| Forget bouncing straight back to Premier. 22:52 - Apr 12 with 1070 views | GRIM |
I hope I'm wrong but I just cannot see us bouncing straight back up next season.
The spirit of our Saints has gone, under the current ownership our club has lost its heart & identity.
There is definitely something wrong at the club at the moment & it starts at the top.
Our owners have split allegiance, they have interest in too many clubs.
We need owners that solely dedicate there funds & effort into our club.
I hope I'm wrong but next season could be very frustrating unless something radically changes. |  | | |  |
| Forget bouncing straight back to Premier. on 23:18 - Apr 12 with 1008 views | Southamptonfan |
I am worried, I have to admit. Thing is, you can have a disastrous season, but then regroup again for the championship. It will be a totally different team next season and new manager. We did that last time, and came straight back up after relegation. Burnley and Sheff Utd have bounced back having a good season after relegation, doom and gloom. So hopefully, we go again next season. But will we go straight back up again, after a second relegation? Something tells me it won't be as simple as that 2nd time round.
However - these owners are dreadful. They get everything wrong. This record breaking disaster of a season will take some shaking off, the embarrassment, the negative environment. We will have what is likely to be a completely new team, with a lot of upheaval and players wanting to leave. If we don't make it back up at the first attempt, we will just keep losing our best players etc and these owners will be more and more tempted to save money, buying potential. We could also have a lot of players sulking, but refuse to move because they want to keep the top money they are on here. Apart from the obvious ones who will leave, who is going to buy Sulemana, Ketchup etc? They will likely take the money and sit in the reserves sulking. I am assuming that Dibling will be sold.
As much as we could come straight back up, we could easily go the other way with this lot in charge. It wouldn't surprise me if we don't sign a decent striker again, miss out to Ipswich, Leicester, Birmingham etc for the best players or try to do things on the cheap and end up struggling, with more manager comings and goings. At the moment yes, it's all doom.and gloom. [Post edited 12 Apr 23:26]
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| Forget bouncing straight back to Premier. on 23:24 - Apr 12 with 980 views | grumpy |
I absolutely agree,too much wrong to mend quickly.
This is why we must get the next manager appointment right.
He won’t fix our many problems in one season sadly, the right man will need time and support on and off the field. |  | | |
| Forget bouncing straight back to Premier. on 07:53 - Apr 13 with 728 views | MytchettSaint |
I’ve thought the same about our future trajectory.
This is an even more disastrous season than the previous relegation seasons and I genuinely can’t see a quick turnaround this time.
I know much is made of managers and whether we were right to get rid of Ralph previously or Russell M but I think whoever was in charge under the current owners we would have suffered the same fate. These guys are absolute chancers completely out of their depth.
I can’t justify wasting anymore of my time watching the next few sh1t shows and I don’t expect next season to be following a Burnley style season but more of one from the style of the Sunderland one in their documentary series from a few years ago following relegation.
I take my hat off to SR, they’ve finally knocked the habit of wanting to go to football at the weekend right out of me. If they could bottle that and sell it they’d make a killing from partners who see their other half disappearing each weekend for 9 months of the year. |  |
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| Forget bouncing straight back to Premier. on 08:45 - Apr 13 with 634 views | PatfromPoole |
You can't keep going from extremes on the style of play.
Hassenhutl wanted lots of pressing.
That worked for a couple of years, but then we stopped doing it for some reason and reverted to slow, laborious crap.
Then the clown Jones came in and we resorted to diagonal hoofs to the smallest players on the pitch (full-backs).
Then a brief dalliance with Selles; still haven't worked out what his style of play was.
Then 18 months of Rustyball.
Then Juric wanted "heavy metal football". It was like death metal to me, without the speed.
That was never going to work after Rustyball.
We should be making the most of the next 6 weeks to plan how we are going to play, who is going to be in charge of it, and who we are going to still have.
It's where Spors has to start to earn his money.
I think we should aim for a style similar to the first two years of Hassenhutl. It is the easiest style to maintain when there is a change of manager.
The problem is that David Brent hypnotised the players into thinking they have to keep the ball at all costs, and it is taking time to undo all the damage he did. [Post edited 13 Apr 10:18]
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| Forget bouncing straight back to Premier. on 09:40 - Apr 13 with 553 views | Ron11 |
| Forget bouncing straight back to Premier. on 08:45 - Apr 13 by PatfromPoole |
You can't keep going from extremes on the style of play.
Hassenhutl wanted lots of pressing.
That worked for a couple of years, but then we stopped doing it for some reason and reverted to slow, laborious crap.
Then the clown Jones came in and we resorted to diagonal hoofs to the smallest players on the pitch (full-backs).
Then a brief dalliance with Selles; still haven't worked out what his style of play was.
Then 18 months of Rustyball.
Then Juric wanted "heavy metal football". It was like death metal to me, without the speed.
That was never going to work after Rustyball.
We should be making the most of the next 6 weeks to plan how we are going to play, who is going to be in charge of it, and who we are going to still have.
It's where Spors has to start to earn his money.
I think we should aim for a style similar to the first two years of Hassenhutl. It is the easiest style to maintain when there is a change of manager.
The problem is that David Brent hypnotised the players into thinking they have to keep the ball at all costs, and it is taking time to undo all the damage he did. [Post edited 13 Apr 10:18]
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I seem to remember that the end of the Hassenhutl pressing game coincided with the departure of Danny Roll. It all started to go downhill from then. | | | |
| Forget bouncing straight back to Premier. on 09:51 - Apr 13 with 519 views | dirk_doone |
| Forget bouncing straight back to Premier. on 09:40 - Apr 13 by Ron11 |
I seem to remember that the end of the Hassenhutl pressing game coincided with the departure of Danny Roll. It all started to go downhill from then. |
It all seems to be going downhill at Sheffield Wednesday now.
Leeds got a manager who'd won the Championship because they want to win it; we're getting one who's finished in the bottom half of it. Everything points to us putting together a mediocre team and manager to do no more than just survive in the Championship. The lack of ambition at the club nowadays stinks. [Post edited 13 Apr 10:06]
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