Southampton banter 2

07 Nov 2025 07:39:07
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06 Nov 2025 20:24:42
Hi Saint Owen - in answer to your question about what happened to the famous black box - well it's been found alive and well.

Some new kid on the block has been unearthed - Oriel Romeu.

Seriously though, as long as he isn't required to turn quickly, he will be an asset to the squad.

07 Nov 2025 14:58:10
I love a black box

08 Nov 2025 13:51:17
Prefer pink myself

06 Nov 2025 07:39:06
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05 Nov 2025 17:25:40
Ross Stewart didn't get injured and Will Still would still be here.

If fans could understand those fine margins, he'd still be here.

No, I'm not crying or necessarily care that he's gone, just that now the board have made another snap judgement call because they seem to bend to the boos/toxic percentage of our fan base.

They should have done this a few weeks earlier when there was a chance of getting Rohl as for I can see he is the only one with the credentials, alas that ship has sailed.

This all started with the sacking of Ralph and nearly went full circle if thoughts of him returning are to be believed. At the least it points to the fact I said all along, he shouldn't have gone. Even further to the point where you all called me mad about a possible Russel Martin return. Whilst its too late for RM I do believe my point where you thought I was bonkers was true .that he would have got us promotion. Some people are just good at certain things and awful at others. Like or not he got us promoted and most of that team is still here. and no I don't love him, it just is what it is.

Now though we're back on the clown carasosel to see where it takes us. I can only think of Carrick as a choice, just because of championship experience. But I maintain the board should always have been scouting the right man in the background for a long time and not some snap decision job.

I hope though as I always do that these things humble us fans, but I think we're cary on believing were top tier premier League quality forever.

06 Nov 2025 09:16:04
Carrick is probably the realistic, less divisive and experienced championship choice. But when did we ever go for that!

RM's style will only ever get us so far and players seem stuck in it. So, depends on our ambition.

I also suspect some players are running the show behind the scenes. Anybody who pushes for fitness or is no nonsense gets moved on. Then wonder why favourites get picked and we lose from winning positions.

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

08 Nov 2025 14:08:31
Leslee and everyone who thinks it’s midfield and attack which is hindering us . We need sort out centre half’s! Wry nearly the worst side in premiership history, last season Bellis and Stephans were a disgrace, it took boy Still half a dozen games to realise the issue and dropped them both for cup game at a field .

He played same defence at Sheffield Utd, ok Quasie prob at fault for goals in both games . But it takes 5 mins to see they (woods also ) are light years ahead of of stephans and Bellis . If we can’t keep a clean sheet then we can’t win 1-0.

To say Boy still wouldn’t loose job because of Ross Stewart is a fair mush point as he was our focal point with 2 nippy smaller players either side up top .then again the ball boys have more touches of ball than him during any season! Still played Bellis at Bristol and he was shocking!

A gutless and a disgrace of a performance, then next game at Blackburn drops him but brings on stephans on 65mins to hold onto a lead in a game where Blackburn posed no obvious threat . IMO this is why he lost his job, trusting defenders that nearly made us worst team in history.

Don’t think we ever had such a worse cb pairing! Traditionally when new managers come in they improve things from the back including gk, but he many managers now have we had recently that take this on board?

05 Nov 2025 15:29:43
Who do people want for manager?

We have the good but unlikely Lampard, Robbins and Rogers

The divisive Martin and O'Neil

The wild card Eckert, Carsley, German leagues and Revell

The nostalgic Adkins and Hassenhuttl

Then Carrick.

Who would you go for?

05 Nov 2025 17:19:41
Good summary.with a few to add.

Potential: Lalana
soon to be available: Farke
Pipe dream: Gerrard

I think at this stage we should forget about playoffs and focus on the relegation threat.a proven manager specifically in the championship is necessary. Accordingly, Mowbray wasnt such a daft idea, even if a tad uninspiring. And Farke would be a good option when Leeds can him. Priority is to get to January in better shape than now, then exit all the sabateurs who made Stills job even harder than he made it

06 Nov 2025 09:10:04
Carrick, Farke, Mowbray, Ralph or Copper would be a sensible shortlist but we will probably get Spor's second cousin from Germany!

Also depends who the players play for. Anybody with blunt talk or who pushes for fitness seems to have sabotage operations against them.

06 Nov 2025 17:13:00
Right now I’d take Carsley in a heartbeat, had his teams playing superb football but he wouldn’t come to this clown show. I’d take Carrick, I’d take O’Neil, but the outsider coming in seems to be Carlos Corberan.

Given the perverse world of football management, he’s expected to soon be sacked by Valencia and has done well in the Champ before - his WBA side are who we beat in the play-offs and he did well getting them that far.

Honestly I don’t expect anything of the sort. It’ll be an obscure Swiss who managed Magdeburg and we’ll scrape survival. What I worry about with a win on Saturday is they appoint Eckert, and we get back on the Selles/Rusk ferris wheel which went horrendously.

07 Nov 2025 07:45:50
Carsley is an interesting choice. He would bring on youth and does have some limited championship experience, which I just found out about.

Corberan could get the best out of Fellows. I am nervy about the SR left field appointments. Cortese pulled them off, SR do not.

05 Nov 2025 07:39:05
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03 Nov 2025 09:23:22
Genuine Question, What happened to Southampton's infamous 'Black Box' of the 2010's era?

Recruitment during that era was phenomenal; Tadic, Mane, Wanyama, Schneiderlin, Pelle, I could go on!

I've not seen it mentioned since Sports Republic took over, and ever since it has stopped being mentioned, our signings seem to be declining in quality.

Interested to see if anyone has any info/ideas!