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Sheaf Saint

Sheaf Saint

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After the embarrassment of last season, we needed a manager who could come in and make us a much more solid defensive unit.

Still, seemingly, is not that manager.

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Football Special

Football Special

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Just now, Sheaf Saint said:

After the embarrassment of last season, we needed a manager who could come in and make us a much more solid defensive unit.

Still, seemingly, is not that manager.

He's not. He's inexperienced and naive and has been schooled in every game so far. We are so so easy to play against 

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aintforever

aintforever

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Not exactly a surprise though is it? We hired someone who never played the game, never managed in the Championship, only managed for a few seasons in France and achieved nothing.

SR are a bunch of mugs, trying to be too clever and believe any bullshit agents tell them.

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Badger

Badger

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Just now, aintforever said:

Not exactly a surprise though is it? We hired someone who never played the game, never managed in the Championship, only managed for a few seasons in France and achieved nothing.

SR are a bunch of mugs, trying to be too clever and believe any bullshit agents tell them.

Go back to early in this and the who do you want thread ? Think you’ll be surprised how many were taken in, especially after the French journalists bit on Solent 

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Tommy

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Just now, Football Special said:

He's never really seemed that into it or that bothered either has he? 

Aye, I really dislike he’s nonchalant and dare I say it arrogant way of engaging with people. 

RedArmy

RedArmy

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1 minute ago, Football Special said:

He's never really seemed that into it or that bothered either has he? 

Nope. Looks just like his players, going through the motions. 

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RedArmy

RedArmy

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1 minute ago, O_Lord_Marian said:

Luckily still available, Mowbray, Rohl and Carrick.

Would take anyone above over Still, nice bloke but stick to FM.

Mowbray? Fucking hell no thanks :lol:

AlexLaw76

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He is well and truly out of his depth. 
 

await the likes of Alfie House scoff at fans not having him. 

no where near promotion with this lad - plain to see after the Pompey game.

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sfc4prem

sfc4prem

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He's overseen a pretty abject start to the season.

I like his personality and honesty but he seems a little clueless, if I'm honest.

The patterns of play we produce seem rather pointless.

Our defence is as limp as month old celery. If McBurnie can fucking slice us open with ease, something is amiss.

What will the turning point be? We cannae go on like this.

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Sheaf Saint

Sheaf Saint

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1 minute ago, Maggie May said:

It beggars belief why he has last season’s joint assistant manager at Luton with him.  

Totally consistent with SR's record of rewarding failure.

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sfc4prem

sfc4prem

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@S-Clarke Was it you that posited the idea that our abject 12-point season last time round would have a cataclysmic impact on the whole club, one that we'd struggle to recover from?

Did I remember correctly that in that post you also mentioned the thought that we may well face a relegation battle in the Championship this year as a consequence of last year's shit show?

If so, you're looking pretty fucking prescient right now.

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SfcPhil

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I've tried to remain positive up until now, as he's had to deal with a huge turnover of players, many coming in late in the window, then the international break, but for me today was the first game with no excuses to grab hold of. To fail so miserably against a side you'd put money on finishing in the bottom half of the table, is more than worrying.

As others have said, it looks like another SR "trying to be clever" appointment that hasn't paid off. I can't see a definite style of play, which is worrying after being in charge for three months. I think his lack of managerial experience is being reflected in the performances. This group of players should be more than capable of beating most teams in this league, if a capable manager was in charge.

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Badger

Badger

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This is a comment I posted 20th May on the ‘who do you want as manager’ thread (now locked). No idea how to post a quote from it but here’s a screenshot (of one I made earlier as they used to say)

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Appointment was another huge gamble, which many accepted on the back of the French journalists talk on Solent and his tactics talk with Carragher. 

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O_Lord_Marian

O_Lord_Marian

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Just now, CB Fry said:

Russell Martin has a lot to answer for

Who goes first, Martin or Still? Sheffield reacted quickly to sacking another stain on this club in Selles. Depressing really.

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bpsaint

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Wasn’t sold on him in the first place, a whole pre season and 6 games in and it’s clear he is well and truly out of his depth. At least Russ gave us a bit of an identity before that 4 match period when the scar tissue set in, turned that around well though.

Still has shown nothing, honestly we fluked a win against Wrexham and that’s all, no cohesion, no pattern of play, just eleven blokes out on the pitch playing Sunday league football. What’s the thought process each match? Where does the idea to suddenly stick Downs up top by himself come from? What the actual fuck is going on.

We’re not just suddenly going to turn this around, action needs to be taken now. We know it won’t though, it’ll drag on till Christmas by which time any idea of promotion will be well and truly out of question.

 

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LGTL

LGTL

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9 minutes ago, sfc4prem said:

@S-Clarke Was it you that posited the idea that our abject 12-point season last time round would have a cataclysmic impact on the whole club, one that we'd struggle to recover from?

Did I remember correctly that in that post you also mentioned the thought that we may well face a relegation battle in the Championship this year as a consequence of last year's shit show?

If so, you're looking pretty fucking prescient right now.

Indeed it was him, and he was spot on.

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Scoobysaint

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I am hoping that he will come good. The players have got to take some responsibility for being so poor though. THB was a liability today, not Stills fault if he can’t win a header and gives away silly fouls. I’m more concerned with the big difference between the attitude of the front 4 and the rest of the team. The front four are making runs and looking to get in dangerous positions. The problem is that the rest of the team especially the back 4 either don’t see the runs or aren’t capable of making the pass required. Just sideways and backwards, and repeat.

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S-Clarke

S-Clarke

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5 minutes ago, sfc4prem said:

@S-Clarke Was it you that posited the idea that our abject 12-point season last time round would have a cataclysmic impact on the whole club, one that we'd struggle to recover from?

Did I remember correctly that in that post you also mentioned the thought that we may well face a relegation battle in the Championship this year as a consequence of last year's shit show?

If so, you're looking pretty fucking prescient right now.

I said something like that, yeah. You cannot underestimate the damage that happened last season, not just on the playing side either - the foundations of the entire club will have been rocked by last season. It was an humiliation on the global stage.

In terms of the squad, we're stuck in this weird middle ground at the moment. Lots of new faces, but still lots of hangers on from one of the worst PL sides ever - and it shows.

Is this going to stop us being competitive this year? Hard to say, but probably. Is this all Will Still's fault? Absolutely not.

I don't think there's any logic in binning off yet another manager at this stage. Last season we went through 3 or 4 managers and it made no difference. We need to give someone a chance to rip the core out of this team and start it again, it will probably take a few windows, but there's no quick fix unfortunately. If we change the manager again we reset the process again. We've got to ride the pain.

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