indeed hoof...

lets be clear here...weve played s*** football for 90% of the season with little idea when going forward.

now people seem to think it should change.

we aint got the ability in the squad to play good football...if we did we would be.

we do however IMO have the ability to get more in an attacking sense, but blame pulis for this? madness!

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

Wrong. Southampton won in a canter and were not given a tough enough game for the three points. They looked comfortable whilst we looked bereft of ideas and talent. Which we are.

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You only need look at our record against the teams in the top of half of the table to realise there exists a gap in terms of class. With the exception of the first 30 minutes at Anfield, we haven't been ' turned over ', but we have competed well without really threatening to win any of those games.

Yesterday the game was decided by a mistake that was still high enough up the pitch that you would hope we would get away with it, but at this level, hope is all you can do, mistakes are usually punished.

I think some of the criticism on here is a bit harsh. Take away that unfortunate error and the game had 0-0 written all over it, and I for one would have gone away happy with a useful point. I saw plenty of effort against a team that plays effective possession football.

As for team selection, Murray needs game time so he's getting it, but the service into him needs huge improvement. I think Jerome is a waste of space, reminds me of Andy Preece, but other options are limited. Gayle has been a huge disappointment, the Villa goal excepted. Pulis has made us hard to beat but with our lack of goal threat, we struggle to win games as well.

The officials I thought were poor, if that's our top ref then that speaks volumes about the lack of quality available.

So, disappointing yesterday but I still think there is three worst teams than us in this league.

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Really, Chamakh, Murray, Bolasie, Puncheon, Thomas, Bannan, Williams (I know), Gayle, Pep, Ledley, Ince.
Are the squads at Stoke, Norwich, Cardiff, WBA, Sunderland. Hull, Swansea, Fulham, Villa really so far superior to ours? They don't seem to give up against the better teams and actually attack them and have been rewarded for it at times.

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And as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin' on a Dream.
KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!

Ince is new to the side so a little leniency is fair enough, but there is a lot of attacking talent there, but they are rarely allowed to go out and express themselves. They are stifled and I don't agree with the regular line either. Murray is just starting his season, Gayle has hardly featured this year, Ledley and Ince are new to the side and Thomas has been injured all year, so that really only leaves Chamakh, Bolasie and Puncheon who fit the start every week label.
Our wide players play as auxilliary full backs until we thankfully go a goal behind and then we see what they are capable of. The problem is we know we can't score twice in a game. The more players you commit forward the better chance you have of scoring and we may actually stay up because at sometime TP will have to give them licence to attack.

That's Life
And as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin' on a Dream.
KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!

The striker was Murray, who ran his heart out and won nearly everything in the air. He was given no support by the wingers until we conceded as they were deployed deep looking after their fullbacks. Our fullbacks rarely get forward and we do not attack with enough numbers to cause anyone problems. We rely on moments of brilliance like from Yannick, which went unrewarded by the refs cowardice or FFS last week against Swansea when he made something out of nothing. We were without Chamakh who has been so important to us this season, yet TP didn't bring in a similar player, Pep, Bannan or Ince he went with a defensive three mad midfield and gave up that area that Chamakh usually occupies and Southampton picked up the ball there so often.

Unless we actually try to win between now and the end of the season we WILL go down.

That's Life
And as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin' on a Dream.
KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!