Ah you’re quite correct, it was 2 weeks … I’ll take that back
I’ll be hanging on to SOS’s upvote tho’ 
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Cheers Steve, although i was hanging on to your 3 games in a week 
What Simon says worries me, partly because it’s true(now) and partly because i don’t expect Simon to sound so negative. Lose badly tomorrow and it’s going to be unbearable reading on here.
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It’ll be fine. I wouldn’t venture onto Fiver web or Twitter though.
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if we lose I’ll be too depressed to masturbate. And that will make me angry. Do it for me Saints!
I’m amazed you haven’t thought me negative until now!
I have been passively negative pretty much all season. I wasn’t enjoying the extent of the rotation, the formations, the pedestrian style etc. But I was always trying to be balanced and had assumed that all of that was for the greater good due to the fixture congestion.
I even posted about it being a fresh start for Puel after we got knocked out of Europe.
I guess I have now come to realise that we aren’t really any better off since that time. We are still remarkably inconsistent. Barring the injuries to VVD and Austin I am now struggling to explain why we have been so poor.
And at the moment I cannot see past the manager and the way he wants us to play. It appears to be style and aesthetics over effectiveness and ultimately points. We are just so damn predictable to play against. Get men behind the ball, frustrate and then pounce on the counter attack. The fact that even the big boys like Chelsea and City have had us on the counter attack just shows how obvious it is. No longer is the less dominant team the one who counter attacks. There’s no longer a stigma in setting up that way. Leicester won the Premier League by doing it.
What now scares me is that we have ourselves a poor mans Wenger and without the financial power of Arsenal to have players good enough to simply turn up and play their way every week without regard to the opposition strengths. Tadic and Redmond aren’t Sanchez and Ozil so we won’t get away with such an approach, heavily reliant on semi regular moments of individual brilliance.
I have long been critical of Wenger to my Arsenal mates. We actually had an argument last year snowboarding when I said that Wanyama would get in their side and that he would improve them. I predicted he would join them or Tottenham at that time. They replied that Flamini (!!!) and Coquelin were better! But to me and many others it was obvious that Arsenal needed some tough leaders and battlers through their spine. Yet every year Wenger’s philosophy ignored the need to spend on such physical strong guys to play alongside their flair players.
I have also felt that our chance conversion rate being so woeful isn’t simply about the lack of a goalscorer at times. I also think it says a lot about the TYPE of chances we create. There aren’t that many clear cut chances being created. We haven’t created a single one for Gabbiadini since he’s been back from injury. For me this is due to the speed, or in this instance lack of, in which we attack. We attack so slowly that we very rarely create chances where we have men over or have really carved open and exposed the opposition. The chances we have created tend to be more half chances when the opposition is set up to deny space and limit clear opportunities. This point was touched upon in the article that @pap shared yesterday in another thread.
I also said in about January that we have flattered to deceive at times. Some of the early season wins in particular were earned against teams when the opposition were shocking. I’m thinking West Ham away, Burnley at home and Leicester’s attempt at the diamond midfield at home. We didn’t need to play well in those games.
At the end of the day, after the last few summers and the shenanigans involving ‘asshat’, I wanted some stability and for a manager to stick around for more than a couple of years to beef up his CV. So I’m not about to start calling the guy a cunt and demanding he be sacked. That said, I do still find him incredibly dour and have severe reservations about his approach and remain unconvinced that he is the right man for us.
I will reserve judgment until I see the team sheet tomorrow but I’m not overly hopeful that there will be any discernible difference in our approach to it.
COYS 
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You’re normally honest with a bit of hope, but the hope seems to have died 
Can’t argue with that mate.
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Of course, Who would win in a fight? An agressive horse or a lazy, but strong gorilla?
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I’d like to see Silva at Saints. He’ll have done well to keep them in with a fighting chance of staying up as long as he has, regardless of whether they go down or not.
Can one of the people creaming over Marco Silva, explain why he would be a better option than Puel. It can’t be for footballing reasons, Puels pedigree is streets ahead.
Because he does a better interview maybe ? Because he’s easier on the eye than Puel ? Because Hull were so exciting and dynamic last week ? Because he worked wonders at previous clubs ?
I’m confused, help me out here Tramps
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The other overnight rumour.
Puel knows he is under pressure.
There you go
I am sure someone on the forum can lend a hand.
Sounds like a job for a member of the Soviet
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I think, that what the people of Sotonians believe, is that for Fatso to have the best possible outcome, he needs strong and stable wrist action that only the Soviet can provide.
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On a cheerier note, last night Everton were tactically less organised than Diane Abbott at a maths test.
Let’s not airbrush from history the awful moments we had under Koeman.
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I thoroughly enjoyed spurs and Everton losing this weekend.
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Let’s hope Liverpool can provide similar entertainment 
I’ll be over the moon if we draw let alone win but I really can’t see it. I’ll risk another downvote from bucks, but I’m even more pessimistic than I was previously. I think I saw something about mane being fit. I’m changing to a 3-0 defeat
Its not the end of the world if we lose, but I am hoping for a decent performance and a bit of fight.
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