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Angry? I’m absolutely fine my false identity friend. The sun is shining, beers are calling and it’s a day closer to watching us at Wembley and either being really happy with a win or being able to say ‘I told you so’. It’s a win, win for me. The future is bright. COYR

If anything sums up hipster / trendy choice, it’s being linked with one of the top jobs in the world after 2 record equalling defeats and 2 wins in 15 games 🤯 He’s effectively being linked to these jobs based on style and formation, despite the fact tactically, he’s very limited. It’s crazy. Him going to Bayern would actually probably not be too bad for us, give us a decent bit of compo to replace him rather than holding off and sacking him 10 games into next season. It won’t happen though.

Yep, would say it was pretty even days play, good challenge between bat and ball. A good, well battled, knock from Holland and northeast. On paper, our middle order looks very good. Still think we’re a top order bat and fast bowler or a solid off spinner short from being a top team.

All of the above are clearly oldies living in the past. The Modern fan will Tell you about a new blue and white franchise causing a stir. Eastleigh FC.

Chapel End = Always_sfc

Who’s said he’s better than Diallo? The reality is, no one knows how good he’ll be. He played well at U23 level and has looked tidy when given a chance, but he’s still an unknown quantity. As for being surprised he’s off, I’m not. Ralph has played 2 players out of position ahead of him. Diallo wasn’t great Monday, AJ could have potentially made an impact. If he’s not going to get a chance when we have to play a CB there, when will He? Would you be motivated to bust a gut if you kno me the manager isn’t having you?

Watch a game, watch the negative body language and and lack of effort. Engage in any form of team sport (I highly doubt you ever have in your time), see someone with those traits and then come back and tell me it’s not an educated guess. Also, listen to TSP, Dan sheldon of the athletic said similar, so I guess he has no idea either.

Well done for ‘seeing right through the fact I’m not a club employee and in the dressing room. great insight. Just for you Always (fact), I’ll point out what is a fact and what an educated opinion from now on.

It showed the issues of drawing lines. A quick look at the screen and you can tell it’s onside. Too close to call? Go with onfield. for as long as they try and get them absolutely spot on to the nearest mm, then It’ll be a farce. it used to be a case of level is on side, where as now it seems to be viewed as off.

He tried his best at a funny. Let him have his moment mate

Football Fan has opinion on a football forum. Shock horror.

But that’s exactly what some of these players are. Their poisonous, negative attitude spreads and affects the rest of the squad. Just watch certain players (senior players as well), when things don’t go our way. They’ll give up and throw their arms about.

Ings and Bertrand. If they’re in a bad mood, it seems like everyone else is as well. Listen to TSP, Dan Sheldon said the same (without naming them). Bertrand in particular, his attitude is fucking appalling. A shame we have no one else to challenge him as I’d drop him for Sunday.

Perhaps because of that exact reason. Marketed as ‘the next Haaland’.

Despite being 2 of our technically better players, I’m half looking forward for Ings and Bertrand to be gone this summer. At least that’s 2 of the uninterested cancers in the dressing room gone (maybe slightly unfair on ings). Before anyone jumps in and down my throat, take a look at Ings body Language for the remaining games. Uninterested and always moaning. I don’t blame him as it must be frustrating playing in this shite team, but if you don’t want to be here, then best to fuck off. As for Bertrand, he’s been a negative atmosphere around the dressing room since his buddy Jose left. I really hope we don’t offer him a new deal.

They’ve been doing it for about 4 months now. I’d say it’s more a combination of a number of factors, 2 of which are the tactics and players no longer playing for the manager. Funny enough, I could see them busting a gut on Sunday. We’ve got some real cancerous, selfish, bad eggs in this squad and they’ll give 100% for their own gain in a cup semi final.

We were a better team back then though. Not great to watch, but could defend well and frustrate teams. At the moment, I struggle to tell you what we do well, other than be very poor.

Fair enough, I took from Google so blame them! I assume Palace was due to be this weekend? 🤔

FA cup aside, 6 pretty meaningless games, but some big ones for Ralph none the less. Im really glad we’re safe as we have 6 pretty tough looking fixtures. I’m going for 4 points. A shock draw against Tottenham and a win at home to Leeds. Tottenham (a) Leicester (h) Liverpool (a) Fulham (h) Leeds (h) Palace (h) West Ham (a)

It’s been a weird season for us really. Yes we started pretty well in terms of points and league position, which is ultimately all that matters, but if you actually look back, we didn’t really have any ‘great results’ in there. I actually think we were massively overrated early season. Other than Chelsea and Liverpool (neither of whom are their former selves), Any time we came up against any real resistance, we were beaten. Everton at home you could argue was a good result, but the others are pretty much results you’d expect to be honest. Ones in which were struggling with now. If we pick up any more than 4-6 points in our remaining games I’d be surprised. We could quite easily only get 10 points from the last 3/4’s of the season and stay up. Crazy when put like that.

Ings, fans were annoyed because of his injury record. The talent was clear and even his very first game for us, you could see his ability. The reason he got a move to Liverpool in the first place was due to his form at Burnley. Just to write him off is daft. Also, he only started his good run of form in about November / December. He hardly scored before that. Again, this coincides with our good form... coincidence I wonder... Vestergaard, has it crossed your mind that players can take time to adjust to a new league? He showed his ability in Germany, so I repeat, not really credit to Ralph is it. He was also almost sold to a bigger club in Leicester when he wasn’t in the squad. Havertz is starting to come good and so will Werner (he’s just had a rough time in front of goal, but his all round contribution has been good) so not sure what your point is with those 2 and if it’s even relevant to the debate? Armstong - again, fitness was an issue with him. He was always picking up niggles and struggled to see games out. He’s always been a consistent performer when we could get him on the pitch. Out of interest, do you go to watch games? Or do you make judgement from looking at Wikipedia / stats etc.

Considering Ralph saved the careers of JWP, ings, Vestergaard and Armstrong I say keep hold of him and let Ralph work his magic.

If anything sums up the latter Les / Ross Wilson years, it’s the deals for Hoedt, Lemina, Pellegrino and Carrillo. How did they get it soo wrong 😂 (Lemina i understand a talented player, just an absolute bell end).

The only one he’s really improved is JWP. Vestergaard - has been great this season, but last season, more of what we’d seen before in a saints shirt, however he played well in Germany, so bit of a stretch giving Ralph the credit for that one. Ings - I mean he played for Liverpool and was liked by Klopp, but naturally couldn’t play ahead of their front 3. Nothing’s changed on this front other than a good 6-12 months with an injury. Ings good run of form and goals coincided with our good run of form and goals. Armstrong - always been a good player for us. Struggled a bit for fitness, but certainly always been one of our best even under Hughes. He’s our new Steven Davis just a solid 7-8/10 every week. Vestergaard was linked to Leicester last season, Spurs are skint and need cheap players. Ings, would just sit on the bench at City and again is a cheap option. So they’re not all that surprising to be honest.

This. Too many playing fifa and/or football manager setting unrealistic expectations. We've been trying to shift shite like lemina, Hodet, Forster etc for years. We effectively had to let Boufal walk for nothing and paid Carrillo up. Why some seem to think we’ll just be able to shift the likes of Redmond, Stephens the the rest of the shite for any substantial amount given us funds to replace them is ludicrous. We’ve probably only got 4 or 5 players that are worth any real significant value and 2 of those run out on contract in a years time. Essentially, our sell to buy model has royally fucked us.