Absolute total bollocks. Why buy into this kind of crap? As if Austin would just reveal all that to some random on the street. Do me a favour.
Usually I'd fully agree, however, upon reading that pile of sh@t from some wazzock, I'd say punctuation wouldn't make any difference.
The guy Austin has had a photo with has been known to go over the top with Saints related "news" on Twitter over the last few seasons. Always looking for some sort of attention it seems.
Four very winnable games in a row now for Swansea. Win two of them, and they'll be able to see the finish line. (Win three of them, and they'll be standing on the finish line.)
On current form you'd have to think that they'll get over the line. Carvalhal (who, to be forthright, I was pretty dubious about) looks like the move of the season...Swansea has 4 wins, 2 draws and a loss in the league since he was appointed; that's 14 points in 7 with him, versus 13 points in 20 without him. Can you get Manager of the Year while only managing half the year? Because he might well deserve it.
I think it was Beefy and I who threw him in he ring when discussing championship managers for us, along with Rowett. It was football madness sheff Weds ditching him.
I love Carvalhal in interviews. A few days ago he gave out home made tarts to the press and then when one asked him a question, Carvalhal pointed out he had sugar round his mouth and insisted he wiped it off first.
Pulis did at Palace. As I recall, it was us winning at Palace on Boxing Day that finished Warnock off. So Pulis would have come in at pretty much the exact same point as Carvalhal. And yes, I agree. With the current wave that they're on, having these four games next (which include our trip there) you have got to back them to come out the other side with a decent points haul. For us, it's a run of five games (after today) - but unless we win today, you'd say that we'd only be going into them on average form. Reasonable, OK, but nothing spectacular; certainly nothing to shout about. I'd rather be Swansea going into theirs, than us going into ours (as I say, unless we win today. Winning against the odds for us today changes things massively).
Not a great weekend for us now. Six of the bottom nine have played, and only one has lost. Assuming that WBA lose tomorrow (although with Chelsea right now, that's not a safe assumption), WBA v Huddersfield next time out is probably last chance saloon for WBA. They're six behind now (which I did highlight as a possibility last week - and could in theory get worse over the coming hours), and if that increases to eight or nine with a defeat to Huddersfield, that is surely the first of the three places nailed down.
Next 5 games: Burnley vs Saints 2-1 Saints vs Stoke 1-1 Newcastle vs Saints 1-1 Swasea vs Saints 2-1 West Ham vs Saints 2-0 Last 6 Arsenal vs Saints 3-0 Saints vs Chelsea 1-2 Leicester vs Saints 3-0 Saints vs Bournemouth 2-1 Everton vs Saints 2-2 Saints vs Man City 1-4 32 points is my prediction
We've played to par over the first two matches, but the teams around us haven't. Probably have to switch gears now and hope that Swansea can win at least one of their next two away matches, as they're against Brighton and Huddersfield. Our clearest road to safety looks to me like Stoke/WBA capitulating (not terribly unlikely) and Brighton getting chewed up by their schedule, or Huddersfield blowing their highly winnable home matches.
36 hours ago, probably even 12 hours ago, I was veering towards WBA, Huddersfield and Newcastle (although I didn't state that on the other thread, because I knew they all had yet to play this weekend, and we've got until the end of the week to make our suggestions - so why jump the gun?). That's completely gone out the window. I know, I know, there will be many more twists and turns. As bad as this weekend has been for us, next time it could be a great weekend for us. I get all that. But I can only go by what's in front of me right now. And whereas 36 hours we weren't in my top five of most likely sides to go down (although I completely appreciated that we were in trouble), I'm now really struggling to keep us out of my top three to go down. If we don't make a change in the next fortnight, before our next PL game, I do fear the worst.
I don't see many if any wins. We play overly cautious containment football but have 2 young inexperienced centre backs who consistently cough up stupid chances for the opposition. And we have no pace with tadic and JWP on the wings. The whole point of this boring style is to be rock solid and hope to counter. We are totally ill equipped for this.
