Maggie May

Shane Long record gone?

I think Edozie’s confidence hasn’t recovered since that miss against Lincoln.

There are a few results that stand out in my time as a Saints fan that were particularly painful. The defeat to Stockport in the second leg of the Coca Cola Cup and the 4-3 capitulation to Tranmere in the FA Cup. They were painful because they seemed so freak. Although we were one of the PL’s strugglers when Stockport knocked us out, it felt unlucky. The effort was there, it could have gone either way and we should have put it to bed in the first leg. Tranmere was just unbelievable as we were so dominant in the first half. However, the only word I can think of for this defeat to Grimsby is shameful. No guts, no passion, no will to win. They felt inferior to a team three leagues below. And fair play to Grimsby for capitalising on it. I’m sure I’ll look back on this as an overreaction but this Saints side is not a team to me. They will go down with barely a whimper and I fear most of us won’t really care.

This is shameful.

I don’t think I’ve seen a Saints team this inept as an attacking threat.

Marco Silva should be in with a shout for manager of the year.

We signed both early in the transfer window. One can’t make the squad and the other is benched. Big, big questions need to be asked over why they were signed.

Thank God we didn’t. Oh wait…

We are dreadful, that’s the problem. Selles is a great guy and did well to beat Chelsea but this is a bigger issue.

Wow. Talk about hyperbole.

I really hope we don’t overhype Selles.

I know very little about Selles but there’s two things he gave from that press conference that NJ never did from day one - confidence and hope.

For some reason that junk SaintsExtra feed eats up my Twitter timeline even though I don’t follow it.

Do we have a Selles chant yet?

None of this is true.

Saints Go Wilder!

Fair enough. I’d be interested to hear your reasoning for this. Just three months ago we hired the Championship manager of the season who turned out to be, statistically, one of the worst managers to grace the Premier League. I would much rather we had someone like Marsch for the foreseeable. He actually has pedigree, won trophies as a player and a manager, and has some international caps. NJ experienced none of this. Say all you want about the Austrian League not being a patch on the PL but we’d be clamouring for someone like him if he hadn’t already been at Leeds. And he kept them up.

The board know we are down. Marsch is likely prepared to drop into the Championship and should be a good addition in that sense. Having time to bed him in for a push for promotion isn’t a bad idea on paper.

Marsch might be the only viable candidate who’s up for taking this mess on. We’re unlikely to attract a high calibre manager in our precarious position. The time to have done that was before we hired NJ.

Lock thread

Oh look, another post knocking NJ.

I reckon we’ll tonk Wolves.

Honest question - what’s so special about Kompany’s speech there? I’m not an NJ fan and have posted my dismay over that mic’d up training sessions on a few occasions on here, but none of us really know how NJ is behind closed doors. He could be just like Kompany here. Or he could be even more engaging - we just don’t know. If there’s one thing to take away from this thread it’s to take all training ground/behind the scenes rumours posted on here with a massive pinch of salt.

Apologies if I’ve got the wrong end of the stick but the prepared for relegation claims from the board are insane. We’ve hurtled faster towards the trap door with NJ in charge, losing six of our total 14 PL defeats this season so far. Looking at past PL tables, we can only really afford two or three more defeats, which makes staying up this season a pretty much impossible task. They were either prepared to go down under Ralph and knew it was a realistic scenario regardless of who comes in, or now realise we have no chance of staying up because of NJ’s failure to turn it around. And if it’s the latter, they should come out and admit they were wrong or take decisive action by bringing someone else in to give us a fighting chance of staying up. But they won’t do the latter because it’s obvious now most efforts will be futile as who in their right mind would risk taking this mess on? I don’t know about anyone else, but hearing them say we’ll have the finances in the Championship makes me very uneasy, and not reassured in the slightest.

He’s seen through NJ from the start. After our win against City, I remember Sutton saying he was speaking “complete rubbish” when NJ said we’d played well against Forest. Everyone can see it.