Galway saint

I quite like Tessem and prefer him to Merrington but each to their own

The refresh paid dividends. Juric would have lost that one 5-0 and we would have had no shots on target. Hopefully we can all now agree it makes fuck all difference who the manager is. Does anyone know why Tessem wasn't on solent ?

We also have Baz and Edozie returning to add to the shit heap. It beggars belief how we have accumulated so much crap over the past few years.

It's a big bus and it's going places

Watched the PSG game and Villa clearly struggled against their wingers and if we can play to the same level as PSG did, we will win this. Shame we don't have Edozie to rip them a new one in the same way Doue did.

yes he reminds me of a young frank lampard - if he's half the coach Frank is he will be some coach. We are lucky to have him on the bus

We are such a shambles at the moment I would't be surprised if we offered the guy an extension if he played a few games between now and the end of the season frankly whenever he has played he's looked very average - think he had one shot but might be wrong

Gronbaek We managed to sign someone who wasn't able to get into one of the worst sides in PL history. Who on earth chooses these players

It doesn't matter who we appoint as manager in the PL as until we sign some ( a lot) decent players the story will be the same. We have a really poor squad. We don't need to spend hundreds of million but next time round (if there is a next time) we have to spend money on several proven PL players who can hit the ground running. The gap is also now so wide the promoted teams are uncompetitive - can anyone really see Burnley, Sheffield United and Leeds staying up next year ? It's been the most dull year of PL football I can remember. No title race and the relegation spots effectively confirmed months ago.

I'd be minded to look at Bazanu as manager with Edozie as his assistant. No one will buy those two so we may as well put them to use and it might be our best bet of keeping them away from the pitch. What a shambles of a season. You can blame all the managers we have had over the past few years but when you buy crap like the two above for £20 million + you are going to end up in the dumpster. I thought this season would be tough after the Forest game but it's surpassed my worst expectations and by the end I felt nothing when we went down.

Obviously we will lose but I'm going for Saints having 4 shots with 2 on target and 3 corners.. Lets go Saints !!

These things ebb and flow and you see Forest now riding high yet were in the doldrums for years post Clough. Look at Brentford who were a lower league club for most of my time watching football. We have typically been a top flight side since I began supporting Saints in the early 80's but for a club like us that doesn't have tonnes of cash, recruitment is crucial and we haven't got that right for years now. I also feel we've not been able to bring through players from the academy in the way we did in the past and therefore it's all on the scouts. You can see sort of see what we were trying to do when we bought lavia, larios, Bazanu, edozie and charles but with a current 1 in 5 hit rate that's nowhere near good enough for a club like us. There's also a real lack of football nous//pig headedness in the club at times. The forward recruitment this year was so obviously sub-standard, the lack of an experienced top quality CM recruit since Romeu left and the refusal to spend big on a proper No 9 and instead spend the same money on several mediocre players. We are stuck in a spiral of buying substandard players, then realising they are not good enough, waiting for their contracts to expire and rinse and repeat. We won't but experienced quality players but are happy to buy inexperienced poor players. It's a ridiculous approach.

yes feels like it's ours to lose - might be worth Juric dropping him just to make sure

Lowest scoring topscorer in a season could be on Aribo currently on 3 Looks like Jordan Mutch with 7 for Cardiff currently holds the record

agreed - unless our recruitment improves we will continue to struggle. The sides we have put out this season have been way below PL standard, hence we have only 9 points. Confidence is shot as well so it's a pretty toxic mix. Next season we have back the likes of Edozie, Bazanu and Charles. The latter deserves a chance, but the first two are symptomatic of the poor recruitment that has got us into this position and should be sold ( if anyone is interested)