captainchris

Not sure you watch the team or understand what was said in that post. I’m not going to explain for you.

I think this post is a very good analysis of just one of our serious issues which has not been addressed at all by Ralph. Ralph appears to be so slow at picking things up and rectifying them. Either we are not fit (no denying the goal stats point to that) or tactically we do not counteract the opponents tactical adjustments. Certainly on so many occasions we are caught with our pants down with too many players far to far advanced leaving acres of space for opponents to break into. I can’t even remember the last time we broke with pace! What does that mean? It means that the other team can press and commit forward without risk. Ralph controls all of this and yet game after game is the same. Fitness must be a factor here though we are blessed with a few average players of course. However there is very little evidence that players are being coached as again, every time we see them it’s like watching a game you’ve seen before.

‘Continues to improve’ ????? After 93 games where is this ‘improvement’ ? I cannot see any ‘automisation’ even after 93 games unless you count automatically being crap after 30 minutes of most games. Ralph is a nice guy in interviews though if that helps .....

Bednarek 😂😂😂😂 Made my night that one!

Great to see Ralph’s unjustified loyalty to the crap that is Bednarek... Two up front still - really..... What is the purpose of changing the goalkeeper one might wonder...

Watching the press conferences Ralph was certainly not himself. He looked under pressure to me and damn well should be, until now you could see he felt invincible. I’m not so sure he was as confident today. I hope he is feeling the pressure because for too long it has been a case of untouchable Ralph and therefore no pressure on the team either, that has to change....

You are bringing a smile to my face again Ralph..... 😂

Leicester do have better players than we do accepted, however their organised pressing and general tactical organisation was in another league to ours too which is the disturbing aspect of today’s and many other performances in recent months.

You honestly think Bednerek played well..... Collapses in a heap of laughter.

That performance and many others including not one but two 9.0s are nothing to do with Gao and money.

Bednerek - some people gave him more than 3.85 on the BBC site lol.... Wow he is very very poor...Still Ralph loves him. Watch him in a game, he is constantly looking in the wrong direction, the game goes on around him very much similar to a certain full back we used to have by the name of Fox...

Knee jerk !!!!!!!!! Lol Thank you for that ridiculous comment Ralph !

Even throw ins have not been addressed ! Pathetic

Sammy Lee - Ralph ? Sammy please

Dear Ralph You haven’t noticed that our centre backs are slow. you haven’t noticed that our team is with unfit or lazy, which is it please? No one joins in on the counter - no support ?

Wtf is this crap yet again ! Management is dog shite

Bednerek yet again !!!! Why is Ralph picking such a crap player

Bednerek again

Bednerek is appalling no argument at all !

This forum has become a bit of a joke. Comparing JWP with Ronaldo unless you are on a substance of kind is beyond any stretch of any sane imagination...

No it’s not actually ... That’s not true. We were not favourites that is true yes but we were viable ...... We are not this year! The point is also that it is not as important to remain in the FA Cup as maintaining our Premier League status at this time. There is a massive difference in importance to being in the Premier League now compared to Div 1 status in 76.... There was also no talk of priority in 76 either ... We have to stay in the Premier League end of ...

Laughable the way people think we have a chance in hell of winning the FA Cup..... When we did win it we had some very very good players and a Manager who was on an entirely different planet to one we have now. We are literally miles away from Leicester, the Manc teams and indeed Chelsea now... If you like lower league football that much there is lots to chose from locally. Some of us want to see Saints playing at the highest level possible and aspiring to the highest level. Eastleigh would welcome you with open arms, actually some have made a choice to go there and respect to them for that but that level is not good enough for Southampton or any owner who you think we deserve more than Gao. No one would buy a football with low aspirations in fact. Aspire to play at the highest level or plan to fail and expect that ambition to be a catastrophic success....

Can you actually read or are you six!

In this day and age and given our bank balance too it would be suicide to go down. The very real risks of successive relegations again just cannot be contemplated. The cup is litterally meaningless in comparison and we ain’t winning it anyway if you are in any way at all realistic. We do not need a cup run while we are in this mess...

100% At last someone else has recognised there has been a change in style/tactics. Ralph even said himself our method was to play the ball forward early when we were getting results and now it is not our ‘method’ any more? Odd.... We often have too many players either hiding or playing too advanced for playing out from the back with not enough options. Either way the ball has to go forwards more often and far quicker as it was.... No I don’t mean long ball either !!!!! Though it has its place at times for any team. Ralph actually has admitted to changing the tactic to more ball retention and I expect the stats bear that out and certainly we often had games with a very low possession percentage when we were winning particularly last season ... Ralph does seem so stubborn about his various philosophies which come and go and is often guilty of changing things that work, or, is he slow picking up on how matches progress and what is not working?