BARCELONASAINT

it absolutely breaks my heart to see how bad we have become. It's embarrassing, depressing and criminal how much the owners have let us down, the managers employed have been so inept and the players completely spineless.

If he wasn't already a crowd favourite then this kind of plain talking no nonsense attitude will really get the fans loving this guy!

Honestly if we signed Brendan Rogers i would be done with this club, i absolutely fucking hate the bloke after the snide comments he made about our club when he was Liverpool manager. Has anybody read the Celtic club statement calling out BR to be a lying little rat!

WS is the manager, he makes the decisions about tactics and substitutions. His tactics are absolute bollocks and don't even get me started on his subs. He has admitted it was his mistake taking Leo off on Saturday and that decision completely backfired. The entire fanbase were screaming wtf are you doing?? He hasn't got a bloody clue!

I am really not surprised at all if this is true. I said at the time i didn't believe he would leave Saints because i have a friend who is close to the Dibling family and everything he had heard had suggested he didn't want to leave. I have no idea what happened to change this? Bad advice? Saints wanting to sell? I have no idea but i do fear TD may just disappear and become one of those youngsters that never broke through.

Is anyone genuinely optimistic that we will win?? We played 2 awful teams in our last 2 matches and walked away with a point! What's changing today with no strikers?

I'm trying not to let my emotions dictate my thinking on the manager. If i did i would want WS gone because it's criminal with the talent at his disposal that we are floundering just off the relegation spots. Thinking cold and objectively i think WS and previous managers have been extremely let down by our recruitment team. It really is criminal that we have not signed a striker proven at this level. I don't care if the striker we signed was for one season only, because like AA they would be seen as not able to make the step up to the Premier League. Yes we would have a striker still on our books with an outgoing wage BUT that striker might have been the missing part of the jigsaw and helped get us promoted. Don't tell me doing this is not economically viable after the amount we have spunked on DD!! The recruitment team have also failed to provide the manager with a real leader on the pitch, there is no one in our squad that fits the bill and consequently the minute we concede we go to pieces because no one takes control out on the pitch. For me these are the 2 main reasons we are where we are. I'm still fed up with WS and believe he is not what we need but has he been screwed over by our board and recruitment team?

he's not wrong though is he!!

she did not start her position until well after Downs was done and dusted. Her remarks about her thoughts on him were well before he had kicked a ball for us!

I got her job title wrong, it's head of group talent acquisition and she has an impressive CV. Extremely well thought of and yup i'm happy to trust her opinion!

I know for a fact that our scout that joined us from Norwich after Downs was unfortunately signed would not have recommended signing Downs at all, she did not and does not rate him at all

You really don't need to be a body language expert to see he has no interest in being here and when he is on the pitch he does everything possible to not get picked for the next game. He wanted to leave the moment Russball got sacked!

We have no leaders on the pitch, none at all. We have been crying out for an experienced leader to grab this lot of weak minded, spineless idiots by the scruff of the neck and give them a good hard kick in the balls to remind them they are supposed to be men, not a bunch of bloody girls (no disrespect to the girls who show more fight). No strikers, no leaders, a porous defence and a TinTin as manager. We may as well just take relegation now and get it over with!

I would love to hear a view of Downs ability from one of his team mates who see him day in day out in training. Unfortunately it's highly unlikely to happen unless it's very positive comments which you do occasionally here from players about new members of the team. I don't understand why he was on the bench yesterday if WS never had any intention on using him. The lads confidence must be rock bottom already and then having to watch yesterday a game that was crying out for someone to lead the line only for him to be totally ignored. Now i'm not saying for one minute he should have been brought on, so far from what i have seen i completely agree with most on here he's shockingly bad but that again highlights the glaringly obvious, why was he taking up a bench spot?

The issue is even if we play well no one can see where a goal is going to come from so you start thinking "at best we can get a draw" and that is just bloody depressing!