coalman

Why? Shouty caps doesn't make your post any less whiny.

First step is working like angry bastards in training. We're never going to recruit the best of the best so anything we do has to be predicated on being willing to outwork our opponents. In the meantime our recruitment is an expensive joke. Without fixing this we're done for.

If you have shit players you make damn sure you work hard and set yourself up to be hard to beat. Football history is replete with teams who punched above their weight through hard work and organisation. Instead of us punching below our weight. A good start would be working hard again.

Hard to see us getting anything until we get fitter and employ a midfield. The players are clearly pining for the salad days of hugs under Martin. They're probably saving themselves for having to train today and tomorrow.

Thanks to whoever brought the forum back from the dead. Good news. Bad news we have to talk about yesterday.

The manager is the one held responsible for results. They coach the team. They pick the team. They choose the tactics. They work with the team that brings in new players to fit their system. They choose when training happens or whether to take days off. So, yes, the first place you look is the manager. Unless you're the fucking excuse monkey we just had where he couldn't see what he could do short of stopping the game to tell the players they were great (his words) and kept banging on about how his points total was undeserved. Now, it may well be this group of players couldn't have stayed up but I struggle to understand how Martin could have got less out of them this season.

Fortunately Vardy is experiencing karma via marriage.

Whatever FFP sanctions are they can't be as bad as the penalties for letting Rasmus and Henrik loose with the owners credit card.

Martin was primarily hampered by Martin. Jones was hampered by being Jones. Selles wasn't ready for the hospital pass he got. We'll see how Juric does. Mentality comes from whoever is in charge. Sadly the previous manager had a losers mentality and worked hard to instill that in his team. So it'll take time to run this intervention. As for the players being good enough. We'll get a better idea over the next few months.

All true except this is Saints we're talking about. Recruiting a striker has been a perennial issue. And with our current owners we're more likely to reward the three of them with bumper contracts if we get promoted back up.

Ah the law of averages. Otherwise stated as that we're really average.

I'm pretty sure what we're doing is the form of data driven my lecturers always ranted about. Where we only follow loose correlation without testing causality. That's how you wind up with the fittest man in Europe who has the best stats or a play style that optimises for giving your opponents clear cut chances. I doubt Rasmus even uses confidence intervals. Brentford and Brighton on the other hand appear to actually practice data science.

A team that's good at through balls and finishing versus, well, us. 2-1 to Saints.

I hope they and he do but the decision might have already been made.

Oh how we'll laugh when Big Les goes back to Chelsea because Martin wouldn't play him