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Yes, I thought that, it reminded me of that game against Spurs during lockdown. Pathetic defending when we just don’t seem to learn. That’s one of the most frustrating things about Juric because he must be able to see what we can and surely he could try something to combat that.

We were shocking in the first half against Brighton in the game at their place, much better in the second half and still feel aggrieved about the VAR decision against Archer's goal but I seem to recall their fans thinking Downes should have been sent off for a series of fouls. Just have to hope that Juric has learnt from the previous games and he sets us up properly from the start and when he makes substitutions then they are not going to cause us harm. Why haven't we played like we did in the first half against West Ham in any other games since?

We didn't have a bubble for the league cup game and as far as I'm aware there weren't any incidents so don't see why they would bring it back. As others have said, my main concern is finding players with a backbone who want to play for us and put some effort in.

There have been some passages of play which have represented a much better press but not seen consistently. Is that a case of not having the players, the players not having the fitness and/or ability? As mentioned before when Pochettino took over we could clearly see his style of play in his first game against Everton. Juric set us up differently in the West Ham game but overall we don’t appear to be much better defensively.

We had four clean sheets against Liverpool that season. The 0-0 against Man Utd was particularly dull and the 1-0 defeat against Stoke on the last day of the season.

Rusk made us more solid in the Fulham game.

Birmingham. Looks more like a rugby player.

With a former Saints youth Klarer in the team.

I wonder where we would be now if we hadn’t been relegated that season.

Shame, thought he looked decent in his albeit limited run outs.

That Liverpool game was also my best memory of Prutton. We were very good that day. Just checked and that was 20 years ago! Can’t remember much of Draper at Saints at all but due to his career before he got to us, then he’s clearly a better player. Prutton was better at Saints though.

We beat Chelsea 2-1 at home in the last relegation season, 1-0 away.

Doncaster was the low for me as well. It was a no police game, we were awful, losing and fights between Saints fans. Looking at the table for the 2008/09 season we managed to win ten and draw fifteen to get to 45 points albeit in a 46 game season. Relatively and in terms of non competitiveness this will surely be our worst season ever.

Rohl wasn’t in charge of Sheff Wed for the first game of the season. He was in the home game in January though.

FlashScore has him down as the central striker, be interesting to see how he gets on.