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My two dogs bark like mad at cats. One in particular cannot stand them and makes weird mewing noises if she sees one. If I pick her up though and bring her face to face with the pussy cat - which is usually unperturbed by stupid barking dogs - mine just pretend they cannot see them anymore and just stop and look bemused..

All Homo Sapiens are genetically predisposed to fear others that do not look like them. It might take an enlarged brain capacity to override that but I doubt it. It’s been a lifesaving attribute through Darwinian evolutionary principles for keeping the species alive. They fear others who wear beards for example or Make footballers pass the ball 100 times before going into opposition half for instance. Fear- and violent hatred - is not only normal but to be expected, by them when confronted with - to them - fearful alien looks, ideas and practices. The answer is always, of course, to burn the witches, to practise apartheid & genocide on a global basis. Then reconsider and try to play nice a while until it all kicks off once more. One day it’s someone’s beard and style of football the next its Kristallnacht. It’s a sorry state of affairs if you ask me.

There are no RM disciples - much as you would love to think there was. But there are some frankly obsessed RM haters still getting turned on by this hatred-a-thon thing you got going. It’s a dreadful Image but one can positively see the spittle spewing out your mouth as you post one handed, the other busy….🤮Good luck with your hating on an ex manager nothing to do with Saints anymore. And worst of all hoping you can transpose that hate onto fellow Saints fans by your goading posts. Shame on you. The only “I told you so” stories are you begging for someone to come on here so you can do your forum hard nut impersonations. You are so just gagging for someone like@Fabrice29 to come in so you can shoot your load of “ I told you he was crap” jizz like the limited intelligence boring old fart you are. He lives rent free in your RM hate obsessed mind it seems. If you cannot get RM ( and I bet anything you’d not last thirty seconds in a debate with him or @Fabrice29without resorting to shouting and swearing ) then anyone dares to say anything other than he’s the Antichrist is fair game for your bile. Fucking grow up and find a better hobby than trying to rile up fellow Saints.

I know Still has managed derby games before but, could be wrong, but I just got the feeling he “ froze” a bit under live national itv and intense derby pressure. Too little too late with subs and they were virtually doing the same thing all game rather than him using his ( frozen) brain with clarity to kniw wtf was going on and tactically sort it. You can bet your bottom dollar Jose Mourinho would have pushed our full backs forward at least 10 metres after 15 mins and maybe gone 3 at the back adding bodies into midfield. Still not got that experience or deep seated confidence in his thinking yet really despite number of games he’s managed. His assistants all froze as well obviously. Or probably. They should pipe up like the Emperors new clothes and say “Will, Flynn Downes is standing on the half way line in just his birthday suit ditto Cameron, get them sone boots and kit or get them off- just as a highly relevant and extremely serious for example.😁

Very astute. He is certainly strong AND quite fast. So if the team revert to hoofing it like yesterday he will at least be competitive in the air - unlike Adarma or Cam, And if it’s into space wide he should be faster than most CB’s and certainly faster than Stewart. So, yeah, if he can go to the confidence shop and buy some scoring boots and learn to get nasty instead of being mr nicely nicely, and that’s how we are going to play in general ~ he’s probably a better bet than any of them.

It was “indefensible” to play with wingbacks & 3 CB’s for many on here 24 hours ago. But I think the new shape was the font all our problems. Our flat back four was exactly that- four blokes in a line often parallel to the penalty area or deeper and very rarely seen over the halfway line. Chronically wasteful. It was like sending an invite to press and camp in our half in a high pressure game. Gave the initiative away instantly. Neither Mads nor Manning showed sufficient attacking intent. Given that’s what Ryan does best - and Mads is a decent player this has to go down as a bad inmatch failure by both players - and of the manager- to push on aggressively. I really cannot believe that Still told them to sit back like that all passive and useless. Compare Mads and Ryan’s contribution in previous matches - and it’s a fraction. They may as well stayed at home. The Pompey front line was NOT terrifying. No excuse. It was lack of bollocks. We looked overrun in middle of park too often as a consequence. And as for launching it to Cam to compete with his big CB in the air for it time after time. Just stop it. Please just stop it. Most embarrassing tactic I’ve seen at SMS since the no cf hug the sidelines U formation by RM v Forest…

Pointing to a prolonged period of possession in first half does not make them a top team. or even a decent team. Your proposal is a non sequitur. We were shocking. I’m not giving them the benefit of saying they are a decent team because we were so very bad. And dear old Baz did not put a foot wrong today. He is one of the very few relatively immune to being hung drawn and quartered for that pathetic first half non performance.

My match review : First half: We were much weaker and half a yard slower too. They were stronger. The occasion put lead in our boots. But our tactics were asking for it. I stopped counting the high hoofs mainly to archer but frankly it was shockingly bad offensive play. Second half. Better - but only because they tired and basically got resigned to keeping a point - it was not because we worked out what they were doing and countered it. As for our players : Charles did alright, Manning ditto, Bazunu too and Fraser did what he always does - works hard - but fuck it he is a limited player so if we had any ambition to win Jay or Leo should be on sooner. Stephens and THB were ok but still too keen to pass to each other instead of to forwards or mf. The rest : Aziz did a few touches but did not command the game. Neither did Fellowes. Both go down as disappointing performances for me. Downes - bad game. Archer as usual anonymous - this time because hitting 65yard balls at 9ft to him is simply stupid stupid stupid. I wouldn’t mind but there’s never anyone even close to him to fight for second ball - stupid stupid stupid. Mads was toothless today. The subs- Leo got fouled 3 times in 10 minutes Casper did a few decent things. Jay did nothing. Ross and Adam also did not change much. Overall our best attacker was the bloke who ran on the pitch and I give the manager a 4/10 for absence of initiative to change tactics. A better manager would have worked it out on the hoof versus that limited pfc side. Will did not/could not. They were not a top team but we made them look it in first half.

They better than us. Deserve to be ahead frankly.

Stop hitting it long and high to Cam. Their CB just loves it.

Love this Great new warm up routine - just smashing it into the box and somebody scores it. None of this rondo shit. Now they just take a pass and score. Good. Less passing more shooting.

It is LOUD. Interesting the two cbs retained not include our new big boy Quarsie. Pity. Mind you I’d have him down for a guaranteed yellow if he came on. That’s probably why. Shame. It’s almost worth it to see Quarsie smash one of them..

So definitive like you have the answer to everything and know all details about the squad how they trained their fitness etc. You don’t. There’s plenty reasons why he might do that. I’m not in favour myself - but to say it’s indefensible is exaggeration. Unless it’s just to you personally otherwise- yes I can see the reasons why he @ might@ keep the back three. I don’t think he will- but there’s reasons alright.

At last common sense not insane conspiracy theory paranoia! Like it or hate it, with the players he had, the 3CB’s solution was what he thought gave him best chance of building a reasonable start to the season - certainly until all the transfer stuff calmed down. Anyone thinks he was TOLD to play that way by senior people and just complied like a nodding dog needs to check that their tinfoil hat hasn’t slipped off. 🤡 IF he persists with the system there IS a defendable argument for it tomorrow. Pkaying the cynic card here - if he plays 3cb and we draw or lose he can always revert to his supposed “favoured” approach with a back four next match and say- well that experiment has not worked. If he plays a back four though, and we draw or lose, he won’t get too many saints fans going yeah good effort but back 3 is the way to go- so he’s shafted both ways but marginally less so by continuing with a back three- certainly for start of the match and then perhaps shift it second half. Many fans want to see the four at back under the impression it’s more attacking - I thinks that’s arguable - I think four at the back is more solid defensively -but not necessarily more attacking so be careful what you wish for!

At this rate we might be able to pick up hamer in January ( if he does not go epl) in a deal with sufc that includes one of our forwards that’s not had much game time on loan or sold but rated going other way plus cash.