Will Still - Official: Sacked

[CB Fry]

7 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

There can't be many left TBF.

Of course. Because they're full of shit.

If they really believed in giving the manager full seasons and full years they'd be saying it now. 

[Osvaldorama]

Doubt they’d come to our basket case of a club, but I’d definitely bite your hand off for Allardyce or Warnock. 
 

Someone that genuinely knows football and what it takes to get a club moving in the right direction. 
 

We are that bad that those guys that people used to turn their noses up at are a huge upgrade for us. 

[Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd]

22 minutes ago, EBS1980 said:

We sign Fellows an Azaz who for past two seasons have scored and assisted for fun in this league. Yet we mange to find a way to not play to their strengths. 0 goals and 0 assists 

I've been saying this too. Meanwhile, Diaz is scoring at Derby andnBree and Smallbone are winning MOTM awards.

Any of our players would walk into any other squad in this league. It all points towards the manager being clueless. 

 

[Paul Chuckle]

39 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Still 

Rusk 

Juric 

Selles 

Jones 

Wilkins 

Wotte 

Poortvliet 

Gorman 

Bassett 

Wigley 

Sturrock 

Who was worse?

You need to add Stuart Gray to this list.

Bit unfair on Mark Wotte because at least he won 3 games in a row, before the club went in to admin which killed our momentum. 

[SambaMaverick]

1 minute ago, CB Fry said:

Of course. Because they're full of shit.

If they really believed in giving the manager full seasons and full years they'd be saying it now. 

It just doesn't happen any more, rightly or wrongly. Too much at stake I guess.

Frank's Spurs just been booed off HT and FT after losing against Chelsea despite being third in the table. 17th last season ffs.

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

It really is odd how its all turned out. I think the job was just to big for him at such an inexperienced time of his career.

That’s a good chant if he’s still in charge at QPR (doubt it going by the post match interview) - 🎵 Your job’s too big for you 🎵 

[Saint NL]

The new manager will not only have the scar tissue from Russell Martin to deal with, but now there's a whole new set of scars left by Stills spell. 

Still, at least they've got an east excuse when it all doesn't work out.

[Roo1976]

19 minutes ago, Eagle778 said:

They won’t sack him for the moment.

........................what moment?.................

[RedArmy]

On 25/05/2025 at 04:49, V.Johnathan.Wilson said:

I hope we can do better in front of goal than Will's soon to be previous team. 

We should have seen it coming 

[Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd]

1 hour ago, Wade Garrett said:

Nope, thought it was a ridiculous appointment at the time and I wasn’t alone.

I thought it was a massive gamble but was prepared to let him prove me wrong. After a month I was thinking, this isn't going to work. I wanted him gone at the same time Selles went from SU. At least their board had the balls to sack the manager when it clearly wasn't working. Our lot will probably leave Still in place until after the next transfer window and allow him to bring in more shite like Downs. 

This isn't going to work. He has to go as soon as possible. 

[Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd]

Knowing our luck we'll end up with Marti from Leicester, Manning from Norwich or VP from Wolves. 

[The Kraken]

We are so bad at appointing managers. The fact that Will Still makes Russell Martin look like a genius says a lot.

Fuck off the lot of you. Pathetic from top to bottom. 

[egg]

15 minutes ago, Turkish said:

My preferred choice was Steve Cooper, if you read the first few pages of this thread the reactions were mainly very positive. It’s really hard to understand how someone with such a reputation has been so completely terrible 

Someone of Steve Cooper's ilk is exactly what we needed, and need. 

Re the fans position. I don't know one saints fan in the real world who posts on this forum, and I don't think you can ever took the concencus of the active posters on here as the concencus of saints fans. 

That said, Still seemed to have something about him and although he wouldn't have been my pick, his track record suggested much better than we've seen. 

[Saint NL]

1 minute ago, The Kraken said:

We are so bad at appointing managers. The fact that Will Still makes Russell Martin look like a genius says a lot.

Fuck off the lot of you. Pathetic from top to bottom. 

The club might as well put a poll up on the website and let the fans pick the team. Save us all the hassle of firing the next clown they appoint

[egg]

11 minutes ago, Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd said:

Knowing our luck we'll end up with Marti from Leicester, Manning from Norwich or VP from Wolves. 

This lot will probably go ultra radical and be interviewing Marti Pellow, Peyton Manning and Vladimir Putin. 

[Turkish]

2 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

The club might as well put a poll up on the website and let the fans pick the team. Save us all the hassle of firing the next clown they appoint

Get AI to do it, nothing would surprise me with these clowns 

[AlexLaw76]

I remember listening to the 2nd Tier Podcast before the season started, where they ranked the managers.

Funny old thing, of the 2 presenters, 1 of them rated him at a top 3 manager, the other a bottom 6.

 

 

[SOTONSEASTSIDE]

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25589309.will-still-reveals-worried-defeat-preston/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNzTHxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBGbk5xbjl3bmtRM2NyeG1NAR60_lRaXY7gDOHURzQfxalX8dTU1y1xDIRuJZUPQRjy9eB5hlwbgK0pet6HSw_aem_GXaKLWH6McEQK7RRjOx7lg  Mmmmmm!!

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, hypochondriac said:

Still 

Rusk 

Juric 

Selles 

Jones 

Wilkins 

Wotte 

Poortvliet 

Gorman 

Bassett 

Wigley 

Sturrock 

Who was worse?

Gambles that fail

yet our best managers of recent years have been 

Hoddle

Adkins 

Pochetino

Koeman 

 

what do they all have in common? Top players and/or experienced managers who knew the league. Pochetino was a gamble admittedly but he did have a bit of an aura about him and had been an Argentina international player. koeman and Hoddle were both and Adkins knew the lower leagues inside out. So why do we keep up with these trying to be clever shit?

[Baird of the land]

Amazed the fraud is still employed tonight.

[DrSuess1979]

Steve cooper please

[LGTL]

7 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Gambles that fail

yet our best managers of recent years have been 

Hoddle

Adkins 

Pochetino

Koeman 

 

what do they all have in common? Top players and/or experienced managers who knew the league. Pochetino was a gamble admittedly but he did have a bit of an aura about him and had been an Argentina international player. koeman and Hoddle were both and Adkins knew the lower leagues inside out. So why do we keep up with these trying to be clever shit?

Was thinking earlier when did this arrogance that oozes out of the club begin? This belief that we fucking invented everything in the game? Throughout the 90's we were generally regarded as shit, and we all accepted it as a club and Tiss always got us out the shit. But we never had this belief that we knew better then everyone.

Feel like it started with Cortese and his little lapdog Sibley (is that prick still at the club?) and has only got worse since. 

 

Edited Saturday at 20:44 by LGTL

[AlexLaw76]

One half of the 2nd Tier podcast duo was not convinced at all by Still in the summer. 

It was not the half that posted a nice puff-piece video about him over the last week

[RedArmy]

2 minutes ago, LGTL said:

 

Feel like it started with Cortese and his little lapdog Sibley (is that prick still at the club?) and has only got worse since. 

 

I think he prefers “fabrice29” now 

[Harry_SFC]

41 minutes ago, Turkish said:

The first few pages of this thread are all positive. I include myself in that. he came here with a reputation and was regarded as one of the best young coaches in Europe. Yet you watch games and think this can’t be it, but it seems like it is. The only thing I can think of that explain how terrible he’s been is he is being told he has to play a certain way because it just doesn’t make any sense how bad it is given the players we’ve got and the reputation he has.

I was the same. 

I don't think he suits managing a side who are expected to have more of the ball. His in game management has been very questionable and doesn't seem like the leader we really need.

I do feel for him a bit. He was let down in the window in terms of no striker coming in but either way we should have more points than this. 

[Colinjb]

4 minutes ago, DrSuess1979 said:

Steve cooper please

Doubt he would leave Brondby to be fair.

[Scoobysaint]

52 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Of course the fans will change their minds, IF results change. Sadly the players don't give a fuck what happens to the club or him so that's unlikely to happen, but do you really think the fan base would still want him gone if we turned round and got 8 wins in 10 games or something? 

They may well do but it wouldn’t build up credit. A couple of dodgy results and we’d be back to where we are now, booing the team off the pitch. 
I don’t know what the answer is but I don’t think it’s Will Still. He wants to play a 4231, they buy him the wingers for that and he leaves Fellows on the bench in order to play 5 at the back. And not a good five, a shitty five that can’t stop making mistakes and making goals. Sick of being so sick of it! 

[LGTL]

1 minute ago, RedArmy said:

I think he prefers “fabrice29” now 

Quite!

[Willo of Whiteley]

13 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

One half of the 2nd Tier podcast duo was not convinced at all by Still in the summer. 

It was not the half that posted a nice puff-piece video about him over the last week

Second Tier Podcast is the perfect description for it too.

They’ve had the biggest wankfest over Southampton since the start of the season, they’ve posted about the club a couple of times a day for the past couple of months. It’s borderline obsessive for a podcast that covers supposedly twenty-four teams.

[Gloucester Saint]

17 minutes ago, RedArmy said:

I think he prefers “fabrice29” now 

The exec corridor dry cleaning still gets collected though tbf.

Edited Saturday at 21:04 by Gloucester Saint

[sockeye]

4 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Second Tier Podcast is the perfect description for it too.

They’ve had the biggest wankfest over Southampton since the start of the season, they’ve posted about the club a couple of times a day for the past couple of months. It’s borderline obsessive for a podcast that covers supposedly twenty-four teams.

To be fair we are like a car crash in slow motion, no doubt people are going to be gawping and gossiping about it.

[Turkish]

Just now, Gloucester Saint said:

The dry cleaning still gets collected though tbf.

Imagine being such a little dweeb that someone had you running round doing that for them 😂😂

[AlexLaw76]

5 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Second Tier Podcast is the perfect description for it too.

They’ve had the biggest wankfest over Southampton since the start of the season, they’ve posted about the club a couple of times a day for the past couple of months. It’s borderline obsessive for a podcast that covers supposedly twenty-four teams.

Not surprised given we are one of the big boys in this league, spent a fucking fortune and hired a hipster manager, then watching ti all go wrong

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

Imagine being such a little dweeb that someone had you running round doing that for them 😂😂

He had a (nick) knack of getting people to run his errands.

[LGTL]

1 minute ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Not surprised given we are one of the big boys in this league, spent a fucking fortune and hired a hipster manager, then watching ti all go wrong

For every other team in the league, it must be fucking hilarious to watch. I'd find it funny too. 

[sockeye]

2 minutes ago, LGTL said:

For every other team in the league, it must be fucking hilarious to watch. I'd find it funny too. 

Imagine how fans of Cov, Boro, Stoke, Millwall etc feel this year, all four of the 'big boys' have fallen flat on their faces and they're flying, they must be rubbing their hands with glee.

[AlexLaw76]

4 minutes ago, LGTL said:

For every other team in the league, it must be fucking hilarious to watch. I'd find it funny too. 

I tell you who will find it funny. Nathan Jones when we go to Charlton in a few weeks. 

[RedArmy]

8 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Imagine being such a little dweeb that someone had you running round doing that for them 😂😂

It was really cute when Martin used to call him “Jordy” in interviews 

[egg]

42 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Get AI to do it, nothing would surprise me with these clowns 

Chat GPT has thrown up Michael Beale or Paul Ince!! 

[Turkish]

2 minutes ago, egg said:

Chat GPT has thrown up Michael Beale or Paul Ince!! 

It’s given me Danny Rohl, Gary O’Neill, Steven Gerrard, Ralph and Micheal Carrick with Rohl as top choice 🤔🤷‍♂️

[Turkish]

8 minutes ago, sockeye said:

Imagine how fans of Cov, Boro, Stoke, Millwall etc feel this year, all four of the 'big boys' have fallen flat on their faces and they're flying, they must be rubbing their hands with glee.

Particularly Boro after we signed their best player and Stoke who is the default suggestion as to who we are going to become if we don’t go up this year. I’d take that right now 

[stknowle]

48 minutes ago, SOTONSEASTSIDE said:

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25589309.will-still-reveals-worried-defeat-preston/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNzTHxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBGbk5xbjl3bmtRM2NyeG1NAR60_lRaXY7gDOHURzQfxalX8dTU1y1xDIRuJZUPQRjy9eB5hlwbgK0pet6HSw_aem_GXaKLWH6McEQK7RRjOx7lg  Mmmmmm!!

complete and utter load of meaningless tripe.

[Willo of Whiteley]

That Daily Echo article is such a non-article.

He’s under pressure. He knows he’s under pressure. There’s nothing more in it.

It doesn’t say “he’s done” or words to that effect or anything that we hope to see.

[egg]

4 minutes ago, Turkish said:

It’s given me Danny Rohl, Gary O’Neill, Steven Gerrard, Ralph and Micheal Carrick with Rohl as top choice 🤔🤷‍♂️

Bizarre. It initially gave me employed people even though I asked for people not currently in work - Dyche, Wilder, Mourinho, Nuno, and even Mancini. Crazier than a Still team selection. 

I'd take O'Neill or Carrick right now. 

[AlexLaw76]

ChatGPT suggested Rohl, O'Neill and Gerrard for me.

[Turkish]

3 minutes ago, egg said:

Bizarre. It initially gave me employed people even though I asked for people not currently in work - Dyche, Wilder, Mourinho, Nuno, and even Mancini. Crazier than a Still team selection. 

I'd take O'Neill or Carrick right now. 

I’d prefer Carrick but would take either 

[Turkish]

3 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

ChatGPT suggested Rohl, O'Neill and Gerrard for me.

Just done it again and it’s suggest Allegri and Zidane 😂

[Spoonman]

32 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Second Tier Podcast is the perfect description for it too.

They’ve had the biggest wankfest over Southampton since the start of the season, they’ve posted about the club a couple of times a day for the past couple of months. It’s borderline obsessive for a podcast that covers supposedly twenty-four teams.

I’m convinced one of em is a skate, he was devastated when we won play offs last time round

[RedArmy]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

I’d prefer Carrick but would take either 

Carrick definitely up there for me. Might even get a game out of Archer again. 

[Tommy]

Not being sacked tonight is another example of poor management from the ownership. He’s clearly done