So at what point do we wake up and smell the coffee…this squad is nowhere near as good as the pre season hype suggested. Mid table at absolute best. Just a collection of average championship players with a smattering of unproven young players with “potential”
#SaintsFC
What a mess. Glimpses of decent, quick attacking play completely undone by yet more suicide Russ ball. Second goal madness sucked the life out of the crowd and the team. Less said about Stephens the better….#saintsc
@happyhoppy66@AlfieHouseEcho The more you think about this setup, it’s actually mental. He’s somehow decided to take our two best players and play them out of position. Dibling is most effective wide and yet he’s up front. Fernandes best in midfield or the 10 and he’s playing up front 🙈
@happyhoppy66 Tactical masterclass. Worked us out good and proper! Only hope is that as the game goes on they go into their shell and protect what they have and sit a bit deeper. Their high press has confused the hell out of Martin and the players
@AlfieHouseEcho A reaction a quite dreadful second half. Passive and backwards. Yes they had a golden chance that should be taken, but when you don’t take it those passive 30 minutes at the start of the second half come back to bite hard. Somehow they’ve got to get a consistent 90 mins together
This is one of the worst Southampton managerial efforts tonight that I have ever seen. Tactically inept in a way that Nathan Jones could only dream of, cowardly selection, shameful substitutions… the players with a couple of exceptions managed to match the gutlessness #saintsfc
If there was ever any doubt about #SaintsFc going down, it ended tonight
Toothless and clueless performance in front of their own fans again - an 11th home loss is ludicrous
Tactically I had no clue what they were trying to do - whereas #afcb had a plan and identity
Boy was that bad - #SaintsFc lacked threat, creativity, ideas and urgency
A record 20th loss in a 38-game PL season tells you all you need to know
And a joint-record 10th home loss just rubs it in
I think you can save Rotherham as a sat nav destination now #saintsfc fans
#SaintsFc in shock “five at the back that doesn’t go very well before they improve with a four”
Who’d have thought ?!? 🤷♂️
Now let’s hope they’ve finished making those player intro videos and have some good news for fans