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09 Nov 2025 12:25:39
We've all been crying out, no screaming out!
To get the ball in the box quicker, and not only are we getting the ball in the box quick quicker. there are players on the edge of the box and in the box making themselves available. at least four in the box! with others waiting strategically on or around the box.
I don't care whether this guy is from the moon.
He knows how to win a football game!
He knows what he needs to win a football game!
And while many of criticised his substitution yesterday, the player he brought on he knew very well and he knew his abilities.,
No pussyfooting around.
He did exactly what he felt was needed.
Changed things.
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06 Nov 2025 09:28:50
Still did not have a clue… he was simply the wrong man for the job.
His team selection, formation, tactics, substitutions. we’re not good enough.
And he wasn’t improving
31 Oct 2025 14:04:22
The reason Still won’t turn it round is that he does not have the experience or tactical awareness.
To be a god manager you need to setup your team to play against the opponent. Each opponent is different, very different. It might be subtle differences like 5/4 at the back etc or less subtle ones like a fast midfield, fast wingers, tall CBs.
you have to setup your team up to beat the opponent.
But more importantly you have to be able to react and change tactics, players and formation at an instant.
Opposing managers seem way too clever for our succession of managers. A change in wing positions, to pushing the midfield up, spreading the front line. they all need immediate changes.
Still does not have a clue, he simply isn’t experienced enough. He tweeks, he makes substitutions, but they seem random hopeful changes.
Football is now full of elite athletes, defenders are skilful, clever, agile.
This is no time to learn your trade . he needed to know it already.
We have simply gone for the wrong manager.
We play occasionally clever football but mostly predictable . and that makes us easy to play against and beat
15 Sep 2025 06:51:43
Ah thanks 2408 . I was trying to work out who saints reminded me of! Wimbledon indeed . or even further back in my distant memory, what we were told to do at 6 by our football coach . hoof it every time the ball is in your area.
Now I know the Unsaviour of Rangers, Russel Martin, liked us to play around with it at the back, but this is now taking the pi**. we are literally hoofing the ball out from the back, to anywhere and everywhere.
Even high balls to the wee man!
I enjoy watching good football, this is not good football we are playing under Still…
We are also very slow with many static players.
Our attacks are simply not that, if the ball does manage to get into the opponents box is more luck than game plan. I see AA is still shooting on site. hasn’t he ever adjusted his style!
Disappointing and I am not sure we even deserved a point
14 Sep 2025 14:39:31
In the first half, only one team with flair, tactics, desire to win, attack and move the ball around . Pompey!
Not sure what our managers game plan is . if any.
We were totally disjointed
24 Aug 2025 11:01:52
Downs : has he been suggested by the friend of a friend of someone that once played football when he was 9!
As 2408 says, not only disinterested but he makes Djenepo look like Pele. His two glaring missed since he joined us, are not even school boy errors. they were amateurish beyond belief.
As I have always said, I am a fan of Fraser, superb crosser of the ball. and finisher when he is not having to be the provider!
But with Downs and Archer not being sharp enough, clever enough or even interested, good balls into the box are pointless.
The ability of players has worked its way down the Premier League and now filling the Championship.
Top quality players throughout the Championship.
No more long ball rubbish, it’s clever, intelligent, skilful, tactically good football.
Meanwhile we get rid of Taul P, who showed us he can score once given the chance, bring on the ‘injured one’ from the bench who misses a sitter! Ok it was offside! But it was a sitter!
We have a manager who is much smarter than the Rangers clown, but we are still playing way too slow…
KWP was a big source of fast attacks.
At least the manger knows who are stragglers and is not playing them .
but we need more quality, more experience and a god damn striker who can bang goals in!
Saints have had a history of them and were so important!