Totally strange even Big Adam & Alfie are asking WTF?
(Nutshell - he shouldn’t have listened to anyone and done his own thing)
Southampton manager Nathan Jones to BBC MOTD: "I’m really, really disappointed. First of all I’m disappointed for the fans. The biggest thing for me and I want to be brutally honest with this, I have let the players down.
"I have let the players down because I came into this club to do a job, I was recruited to do certain things and I don’t see my team in there. I have pandered a little bit, I have gone away and tried to accommodate what we have. I haven’t really put my own stamp on it and I should’ve by now, I really should have.
"I was recruited to do a certain job, to play in a certain way because my teams did really well. We defended the box, we were aggressive, front-footed, we put teams under pressure, we pressed, we counter-pressed really well. Statistically there weren’t many better than me.
"I’ve come here and gone away from that. I’ve got to get back to doing what we do really well. I won games and I’ve gone away from that. Whoever we played we’d go after teams. I’m not seeing that in my team now.
"I blame myself. I should be driving the standards. Everywhere I’ve been I’ve drove standards, I haven’t let anyone get away with anything. I’ve been on top of everyone. I’ve maybe got carried away that these are Premier League players and you have to give them this and that, but no more. Now I have to go back and to be me because that’s not good enough.
"The manager drives standards, I took plenty of accolades at my previous clubs and manager of the year and statistically one of the best in the country one of the most aggressive managers. On an absolute shoestring by the way. Pound for pound there wasn’t anyone else in the country competing like we did in terms of points per pound.
"I’ve gone away from that and I’m saddened. I should never have gone away from that.
“I’ve allowed certain things to happen, but that won’t happen anymore.”
from the BBC
“I’ve tried to give people what they want, I’ve tried to really work with the players to give them a system that suits them. But it doesn’t suit me. It hasn’t suited me as a manager or why I was recruited to come here.”
“I was recruited to be aggressive and on the front foot and we’re not that and that’s where we need to get.”
Exit Interview
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He is laying the bones to resign.
I hope
Hilts is in the cooler for a bit longer.
Refreshingly honest self-assessment. Not even close to good enough
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Fat Sam in by the end of next week then
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Reading between the lines* he’s also still blaming the players
- not even doing that tbh.
The worst thing about that, is that he will have lost the dressing room tomorrow… you can’t ‘reinvent’ yourself in management… he has set the precedent and he has fucked it up. He is just not at this level and he surely must now put the club ahead of his ego … but as he is still blaming players I cant see him doing that… this is now where we need strength from the board and admit they got it wrong… admitting you got something wrong in business IS a strength, even stronger is then putting it right…
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The thing that really puzzles me is that when there was first speculation a couple of years ago about Ralph ‘retiring’, the press statements coming from the club were that they had already decided on his successor, they had been tracking him and there would be an orderly take over. Anyone else remember this? I definitely remember reading the press statements on this site stating this. Surely it can’t have been Nathan Jones can it? But given the speed in which he was appointed when Ralph left, surprising everybody, most who had never heard of him, I fancy that this was indeed the case. At the time it was hailed in some quarters as a typical Southampton appointment, appointing someone nobody had heard of,(shades of the Poch appointment). How quickly that has turned to shit. If it was indeed Nathan Jones who had been earmarked as the next manager, whoever was responsible for it should be named and shamed, and dismissed from any position within the club. In some respects I feel for Jones, who must have felt it was a dream come true, a chance to manage a Premiership club, of course he wasn’t going to turn it down, it’s not his fault that he is clearly not up to the job. The Rishi Sunak of football management. It’s not too late, it is no disgrace for the club to admit they made a mistake, pay the man off and try and appoint someone who is up to the task of keeping us in the Premiership, that is the overriding priority now. There must be a few out there and time is running out, the clock is ticking. A few more performances and results like today and it will be a lost cause. Never mind bruised egos, Jones surely has to go, and quickly.
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Ummmm 
We had different owners then. Sports Republic have totally fucked this up.
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More the Liz Truss…
There is no god
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Even he went bat shit during covid
I believe we beat Bournemouth in a friendly during the World Cup.
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Get in the fucking bin you bellend.
This👇
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If you read his statement he admits he is wrong, he is not blaming the players, he started by apologising to the players. Admitting he is wrong is a strength, as you say.
I am not defending his performance or his results which are plainly shit BTW