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Yep, with Jay R scoring against his old club…what a story for the film-makers eh? 😕

Tell you what - this current team wouldn’t / couldn’t deliver a 4-0 win in the Championship if their lives depended on it. It wouldn’t surprise me if the first game of the season ended in a nervy loss. Let’s re-convene and compare notes after the first game shall we?

The issue is not that there are Championship level players, it’s that the construct of the team is flawed and many players will have developed a losing mentality that they cannot shake. The next Manager and his coaching team have a significant re-build to accomplish. There’s a reason Manning came on a free. He’s wedded to a certain style of system - one that allows him to be lazy in his decision making. He’s a very limited player.

Funny, I was thinking a couple of days ago about how the team that ‘arry and Jim managed actually looked liked warriors compared to the group of pussies we’ve been enduring for 3-4 seasons now.

It’s OK…I’ve forgotten now.🤣

Yeah, nothing on this thread about Utd’s ambition’s. 🤣😏

My bad, I forgot about the new stadium expansion in the last year or so. 🙄😉 Oh sorry, you mean the safe standing, the movement of away fans and the addition of extra pre-match entertainment areas (to compensate for the sub-standard match entertainment? OK, I guess that’s something, but obviously not enough to make a some on here swoon over Utd’s plans.

Although it’s pretty sad that a thread supposedly about SMS development gets taken over by news of Man Utd’s ambitious plans. Thanks to SR’s stunning failure at Saints it’ll be a long time before any further investment in SMS will happen - maybe never if we carry on the current trajectory.

Let’s hope it’s fanciful. Whatever the question, Ings is not the answer. Sure he’d score a hatful in the Championship, but only if he’s playing which would not be guaranteed. Plus I don’t think he’d come back anyway.

As a City, there’s so much to like in contrast to the shithole down the road. The football has been shite…SR incompetent. But if you love football then inevitably you pin your colours to one mast and ours is Saints…the red & white. Despite each successive failure, I start watching each next game with hope that something will go right. And I know that one day it will.

I just think he’s just flailing about trying random stuff just to be seen to trying new things. Some of his post match comments are so bereft of sense that it’s clear he’s not invested in the job - a caretaker who couldn’t care less.

I can’t disagree with the sentiment, but there was next to nothing from the preceding Prem games to indicate the team had any semblance of improving beyond what Martin had achieved (or not as the case was). We may have hoped Juric was the answer, but the short contract with get out clause given to him tells me he was a temporary fix, with the club hedging their bets and expecting him to fail. The positive is that he’ll not be involved in re-build process thankfully, although I’m not confident another balls-up is on the cards while SR are pulling Spors strings.

What do you mean? Do you actually think there was any resemblance of a team able to make a last ditch charge for safety when he took over? This team was relegated (if not mathematically) by the time he took over such was the abject failure - of course he was going to be the fall guy unless by some incredible miracle nearly everything we had seen to date was some bad dream and all of a sudden the players looked competent in even the basics of being a Prem outfit. It was better against Liverpool sure, but the damage was irreversible by then. Juric knew this 2 games in I would wager.

I suspect Juric will be utilised between now and seasons end to suck up all the fallout - taking the blame for 9 points, sacking off unwanted players etc. He was always going to be the fall guy given what he’s had to work with.

Very few ST holders that are also true Saints supporters (as opposed to ‘tourists’) will give up their seat. Living in cloud cuckoo land to think otherwise. There will be a drop off in sold seats - there always is typically, but not to a huge extent, particularly if results improve.