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Reply | Daniel Farke
at 22:50 23 Apr 2025
Effectively it is what Cortese did. He realised that as good as Adkins was and much loved to get us to the next level it needed a different type of manager. The record of managers promoting clubs to the PL is not good in recent years. |
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Reply | Gary O'Neil
at 23:02 16 Apr 2025
The next managerial appointment and what we do in the close season in terms of transfers (departures and acquisitions) will be a big statement of where this club is going to go. This is an opportunity to end our decline and start turning the ship around. On the otherhand, get this wrong, this time and I fear our decline will continue next season and beyond. SR have no errors left in the bank - they have made too many costly mistakes on and off the pitch when it comes to managerial and player appointments. |
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Reply | Man Utd
at 21:37 13 Apr 2025
They still managed to beat us though! That day at OT when we were so close to a unique result and we won't have had a better opportunity to have beaten them and then blew it..
The PL is very poor generally this year. Which makes us look even more woeful as we have been very poor in a poor league. |
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Reply | Can we sack Juric now please Mr Spors
at 10:16 16 Mar 2025
I have been through every manager since Lawrie McMenemy and we have had some bad ones in all that time and the most noticeable that comes to mind are Branfoot, Pellegrino, Jones, etc but I am struggling to think that they have been or were any worse than this current manager.
Since Juric was appointed he has done and achieved absolutely zero. Yes, it was always going to be a hard task to turn things around and just about everyone accepted relegation almost as soon as the season started, but Juric has been an absolute disaster. He has even managed to destroy what tenuous team spirit there was. None of the players seem to know what they are doing from one game to the next. None of them appear motivated and even those that do make some effort are often hooked off or don't get to play the next game.
Can someone anywhere give one thing that Juric has changed or improved since RM departed. It is embarrassing as a club that we cannot even manage to get to double figures on points let alone exceed Derby County's 11 points and we cannot even achieve it when we play sides that arguably not that great - Wolves yesterday - they were nothing special at all and yet we conspired to lose it.
This has been without doubt the worst season in my lifetime, even worse than the administration period. It is going to take something monumental to change the fortunes of the club around. |
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Reply | We’ll win again
at 19:10 23 Feb 2025
It would be the most entertaining and funniest thing to happen at a home game for a long time to sing this.
We'll win again, don't know where, don't know when
but I know we'll win again some sunny day.
We've got a defence with big holes
some forwards n' no goals
and a midfield that goesssss astray,
the hope that we had
has faded away
but the fans still don't stay away,
We'll win again................. |
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Reply | Brighton Game Matchday Thread
at 17:23 22 Feb 2025
I said it against Burnley, but the players have given up. We should all give up now until next season and just stay away. There is nothing more worth saying. We are not even a shadow of what we were once, we are dead as a club at the moment. |
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Thread | Was it wrong to dispense with RM this season?
at 13:19 18 Feb 2025
This is a question that is now arising in my mind from a football and SFC perspective.
There was no doubt that having got us promoted,(albeit through the back door of the play-offs), RM was right to be given the chance at this level. It had become clear though, that his tactics (or some would say a lack of them) and refusal to adapt was resulting in the same outcome. Now, how much of that was down to him or the quality of the players that he had at his disposal is a moot point.
I have seen that Ramsdale and other players recently indicate that they were bought into his style and regretted his departure. Now some could read that as RM being "soft" with the players and that is why they liked him!
I think it is fair to say most Saints fans were realistic about this season. I doubt many, other than the deluded, thought we would have anything other than a relegation fight on our hands. But, equally, I doubt that many of us foresaw or expected the nightmare shambles of a season that this has become in every quarter of Southampton FC - both on and off the pitch.
The appointment of Juric appears to have only served to make things worse in terms of the team and players. It could be said that he was given a poison chalice (and maybe I am being harsh), but at the minimum you would have hoped he would have brought some unity and cohesion even if the results did not change. What I see is a disorganised shambles, with poor man management and players that now appear to believe in nothing and can't wait to get out of this season and probably out of the club. This is then reflected in the supporters who must wonder what it is exactly they are supporting?
The booing of Smallbone was awful and whilst he was having a poor game so were many of the others and many have been poor now for the best part of a season. But, really I believe that booing was a reflection of the frustration now amongst all fans. I actually wonder why we are bothering to turn up? - there is no joy or entertainment or fun in watching this car crash of a mess.
Kat Liebherr to Gao to SR have an awful lot to answer for. Between them they have managed to bring a once proud club down to the level of embarrassment even more so than the administration years. [Post edited 18 Feb 13:23]
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Reply | Does Juric know what he is doing?
at 23:05 15 Feb 2025
We seem to be the only club grumpy where we select a manager that is worse than the previous one. He is clueless. But, I am sure SR have told him he will be in charge next season. The whole damn club from top to bottom is a mess. God knows why we are continuing to watch them. In all my years, through the many ups and downs I have never ever known a season as bad as this where every sinew of the club both on and off the pitch feels completely and totally rudderless. |
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Thread | Burnley and yesterday
at 22:39 9 Feb 2025
I have supported Saints since being a school boy and attended to games to various degrees for almost 50 years.
This weekend I travelled the 240 miles down south and just got back this evening after seeing family as well.
I can safely say that yesterday's game is probably my final one for this season. There is no way that I am investing any more money into the club with what remains of this season. May be it is just me, but yesterday almost highlighted the abject state of our club, the team, the players as individuals.
Walking to the game I cannot recall an FA Cup game on a Saturday afternoon where there was no atmosphere, no sense of interest or appeal in the city or to the supporters and as it so proved with a crowd of around 15k.
The game itself was fairly mundane though both sides did engineer some chances with little real cutting edge. What was the defining moment though was the Burnley goal - not that they scored a scrappy one to win it - that almost seems to be a given when we play Burnley - but the lack of response and the attitude of our players - you would think with minutes to go and 1-0 down in a cup game they would show some effort, desire and passion - but no, not a scrap of it. With 3 minutes on the clock they were pointlessly passing it around the back with no sense of urgency to move it or thrust the ball forward. The moment Burnley scored they visibly gave up - all of them!
In all my time of supporting and watching Saints I have never seen such an abject group of players to wear our shirt and carry our badge.
I am not convinced by Juric any more than I was of the previous recent incumbents. Nothing has changed that much, if at all, but I am starting to wonder whether these players, this club is becoming unmanageable. There is a whole malaise running through every sinew of the club. I was always proud to be a Saints fan but right now I am embarrassed. These players, these owners, the guardians of our club have turned it into a sham. |
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Reply | Burnley next game
at 22:16 2 Feb 2025
I bought a couple of tickets when they became available for members irrespective of any results. I don't think it will be the most entertaining cup tie with their stingy defence and our generally shot shy attack (though we have started scoring a few more goals recently). |
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Reply | Happy Anniversary
at 17:15 28 Jan 2025
One of the most memorable days during my time as a Saints fan. They were heady days in the 80's under McMenemy. He had presence, gravitas, respect and he knew how to handle players and the media etc. I appreciate it was different times then and no social media or Sky etc and we cannot really compare with now, but it has never felt as good as that period - for those of us fortunate enough to have been around to have seen and experienced it. |
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Thread | The difference between us against Man U and Bournemouth against Newcastle today
at 23:17 18 Jan 2025
I know to praise Bournemouth is now almost sacrilege but there were clear differences in attitude and approach.
- Bournemouth did not sit and rely on one goal and put their chances away
- they did not sub the players that were on top
- they did not stop running until the final whistle
What a manager they have as well. Has to be the best signing they have ever made. |
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Reply | FA Cup tomorrow
at 00:33 12 Jan 2025
I don't think anyone will be surprised if we lose - it won't be a cup shock - perhaps only the margin of a defeat could show us up. Whereas Brentford and Frank are regarded more highly than us. |
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Reply | Who is up for this?
at 11:18 5 Jan 2025
The club will get wind of this potentially happening and everyone will be searched and it will not happen....................but something like this does need to happen. |
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Thread | MOTD
at 23:18 4 Jan 2025
I dared to watch MOTD. Danny Murphy (who I am not a fan of and always has a downer on us even when we are ok) and Micah Richards assessment was so right. The players attitudes stank today. As both pundits said, they did not even do the basics which you should expect no matter who the manager or style or tactics.
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Reply | Russell Martin must feel as though he’s won the Euro Lottery
at 19:32 4 Jan 2025
The problem is, as it was a problem when they finally decided to dispose of Ralph is that, they do it without planning a proper replacement. After Ralph it was Jones and Selles. This time it is Juric. But how many of us really knew who Juric was? What evidence was there that he would be better than what we had? I don't blame Juric but suddenly the style is changed with players that had been drilled to play a certain way for ages at a time when the team is rock bottom.
The people running this club seem to be a mix of inept and incompetent.
The players don't seem to be able to play any style - is it simply they are not good enough or is it simply they have now given up. It is a complete and total mess and we know now that we will be the team with the lowest points total ever and possibly the worse goal difference. When it comes to making bad records we appear to be adept at it. |
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Reply | The problem is at the very top
at 17:50 4 Jan 2025
Why is there such a lack of resilience and fight in our players? You can blame the managers, the owners etc but look how easy Brentford scored early and continued to do so. Look how little we offered in midfield and going forward. Yes, the quality etc may not be there but you see lower league sides play against PL sides in the cups and show fight. Our players show none whatsoever - is that all the managers or is it that their morale is so low they just cannot lift themselves, or do they simply not care? |
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