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Comment | Southampton At Bristol City The Verdict
at 11:16:14
It's the hope that kills us, but we all know where this ends.
Will Still wasn't and isn't experienced enough to manage a team to success in this league.
It's difficult to identify exactly what is wrong, but your Report goes a long way to stating it. As a 'team' we are not coherent and we are lightweight and quite easy to contain and sometimes beat. |
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Comment | Southampton V Swansea City The Verdict
at 11:52:44
I saw the game like this too, Nick.
We had a great 10 minute spell at the end of the first half because of 1 player Scienza and then we had one great chance in the second half where it was easier to score.
But apart from that, I agree that we didn't seem to know what we were doing.
Simple question. How is that we have bought two of the top performing Championship players of last year, and we're struggling how to fit them into the team? Likewise, what are Aribo and Edozie doing out in the cold?
All the useless managers we have had in the last few years have talked a great game right up to the moment they were sacked. Right path, success just around the corner, all that b0ll0cks. We shouldn't pay any notice to what Will Still has to say about the performance.
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Comment | Will Still Appears To Have Decided Loanee Has No Future At St Mary's
at 11:18:44
Beynali73, for all that SISU nearly killed Coventry, they had got them back to the Championship with a good manager in place (Robins) and a winning mentality before they eventually sold to Doug King. And now Coventry are flying.
I am no even sure that Solak is going to compare favourably to SISU when all is done and dusted... |
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Comment | Will Still Appears To Have Decided Loanee Has No Future At St Mary's
at 10:35:28
Is anyone else utterly BORED by anything to do with Saints' recruitment and what the completely inexperienced Will Still might do with the ramshackle squad that the completely inexperienced Johannes Spors has assembled for him?
I am guessing that Solak, Spors and Still see themselves as geniuses in some kind of 'moneyball' game, but the proof of the pudding is on the pitch and so far they have all fallen flat on their stupid faces into a giant custard pie...
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Comment | Southampton V Portsmouth The Verdict
at 10:25:32
That's a very fair report.
I agree that Still made the subs too late and, I think, got them wrong. Armstrong from Archer was sensible but I think Robinson should have come in for Azaz at the same time. Robinson wasn't making his debut and I think he may have added that little bit of attacking quality from midfield to change the balance of the game. |
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Comment | Southampton FC Issue Ivan Juric Statement
at 15:25:40
I've got no personal animosity towards Juric either and yes he took over a struggling team that was ill equipped for the PL but let's not get carried away.
To say he was on a 'hiding to nothing' is nonsense. If he had anything about him he would have been able to bring at least some measure of improvement to the team.
Instead, he managed to make sesults even worse.
A different manager, a better manager might at least have got us on a par pointswise with Leicester and Ipswich.
Juric has been a disaster as a manager for us. |
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Comment | Saints Johannes Spors Has Been Speaking To The Media Again
at 10:02:21
Nothing interesting from Spor, as could only have been expected.
But good to see he's already up to speed with SR speak:
"They put him in the right moments, and it's exciting to see him on the pitch. He is still young and still has a lot of potential. He has areas where he can be better.
"It's a good situation for us to have a player like him in our club, and everything else in the future will show honestly. In the end, we always have the same goal.
"It's all about development. Development, in general, is a headline for this football club because it's possible and needed. Dibling is a good example of that, a role model for other young players.
"When you want to work on development, relationships are important. Relationships with his parents, agents and maybe family. That is a factor."
Meaningless waffle. "They put him in the right moments" - this is gibberish.
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Comment | Southampton V Bournemouth The Verdict
at 09:52:45
There was an opportunity after Martin to steady the ship, and to stop the endless series of defeats that we and the players were having to endure. (Well there was an opportunity after about 8 games of watching Martin in the PL to do that, but let's not get into that).
This chancer has come in, not improved the results a jot and I believe we are even conceding more goals than under Martin. And Nick you are spot on about his team selections and substitutions but he was like this at Roma and it's a sure sign that he really doesn't have a scooby-doo what he's doing.
My worry now is it the effect that all this is having on the players. Are we really going to continue to the end of the season and inevitable relegation, playing completely random football and losing and conceding goal after goal every single week?
All these players are going to need years of therapy to get over the trauma of all this.
It's too much now.
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Comment | Are Things Far From Ok In The Southampton Camp ?
at 10:56:40
@Fisk27. Exactly that. Juric's points total is so low that, yes, it's not difficult to imagine someone else doing better. Simon Rusk managed to get a point at Fulham, after all.
It's possible to point to some players under Juric who have prospered, but equally others have clearly been left behind and have fallen out with him.
I would describe his tenure so far as chaotic. This madness might bring the odd good performance or even win, but I don't see it bringing anything like the consistency that will be required to get us promoted again.
That said,neither do I see the Club willing or able to recruit the players that will get us promoted again, and certainly not with the quality that can then compete in the PL.
I think Sports Republic have taken us from the status of solid (if unspectacular) Premier League to a 'top half' Championship side and joining the ranks of many other Clubs who now have that fate - Stoke, Norwich, Boro, Watford, Blackburn, WBA, Burnley...
I can't imagine this was their plan but who knows, they are not just thinking about Saints - there are other clubs in their 'stable' too. |
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Comment | Are Things Far From Ok In The Southampton Camp ?
at 19:32:45
People keep saying that we can't blame the manager because the problems lie higher up. 'No one could get a tune out of this squad' - that type of nonsense.
And yes Sports Republic have been a disaster and pretty much every decision they have made has been a shocker.
But that includes appointing Juric, who has been pretty hopeless on the pitch and who now seems to have Balkanised the dressing room too.
And it probably also includes Spor - a man whose skill set (if he has one) is in managing multi-club structures.
I think we will look back on the period since Sports Republich took over as pretty much all error and misery, with a great play-offs and Wembley appearance being the exception to the rule. And it's just going to continue imo.
If Sports Republc had anything about them, they would have grabbed the hand off being back in the Premier League so quickly. Instead they allowed our season to be over after 8 games or so.
Absolute muppets. Idiots.
And Juric is no good. |
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Comment | Southampton V Burnley The FA Cup Verdict
at 10:52:44
He's a magician this Juric.
To turn the performance and result against Ipswich into this in such a short space of time is pretty impressive. |
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Comment | Southampton V Brentford The Verdict
at 17:53:12
It's always on the manager. And this is now on Juric.
We looked far more solid and knowing what we were doing when Simon Rusk was in charge.
I'm wondering now whether that entertaining first 45 mins against WH was the last hangover from the Rusk era.
I hope I am wrong, but Ivan Juric is giving me very strong Nathan Jones vibes. We looked absolutely clueless in the second half yesterday.
Yet another managerial cock up from Sports Republic. We play Man U, Forest and then Newcastle in the next 3 three. In the likely event of nil points, are we then allowed to call for Juric to be sacked? |
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Comment | Who Is Southampton Caretaker Manager Simon Rusk
at 10:38:49
He has managed Stockport in the National League and now he's got two days with a team who have just been humiliated to prepare for a quarter final against Liverpool.
Good luck Simon Rusk. What a gig! |
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Comment | Southampton V Tottenham Hotspur The Verdict
at 10:00:08
It should be the Board who are learning lessons from this.
First, if a manager is not up to it, he needs to go. Dithering with Ralph, with Jones and letting Selles limp out the season, all cost us dearly the last time we were relegated.
The board were very lucky to bounce straight back but they have dithered again. Russell Martin deserved a few games after getting us up. 6 minimum, maybe 8, 10 at the outside. But there were very few signs of improvement over those 10 games and the results were appalling . He's had at least 6 games too many and if the Board do manage to find an effective replacement (big if, given their track record to date) those 6 games might make all the difference.
Let's hope there are better things for Saints around the corner, but with this bunch in charge, I am not holding my breath.
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Comment | Russell Martin Turns On The Fans And Players
at 10:00:37
Does anyone keep stats on how long a board will suffer a manager who constantly loses in the PL?
It’s like SR really don’t care if we are relegated, finishing bottom.
If he’s a ‘dead man walking’ - and agree that he is - ffs pull the plug.
Yes it’s costly to change managers but SR have only got themselves to blame for appointing people who aren’t up to it.
It’s also a lot more costly to leave the PL. And I suspect we wouldn’t come back so quickly next time.
Saints have been in a downward trajectory since Gao took over. Getting back to the PL in the first season could have been the start of a turnaround. Martin and SR have blown that chance in 4 months.
Idiots.
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Comment | Sources Say Southampton Have Made Decision About Russell Martin
at 15:28:18
Kingolaf is spot on.
Idiots. Do they really think that they're going to learn anything new from the next run of games, or pick up any points!
He's had 11 games to make this work. 6 games was minumum, 8 was fair, 10 was generous. They're just dithering again like they did with Ralph and Jones. (And with Selles they just let it slide and slde).
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