Patrick Bateman

Exactly this - I said a couple of months ago how unfit the team were and playing a game that requires more running around (like tonight) will expose their lack of fitness having been used to walking and passing. This is the most unfit Saints squad that I can remember, appalling really, the previous regime have a lot to answer for on that front. But hey, have Monday off ...

Interesting - https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13209433/pedro-martins-exclusive-interview-edersons-game-changing-goalkeeping-and-raphinhas-anarchic-play "Today, he cites Ederson's City as the model but is drawn to Liverpool's ability to win in different ways. "Sometimes with possession, sometimes in transition. I want to control the ball but sometimes the opponent is strong and our own game must change."

Top bloke - just watched back the video of Jimmy Bullard telling the story of when Duncan had walloped Paul Scharner and then he'd foolishly offered him out in the tunnel 😂 I think all THAT is now missing from football. (Link: https://www.facebook.com/TubesAngeGolfLife/videos/when-jimmy-bullard-challenged-duncan-ferguson-to-a-fight/226840535908346/)

I don't even remember him?? 🤔 No, Seriously!

Long term appointment please. 1. Aiming for 30 points (or as near as possible) I think is realistic. 2. Not splashing the cash in January to stay up - I think we should accept the relegation and allow a manager (assuming it's a long term appointment) to start to shape the squad NOW for next year, hit the ground running in the summer 3. Not finish bottom. 4. Play some enteratining football. 5. FA Cup run. 6. Give one or more big teams a walloping. (I'll accept 3-0 as a walloping)

Weird one this. Liverpool might well turn up expecting to waltz through it, so 1-0 Saints.

Fucking sack him now at half time, let Adam Lallana run the second half. Martin is a prick.

Sack the cnt NOW at half time. FUCK OFF.

"development of homes and businesses" .... this means they want it to look exactly like the rest of the city, boring as fk with flat after flat, loads of blocks of flats, each one with a Co-op or Tesco underneath it. Maybe one will have a Sainsbury's with a little Argos, branching out.

This is the most arrogant, self-obsessed tripe I've ever read, genuinely. 1. Yes it IS embarrassing to be on 5 points, that's down to YOU 2. I should have a million quid in the bank. I should be CEO of Deloitte. I should have 30 acres of land and 57 chickens in my petting zoo. 3. The. Same. Thing. Before. Every. Match. The common denominator is your tactics 4. Mistakes, LOADS of them, every single one related to playing out from the back, your tactics 5. Confidence comes with wins, not being best mates with them all. Win, at all costs, whatever the tactics, the confidence will flow through them 6. Respect for someone who IS stubborn. Stubbornness is not a good trait, it's the opposite, it shows a complete lack of willingness to watch, adapt, iterate, watch, adapt, iterate. Try something different. No, it is not a godo trait. 7. It's not about believing the same thing and what you are doing is NOT UNIQUE and NOT DIFFERENT. It just doesn't work with these players, your instructions and tactics. WATCH, ADAPT, ITERATE. Ugh!

Sadly, spot on. I suspect that Semmens and co were sold the dream by Ankerson, only it was fucking deluded. You know how it goes "we will have a team of youth players, recruiting the best from around the world at a young age, we will use data to analyse and improve them, we will use the Brailsford approach for 1% gains every day, the players we develop will be sold for £50-£100m allowing the club to be fully sustainable and returning a profit, the only club in the world to do so" Something along those lines. Utterly utterly deluded and as Kat Liebherr still has a 20% stake, I'd love to hear from her. Even as a minority stakeholder she still has a voice as her 20% becomes more and more worthless every day letting these penises run things the way they are. Get rid of Martin. Get a Chairman in, get a CEO with some balls and footballing nous. Make some decisions, fast, immediately. This team is not getting out the Championship next year otherwise ... welcome to the life of a Stoke City or Sunderland fan.

Good call. Russell can get him developing adult reins to pull the players back when they try to make a run "oh no you don't, back to Russ, pass it nicely to your friend behind you"

Good to see you here mate, you better be right

One thing our team is good at is low shots WHEN they have a shot. I don't think I can remember the last time a shot was above knee height? Correct me if I'm wrong. However it'll go like this all match... Dibling having broken forward with the ball and passed it exquisitely to any other player who then tells him off for going forwards so quickly, the ball is played back to ensure the players have the right temperature on the game (or some other bollocks he says), that huge gaping hole in the Spurs back line will now have 11 Spurs players in it ... a low shot will be impossible as too many legs, so someone will pass it out to KWP, who will try to run through 11 players, and win a corner. Corner will be taken, Spurs will win the header, run down and score as Lumley will be on the halfway line. 6-0 to Spurs.

I wish the whole lot would just piss off. "Russ" and all his team. Sports Republic, Stephens - anyone in a leadership role, get out, now.

Looks like the manager roundabout is going to start soon ... this guy not going down well ....... TBH I'd have him at Saints, and O'Neil and Potter and Moyes and Cooper and just about anyone else right now ...

"I'm so proud of the players" - FUCK. OFF.

Good point, looked about +12.35 to me ... Fking martin, fking sports republic, fking stephens, fk.

SACK HIM NOW Caps and bold.

And Chelsea signed him up for SEVEN years ...

100%. I mean the first half was the same shit we've seen all season, which he dared to defend. The guy needs to be real, had Brighton been on form they'd have been out of sight like fucking Bournemouth were against us. But the second half was much much better and he's spot on about VAR. I'm actually more pissed off about VAR than the tactics ... a unique feeling.

Saints transfers have been utter utter utter shit. Really sick of the amount of money that's been wasted and CONTINUES to be wasted on players not good enough. But, this signing is the worst of the lot. I'm sure he was decent enough for Sunderland in the Championship, but why oh why did they spunk £10m or whatever is was on a player so badly crocked, when they knew he was crocked? Absolute fucking shambles of a club, who the hell is in charge of this crap? Get rid of the lot.

Saints are utter shit but, we're still not that lot down the road 😂

Jesus wept. That really is rubbish.

This. The leadership of the club is appalling. The staff/player recruitment is appalling. The lack of action to remove the worst manager we've had is appalling. Fking wake up Saints!