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In that case, he could be here for years, like McCarthy.

To be fair, we know he is afraid of getting hit by the ball so he did well to avoid it there.

I don't think season tickets will be sold in the home seating sections adjacent to the away section. Those sections will probably also be unavailable until other sections have sold out for individual matchday sales too. They'll essentially be used for segregation/overflow. At least having empty seats for segregation in the corner will look better than having them directly behind the goal in full view of the TV cameras. Any fans who want season tickets as near as possible to the away section will either end up behind the goal in the middle of the Chapel or in expensive seats in the middle of the Kingsland. They'll be seen and heard more clearly by them if they stay in the Northam.

Interesting to see what Swansea fans had to say just over a year ago: "Martin is broken, players broken and fans broken." "He may have the support of the owners but with very little support from the fanbase it's creating a toxic atmosphere & it'll only get worse. I'll be renewing my season ticket but in the hope of seeing a different manager in charge next season. This shambles has to end." Forum | Russell Martin reassured he has the full support of the majority owners at Swans by SwansIndependent | Swansea Independent (fansnetwork.co.uk)

Russell doesn't do defence. His teams always ship loads of goals.

Alex McCarthy is a fine example to them all. No matter how useless you are, Southampton Football Club will take care of you and pay you much more than any other club would. If Carlos Kaiser were starting out today, this would have been the ideal club for him. I had a 26-year football career in Brazil, France, Mexico and USA but never kicked a ball and instead slept with 1000 women | talkSPORT

Ross Stewart was bought very much for the Championship. He'll be 28 this summer and he's spent most of his career in lower leagues in Scotland and League One so it's unlikely he'll be good enough to score goals in the Premier League. If we do get promoted, we're going to need new strikers and, of course, goalkeepers, or we'll be coming straight back down again. Ross Stewart - Player profile 23/24 | Transfermarkt

You do talk some rubbish. You've already made it clear in more than a thousand posts that you don't like the idea of us having a proper home end again. It's getting tedious now.

In the 60s and early 70s, our home end was unequivocally the Milton. Unfortunately, neither end had a roof over it, so the acoustics were not great. At most other grounds, the home end was the covered end and the uncovered end was the away end. In those days we dreamed of having a big covered end such as we now have in the Northam. That was the reason for the initial move of some of our singers under the West Stand, which because it had a roof, had much better acoustics. So, by the late 70s, there were some singers left in the Milton and another group under the West Stand. But, as you can see from the pictures of the Channon Testimonial, in 1976 the Milton was still very much our home end.

He'll have his Europa League medal to collect long before that.

Some people just need their imaginary problems so they have something to moan about. Imagine the whingefest the nimbies must have had when we moved from the Dell to St Mary's and everyone had to change their seats and their routes to the ground. How did we ever manage to get through that?

They are.

Have you ever walked to and from the station? Home and away fans mingle all the way. The new setup will be easier to police.

It's only a few nimbies. The improvement in home support this new setup will bring is bound to upset them. They won't be able to whinge about how poor the home atmosphere is any more. One of them has posted about a thousand times on here because he wants to gawk at the away fans but doesn't want any vocal Saints fans near him. Maybe he can get a special needs seat in the away section as he loves the away fans and hates Saints fans so much.

Even though we've got the 3 worst goalkeepers in the Championship, we keep hoping that one of the other two isn't quite as bad as the one currently playing but it's probably just wishful thinking.

The move from the Dell to St Mary's meant that everyone changed seats. We got over it, no problem. So have other clubs' fans, more recently, like Spurs. Plenty of clubs have moved their away section to a different part of the stadium, too, like Leeds. They're happy now that they did. If we get promoted, the demand for seats and standing places at St Mary's will be greater than ever. Even if we don't get promoted, there will be no problem filling the stadium next season, in spite of some fans having to move. Let's support the Club on this. This new setup is the one we should have had in the first place.

Most of the players look unfit, even by Championship standards, which is why we struggle to survive the last 20 minutes of games.

Because it was deflected off Adams' arm and the officials have to pretend that didn't happen or the goal should have been disallowed for handball.

No, it took a big deflection of Adams' arm. Otherwise the goalkeeper would have saved it. But, as others have said, the officials now have to pretend that didn't happen or the goal shouldn't have been allowed. If that costs Coventry a playoff place, they'll have every right to feel they were robbed. On the plus side, we tried a few long range shots instead of doing what we usually do and passing sideways. A lot of goals are scored via deflections, even by the very best teams.

So, to sum up: good riddance.

As you say, he is a 6/10, mediocre sort of manager, which is what his whole managerial career told us he would be. The owners seem to want to turn us into the new Swansea - a small, mid-table Championship team with good passing stats - so he was an ideal fit for them. Nobody's going to want to poach him away from us, so you don't need to worry about loyalty. The highly lucrative world of professional football isn't like the civil service. By ordinary people's standards, fortunes can be made in 1 or 2 contracts. Very few managers last more than 2 years at one club. Most get sacked before then and can enjoy their new-found wealth at their leisure.

Do you really think that anybody cares that Wilcox has gone???? He's done his job and dumped a load of Man City duds here. He obviously didn't care or have a clue what we needed or he'd have brought in a decent goalkeeper. Good riddance.

We could probably stick you in goal and not fare any worse. Bazunu is about as good at goalkeeping as Frank Spencer was at D.I.Y.

We weren't just "brave" to line up with Bazunu in goal against Ipswich; we were f---ing stupid. How the Ipswich players must have laughed when they saw they were facing this clown again:

To be fair, if Bazunu were playing in National League South, he might not be the worst goalkeeper in it. Maybe that chap you spoke to is equally bad. Of course, that's only a 'maybe,' not a certainty. There must be people in the crowd at St Mary's who'd save more shots than Bazunu does, but, Lumley probably isn't one of them. Portsmouth team-mate on under-fire Manchester City keeper's dark period after Ipswich Town nightmare The Ipswich players must have been laughing their heads off when they saw who was in goal against them on Monday: