Nordic Saint

Let's at least give him a chance and get behind the team. He's done a tremendous job with the U21s, and significantly improved players. Their win at Tottenham on Saturday took them up to 4th in Premier League 2. He was also a first team coach at Barnsley when they made the Championship play-offs in 2021. He's certainly instilled some fighting spirit in that U21 team and he knows how to organise a defence as anyone who saw them battle to a draw against the superior players of Real Madrid can testify. I'm expecting him to have a positive impact on our first team now, but, of course, he's still going to be hampered, as Will Still was, by Sport Republic's poor recruitment and the team's lack of a proper spine. Anyway, it makes sense to have an interim appointment now as I'm sure Sport Republic weren't anticipating having to sack Will Still. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league-2/table

He scored against Pompey today. How we could do with a centre half and captain like him. The best centre-backs in the Championship: Exclusive: Lee Hendrie names the 3 best EFL Championship centre-backs right now

The team is spineless. We bought loads of midfielders, but we don't have a decent goalkeeper, centre half or centre forward.

The big difference is they didn't waste their money on players like Downs and Azaz, and they got some decent players on loan from Premier League clubs, like Harrison Armstrong and Lewis Dobbin. Also they've got a solid spine to their team whereas ours is spineless. At times today, we had 3 or 4 players queueing up to play in their preferred position on the left wing and no one in the penalty area for them to cross to.

Thanks. I missed that as I scrolled through transfermarkt, although it does rather spoil the uniqueness of the occasion. Edited accordingly.

Back in the days when we had a centre forward. 2 goals from Che Adams and 1 from Stuart Armstrong, who I see scored the winner for Aberdeen this week.

Some good news for those who want McCarthy in goal: The only regular season game we've won at St Mary's in the last 4 years with McCarthy in goal was against Preston, and Preston did have 1 attempt at goal during the game! So, there is still hope.

People also tend to forget that he saved us from defeat in our most important game of the season, v Pompey. Brilliant MOTM performance from Bazunu again tonight!

I've been using AI and search engines, which are not always reliable, but no team is actually worse, although a few have gone 12 months with only 1 home league win, so we haven't broken the record. Derby went eleven and a half months without a home league win, but won one before the 12 months were up. Macclesfield and Stockport also had long winless runs at home, which didn't quite reach 12 months, so they also share the record. If we hadn't scored those late goals against Wrexham, we'd be record breakers at the beginning of November.

Some good news! One home league win in 12 months is not a record. Oh, how we cheered at the end of that Wrexham game, with good cause.

He had a win rate of 29% at Bournemouth, which, although not good enough for them, is, by our standards, good. It means we should expect more than 4 wins over the next 50 games if he is in charge. We can't ask for more than that, can we?

I couldn't find the old thread with records Saints hold, but I believe 4 wins in 50 games is a new Football League record to add to the list, breaking the previous record of 5 in 50 held by Derby. PS Admin, if you want to add this to the old thread, feel free.

Sadly, I doubt there's any truth to this. It's not something Juventus would publicise. Before he washed up here there was a similar online rumour that, "Newcastle were said to be interested in him." If you use words like "said to be interested" nobody can sue you.

You obviously didn't read the comments. It's a joke.

If you were recruiting for a manufacturing company that had incompetent workers producing a shoddy product and terrible salespeople trying to sell it, but good delivery drivers, and then said, our priority should be to get more delivery drivers, even though we don't have lorries for them all, your company wouldn't do very well, would it?