A possible scenario?
Nathan Jones has pulled a master stroke and deliberately picked a team to highlight the weakness in the squad. It’s a very risky strategy given the reported edicts about style of play coming from above but he’s his own man and has a plan.
My thoughts… new manager has wiped the slate clean and spent 6 weeks with the majority of the squad. His selections yesterday were based on his opinions about the players.
Question. Do you think he watched any of the games prior to his arrival? I could have told him that Diallo isn’t able to cut it in the Premier league for Southampton. He played exactly how I knew he would. Djenepo too.
Yes Lavia would have played if fit but to not play AMN, to me, was a huge mistake.
We are now in a situation that requires the skill sets we lack. Jones had an unprecedented 6 weeks to come up with yesterday’s offering.
We’ll end up buying Chris Woods from Newcastle and lumping it forward.
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I wonder if it might have been better if Ralph had gone at the end of last season?
There were reasonable grounds for this to have happened, and it has been rumoured that the players were surprised he was still in place at the beginning of this season.
The timing was perhaps better then - with the World Cup coming up, and a squad not yet totally demoralised, someone could have picked up the reins (not sure who myself - just someone with PL experience, probably), and gone into this season with some optimism, something to fight for, and some time to spare.
I am now reconciled to the worst couple of seasons in some considerable time coming for the club; last time in league 1 circumstances were against the club, and we all supported the team through the bad times and into the good, but today the club has made the bed it lies on, and folk are losing interest in the club, despite the fact that there are some good players there - they just don’t get played in a formation they know.
Sad days.
Of all the memories I have, I don’t remember the heavy home or away defeats, but I do remember beating Wolves 9-3, West Ham 6-2, the FA cup, and more recently Sunderland 8-0.
Don’t see memories like that coming over the next couple of seasons.
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Another possible theory, the club were so fed up of our ‘losing points from winning positions’ stats, that they employed someone to ensure this couldn’t happen as we will never be in a winning position again?
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In case you haven’t seen it, a good summary of how shit we were
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I got something right this season unfortunately! December 2022 I said we are bottom and we will stay there. 
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Wait.
We’re relegated. Surely we don’t have to keep turning up and experiencing pain and humiliation?
Of course we do
We love it.
it gives us some thing to whinge about apart from the weather.
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Lovely day today though.
Sitting in the garden doing absolutely nothing- The cuckoo calling in a tree down the end of the garden tells me spring has got here …eventually.
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