this football club and that’s the disappointing thing.

“One reason has been players and secondly it has probably been you’re in the Premier League and you want to be fluent.

“You want to make sure that players are in a system which suits them to get the best out of them, now we have a little bit more of what we need to do to be us.”

Southampton's Jones admits 'compromising' methods in revealing chat | Daily Echo

[SotonianWill]

1 minute ago, DT said:

Ocean Village?

welsh mining of course silly

[revolution saint]

1 minute ago, maysie said:

What village? What the fuck is this loon talking about?

I guess when you're being called an idiot he probably feels entitled to have a village all his own.

[Weston Super Saint]

3 minutes ago, maysie said:

What village? What the fuck is this loon talking about?

The one with the only gay?

[hypochondriac]

4 minutes ago, Weston Saint said:

“I’ve compromised in certain principles because of personnel and the way people want to play and so on, and I’ve compromised because of fans and so on – it’s a few little things,” he said.

“But no more, I’ve been very successful playing a really fluent style and tried to implement that at Stoke but couldn’t because of certain things. I came back to Luton and was successful playing an aggressive, front-footed side.

 

"Statistically, there weren’t many better in Europe in terms of clean sheets, defending your box, balls in the box, XG and all those things. Pound for pound we were the best because we were spending next to nothing and getting results,” Jones added.

“I’ve gone away from that, maybe because it’s the Premier League, maybe because of certain players and internationals, I’ve had to compromise on certain things but no more.”

Asked if he has listened to outside noise, Jones responded: “No, not at all. We’ve thought what have we got, because at the end of the day there are certain players in the building we have to work with.

“Now we’ve got a little bit more aggression and firepower and so on. We will be able to step that up. There are a few little things but I haven’t listened to outside noise, now I will live and die by my own philosophy.

“I was recruited to transfer certain things into this football club and I haven’t at the minute, but I will.”

Asked by the Daily Echo what he meant when listing supporters as a reason for compromising, Jones answered: “Not just because of fans, I’ve compromised because of certain things. The chants have come after my decisions so it’s nothing to do with fans.

“Certain things like fans and outside noise have come in afterwards. I’ve gone away from what brought me to this football club and that’s the disappointing thing.

“One reason has been players and secondly it has probably been you’re in the Premier League and you want to be fluent.

“You want to make sure that players are in a system which suits them to get the best out of them, now we have a little bit more of what we need to do to be us.”

Southampton's Jones admits 'compromising' methods in revealing chat | Daily Echo

Difficult to decipher his words but sounds to me like the players didn't want to play 5 at the back hoof ball either. 

[Dman]

Right, hear me out on this one. 
 

I don’t think Jones is the right man for us and is a deadman waking. I also don’t agree with the way he handles criticism etc. 

However, I said a week or 2 ago, he’s a dead man walking, so he may as well had do it his way. Fuck the fans, fuck the players. Go out on your sword. 

if he’s being influenced by anyone to play a way in what he doesn’t agree with, then than needs to stop and fair play to him if he tells them to fuck off. 

Some of these players need a rocket up the arse and I honestly believe there is a real poisonous attitude in this camp. 

Let’s see how it goes against wolves. Expecting another car crash, but let’s see. 

[Toadhall Saint]

11 minutes ago, maysie said:

What village? What the fuck is this loon talking about?

Bats in his belfry 

[trousers]

1 minute ago, Dman said:

if he’s being influenced by anyone to play a way in what he doesn’t agree with, then than needs to stop and fair play to him if he tells them to fuck off. 

Some of these players need a rocket up the arse and I honestly believe there is a real poisonous attitude in this camp. 

I get where you're coming from but, unless it's a small minority of the players who are rocking the boat, how does telling the players to "fuck off" result in a harmonious squad?

[stknowle]

17 minutes ago, bpsaint said:

Do football managers have a probation  period like in most normal jobs? Hopefully this clown did so we can bin him off without spending a fortune.

Theres no way back from this, I can’t ever recall it working out for a manager after a start this bad. Really wish Dragan would get involved, it’s his investment after all .

Not sure about probation period but I'm certainly not buying the 'Sacked Manager = pay him up for the remainder of his contract as if he had worked it all' bollox that seems to be generally accepted as being the case.

[Weston Super Saint]

1 minute ago, trousers said:

I get where you're coming from but, unless it's a small minority of the players who are rocking the boat, how does telling the players to "fuck off" result in a harmonious squad?

Managers who lose the dressing room always achieve wonderful things.

[hypochondriac]

Anyone else happier this evening after accepting relegation? It's the hope that kills you and this is the first result where I no longer have any so I can just watch as an interested observer at the car crash for the rest of the season and hope that we bin Jones and start preparing for next year ASAP. 

[trousers]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

Anyone else happier this evening after accepting relegation? It's the hope that kills you and this is the first result where I no longer have any so I can just watch as an interested observer at the car crash for the rest of the season and hope that we bin Jones and start preparing for next year ASAP. 

I'm in exactly the same mindset. It's quite cathartic I agree.

[woodsaint1]

Fat Sam definitely isnt the answer, he wouldnt be able to keep this team up. There also doesnt appear to be many other top managers who would want to come to us right now. And Selles until the end of the season is not the answer either.

Like I've said before I would be surprised to see us change the manager again this season. But that interview doesnt help Jones' case at all