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Post by channonite on Oct 27, 2018 19:23:13 GMT
Just got back. i was despondent from the minute I discovered Højbjerg was ill. the first 45 minutes was the worst game of football that I have seen for years. 22 players without a fecking clue. The snd half wasn't a whole heap better. At least Saints made an effort. I am damned if I know what Newcastle were aiming for, playing football didn't seem to be involved. Even the normally excellent Newcastle fans seemed a bit half-hearted. None of them had even taken their shirts off FFS!
The most exciting thing today was changing the battery in MrsC's Motorola Moto G........
Waste of a perfectly good day.
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Post by theallseeingeye on Oct 27, 2018 20:00:05 GMT
Utter garbage
Club needs a new direction... play the youth and academy players we have.
I’d rather 0:0 draws and defeats with JWP, Matty T etc.. fill the team with them and let’s at least be saints
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Post by THE BEAST on Oct 27, 2018 20:03:28 GMT
You know what, it wasn't good…
… But, despite the fact we didn't score a goal, and we don't often score a goal anyway so that's not news, we completely dominated that game and never looked like losing it.
That's a positive
The manager is clueless and the strikers are shit
Otherwise we golden
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Post by stsaint on Oct 27, 2018 20:40:52 GMT
Just properly looked at the league table. One win in our first 10 league games. ONE fecking WIN. Pretty easy first 10 fixtures, makes that a very scary statistic.
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Post by vectis on Oct 28, 2018 3:23:29 GMT
You know what, it wasn't good… … But, despite the fact we didn't score a goal, and we don't often score a goal anyway so that's not news, we completely dominated that game and never looked like losing it. That's a positive The manager is clueless and the strikers are shit Otherwise we golden Oh well, nothing to worry about then. 😉
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Post by Batts on Oct 28, 2018 8:20:53 GMT
Thankfully I used up the phrase ‘sleepwalking to relegation’ last season so I can’t use it again, even if it is just as apt now as it was then. Will the club act quickly this time to give us a fighting chance? Any early season promise has disappeared and we’re not even in November. Unless Hughes can instigate a monumental turnaround then the clamour for his exit is going to be huge by December, and does anyone really have any faith that that will happen? We have an urgent need for some clarity of thought and decisiveness at the club. Change now has to happen.
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Post by stsaint on Oct 28, 2018 8:54:16 GMT
Any early season promise has disappeared and we’re not even in NovemberI must have missed that part of the season!! When did we show promise exactly?! ...the clamour for his exit is going to be huge by DecemberSeriously?? Is there anyone who isn't clamouring for his exit already. I read yesterday that his overall points per game in the league was the worst of any saints manager aside from Wrigley. How much incompetence does someone have to show and do people think he's clearly an awful manager but let's give him 4 more games?! Come off it.
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Post by Batts on Oct 28, 2018 9:31:09 GMT
Any early season promise has disappeared and we’re not even in NovemberI must have missed that part of the season!! When did we show promise exactly?! ...the clamour for his exit is going to be huge by DecemberSeriously?? Is there anyone who isn't clamouring for his exit already. I read yesterday that his overall points per game in the league was the worst of any saints manager aside from Wrigley. How much incompetence does someone have to show and do people think he's clearly an awful manager but let's give him 4 more games?! Come off it. For about 120 minutes, away at Palace and then the first half at home v Brighton... there was just a hint that we might do ok if we could carry on that form. I think most Saints fans realise by now that Hughes was never going to be right for us, but weirdly the noise is nowhere near as loud as when the same realisation hit home with Pellegrino. Perhaps it is because, just a few months ago, a majority of the fan base were ‘clamouring’ for the club to appoint him. Actually I think this presents an opportunity for the club; with Puel they allowed the fans to dictate their decision, and they tried really hard not to do that with Pellegrino... but now, with the feeling one of resignation rather than anger, they have an opportunity to act decisively early before the atmosphere becomes truly toxic again. The club can’t afford to let it go that way again; attendances are dropping as it is, and if we go down amidst an atmosphere of anger, it could be terminal for the club in its currrent guise. But... It will get very toxic very soon (I reckon 2 more games) so now is the time to act before it gets out of hand. The season will be irretrievable with 2 more defeats and the resulting strength of feeling amongst the fans. Time to act now. As in, this morning. Stick Jaidi in charge for Tuesday night- if it goes ahead- and get on the phone to the likes of Jardim, Hassenhuttl and Bosz.
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Post by saintsfan73 on Oct 28, 2018 9:37:05 GMT
For about 120 minutes, away at Palace and then the first half at home v Brighton... there was just a hint that we might do ok if we could carry on that form. I think most Saints fans realise by now that Hughes was never going to be right for us, but weirdly the noise is nowhere near as loud as when the same realisation hit home with Pellegrino. Perhaps it is because, just a few months ago, a majority of the fan base were ‘clamouring’ for the club to appoint him. Actually I think this presents an opportunity for the club; with Puel they allowed the fans to dictate their decision, and they tried really hard not to do that with Pellegrino... but now, with the feeling one of resignation rather than anger, they have an opportunity to act decisively early before the atmosphere becomes truly toxic again. The club can’t afford to let it go that way again; attendances are dropping as it is, and if we go down amidst an atmosphere of anger, it could be terminal for the club in its currrent guise. But... It will get very toxic very soon (I reckon 2 more games) so now is the time to act before it gets out of hand. The season will be irretrievable with 2 more defeats and the resulting strength of feeling amongst the fans. Time to act now. As in, this morning. Stick Jaidi in charge for Tuesday night- if it goes ahead- and get on the phone to the likes of Jardim, Hassenhuttl and Bosz. As if. Curbishley, Pards and Fat Sam more like.
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Post by Batts on Oct 28, 2018 9:39:57 GMT
For about 120 minutes, away at Palace and then the first half at home v Brighton... there was just a hint that we might do ok if we could carry on that form. I think most Saints fans realise by now that Hughes was never going to be right for us, but weirdly the noise is nowhere near as loud as when the same realisation hit home with Pellegrino. Perhaps it is because, just a few months ago, a majority of the fan base were ‘clamouring’ for the club to appoint him. Actually I think this presents an opportunity for the club; with Puel they allowed the fans to dictate their decision, and they tried really hard not to do that with Pellegrino... but now, with the feeling one of resignation rather than anger, they have an opportunity to act decisively early before the atmosphere becomes truly toxic again. The club can’t afford to let it go that way again; attendances are dropping as it is, and if we go down amidst an atmosphere of anger, it could be terminal for the club in its currrent guise. But... It will get very toxic very soon (I reckon 2 more games) so now is the time to act before it gets out of hand. The season will be irretrievable with 2 more defeats and the resulting strength of feeling amongst the fans. Time to act now. As in, this morning. Stick Jaidi in charge for Tuesday night- if it goes ahead- and get on the phone to the likes of Jardim, Hassenhuttl and Bosz. As if. Curbishley, Pards and Fat Sam more like. If it does come down to a choice between those three, I’d go with Nige. At least he’d be relentlessly positive.
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Post by stsaint on Oct 28, 2018 10:18:38 GMT
Hughes was never going to be right for us, but weirdly the noise is nowhere near as loud as when the same realisation hit home with Pellegrino.
Wierd how the British incompetent has been given more time than the foreigner, and how the foreigner before was hounded out despite a relatively successful season.
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Post by THE BEAST on Oct 28, 2018 10:42:03 GMT
I tell you something though, there were people shouting at the lizard behind me in the Itchen stand yesterday, that never happens, not since Rupert was run out of town.
If the Itchen stand is now shouting at the directors, even they should figure out that the natives are restless with good cause.
Still got the problem of who the hell would take the job though, Nigel would be atrocious, let's face it, he hasn't succeeded in anything since he left us and he only got us up because we spend more money than anyone else and we had Ricky and those Lallana type players from the academy already.
Pardew would be a really bad mistake and Curbishley looks to be out of the game, fat Sam would keep us in the Premier league, lower mid-table, pretty much where they are aiming for.
Anyone unfamiliar with the league could just as easily turn into Pellegrino as Poccetino.
They will be damned if they don't, they could be damned if they do…
No manager is going to make our strikers score goals though
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Post by thestartledsaint on Oct 28, 2018 10:56:41 GMT
That Mo non-cut back was disgraceful and is why we lost but our shit football is the reason why we couldn't make up for it.
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Post by Mandochris on Oct 28, 2018 14:51:14 GMT
I don't know, I just watched the 30 minute highlights on Sky and, while it was only highlights, it was all Saints with some lovely passing moves. I don't know how far you can blame Hughes if the strikers at his disposal can't convert all that possession and all those shots into goals.
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Post by lorenzo on Oct 28, 2018 17:37:19 GMT
I don't know, I just watched the 30 minute highlights on Sky and, while it was only highlights, it was all Saints with some lovely passing moves. I don't know how far you can blame Hughes if the strikers at his disposal can't convert all that possession and all those shots into goals. Spot on Chris, you can level all sorts of accusations at a manager but all those individual ballzups were not of his making
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