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This feels worse than under redkrapp

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So to recap, NJ had six weeks of preparation for a return of 0 points from 12, plus coming from behind at home to beat Lincoln in the cup by a single goal.

I’m not Nostradamus, but I think I can see where this is heading.

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No point typing out what we all already know but when the above professionals and sensible fans are being that scathing… things are BAD.

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After 6 years of broadly abysmal football; 2 x 9-0 defeats and all the player sales, heartache and ruined weekends I really need a break from this fucking club.

My Mum’s side of the family are all Arsenal fans so think I’ll just watch them for the rest of the season.

Nathan Jones really is the last bastard straw…

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Put Solent on. Jo Tessem is not mincing his words.

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Care to paraphrase?

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So, was busy with work, what did I miss?

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Not as much as Che.

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  1. Jones had no plan.
  2. Players didn’t have a clue what they were supposed to be doing.
  3. Rigidly stuck to a system that produced zero shots on target. Had an opportunity to change it when ABK got injured, but didn’t.
  4. We are shit.
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  1. We haven’t got the players to play 5 at the back.
  2. We have full backs not wing backs.
  3. We need 4 decent players in the window if there is any hope whatsoever.
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  1. We needed a man manager to lift what players we already have, but he’s made them worse.
  2. No patterns of play at all.
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We will not get out of the bottom 3 again, we are very unlike to get off the bottom. We are the worst team in the league now.

We still believe we were only a striker off giving us what we needed to stay up or push for mid table. We are now a complete mess all over the place.

For me you have to look at teams that have got new decent managers, Villa and Wolves. Same players but have great management. Not flying but better organised.

We have got rid of a proven passionate pretty good premier league manager and gone so far backward it is unreal. The club have fucked up, they should have stuck with Ralph or replaced with the next step up. It’s all very amateur and very Saintsy from 2004-2009.

Sorry but unless we u turn bigger than the Tories and get a proper manager in we are fucked, and if we don’t act like now, we are fucked, and even if we do it’s going to be tough now.

We have screwed this completely like the olden days.

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Lol

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Fucking crap - it only the second game I have managed to get to this season - the Ayatollah just said “I bet you are grateful you have been to so few”

I said “No. I am pissed off I have been to so many”

Three games in and “you don’t know what you’re doing” must be some sort of record

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I agree with the next step up but but sticking with Ralph wasn’t an option. He was a broken man and a shadow of his former self. Glen from Total Saints Podcast sums it up for me here.

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60% possession but no shots on target. The guy chats absolute shite.

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I came today as I wanted to see first hand what is happening. And what is happening is a clueless manager of L1 standard trying to impose his style of play on talented players, who must be nearly as pissed off as I am. We never once looked like scoring tonight. Our two most creative and dangerous players were on the bench. We played three CBs against one of the worst teams in the league. No pressing, no coordination, little passing. Individual players’ performance has dropped off because they’re not focussed because there’s nothing to focus on. There is no way Jones will keep us up. I still think if Ralph had been given the WC break to regroup, a couple of players back from injury and a signing or two and we’d be fine. As it is, the Board eat humble pie and accept that Jones is a disaster and sack him, or we’re down.

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