Indeed Codge, what is the point of Charlie Austin. I doubt he'd even get a game for Poole Town nowadays. He isn't fit, he is slow to react mentally to what is happening on the pitch and is clueless on how to play with other team mates around him. He really is becoming a liability. Gabbi must be very poor?

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Austin was awful today. He’s almost the polar opposite of Shane Long in that he doesn’t do anything but score and he hasn’t done that for 12? games in the league now. Gabbi and Ings should be the first choice strike partnership and Gallagher should at least be given a chance just to see if he can cut it.
The service that the strikers receive has been inadequate for such a long time though it must be said. Redmond has recently begun to show intent at least but makes amateurish mistakes regularly. Elyounossi looks okay and hopefully will improve but should never take a corner again for us.

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Some fans on this site (Nick included) will say we've got a good squad, a decent manager, and that we need to stick with the team. The first two points are highly debatable. Of course, it's a given that as fans we'll support the club pretty much unconditionally (as in, I'm not going to start supporting Man U), but I'm increasingly fed up with many of the players in this team and I feel no attachment to Hughes, who I've always felt in a bogstandard manager.

Sorry, that's all a bit negative. I only wish I could've sworn a bit more

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*felt is
'felt in' would be weird

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Pellegrino got 17 pts from his first 15 matches, Hughes has 13 from the same number. Hughes has less per match than MP had when he was finally sacked. Puel was sacked for being boring even though he got a lot more points. All in all it would look as if the managers are getting worse or the team is or both. The constant in all of this are the people that appoint the managers and buy/sell the players. We obviously have a lot of problems and for over two years now the decision-makers at the club have fiddled while the Saints have burned. Do we look any more like scoring or any less like conceding this season?? NO.

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Well that was awfully disappointing. We played about as well as we can for most of the game, but we didn;t score (yet agian) and then had absolutely no answer to Wolves' substitutions.

Our squad still lacks:
# striking power
# creative midfield influnece
# adequate central defenders.

Hughes says he might have to change things. It's good that he sees the need (CP and MP never did until it was too late). But the problem is that he hasn't got the resources to change things much for the better.

# I'd start Bednarek and Yoshida for the forseeable, but I admit that's not a Premier central duo...but nor are Vestergaard and Hoedt.

# also I'd start Ings w/ Gabbiadini, with Gallagher on the bench, but Hughes seems to have more faith in Austin (who was awful today) and Long (who's pretty much always awful).

# We need a midfielder who is creative. There simply isn't anyone in the squad that fits the bill. So if he changes things around Hughes will probably go back to Davis and/or JWP....not a clever move.

# Redmond is playing better this year, but he's still mostly ineffectual. Elyounoussi doesn't seem to have a role and his most obvious strengths are defensive rather than attacking. Armstrong also seems to have been a black box error...and should in any case be dropped straight away for the schoolboy defensive effort on Wolves' 2nd goal.

Wolves are a team that's much superior to Saints right now and, even though they didn't play great today, they put us to the sword when they felt it was time. We had no reply.

It's hard to disagree with Ali Diarea....<<We have an average squad, shite defenders and lack any creative spark. Coupled with a very average manager>>

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If Hughes persists with Vestergaard and Hoedt as our centre back pairing, we will be relegated.

Yoshida and Bednerek are clearly not in the same class as Fonte and van Dijk but they are the best we've got left, not a pair of donkeys like Vestergaard and Hoedt, and our only hope of staying up.

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sorry i was watching the ryder cup, in my haste forgot the palace game
must not get too far ahead of myself .
i just do not know what this manager is up to plenty of wind / no substance all we have as fans is an opinion,
but where on earth is he going to take this club before some body makes a decision for him you cannot wait until xmas if you do its just panic stations

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Just who has given our central defenders and Austin a rating above 1 baffles me

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Just who has given our central defenders and Austin a rating above 1 baffles me

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