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He scores most of his goals, and there have been plenty, getting across defenders and being first to a cross or pass in the penalty area. Selles was a twat trying to use him in a press and neutralising him. Get him into the box with pace out wide and plenty of service and he'll get goals for us or sombody else.

Anybody who thinks that Saints are going to let Tella go to Burnley for other than an exorbitant fee and too expensive for Burnley, is living in cloud cuckoo land. With his recent record in the Championship it's not about a fee it's about what we would have to pay to get one of the top Championship strikers. Coventry are quoted as asking north of £40m for their striker and unlike Tella he hasn't played Premier football. Adams and Armstrong come to mind. Goals win matches, we can't have too many regular goalscorers. In my view he's going nowhere as quick goal scoring wide players are as rare as rocking horse shit.

I agree with S-Clarke and others about the mishmash. Never did we play our best, balanced team and let it play. Playing the bemused players in the Hasnhuttl, Jones and Selles schizophrenic styles got us relegated. More of the same won't get us promoted. If Martin doesn't come? what then?. another new style or a Koeman style manager that reorganises and recruits to play a way that suits the players.

Who goes or stays is unpredictable. Even the club could have a problem. Highly paid ether give away or keep. If they can't match the wages they won't move. JWP, Lavia and Walker-Peters will have suitors. Then we have the ones we need to keep and the ones we need to leave. The likes of Alcaraz, Sulemana, Tella are sellable but we need to keep. We need a mug to buy Adams for his goalscoring potential. It isn't going to be that easy to revolutionise the style.

Good luck with that. If Ankerson's attempts during the January window are anything to go on, the boy genius is going to crash and burn. Our Serbian Godfather isn't going to be as accommodating this time around. Selling the players we want to keep and wondering what we can do about the overpaid ones we want to go and can't shift isn't going to cut it this time around.

He really was the only player I've ever seen that could be classed as unplayable trying to defend crosses. None of this present crap, mill about in the goal area and grab a bit of shirt. Ron started his run from outside the box and had a tremendous leap. Most defenders would be giving penalties away or getting a mouth full of Ron's knees. It was my privilege to have watched him regularly.

Here we fucking go again. Now allegedly we have a new manager that plays a certain way. When are the dickheads ever going to learn that is the most arse about face way of managing a football team. Pick the best players and play them in their best positions and the shape and style sorts itself out. Guardiola knows how he wants to play so he spends a billion pounds putting together a team of internationals that suit playing his way. Any dickhead that thinks he can walk in and impose a style on many unsuited players that don't know what the hell he is trying to do and can't do it anyway isn't going to provide a successful team. If Martin isn't clever and adapts to what we have and brings in complimentary players that we need to replace and strengthen positions, then this could be an absolute clusterfuck. If this last season hasn't been bad enough. If Martin comes in and shows the necessary adaptability and intelligence to construct a team that exceeds the sum of the parts and looks like a team I'll support him. Anything less and it won't matter because after about ten matches he'll be on his bike.

Arguably the most successful manager in the last forty years was Alex Ferguson who played basically a simple 4-4-2 system with every player fitting in beautifully. The genius was the simplicity.

Ralph, Jones and finally Selles fell into the same trap and all produced a clusterfuck. When will they ever learn that they can't come in with a way/style/formation and shoehorn the available players into it. It doesn't work. We had say 30 players, so it's who is left sided, who is right sided, who defends, who plays in the middle, who attacks. Who is strong, who is weak, who is quick, who is slow, who is thick, who is sharp, who is strong in the air, who is weak, who is accurate who can't hit a cow's arse with a banjo, etc. Next it's pick a team. Not a system. Pick the strongest players and the specialist positions. At Saints, KWP and Perrault ( we needed to buy a left back in January) Lavia, JWP, Alcaraz, Adams (not a proper striker, Not good enough despite chances. I'd have brought Tella back. Centrebacks. ABK and Salisu. (With Injuries Bednerak) that leaves Armstrong and Sulemana. So what system,4-3-3 or 4-4-2 . That would give me, Bazunu, KWP, ABK, Salisu, Perrault, Armstrong, Lavia, JWP, Alcaraz, Adams, Sulemana. that could be 4-2-3-1 with Lavia and JWP behind a three Sulemana Alcaraz and Armstrong. with Adams up front. Probably for me the 4-2-3-1. Either way the players are the key, find the players then devise the shape that suits the players. Style, let the players play, no pissing about at the back, get the ball out wide quickly, at least three defenders and one midfielder back. Attack outside to in and defend inside to out. Let the team dictate the shape. Guardiola has a favourite shape so he buys the players that suit it and play them in their natural shape. We were relegated because of the stupidity of the three managers trying to shoehorn unsuitable players into their systems and putting the cart before the horse. Good riddance to all of them.

My favourite team is and always will be Saints, warts and all. My biggest criticism is that after Koeman we got Puel, Pellegrino, Hughes (He kept us up, just.) Hasenhuttl (good for a couple of years then lost it), then it's a WTF spell, Jones and gobbledygook Selles. We got our comeuppence. Time after time unbalanced sides picked plus the sideways and backwards in our defensive turd. We need a reset so I'm prepared to give Martin a go and see if he can clear out the dross and get us playing. As an addendum to the above let me be clear, my favourite team for the last few years, anybody managed by Pep Guardiola. Now it's almost as good as it gets with Manchester City. That's what I call possession football with a purpose to grind the opposition down and a deluge of goals. I'd like my team to play that way. Give it a go, failing that pace and power and go direct. Aimless ball recycling as indulged in by us isn't possession football. JWP etc recycling the ball back to the keeper from our opponent's goal line isn't either. Any player that isn't comfortable cannot be picked.

I don't really give a tinker's toss what team the clown selects. At least six of the eleven shouldn't even be in the squad. Personally I'd have fired him not long after the Chelsea game. In football terms Selles is a total loser. He doesn't have a clue how to set up and motivate a team. If SR want to get relegated again keep him on. I'm not sure about Martin. Pep spends as much on one player as we do for a whole window. MC are unique, trying to play their way won't work. Copying Kompany makes more sense to me. At least Selles will be history in a week hopefully.

Me too. He's fucking hopeless. He is also in a football sense brainless. Examples: looking along the line two yards offside does nothing puts the ball in the net from the cross. Ruled out offside. Just needed to stay on side. One on one with the keeper runs straight at him and shoots when ten yards out hits the keeper. How many times did that happen, probably enough to save us. Did he try anything else, did he hell. Change the angle, no, Sidestep, no, go round the keeper,no, feint to shoot and square up the keeper, no, dink it over, no, pass to somebody else, no. The Wolves disallowed goal miss on the goal line, missed the header hit his hand and went in. Stand on the six yard line, on his heels, ball watches, the ball comes in across the goal, no movement so tap in chance missed, how many times did that happen. How many goals did he have disallowed for offside. No thanks get the best price we can and unload him. Keep Tella he can do all the things Adams can't.

I remember john Flood vividly. Playing right wing against I think the Cherries, Saints 7-0 scored a magnificent goal beating the full back cutting in about 25 yds out literally smashed the ball into the top left corner with the keeper nowhere near it. RIP John.

Today was a disgrace. No shape, no organisation and no spirit. Walcott was anonymous. KWP never tried to get back. AMN was hopeless and the two centre backs were isolated. Armstrong and Alcaraz did their best. Onuachu was unsupported. Either play him and get the ball into him or leave him out. JWP and Lavia were all over the place. We never played as a team so Fulham pulled us all over the place.. Selles was hopeless again, Armstrong and Elyounoussi, give me a break, they shouldn't even be in the squad. The only hope is a clearout. The good news is a 40% relegation wages cut. JWP, Lavia, KWP, ABK, Salisu, Adams, A.Armstrong, Aribo etc will raise a good amount to rebuild. Bring back Tella and Smallbone, Look at the B team for anybody that is ready such as Ballard. Look at the players we've had out on loan for suitability. Bring in good strong pacy experienced players that have strong characters and above all bring in a big picture manager that knows how to set up balanced teams immediately.

This was so unavoidable. The managers are responsible because none of them picked the best balanced team, prioritised the nothingness of the likes of Elyounoussi, Armstrong and Adams etc, failed to appreciate the importance of an iron disciplined organisation and allowed the players to play off the cuff, with painfully slow possession for the sake of it. We had 64% possession last night and conceded four goals, we had it coming.

The team and the supporters have been let down by three poor managers, one had lost the players and never knew his best team, one who was totally out of his depth, finally one who has no idea what constitutes a balanced team. Selles was at it again last night too clever by half. AMN pulled into the middle and Forest given the freedom of a big open space down our left side. We had no defence as there was no disciplined shape with the centre backs and full backs defending and the midfielders holding a disciplined line. We played kamekazi and paid for it going two goals down and conceding four. We bring on Sulemana and KWP kept getting in front of him denying the space to use his pace. JWP sideways and backwards so much so that attacking near Forest's goal line ended up back with McCarthy. It needs a major clear out and a proper manager not another micro managing coach with no idea of the big picture. Week in week out decent players either went out and looked around them in dispair at the dysfunctional team selections knowing they had little chance with the team weighted down with the likes of Elyounoussi and Adam Armstrong. Che Adams might be playing as a striker but he is far from that. Last night, play on the byeline, stood on his heels six yards out ball watching. He's only an occasional goalscorer, Alcaraz has four in not many appearances. The worst thing for me is the lack of organisation, the lack of team discipline and a team playing off the cuff and paying the price, Selles is a prat, a rich prat but still a prat. As for Semmens and Ankersen just total bullshitters.

What the idiot doesn't get, it's his unbalanced team selections with no blend and his favoured players that are taking us down. Even when he has a team holding it's own without those favoured players he then substitutes them on after an hour and the team collapses. Just get rid of the clown.

The first thing from my perspective is appoint a manager before the transfer window opens. No more inexperienced theorists, ego driven bible thumpers or foreign managers employed outside the UK. Secondly a big picture thinker with a proven track record. Thirdly a manager that has proved he can turn out well balanced teams that perform consistently in attack and defence and sees playing out from the back as Guardiola's preserve. Most importantly no more sideways and backwards which has destroyed us. Let him look at the available 2023/24 squad and decide who he wants to keep, who he doesn't want and who he wants to sell to raise the capital to buy in a core strength to get us promoted automatically.

I think the Brendan Rogers photo could be a photoshop job. The Aviation background doesn't ring true. More like Glasgow airport with a genuine Rogers whilst manager of Celtic.

It doesn't look like Southampton. Are you sure ? A Falcon arrived at 1740 from Stockholm. Similar wing profile,

I think you might be closer than you know.

So Tella wasn't good enough to bring back in January. Armstrong. Elyounoussi, AMN and Walcott among others aren't fit to lace his boots. Now Kompany is desperate to sign him to play in the Premier for Burnley next season. What an indictment of a club that has no idea and a publicity department that thinks it's the bee's knees. Total delusion.

Selles blew whatever chance we had of getting something out of the game. It wasn't a bad team and it did a decent job in the first half. Bringing on Armstrong, Elyounoussi, AMN and Walcott was total incompetence. All of them stroll, mark from ten yards away, have no workrate and would struggle in a National League team. The first half decent performance was spoilt by the short passing and giving the ball away in our half. I think some players need to change their boots. What would I do. I'd fire Selles tonight. Then I'd tell AMN to go back to London and we'd pay his money until the end of the month. I'd tell Elyounoussi to find another club, don't come back we'll pay up to June 30th. I'd tell Armstrong he was finished here. I'd wish Walcott a happy retirement. Then I'd pick a balanced team. Stop the backwards and sideways, keep three forwards up and give it a go.

JWP would be a better, more effective midfielder if he was told to cut out the routine sideway and backwards with the centrebacks and play the ball out to wingers or even forward. He annoys me intensely when he plays passes either behind or straight to a player rather than in front of them to run onto. He would be more effective if he just took the direct free kick opportunities and passed over most corners and non direct free kicks to other players instead of just inswingers from the left and outswingers from the right. JWP suffers from players like Elyounoussi and Adam Armstrong offering nothing. Adams is poor positionally and moves around but rarely makes diagonal runs. Using wingers would help us to be better attackers and easier for JWP to play more positively resulting in feeding wingers who in turn can play in whoever we play as strikers with crosses from wide into the penalty area. The lad is talented but is not an obvious leader. Captains should be seen to be leaders not the old cliche, leads by example.