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Thread | Sliding Doors
at 00:08 23 Oct 2025
When Coventry appointed Frank Lampard at the end of November 2024, Russell Martin had won 1 and lost 10 of the first 12 games.
Had Solak been more decisive, maybe we could have appointed Lampard then but it took 4 more games and 3 more defeats (two conceding 5) before he decided to act.
I guess we would have moaned about a Lampard appointment at that time and maybe he would have done no better than Juric last season.
But since his appointment, Coventry have won 23 games and we've won 3.
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Reply | !!!!!!!! Will Still Out !!!!!!!!
at 19:06 22 Oct 2025
If Still was replaced now with an experienced manager with some (any) record of managerial success in the EFL, then we could still make the playoffs this year. The talent in our squad is there, it just has to be galvanised in the right way.
Solak will stick with Still until it's too late and then coming to Saints won't be anywhere near as attractive to someone new. |
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Reply | The German 2nd division is nowhere near as good as the Championship
at 14:05 22 Oct 2025
Very interesting.
"The competition, the physical power and the tempo are much higher."
Competitive aggression, physical power and tempo are three of the big things we are missing.
Solak appoints Spors appoints Still. The blind leading the blind leading the blind. |
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Reply | The top teams in any League
at 11:21 22 Oct 2025
What do you think, Dirk, could McCarthy have done better?
He looked like a rabbit in headlights to me, but I think I'm being unfair and few keepers would have reacted more quickly or effectively. |
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Reply | blackburn or bust
at 23:21 21 Oct 2025
I wondered that, but the Bristol manager is another Austrian.
The Salzburg Slot. |
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Reply | Danny Rohl
at 18:37 20 Oct 2025
I'm really looking forward to seeing how Rohl does up there.
it's a big step up for him and we should now find out whether he really was the brains behind the early Ralph period, and whether Solak was as stupid as we think in appointing all those losers instead of trying harder to get Rohl. |
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Reply | XG score
at 18:33 20 Oct 2025
Fair enough.
Your optimism is encouraging and I know I am also prejudiced against Still because of his age and because none of the other under-qualified recent managers came good.
I agree that we look solid defensively. But then I would hope so playing 5 at the back and two more sitting in front of them!
Let's see how it goes and what the XG is tomorrow night. |
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Reply | XG score
at 16:39 20 Oct 2025
My 'bleedin' obvious' point was only about needing a striker (and, yes, a goalkeeper too).
But if the stats are saying that apart from that Still is doing well, then they there is something wrong with them, because I just don't see that.
For me, the team, as a team, doesn't seem to know what it's meant to be doing. There's just no fluency or consistent style to it.
It's an instinct, I know. An instinct as against statistical data. But you know what they say about statistics and I'll trust myself on this until we start winning and then I will eat my words and will be very happy to. |
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Reply | XG score
at 13:48 20 Oct 2025
My point is that we can sit in the stands and see what's going on.
As Peter Taylor did.
And Will Still's team is not impressing so far. |
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Reply | Who Is Off To Bristol Tomorrow
at 12:37 20 Oct 2025
I'm confused. We sold out out allocation but we've only got one hand up so far on here.
Does this mean that there are Saints fans who don't come on here?? |
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Reply | XG score
at 12:34 20 Oct 2025
Is that why we've been waiting so long to buy a striker, we needed a critical mass of xG data to confirm the bleedin' obvious?
What do the stats say about the managerial appointments made by Solak so far?
Have we got enough data yet for him to conclude that he's not very good at this and sell up?
I'm now wondering how Brain Clough managed to get a get a team promoted, win the league and then two European Cups? That stats that guy must have had. |
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Reply | XG score
at 10:53 20 Oct 2025
When he wasn't waffling about XG, Still said this:
“I’m really happy with the performance. I think it was one of the most dominating and complete performances that we’ve put in all season,”
'dominating' ???
'complete' ???
Wtf is he talking about?
We had some good chances but we were largely toothless and at no time were Swansea 'on the ropes' - even in the last 7 minutes of injury time.
And if he thinks that was a 'complete' performance then we are in real trouble. |
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Reply | Yesterday's game
at 14:35 19 Oct 2025
Matt Grimes is the glue in the middle of their midfield linking defence and attack.
Another one we didn’t sign, isn’t he? |
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Reply | Southampton V Swansea City The Verdict
at 11:56 19 Oct 2025
We already know that.
They sack them when it's too late for the next guy to make any difference to the season's outcome.
Unless we get absolutely battered by someone - and the defence now looks too good for that - it's going to be 10 more games at least.
The new guy needs to be at least 10 points off the play-offs, otherwise it would too easy for him. |
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Reply | Yesterday's game
at 11:39 19 Oct 2025
Don't forget Thomas-Asante. Said to be £2.25m from WBA.
Goals so far this season: Wright 8. Torp 6. T-A 6. |
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Reply | Yesterday's game
at 10:36 19 Oct 2025
"But, where I do question our manager ability in this season - is the inspid performances or halves of a game. The lack of drive or passion to go at a team."
This is the absolutely heart of it. We struggle to 'go at' a team and I get the impression that the players don't know how they are meant to do that.
The 7 minutes of injury time epitomises that. We had so many attacking players on the pitch, we should have been all over them for the whole 7 minutes but were nowhere near that.
During the game I was wondering whether Shea Charles,for all that he is clearly a gifted footballer, is key to that lack of ooomph? He is just too relaxed and smooth in the way he glides around the pitch. Something of the Smallbone about him in that respect. We need urgency and forward focus.
And part of me sees this lack of drive or passion as reflective of the manager's personality. Any calmer and Still would be asleep. I've said it before, but it was exactly like this under Pellegrino and he seemed to have a similar personality. |
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Reply | Swansea Game Matchday Thread
at 10:26 19 Oct 2025
You were at a different game.
THB played OK and I thought was the main one of the defenders looking to get the ball forward. |
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Reply | Swansea Game Matchday Thread
at 00:22 19 Oct 2025
The defence looks solid defensively, but the transition out of defence is p1ss poor, just as it was against Wrexham.
The fact that there were many misses today hides the fact that overall we weren’t very good.
If we were happy with draws, we could have stuck with
Puel and had those in the Premier League.
Still is just like Pellegrino. He’s not a complete dud, but he just hasn’t got the requisite experience or nouse to get a team really firing on all cylinders.
Well that’s what the first 10 games are telling me. And we’ll see whether the next 10 are any better because Solak only sacks managers when it’s too late for the next one to make any real difference. |
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