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Got to be honest I’m struggling to watch…

I’d agree with the first part, you might be ticking the very optimistic box with your second part

How has Dack missed that…

Twine not doing anything to justify shelling out 5m for.

Quite. From my recollection of playing school sports at Failand, they should be used to playing in wind at the HPC, pointless playing long balls into a gusty wind.

They’re keeping it on the floor, we haven’t been

Mehmeti having a mare, I’d be taking him off, putting McCrorie on and moving Sykes forward. An additional bit of physicality against Clarke would be no bad thing

Got to get him on the ball in places where he can create. His back to goal in our half with a Sunderland player closing in him in not it.

Get a ******* grip. This is not great

Anyone care to suggest that Max isn’t good enough today??? Single handedly keeping us in this

Can’t do much with scraps.

I think the current Home Secretary has a word that accurately describes Sunderland

It was a foul, but the ref does not need too much encouragement to give fouls today

When we get it we want to give it back at present

Roberts has got to learn to clear it though

Agreed, plus there’s plenty of versatility to change formations depending on the state of play.

Frankfurt on Nord. No issues

I think in a recent press conference James mentioned he was doing his coaching badges. If the new coaching set up is as good as the players say it is then you can see him hanging around to benefit from their ideas rather than a final 2 year payday somewhere else. Personally I’d want him around, we are a better team when he’s starting. One of those quietly effective midfielders.

I think he’s lost a yard of pace which makes a difference to his game, where he would be able to turn and get in front of the defender to go through on goal, invariably he’s having to physically battle for the ball. The Leicester game was a really good example of that. That’s not to say he’s finished but it does remove one of his strengths.

All down to results, if buts and maybes make up the post match chat. We won’t be talking about this season’s matches next season. Apart from when the club releases the Southampton anniversary one off shirt…

He’s got the time now… I hope your optimism is correct.

I think you are wrong here. As soon as James was fit he was straight back in the starting lineup, so I think LM very much appreciates what he brings to the team. The difficulty will be in the contract that the club wishes to put forward, I suspect that with one eye on coaching badges then James will want to hang around. King less so, we’ll have plenty of cover next season in midfield, and arguably keeping Williams would be better than King from a playing perspective.

Correct, got my halves confused

I don’t think that people were immediately on his back. He clearly was not helped by the background of his appointment nor some of the rhetoric that came from the club when he was appointed. Arguably that’s not a fair element to judge him by, but football is passionate and passion does not always bring about rational and fair minded thought. I think some of the performances and the results that have gone with them have not helped. He’d managed to conjure some dreadful stuff on the pitch, and then followed that up with poor post match interviews where he fell back to his mantra, emotions, behaviours, blah blah. Perhaps he is turning it around, although I don’t think he’s done enough to be in credit yet. He has averted some pressure and given himself more time and probably the opportunity to bring in players as all managers want to do. That’s ultimately what he’ll be judged on

Whatever could you mean……