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Baby steps I suppose. But surely it should have been glaringly obvious to him long before now. How has it taken him so long to grasp what everyone else could already see?

It's an interesting analogy you make, but I can tell you from personal experience (my dad went away for work when I was six and I didn't see him again until I was 24) that you never really stop caring, no matter how much you try and convince yourself that you have.

50/50 for me. Yes, we've got a shocking lack of quality in the squad. But if you can't beat the opposition for skill then at least match or beat them for effort. Last season, Luton had probably the worst quality squad ever seen in the PL up til that point, but they still managed to be organised and occasionally difficult to beat. We are so far off their level currently it's fucking embarrassing. If you know you don't have the best players then at least give yourself a chance by playing a sensible system with players in their correct positions. Juric is incapable of that, it seems.

I remember watching the game at SJP on the first day, where we lost 1-0 due to a McCarthy howler, and thinking "Yeah we don't look too bad you know. We didn't win but there were some really positive signs there. Maybe we won't be quite so bad this season after all". Feels like a very, very long time ago now.

It's alright everyone. Manji reckons they've got it all in hand and everything will be fine by the end of next season.

Brighton have been very poor today and are still 4-0 up. To everyone at Saints - the board, the manager, the players... Please just fuck off now, every single one of you utterly useless, pathetic cunts.

You've been completely suckered in by SR haven't you. Hook, line and sinker. Do you honestly trust that things will get sorted out in the timescale you suggest? Three years and they've made us so much worse than we were before they took over. I don't care if Dragan has recently stepped in to address things. They have utterly failed with every single decision they've made, and yet still you make excuses for them. If you're happy to sit on your hands and wait for things to get better, despite all the evidence suggesting they won't, then by all means you fill your boots.

It's alright lads. Smallbone is on to engineer a comeback.

It is now.

How the fuck did they not score?

It's the most disjointed, abject and feeble excuse for a gameplan I have ever seen from a Saints team. Worse than anything Mad Nate presided over.

Archer just wanders offside again for no good reason.

Ok this is a fucking joke now. Ref giving us absolutely nothing, but blowing up for a fk to Brighton every time they go to ground. Looked like a blatant foul on Aribo but no VAR check. No VAR check for the disallowed Archer goal that looked off but difficult to judge against the defender on the far side. We don't deserve anything from this game, but at least give us a fair fucking chance.

No VAR check for the foul on Aribo then? Obviously.

This is gonna be like last week isn't it, where we'll have a decent ish spell for 15-20, but still fail to score and then shoot ourselves in the foot with some abysmal defending and concede again.

Hang on.. where's the VAR check?

OK this might not be a popular post, but here goes... What the fuck is wrong with our fanbase? Seriously. How the fuck can a stadium full of Saints fans sit and watch that total clusterfuck of a first half performance and just sit in absolute silence when the HT whistle goes? Sports republic have turned out club into a fucking laughing stock. They've lurched from disaster to disaster, and the SMS faithful are so fucking passive they just sit and politely clap. I respect the dedication of many fans, still bothering to turn up and watch 11 losers kick the ball around with the grit and desire of a fucking sloth, but why even bother if you're just going to sit in silence? Where is the ire and vitriol towards these hopeless fucking clowns in charge of the club? Why are you letting them off so fucking lightly? They've gutted the very heart of this once proud club through their total incompetence, and yet the fans in the ground seemingly give them a free ride every fucking week. How the actual fuck have we allowed this to happen?

We've not had a single touch in the Brighton box. Not one.

Dunno what's going on with my IPTV today but the channels are all messed up and most of them are showing the Arsenal v WH game. The one channel I did find that was showing Saints has now switched to Bournemouth v Wolves (which it should have been). Should I even bother trying to find a stream?

I would imagine Fernandes would actually be more central, ahead of Les, with Sully in his place on the left. But yeah, not far off by the look of it.

What the fuck is that MF all about though? Is it just Les as a single holding player behind a front 4?

Unlikely, given the order that they appear on the team sheet. Looks like a bog standard Juric 3 at the back lineup to me. With only one recognised CB in that 3, and 3 FBs on the pitch, of course.

Yeah I thought that too. Was surprised we didn't have to wait 5 mins for a check because it looked quite close to me.

It was tongue in cheek mate. Chill.