The Race to be Relegated 24/25 Thread

[Kenny]

Just this season we watched a Cup game where Sa gave us a "fuck this shit, I want to anywhere but here" performance.

I will keep repeating this but this season is mental and when we look back it will make little sense

 

[Tony Towner]

Definitely another one that Vitor has improved.

Can’t remember his last blatant howler - he was making then every week, it felt like, last season.

Playing behind Agbadou has obviously helped him loads too.

Fulham's second came rushing out and killed himself

 

[NicholasG1973]

Fulham's second came rushing out and killed himself

Fair. Well done. You’re right.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Just this season we watched a Cup game where Sa gave us a "fuck this shit, I want to anywhere but here" performance.

I will keep repeating this but this season is mental and when we look back it will make little sense

Likewise it was only 10 minutes ago Cunha is arguing with fans on social media and not in the starting 11.

Today he is captain.

 

[prawnking]

I think every fan can sense that we could be onto something akin to the Nuno era again...just needs everyone at the club rowing in the same direction...and that's where the sliver of doubt and cynicism comes in

 

[Lupo]

You would hope that even Shi prefers seeing the support united behind and singing loudly for someone like Vitor than shouting 'Wanker, wanker, wanker' at the likes of O’Neil, has to be a far healthier situation but then never put it beyond Jeff to do something utterly bizarre

 

[prawnking]

He allegedly didn't seem to like Nuno being the main man, hopefully he's learned his lesson and grown the fuck up since then

 

[Kenny]

He allegedly didn't seem to like Nuno being the main man, hopefully he's learned his lesson and grown the fuck up since then

It was also his desire for us to play open attacking football, goals flying in and generally be the great entertainers.
It's the reason he openly accepted Bruno because his Benfica team were smacking 10 past shit teams.
All that did was expose his shite grasp on the reality of the Premier League and football in general.
Wanted to be Chairman, Director of Football, Commercial Director, Head Scout and the font of all football knowledge whose name would be chanted by the fans and those that told him he was wrong were the ones who had to leave - Laurie, Nuno etc

 

[Lupo]

Well he (Jeff) does have his own chant now though doubt whether he's too enamoured with it

 

[Carsy]

I'd back Ipswich to win the league next year, Southampton to make the play offs at worst with a half sensible appointment, Leicester I'm not sure about they are a mess

A mess who are linked to Russell Martin as manager

 

[Tony Towner]

A mess who are linked to Russell Martin as manager

He's a good Championship manager, hence getting Southampton up in the first place. He wasn't any worse than Kompany who got the Bayern Munich job after a similar hubristic season

 

[SSB]

Well I think you'll find that watching that Everton away game, deciding (belatedly, at very least two months overdue) that O'Neil was never turning it around, but then throwing away two subsequent games against teams who are now below us because you were dithering over pushing the button was some of the most ludicrous club management I've ever seen.

Everton away. The game I lumped a few quid on us to go down that’s sat in my unsettled bets ever since.

 

[Carsy]

He's a good Championship manager, hence getting Southampton up in the first place. He wasn't any worse than Kompany who got the Bayern Munich job after a similar hubristic season

Think with him though he needs to have a specific style of squad. He only plays one way, as his stubbornness to change his approach showed.

Kompany got the job based on who he is really. IMO ofcourse.

 

[ROVERT47]

When I drove home following the home defeat to Ipswich I was resigned to being I the Championship next season and was reminiscing about the Nuno years.
I didn’t dream for a minute that, with 5 games left, we would be mathematically safe and may well have got us another Nuno.
Fosun have now owned the Club for almost 10 yrs and I’m hoping they’ve learnt what is needed for continuous Premier League football.
Having said that, I’ll never underestimate Jeff Shi’s ability to fuck everything up.

 

[Tredman]

Fosun will be gone as soon as they can.

 

[The Bear]

Southampton have sacked a manager, hired a manager, sacked that manager and appointed another manager all in the time since Leicester last scored a goal at home.

 

[Lupo]

Thank God he was 'too good' for us. At least he secured safety yesterday...

 

[Tony Towner]

I don't think he's said anything wrong there. If I were a West Ham fan I wouldn't want to be patronised and hear about the positives.

His success in the past has been building things not turning them around, West Ham weren't going down when he came in and aren't now. I don't think you can draw much positive or negative from this season and doubt many reasonable West Ham fans are either.

As for Wolves, I think he'd have kept us up if we'd signed Agbadou - In hindsight I think most competent, experienced managers would given the competition. I don't think he'd have done so well or brought the feel good factor though

 

[prawnking]

Got stroppy Ange vibes about him there. Mardy and uninspiring

 

[Wellen Wolf]

Thank God he was 'too good' for us. At least he secured safety yesterday...

Didn't realise he is a Brummie.