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Interview smacks of paranoia. The first half performance was awful and we were lucky not to be 2 down. Second half better as we had one moment of quality. Overall it was till painful to watch as the mantra is still pass not attack. Yes we won but there is an emerging pattern of underperforming playerts hamstrung by pqassive passing at all costs. Adventure?? Risk ? Just bore the pants of fans. I do not think that I am not alone in that I want Saints to win every game but prefer to wqatch other teams play football

Fans are bored by what they see so they resort to inane chants.Play with some passion and purpose and that may be reciprocated by our travelling support too

It was Bazunas fault. The ball went over Bednarek's head so he should have had that covered

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Steve Moran from Fareham

Do performances reflect results? Are we creating chances versus conversion. Are we conceding goals through unforced errors against opposition skill? Do we see improvements in tactics and individual player's.performances I suspect we are about 40% over the 11 games. Not good enough given the talent at our disposal

Spot on. Our expectations should be high with the squad that we have but we are sacrificial lambs to a fixed system that does not work. What is more it is painfall to watch and easy to negate demonsrated by a near reserve side second to bottom. It was the predictability of our approach that opposition can suss so quickly and the stubborness to change during a game that has alienated so many fans

I was at the game and on another day we could have had six there are two issues which grated for me after the game. Tactically their manager realised that they needed to block the supply to our left wing and play highrr up the pitch. Secondly our manager had no plan B to up the tempo and move the ball quicker to the wings. Three passes when a balll over the top was needed. Our midfield was painful to watch against a dreadful side. Most fans can accept that we were unlucky but tactically we were awful and that is down to the Manager. It was obvious that Smallbone was playing to instructions as I do not remember one risk taking forward pass all afternoon

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The logical thing was to Move Charles to midfield take off Smallbobne and bring on Holgate. Takes of Edozie who was playing well and laeves Armstrong on who wasn't. Unless this is sorted soon he will be gone by the end of the month

Do you have a view on our first choice goalkeeper or are your comments only on those who do?😄

Corrected even if your point is pedantic and not about the technical issue I highlighted

Watching Bazunu I have observed some basics that he is not doing which explains why so many longer range shots are going in. Good postioning is essential for any keeper and movement to narrow angles is key as well as havving a clear site of any potential shot. If your reactions are good you stand more chance of saving/diverting a goal bound effort if you are off your line. The skill is determining how far. There will be very few occasions where you will be chipped unless a player is clean through. Bazunu's position for the long range shots he has conceded, is in my opinion too near the goaline and his balance and stature is too high. By this I mean if you are in a crouching and weight forward position it is easier to dive and react to any shot than if you are static and too far back. This is a coaching issue which has not been addressed or he has not learnt this skill.

Propoganda football as Stachan would say. Wednesday were awful lets face it. Possession is meaningless unless you create chances. Edozie was the only positive threat although he lacks an end product and was too easily knocked off the boil. Stuart Armstrong looked a real threat when he came on as he runs at defenders and was prepared to shoot from distance. With our high line we will be vulnerable to fast breaks and ourcentre halves will get exposed. Despite this the gulf in class and quality was obvious and this is a good start as winning breeds confidence.

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Now for something completely different. A poem I wrote on being signed on by Saints when I was sixteen Enjoy Becoming a Professional Footballer Like most schoolboys I was sport mad and imagined one day to play for my team a fantasy, an unrealistic hope, a false dream but I was good and not just keen So I wtote to my club and asked for a trial and surprisingly I was asked to come next Tuesday eve There were 40 of us desperate to impress the watching scouts, the manager, in me to believe We returned to the Dell The home of the "Saints" and four names were called of the 40 that played that night. I was one of them to my disbelieve and utter delight I got a letter signed by the Manager, Ted Bates that I had become an Amateur with no pay but told to make myself available to play. Training Tuesdays and Thursdays, the Southampton way In those days there were no academy suits no sponsored kits. no manicured pitches instead the concrete and tarmnac carpark and gym where we sweated and stretched every muscle and limb Grace and elegance was not the art of the pro well for most it was tenacity and will to withstand the mental and physical speed of thought against your opponent's skill Confronted one evening in training in the car park when tackled by a hardened pro called Huxford who flattened me to the ground, face first dazed and bloodied he stood over me unmoved He was looking for a response, a reaction would I run away or confront him Had I got what it took to become a pro there would be no apology, no retraction It was not just me but everone that night floored, bloodied, bruised and sore discovered what it was to become a pro If that was sport then for me a no Only one amateur signed pro forms that year a lad, ironically from Portsmouth, our fiercest foe Diminuitive but quick, fearless, but no tricks went on the score the winner in the cup Final of '76

Fulham have not won at Southampton for over 70 years. Do you think they may break that hodoo ?

I got angry for once watching this game as in all the other dross there was a quiet resignation that defeat was inevitable (as we cannnot score) or even create chances. Perhaps, mistakenly I thought that we would go for it as this really was a must win game. I am sure I am not alone in that false expectation of fight, aggression, passion, busting a gut, charging forward, harrasiing the opposition into errors, shots at goal urged on by excited fans. No just the same old lacklustre lottery selection and total lack of team effort from a shiot team selection for this game. RIP Southampton FC 2023

A At least Douglas Barder flew past the enemy.

Just sack Selles now please. With had a midget at centre forward and we put on a centre half in a must win game. We have offered nothing until we put some attackers on . Too f... late i

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As an ex goalie yes you will be beaten at the near post but not often. If you have a right footed player coming from the right side of the box then narrowing the angles should present very little to your left and 90% of the time he will shoot to your right where there is a far greater margin of error and you have ahigher perecentage of saving the shot. McCarthy does not do this.His positioning and narrowing of angles is poor

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