Match Day Thread Sat. 8 Feb. - Saints v Burnley - 3pm - FA Cup

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Still don’t blame Juric tbh. Put in an impossible situation with players that essentially had any footballing instinct wholeheartedly drilled out of them by our previous manager. There are zero leaders on the pitch when th8ngs go wrong and our back line is lead by our most experienced player yet has zero leadership qualities and hides away and shrugs his arms when things go wrong.

Add **** all transfers in attack other than a 20 year old to that and I don’t know what magical turn around people were expecting.

I think it's both mate. This squad is absolute ****ing toilet. Not a leader amongst them. The manager hasn't got a clue and then there's this

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At ****ing home
To a second string championship team
Absolute embarrassment from top to bottom
 
As bad as this season has been losing to a second string championship side is a new low <laugh>

At least Everton won too so I can book my hotel for Goodison.
 
Just to reiterate, I am not a fan of marauding CBs and “proper” midfielders dropping into deep positions to cover for them.
It just leads to two players being out of position and a ****ing great big hole in the middle of the park which will be exploited by decent teams.
On the training ground they practice passing in tight spaces, yet our midfield players are so far apart they can’t work as a unit.
I have seen an improvement in us going forward, in some games, and we’re now getting a tune out of Sulemana, but I won’t weep any tears if we start next season with a manager that will play a more pragmatic style of football and not play ideological styles like Martin and Juric.
 
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Thought Juric would be a boost and get Saints firing but the only thing I can see that has changed is that we've stop giving needless goals away by fannying around with it at the back. Attacking wise we are just as bad as under RM - perhaps the quality is that dire that he's totally hamstrung?
Well he only lasted at Roma for two months for a reason
 
We are probably a bang average championship club, whereas Burnley are a very good Championship club. They are very good in defence.
Was anyone really surprised that we lost?
No. With the underlying and for most of us, unknown issues with some of this squad, I expected changes to last week, but did expect a more passionate performance. Disappointed about that. There’s still too much tippy tapping stuff. Sulemana did offer hope at times, but attacking link up between players still way off where it should be. Ah well, Bournemouth next week. Another pilgrimage of deluded hope!!
 
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