Southampton 1-2 Wolves - Match Thread

[coalman]

Might as well start preparing for next weekend's relegation 6 pointer.

Lots of questions before this match:

- Will Jones still be in charge?

- Another week in the reserves for Caleta-Car and Orsic?

- Diallo to start again?

- Saints to set up to invite pressure?

- The ongoing mental disintegration of Nathan Jones to continue in his pre match presentation.

At this juncture it's hard to speculate beyond a Wolves win as we never beat them no matter how well we play they seem to nick a goal. Despite that I'm still hoping against hope.

[Dusic]

Although it feels its been the same every game for a while, surely if we are to have any kind of chance to stay up we simply have to get 3 points here.

Considering we have just spent £60m and will have some home debuts ordinarily the fans would be up for it, but obviously Jones totally changes that.

Big decisions for the club this week but if he is still in charge then somehow fans need to almost forget about him and get behind the team like the Everton fans did yesterday.

[AlexLaw76]

We will play 3. 5. FUCKING 2

Lyanco, Bree, Moi and Diallo will play.  We will get it in the mixer to the big lad up top and we will love it

Edited 5 February, 2023 by AlexLaw76

[Crab Lungs]

(4-3-3): Caballero, KWP, Perraud, Salisu, DCC, Lavia, JWP, Alcaraz, Orsic, Onuachu, Adams. 
 

Please. No Moi, Lyanco, Diallo. 

[Crab Lungs]

6 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

We will play 3. 5. FUCKING 2

Lyanco, Bree, Moi and Diallo will play.  We will get it in the mixer to the big lad up top and we will love it

That’s a terrifying thought ☹️

[FarehamSaintJames]

Expectation:
Bazunu
KWP, DCC, Salisu/ABK, Perraud
JWP, Lavia, Alcaraz
Sulemana, Onuachu, Orsic

Reality:
Bazunu
Bree, Bednarek, ABK, Lyanco, Salisu, 
Diallo, AMN, JWP
A. Armstrong, Elyounoussi 

Nathan Jones will still be in charge. DCC will be on Netflix. Bednarek will continue to walk into a crap team. Diallo and AMN will continue their weekly cameo of being shit. 5-3-2, because “wE sCoRe MoRe WiTh A bAcK tHrEe”.

3-0 defeat, optimistically.

Edited 5 February, 2023 by FarehamSaintJames

[Crab Lungs]

2 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

Expectation:
Bazunu
KWP, DCC, Salisu/ABK, Perraud
JWP, Lavia, Alcaraz
Sulemana, Onuachu, Orsic

Reality:
Bazunu
Bree, Bednarek, ABK, Lyanco, Salisu, 
Diallo, AMN, JWP
A. Armstrong, Elyounoussi 

Nathan Jones will still be in charge. DCC will be on Netflix. Bednarek will continue to walk into a crap team. Diallo and AMN will continue their weekly cameo of being shit. 5-3-2, because “wE sCoRe MoRe WiTh A bAcK tHrEe”.

3-0 defeat, optimistically.

That makes me want to puke.

[FarehamSaintJames]

1 minute ago, Crab Lungs said:

That makes me want to puke.

The ironic thing is it’s probably the most likely thing to happen. 😢

[Suhari]

The atmosphere will be fucking horrendous is he's still in the dugout.

[AlexLaw76]

Would be funny if we see saints on the front foot and sweep Wolves aside

 

 

I know, just as mental as mad-nate

[Pamplemousse]

If I hadn't already bought train tickets I'd consider not going until we sack the idiot because we all know what the outcome will be.

If Jones is in charge, a heavy defeat

With Selles, a draw.

[Chewy]

1 hour ago, coalman said:

Might as well start preparing for next weekend's relegation 6 pointer.

Lots of questions before this match:

- Will Jones still be in charge?

- Another week in the reserves for Caleta-Car and Orsic?

- Diallo to start again?

- Saints to set up to invite pressure?

- The ongoing mental disintegration of Nathan Jones to continue in his pre match presentation.

At this juncture it's hard to speculate beyond a Wolves win as we never beat them no matter how well we play they seem to nick a goal. Despite that I'm still hoping against hope.

Biggest question for me at this stage is “is there any f*cking point?”

[Charlie Wayman]

1 hour ago, Dusic said:

Although it feels its been the same every game for a while, surely if we are to have any kind of chance to stay up we simply have to get 3 points here.

Considering we have just spent £60m and will have some home debuts ordinarily the fans would be up for it, but obviously Jones totally changes that.

Big decisions for the club this week but if he is still in charge then somehow fans need to almost forget about him and get behind the team like the Everton fans did yesterday.

Did you see Wolves yesterday? In what universe will Saints get something from this match?  Another 3-0 defeat. 

[Baird of the land]

Please no Bednarek

[Dirkdiggler]

Can we not send Bednarek back to Villa with a sorry note?

[Dirkdiggler]

[Crab Lungs]

5 minutes ago, Dirkdiggler said:

Yes from me.

[JRM]

We'll see a different Saints in this one, no more compromising, the real Nathan Jones is in the house and is going to show you what he can do 

[Pengi]

5 minutes ago, JRM said:

We'll see a different Saints in this one, no more compromising, the real Nathan Jones is in the house and is going to show you what he can do 

0 - 10 then, outdoing Ralf

[Micky]

What's the point? Really, what is the point?  We are down, gone, done, relegated without so much as a whimper.  This group of lightweights, under this fraud of a manager will simply roll over at the first sign of trouble.  It would be easier to send them the points in the post to save the fans the time, money and heartache.   Can you imagine the likes of Gabriel, Magrath, Baĺly, Case or Killer, (and many others who've fought for us) wtf would they be thinking watching this weekly shit show?  Unless something drastic happens, Wolves will win, easily. 

Edited 5 February, 2023 by Micky

[miserableoldgit]

25 minutes ago, Dirkdiggler said:

That does look good.....we can only dream.....

[miserableoldgit]

3 minutes ago, Micky said:

What's the point? Really, what is the point?  We are down, gone, done, relegated without so much as a whimper.  This group of lightweights, under this fraud of a manager will simply roll over at the first sign of trouble.  It would be easier to send thrum the points in the post to save the fans the time, money and heartache.   Can you imagine the likes of Gabriel, Magrath, Baĺly, Case or Killer, (and many others who've fought for us) wtf would they be thinking watching this weekly shit show?  Unless something drastic happens, Wolves will win, easily. 

Really pleased that as a pensioner, I found the money for my ST  from somewhere.....

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Would be funny if we see saints on the front foot and sweep Wolves aside

 

 

I know, just as mental as mad-nate

Well he said that’s what his team do, now he’s not going to compromise it’s what we should see so if they don’t do it then why not.

[Convict Colony]

2 hours ago, coalman said:

Might as well start preparing for next weekend's relegation 6 pointer.

Lots of questions before this match:

- Will Jones still be in charge?

- Another week in the reserves for Caleta-Car and Orsic?

- Diallo to start again?

- Saints to set up to invite pressure?

- The ongoing mental disintegration of Nathan Jones to continue in his pre match presentation.

At this juncture it's hard to speculate beyond a Wolves win as we never beat them no matter how well we play they seem to nick a goal. Despite that I'm still hoping against hope.

[bjk]

I bet Wolves can't wait for this one ! 

[trousers]

34 minutes ago, Dirkdiggler said:

Surely there's a manager somewhere in the land that could get that starting 11 firing on all cylinders?

[S-Clarke]

It's getting to the stage now where the actual games are a side-show as to what is actually going on, they almost don't mean anything anymore. 

We went down with more fight in 05. I reckon we'll be gone by late March.

[coalman]

Here's a chilling thought - what if we scrape a win? Would that change people's minds about keeping him in the job?

[Dirkdiggler]

45 minutes ago, Dirkdiggler said:

It isn’t rocket science though you pick you best players and a system to suit? 
Then you let each player know their role in that system in attack and defence.

[hypochondriac]

If he's still here I'm going to be fascinated to see who he plays and how he sets up. That should give us a good indication of where he feels he's been held back. 

[Miltonaggro]

Wouldn’t it be lovely to have Lage and Selles on the touchline for this.

With mad Nat still here we lose this - prediction 0-3. New man in place and we could actually get the fabled bounce - prediction 1-0. 
 

God willing…

[S-Clarke]

10 minutes ago, coalman said:

Here's a chilling thought - what if we scrape a win? Would that change people's minds about keeping him in the job?

I don't think it can, anything which happens now is surely in spite of the manager given how he's thrown everyone under the bus. As much as I hate knee-jerk and fickle nonsense, I cannot see how his position can be tenable for any longer after his performance yesterday, both in game and after game.

[SaintJakko]

10 minutes ago, coalman said:

Here's a chilling thought - what if we scrape a win? Would that change people's minds about keeping him in the job?

He’ll have to do a lot more than one scraped win to win back this fan base. He showed in a couple cup games that possible, due to what I can only say is luck. The rest that he has shown that follows is dire football with no winning game plan and logical sense.

[woodsaint1]

1 hour ago, Pamplemousse said:

If I hadn't already bought train tickets I'd consider not going until we sack the idiot because we all know what the outcome will be.

If Jones is in charge, a heavy defeat

With Selles, a draw.

Its becoming more clear that Selles really isnt this super coach that some of our fans think he is.  Hopefully he'll be out on his arse soon enough too

[JRM]

32 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Well he said that’s what his team do, now he’s not going to compromise it’s what we should see so if they don’t do it then why not.

In some ways this should really count as his first game in charge as its not been his team playing his way yet. Reset the ratio and get the new manager bounce 

[Saint86]

2 hours ago, Crab Lungs said:

That’s a terrifying thought ☹️

Get used to it crabby, that's our team next season in the championship if we keep Jones 😂

Edited 5 February, 2023 by Saint86

[Turkish]

11 minutes ago, woodsaint1 said:

It’s becoming more clear that Selles really isnt this super coach that some of our fans think he is.  Hopefully he'll be out on his arse soon enough too

Maybe it’s all his fault? The Spanish Eric Black

[fanimal]

The big bad Wolf is going to blow this house down 

[SotonianWill]

10 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Maybe it’s all his fault? The Spanish Eric Black

our set pieces were shit when he was in charge of them,

couldn’t beat sheffield wednesday,

players who he is supposedly coaching looking less fit and unable to trap a football since he arrived (and before tbf, but The Athletic reported In pre season Selles took a hands on approach to training whilst ralph took more of a backseat role)

.. but the players like him and he speaks spanish so he survives. 

 

 

Edited 5 February, 2023 by SotonianWill

[Turkish]

17 minutes ago, JRM said:

In some ways this should really count as his first game in charge as its not been his team playing his way yet. Reset the ratio and get the new manager bounce 

Yep wipe the slate clean, let’s see us playing Jonesball. Best in Europe and all that 

[jawillwill]

Don't forget to sub your Brentford players out of your fantasy league teams and replace them with Wolves players.

 

 

[coalman]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Yep wipe the slate clean, let’s see us playing Jonesball. Best in Europe and all that 

I'm pretty sure that if he is still in post for the next game and we win that this is what will happen in the press conference.

"Since I decided to do things my way I have a 100% win record in the premiership. That's better than any manager has ever achieved before."

If he doesn't win then it just means it's time for another reset next week.

[The Curse of St Mary's]

Wolves will bully us and rip us open on the counter attack. Jimenez will find his lost scoring boots again and will get his annual red carpet treatment at SMS. 

[hypochondriac]

34 minutes ago, coalman said:

I'm pretty sure that if he is still in post for the next game and we win that this is what will happen in the press conference.

"Since I decided to do things my way I have a 100% win record in the premiership. That's better than any manager has ever achieved before."

If he doesn't win then it just means it's time for another reset next week.

No he will say it takes time for the players to learn a new system and he's only just started with them. In a way you can't really count any of the games prior to February because that was when he was pandering to other people. 

[coalman]

Just now, hypochondriac said:

No he will say it takes time for the players to learn a new system and he's only just started with them. In a way you can't really count any of the games prior to February because that was when he was pandering to other people. 

As long as he gets a fresh start and gets a chance to highlight his genius. What more could we ask for as fans?

[Chez]

What odds, after signing two wingers, Jones now rolls out his infamous diamond?

[wooley7]

His hubris has really put I’m in a corner. We should expect to see some clear changes on the pitch and improved performance. If we lose again how does he explain it then?

A real part of me is thinking ‘Ok, right, no more messing around go full Jones, let’s see what you got’. The rest of me says he has shown enough and needs to be replaced before this game.

We could all do with some entertainment and a heavy defeat at Wolves should produce a very interesting post match interview.

[Turkish]

40 minutes ago, The Curse of St Mary's said:

Wolves will bully us and rip us open on the counter attack. Jimenez will find his lost scoring boots again and will get his annual red carpet treatment at SMS. 

Ah yeah he hasn’t scored for a while, bet he can’t wait to play us 

[Saint-Reece]

40 minutes ago, The Curse of St Mary's said:

Wolves will bully us and rip us open on the counter attack. Jimenez will find his lost scoring boots again and will get his annual red carpet treatment at SMS. 

Wasn't it Bednarek he completely left on his arse last season in this fixture to break that dry spell he had infront of goal at the time? Bodes well!!

[Saint_Jonny]

For the first time ever I'm sacking this one off. Just going to go to the pub instead. If we win and I miss it so be it, these cunts have defeated me.