SotonianWill

judging by the fact we handed the Man City assistant the job, that must’ve been Wilcox choice. I have the feeling Russell Martin is Dane Greasy’s man.

Thanks for the memories 🥲

is that still happening

Whilst I agree he has no overall ability it’s clear his confidence is shot. In fact It’s been two years and I honestly couldn’t tell you how good his shooting ability is.

I don’t agree with your assessment of Eddie Howe, he would’ve certainly even with his current spell at newcastle taken away been a good appointment. Secondly, the point whether it’s Howe or not still stands. Semmens was one of the reasons we didn’t get rid of Ralph sooner. He was part of the problem, happy he’s gone.

Didn’t our ITKs reveal to us semmens’ blind love for ralph kept him in the job when Eddie Howe was ready to sign?

what’s our obsession with fashionable managers? ralph was wild with the trousers, selles looked like he was looking for a contract from GQ magazine, Martin looks like he’s watched American Psycho and slicks his hair like Rasmus Ankerson. Also why with all these dots adding up did we appoint Nathan F*cking Jones.

You’ve basically explained my argument, which is based around an inferior player in a good system being better than a team of good individuals, hence why I gave those teams as examples.

I see no reason why, if Russell Martin signs a midfielder fully suited to his system, he can’t make our team better despite being a worse player than jwp ability wise.

We won’t sign a better player than ward-prowse, but that dosent mean a replacement won’t make our team better. many “worse” players in midfield have resulted in a better team. Think fulham, brentford. do they have a better player in midfield individually than JWP? majority of our fanbase would say no. Are they better teams than us? yes

my god, did we get a double relegation?

well yes, but you still expect him to do something. anything. he says low standards were apparent in pre season, and so it was obvious we’d struggle. Well why, as captain, did he not try to change it instead of us consistently being below standard (according to the athletic)? This is also the fault of coaching staff. On the pitch he can be a good player when played more attacking (under jones), but his negative mentality of passing for the majority of the season as with most our players doesn't make him stand out. He runs around a lot, but that should be a bare minimum for a fit box to box midfielder. It may up his completed passes stat or his distance covered stats, which fans somehow use to show how good he is. they don’t show how good he is, it’s what he can do on the ball which shows him as a player with ability. Sadly this season he hasn’t fully utilised this ability due to poor players around him and a negative mindset.

Mr negative, we won’t get a similar player ability wise however we’ll hopefully get 1) a greater leader (not hard) 2) someone who is positive on the ball. In the stands vs fulham it actually became a bit of a joke with ward-prowse passing backwards. people kept calling it before it happened and placing fake bets, and guess what 9/10 he passed backwards. he’s boring, it achieves nothing. He was probably really good against brighton as I didn’t watch that game.

As long as they call him gaffer/boss/ anything that resembles a hierarchy will be good. all our players call rueben selles by his first name, shows a lack of authority and respect or am I going too much into that?

Man city celebrating their trophy in front of empty seats gave me second hand embarrassment

Derby lost 29 games, by liverpool we’ll be on 25. We were so close 🥲

😂😂😂😂😂

Robles has got to be the worst keeper in the league at claiming corners. Any ball into the box is like watching a benny hill sketch.

Agree with this. he’s an excellent player on his day. saying that, he has been an absolute calamity so far today 😂

YESSSSSSS

Leeds have started the better team here

what a wanker selles is, thankful i’m watching the leeds game instead.

They could call themselves “The Saints Voice”

yes, it was an excellent response.

looks like one of those typical people from every fanbase. fair play to the owner (?) for calling out his annoying bollocks. also swansea much bigger than saints? 😂