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Will the ground staff be watering the pitch as usual. Another stupid tactic to slow the opposition only has our players falling over and miss kicking the ball.

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I wonder how long it took the genius to think of that one. I swear he lives in his own little world where everything is the direct opposite of what it should be. Trust us to get shackled to this nutty professor.

They cant do it on a cold and windy day in Stoke (Doncaster nr enough) let alone Southampton.

It is no long ago he played on the wing.

The data might have told you Damion Downs as going to be a great signing - but watching him once would have told you a completely different story. The big issue is data from the Bundesliga 2 or similar leagues doesn't necessarily translate to a faster, more physical and competitive league like the Championship. But also signing players with great potential is pointless if your coaching set up is abysmal or pretty much non-existent as it is at Saints. Who do we we really have on our coaching staff that is going to make players better or help them fulfil their potential? With our set up we really need to be signing ready made and finished product for the Championship. It makes you wish RedBull had bought us instead of Sport Republic - at least RedBull would have been competent owners and RedBull Southampton would have been a competitive premier league team.

Flynn will find a way to bottle out of it. Absolutely nailed on.

Yeah and I'll just throw in the weather - our poor wee lambs hate playing when it's wet and windy. They'll all be hoping to be one of those left out tonight.

That would explain so, so much.

To reiterate my post from a few days ago - it's all a bit miserable isn't it. Obviously there is PR guff in Bazunu's interview but quite clear to read between the lines - it's toxic here and he couldn't wait to get out. That said, he probably also wasn't enjoying getting pelters from the fans week in week out for being shit. (Btw I'm in agreement - he is shit). I'm not expecting some phoenix rising from the ashes career turnaround from Bazunu - he's average at best and always will be.

There's a qoute from RA from his time at Mitjyland saying something like your eyes lie to you when watching a player, so they dont hence why its done on data analysis

Cheers mate 👍

My own eyes and ears. Either that, or the manager has the intellect of a 4 year old to keep doing exactly the same thing that hasn’t worked for two months and only gained barely a dozen league wins in 18 months under the previous idiots SR have installed. That’s pathetic. Also see Still’s comments about not really doing things how he’d want to. Pretty clear something went on behind the scenes when he dropped Bazunu, Stephens and others. He didn’t help himself either not playing Fellows and the level of disorganisation at Hull, Blackburn to mention a few. But it’s pretty clear that many of that core undermined Juric as well when he tried to stop Martinball. Downes on strike for example. I don’t need Nathan Wood telling me to fuck off or sworn statement from Ryan Manning from his weekly diary. There’s things are in front of us every week (twice a week in this league).

He's not the leading scorer. He's on 11. Vipotnik at Swansea is on 13.

Thing

Unlikely though. I'm pretty sure peaches don't grow in Greenland. That's my indepth political analysis done for the day.

We clearly need a proper manager. One who will go in a sort out this rabble we have assembled. We clearly have indoctrinated some very bad behaviour, and let it persist to far too long. One things for sure, Tonda is not sorting this mess out.

I love these kind of made up assumptions. You know this is happening at Saints, how exactly?

During this year anyway, but the mid-terms are looking very likely to change that (and despite fears they won’t go ahead). He will have to do it by force as plenty of GOP Senators saying they won’t support a purchase and he needs two-thirds. It’ll probably all change around at the WEF and again by the weekend. He’s like a gate in 100mph winds. Whatever people think of Macron, Starmer etc, imagine having to deal with this. Nixon used to have moments where he’d use a ‘Mad Man’ strategy deliberately in pre-negotiations but Trump is just fully demented and a psychiatrist’s nightmare. A 7 year old on a E-numbers rush. 77m people voted for that - the state of the human race. Not as if January 2021 wasn’t an enormous clue or anything about chaotic it would be. But stupid does as stupid says. If just impacted Americans, fair enough and their problem. But unlike last time it’s impacted everyone globally and Americans won’t be forgiven in my lifetime.

I hope he does well. Should Stoke buy him, we'll have made an accounting profit. All parties get a fresh start, and can try and forget how much it's actually cost us.

He's certainly not captain material in terms of leading the troops and giving metaphorical kicks up the bum, at least on the pitch. I've seen no signs of lack of effort as he is often the one leading the press and chasing down. I agree his body language doesn't seem right though. It was good to see RS closing the keeper down the other game and hastening him in to an early pass. We need more of that by everybody.

Removing Manning and Wood; playing two full backs, two CBs and two wingers (TF and Leo) would help matters no end. New manager on the wish list and a change of ownership the key reform.

I guess we're going to all need to come to terms with the ugly reality that Bazunu is too good for Saints and was always going to move on to a more successful club. This is on you, Sport Republic.

We've a ready replacement in Archer, and young Ballard will then get minutes...oh... 🙂

I’ve been saying it all season, that he should be nowhere near the starting XI if we’ve got another option. He’s somehow managed to get even worse the last few weeks and if Tonda puts him in again tonight, he should be gone for that alone. He sums up everything that’s wrong with how this side plays. Slow, predictable passing, no movement, no intensity, no running, switches off every time and then tries to blame everyone else for his fuck ups. I detest him