They’re not of the standard of Prem sides. I’m a massive cynic but some positives today. I am just not getting my hopes up!

A little bit of improving the chance creation too imo. But some of it is about getting used to actually playing football that includes creating and scoring chances that aren’t just walking the ball in too. It will come. At minimum it was much better to watch

Thought he collided with his own defender? Not shown a replay to check

You too Oz 👍🏻

Let’s hope so mate 🤞🏻

Yes I’d agree. But bloody hell an uphill battle after 5 points from 16 games

The formation wasn’t even necessarily the issue. It was the way he absolutely insisted they play and the continual high-risk football in the defensive 3rd
I don’t know, they have to change style significantly and adapt very quickly. We are almost certainly going down still

You can stretch play and support, or get it wide and play from there. But if you want to have every player be able to be pin sharp on every pass and have the ability to outplay top class players in every part of the field, then that takes a truly world class team.

Well possession football is fine, but playing it from the GK all the way to the top of the pitch, then no. Because you need every single player to be absolutely class at not only their ‘job’ in normal positional terms, but also be incredibly calm and skilful in possession. And that takes ££’s

It isn’t as simple as that. You don’t have to play long ball just because you choose to not play the really really intricate and difficult football that RM wanted the team to play. The reality is that he would never have the players to play that style in the PL, no matter how good we recruited

It’s a failure to realise you can’t play the exact and perfect system of play you want to. The need to be more pragmatic in a league in which almost every team will shut down your lovely passing unless you have the absolute elite players to play it.

I agree, I cannot see us staying up from here. I would like to see us take points from some of the games when we should have won though. Failure to adapt to the differing talent of the PL is RM’s failure imo

I do think incorrect decisions have been continually made in terms of playing squad and team selection and that falls on the manager too. Keeping misplaced faith in certain players has been a disaster #saintsfc

I can’t see us surviving the drop this season, hopefully ok wrong. But I would really like to see us competing. Recruitment hasn’t been amazing but results haven’t been in line with the talent imo #saintsfc

I like the guy and some of the football we’ve played *at times* has been excellent. But this season you could see where we were coming undone from day 1 and not changing things wasn’t good enough. #saintsfc

He’s only just noticed?