| Will Still 06:45 - Sep 2 with 2743 views | saintwizzler |
So the transfer window slams shut and we will know (barring international injuries) what the manager’s strongest team is a week Sunday v Portsmouth.
I wish him all the best and hope he is the manager for a long time to come.
Not that I rate him highly it’s just if he’s sacked at any point the league table would look bad.
Sport Republic have installed him as manager so there’s nothing do except support the team each game wether that’s in the ground or watching on TV.
Good luck Will.
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| Will Still on 07:44 - Sep 2 with 2631 views | grumpy |
'Not that I rate him highly it’s just if he’s sacked at any point the league table would look bad'
Sorry! don't understand what you are trying to say here. |  | | |
| Will Still on 08:43 - Sep 2 with 2532 views | saintwizzler |
| Will Still on 07:44 - Sep 2 by grumpy |
'Not that I rate him highly it’s just if he’s sacked at any point the league table would look bad'
Sorry! don't understand what you are trying to say here. |
He’ll get the sack if the league table looks bad.
Losing games = down the bottom.
Winning games = up the top.
If he wins games he won’t be sacked.
Or do a Rueben Selles at Sheffield United. | |
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| Will Still on 08:53 - Sep 2 with 2496 views | PatfromPoole |
Apart from the lack of a quality keeper, centre-half and striker, he has the strongest squad in the League. |  |
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| Will Still on 09:15 - Sep 2 with 2437 views | Butty101 |
| Will Still on 08:53 - Sep 2 by PatfromPoole |
Apart from the lack of a quality keeper, centre-half and striker, he has the strongest squad in the League. |
Clean sheets and goals are going to be hard to come by this season |  |
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| Will Still on 10:24 - Sep 2 with 2342 views | SaintNick |
| Will Still on 08:53 - Sep 2 by PatfromPoole |
Apart from the lack of a quality keeper, centre-half and striker, he has the strongest squad in the League. |
Football is about opinions but I would point out
1. Gavin Bazunu was the keeper for the bulk of our last promotion season and for the 23 game unbeaten league run in which we let in less goals than anyone else in that period.
2. Taylor Harwood-Bellis was the centre half that season and is here for this, the trick is who plays beside him.
3. Adam Armstrong was the divisions second highest scorer that promotion season and the leagues highest assists, again play him with the right striker up front and he can score goals.
When I speak to fans of other clubs they think we have a strong squad, it is all going to be about how well it is managed and that is down to Will Still, now he has wingers in the squad we may see a return to a back four |  |
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| Will Still on 10:27 - Sep 2 with 2331 views | DorsetIan |
| Will Still on 10:24 - Sep 2 by SaintNick |
Football is about opinions but I would point out
1. Gavin Bazunu was the keeper for the bulk of our last promotion season and for the 23 game unbeaten league run in which we let in less goals than anyone else in that period.
2. Taylor Harwood-Bellis was the centre half that season and is here for this, the trick is who plays beside him.
3. Adam Armstrong was the divisions second highest scorer that promotion season and the leagues highest assists, again play him with the right striker up front and he can score goals.
When I speak to fans of other clubs they think we have a strong squad, it is all going to be about how well it is managed and that is down to Will Still, now he has wingers in the squad we may see a return to a back four |
You write as if we won the league that year. |  |
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| Will Still on 11:02 - Sep 2 with 2278 views | PatfromPoole |
| Will Still on 10:24 - Sep 2 by SaintNick |
Football is about opinions but I would point out
1. Gavin Bazunu was the keeper for the bulk of our last promotion season and for the 23 game unbeaten league run in which we let in less goals than anyone else in that period.
2. Taylor Harwood-Bellis was the centre half that season and is here for this, the trick is who plays beside him.
3. Adam Armstrong was the divisions second highest scorer that promotion season and the leagues highest assists, again play him with the right striker up front and he can score goals.
When I speak to fans of other clubs they think we have a strong squad, it is all going to be about how well it is managed and that is down to Will Still, now he has wingers in the squad we may see a return to a back four |
Another reminder of the facts of this celebrated unbeaten run….
https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/southampton/forum/323373/this-mythical-23 | |
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| Will Still on 11:31 - Sep 2 with 2232 views | PatfromPoole |
And just to show that stats can be used to push any narrative.....
We won 16 out of those 22 unbeaten games.
We lost to Bristol City at the end of the run.
We lost each of the 4 games before the run started.
Therefore we took 54 points from a run of 27 League games, exactly 2 points per game.
Leicester won the League with 97 points and Ipswich were second on 96.
Both more than 2 points per game.
I think it's time everybody stopped harping on about how wonderful the unbeaten run was.
It wasn't even top 2 form when considered alongside the games we lost either side of it. | |
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| Will Still on 12:04 - Sep 2 with 2176 views | saintmark1976 |
| Will Still on 08:53 - Sep 2 by PatfromPoole |
Apart from the lack of a quality keeper, centre-half and striker, he has the strongest squad in the League. |
Yep, and as Southamptonfan points out under a separate article Sports Republic have banked £72 million in the process, apparently not including parachute payments.
Their prerogative of course, which to me appears to indicate that promotion isn’t very high on the agenda. | |
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| Will Still on 12:09 - Sep 2 with 2163 views | dirk_doone |
| Will Still on 11:31 - Sep 2 by PatfromPoole |
And just to show that stats can be used to push any narrative.....
We won 16 out of those 22 unbeaten games.
We lost to Bristol City at the end of the run.
We lost each of the 4 games before the run started.
Therefore we took 54 points from a run of 27 League games, exactly 2 points per game.
Leicester won the League with 97 points and Ipswich were second on 96.
Both more than 2 points per game.
I think it's time everybody stopped harping on about how wonderful the unbeaten run was.
It wasn't even top 2 form when considered alongside the games we lost either side of it. |
Although we scraped promotion, it wasn't a great season. We finished 9 points off the automatic promotion places. What let us down was our poor defensive record, caused by our terrible goalkeepers, Bazunu and McCarthy, and weak defence. We conceded 22 goals more than Leicester, and even relegated Birmingham only conceded 2 more goals than we did. [Post edited 2 Sep 12:13]
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| Will Still on 15:15 - Sep 2 with 2047 views | Stevebish |
| Will Still on 11:31 - Sep 2 by PatfromPoole |
And just to show that stats can be used to push any narrative.....
We won 16 out of those 22 unbeaten games.
We lost to Bristol City at the end of the run.
We lost each of the 4 games before the run started.
Therefore we took 54 points from a run of 27 League games, exactly 2 points per game.
Leicester won the League with 97 points and Ipswich were second on 96.
Both more than 2 points per game.
I think it's time everybody stopped harping on about how wonderful the unbeaten run was.
It wasn't even top 2 form when considered alongside the games we lost either side of it. |
And after that we only won 1 more game to the end of the season.
We were found out by the rest of the league and they knew as long as they pressed us we would concede goals.
We probably all knew that we were going to struggle playing in the Prem with Martin and his tactics but having got us promoted we kind of had to give him a chance.
I'm not sure about Still yet but lets see what happens.
We did have more points at this time that season but then followed it up with 4 straight loses so if we have more than 10 points after the first 8 games we will have had a better start to the season than the previous one. | | | |
| Will Still on 16:49 - Sep 2 with 1968 views | 1ASIN12 |
The club have invested heavily in the squad , arguably more so than was invested under Martin in the summer transfer windows.
Martin had implemented his playing style in the 1st game at Sheffield Wednesday. Despite being appointed even earlier than Martin I’m still not sure what Stills style is .
There is no excuses now , results need to vastly improve if we are to challenge for the play offs ,the squad has had additions with experience players that I assume Still agreed with .
To get to 6 th place we need around 74 points or so . Just over 1.6 points a game rather than the 1.25 points we currently have .
Time for Still to start performing if we have ambitions of a play off sport .
Yes it’s early days but assume most fans would have expected more than 5 points from
The 4 games we’ve played . | | | |
| Will Still on 16:54 - Sep 2 with 1953 views | cocklebreath |
| Will Still on 09:15 - Sep 2 by Butty101 |
Clean sheets and goals are going to be hard to come by this season |
I think you need some clean sheets.
We’ll score plenty with our new wingers and play maker supplying Archer, Downes or Stewart. |  |
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| Will Still on 16:59 - Sep 2 with 1940 views | saint22 |
| Will Still on 16:49 - Sep 2 by 1ASIN12 |
The club have invested heavily in the squad , arguably more so than was invested under Martin in the summer transfer windows.
Martin had implemented his playing style in the 1st game at Sheffield Wednesday. Despite being appointed even earlier than Martin I’m still not sure what Stills style is .
There is no excuses now , results need to vastly improve if we are to challenge for the play offs ,the squad has had additions with experience players that I assume Still agreed with .
To get to 6 th place we need around 74 points or so . Just over 1.6 points a game rather than the 1.25 points we currently have .
Time for Still to start performing if we have ambitions of a play off sport .
Yes it’s early days but assume most fans would have expected more than 5 points from
The 4 games we’ve played . |
totally agree here
No point sayin it takes til game ten for things to settle in, by then we could be well adrift
We need to see 4 or 5 wins from teh next 6 games and he has two weeks with a settled squad now bar those away with nationals | | | |
| Will Still on 19:12 - Sep 2 with 1846 views | GRIM |
| Will Still on 10:24 - Sep 2 by SaintNick |
Football is about opinions but I would point out
1. Gavin Bazunu was the keeper for the bulk of our last promotion season and for the 23 game unbeaten league run in which we let in less goals than anyone else in that period.
2. Taylor Harwood-Bellis was the centre half that season and is here for this, the trick is who plays beside him.
3. Adam Armstrong was the divisions second highest scorer that promotion season and the leagues highest assists, again play him with the right striker up front and he can score goals.
When I speak to fans of other clubs they think we have a strong squad, it is all going to be about how well it is managed and that is down to Will Still, now he has wingers in the squad we may see a return to a back four |
Think you've hit the nail on the head regarding who plays alongside THB.
I'm not convinced about him & think that he was carried by Bedders when they played together.
We don't have a Bedders to cover for THB anymore & in the early games we've had it shows because THB has looked very poor. [Post edited 2 Sep 19:37]
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| Will Still on 19:22 - Sep 2 with 1826 views | Ifonly |
| Will Still on 19:12 - Sep 2 by GRIM |
Think you've hit the nail on the head regarding who plays alongside THB.
I'm not convinced about him & think that he was carried by Bedders when they played together.
We don't have a Bedders to cover for THB anymore & in the early games we've had it shows because THB has looked very poor. [Post edited 2 Sep 19:37]
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I rate THB higher than most Saints fans seem to. He missed the summer with injury so didn't have a proper pre-season which will have affected his sharpness. I'm glad we've kept him. As I've said before I'd like to see a partnership of THB and Wood given a chance with a run in the side. | | | |
| Will Still on 23:24 - Sep 2 with 1717 views | BigbadBarry8myboat |
| Will Still on 19:12 - Sep 2 by GRIM |
Think you've hit the nail on the head regarding who plays alongside THB.
I'm not convinced about him & think that he was carried by Bedders when they played together.
We don't have a Bedders to cover for THB anymore & in the early games we've had it shows because THB has looked very poor. [Post edited 2 Sep 19:37]
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Bednarek covered for THB?;
No we now don't have a Bednarek, we have a Stephens who is even worse than THB! And he's been made Captain again even after the worst season imaginable in the Premiership.
We've needed a vocal, experienced, organiser at the back all the way through last season and this yet we stick with calamity Jack. | | | |
| Will Still on 00:13 - Sep 3 with 1694 views | Gennaro_Contaldo |
| Will Still on 10:24 - Sep 2 by SaintNick |
Football is about opinions but I would point out
1. Gavin Bazunu was the keeper for the bulk of our last promotion season and for the 23 game unbeaten league run in which we let in less goals than anyone else in that period.
2. Taylor Harwood-Bellis was the centre half that season and is here for this, the trick is who plays beside him.
3. Adam Armstrong was the divisions second highest scorer that promotion season and the leagues highest assists, again play him with the right striker up front and he can score goals.
When I speak to fans of other clubs they think we have a strong squad, it is all going to be about how well it is managed and that is down to Will Still, now he has wingers in the squad we may see a return to a back four |
I agree.
I think Bazunu already looks a better 'keeper than before - they are late bloomers and I think he could well come good, he certainly thrives on confidence.
I'm LESS worried about the centre of defence now Bednarek has gone. Harwood-Bellis will get fitter again and be decent. Wood isn't too bad either as a back up.
Not as sure about Armstrong, but after the Will Still v Archer chat they had and the last two games, Archer could end the season on 25 goals ...
My gut feeling anyway. Pull me up on it next May if I'm wrong. |  |
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