| News Comment | Southampton At Nottingham Forest The Verdict at 13:09:13
0h well, let’s look forward to better days and an exciting upcoming Championship season and let’s play ‘Sell, Release, Return’ and pick our squad and starters…here goes: Sell ((if the price is right): Adams, Bella-K, JWP, KWP, Lavia, Salisu £200,000+ estimated in Release: Armstrong S, Elynoussi, Maitland-Niles, McCarthy, Orsic, Walcott £200,000+ per week £10M+ per annum estimated off the wage bill Return: Chalke, Lawrence, Nlundulu, Payne, Simeu, Small, Smallbone, Stephens, Tella, Watts Starting XI 4-3-3/4-2-1-3 Bazunu; Livramento, Bednarek, Caleta-Car, Perraud; Smallbone, Lyanco (capt), Alcatraz Tella, Onuachu, Armstrong A; Second XI Cabillero; Bree, Simeu, Stephens, Larios; Aribo, Diallo, Djenepo; Sulemana, Mara, Edozie Academy XI: Bycroft; Payne, Lawrence, Otseh-Taiwo, Small; Watts, Chalke, Dibling; Ballard, Nlundulu, Diamond Good enough to re-set win Championship. |
| News Comment | Southampton at West Ham United The Verdict at 11:35:24
Well, if Jones had been in charge of that shambles he would have been crucified: bad selection, bad formation, bad tactics, bad dead-ball defending, rank bad play. There’s one common denominator in that dreadful, disgraceful performance: Ruben Selles, first as coach now manager. Why on earth would he revert to that losing 4-2-2-2 formation, why would he play serial losers Ely, Armstrong, why oh why pair Mara and Walcott as lightweights up front? Sorry to say but Jones had the right answer, although it took him several games to realise what rubbish our team was/is: play 3 strong men in defense and go for a shutout, bypass the non creative midfield and hit the ball long to a giant centre forward and go for knock ons to speedy forwards. What a great pity those two such forwards were signed after it was too late for Jones to make use of them. Blame the Board, the Managers, the Players if you like…but how about the fans whose noise made it impossible for Jones to stay and implement the only strategy that was ever going to work with this disparate team. |
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