31 Oct 2025 16:16:30
Best starting line up tomorrow given injuries and suspensions?
McCarthy
Roerslev. Wood. THB. Manning
Jander. Downes/Edwards
Fellows. Azaz. Scienza
Armstrong
With Azaz pushing further forwards when crossed high.
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01 Nov 2025 08:33:11
It’s probably as good as it gets now that Charles is out injured.
Watching Wrexham last night - what a gutsy winning performance.
It made me think - if you had a mixed Saints/Wrexham XI, how many Wrexham players would start. At best maybe 4 or 5, yet they perform with fight and spirit, week in week out (they all but beat is on the first day of the season) .
So what’s their formula? IMO it is the manager Phil Parkinson. If you watched the TV series about Wrexham he is master class in player motivation. He doesn’t suffer defeat well, so he does everything to about it. Which brings me all the way round to Boy Still - wrong place at the wrong time.
I’m feeling a rare 2-0 home win today!
01 Nov 2025 11:19:05
Completely agree.
I have seen Still be quite tough in training but the passiveness with the press does not inspire me.
Like to see Aribo back in the mix too if Downes is injured.
Big game and no idea how to call it. Preston are doing well but poor away and have injuries at the back.
COYR! Would love a 2-0!
27 Oct 2025 09:25:09
My 2ps worth is we have been downgraded on players for many years now and its not the managers fault for results at the moment. we have tried changing the manager over and over but we need to look at recruitment of players and what is going on with the board. maybe a year or 2 in the championship will do us good and the club can get back to core values of using the academy and smart young signings from Europe. sacking another manager will not solve the clubs problems.
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27 Oct 2025 23:36:31
100% valid lostsaint! Left with trying to fit square pegs in round holes.Hoping that January is an opportunity towards somewhat rectifying this dilemma! KOM.
28 Oct 2025 00:28:08
A lot of speculation about Management change.Although I am supportive of giving Will Still more time of the possible replacement candidates mentioned by reporters I would definitely select one of my previous choices Liam Rosenior, Michael Carrick or John Eustace ( Derby County) as I would assume Frank Lampard not interested due to his current success. KOM.
28 Oct 2025 07:50:00
I would give the manager the whole season. Those managers will not want the job. Write this season off bed in the academy players, we have been desperate for a striker and a GK for ages spend time getting these positions sorted. Get rid of all the dead wood and form a strong spine for the team for next season. Chopping and changing the manager has not worked try a bit of stability give time to build a side.
28 Oct 2025 19:18:46
Saturday will be tense. Optics matter as much tactics. If Still wants this job, he has to go 4 2 3 1 and start Scienza, Fellows, Armstrong and Azaz, then give Robinson decent minutes.
If he leaves fan favourites out, sets up defeatist, makes strange subs or looks lost, then the crowd could turn.
28 Oct 2025 19:59:24
Whilst patience is something we could all do having more of, there are a few issues with this.
1- Still had an entire window to bring in the players he wanted, get rid of those he didn’t, and the side that started vs Swansea only had three regulars from last year. He had a full pre season and plenty of money to spend, more than Bristol City who also changed manager.
It seems he didn’t know what formation he wanted and went half and half, leaving a lot of players playing out of position on the regular. Fraser, Fellows, Azaz, Armstrong, Edwards, Stephens have all been played OOP.
2- We’ve won four league games in 50. The majority are sick of a side who were one of the great example of how to run a football club less than a decade ago. We’re now a laughing stock filled with losers. Still seems set on blaming the finishing, individual errors, nothing about rectifying things. It’s bizarre.
3- we’re 20th in the league. We’ve won twice, both times luckily. It might not be a simple case of seeing the season out - I’m seeing people saying ‘might have to settle for play offs at best’. I believe we are in a relegation battle.
Failed to beat Derby, Swansea, Hull, Blackburn, Portsmouth, Watford or Stoke. These were all sides touted as being bottom half in August.
Yes he’s only had 15 games, but we’ve only won 4. Pre-season, looking at it you’d have expected 8-10. I think our next two home games will decide the immediate future. If we don’t win either of Preston or Sheff Wed, Still has to go.
Who to get in? No idea. Genuinely wouldn’t say no to Warnock at this stage. No more young risks. Someone needs to get amongst these players and sort them out. No more ‘he’s my mate’ etc. Someone to manage this lot.
We’re below Wrexham, Derby, Oxford, Portsmouth. It isn’t good enough. Happy to turn it around, and I hope they do, but currently I’d take 21st in May because we can’t hit a barn door from a yard away.
29 Oct 2025 13:05:52
Spot on SaintGGsy, I personally can’t see it working for Will Still but the points must come quick given the time and money he has had.
29 Oct 2025 22:32:52
Until your post SaintGGsy I thought I was in a minority of one.
Before a ball was kicked I said we are more likely to go down than up. It’s not just a lack of quality it’s a culture that has become insidious. The attitude and lack of bravery is unforgivable. It’s not rocket science to predict Boy Still won’t cut it - he’s just out of his depth. Like everyone else I would love to see him turn things round but it’s not going to happen any time soon.
To be honest we wouldn’t even dig up trees in League 1 because there is no team spirit. We probably will beat Preston on Saturday but that changes nothing.
We need an experienced manager to come in - one who can kick ass and instill confidence. My only surprise is that I thought Lanana would have a big impact in the dug out - but evidently not.
31 Oct 2025 14:04:22
The reason Still won’t turn it round is that he does not have the experience or tactical awareness.
To be a god manager you need to setup your team to play against the opponent. Each opponent is different, very different. It might be subtle differences like 5/4 at the back etc or less subtle ones like a fast midfield, fast wingers, tall CBs.
you have to setup your team up to beat the opponent.
But more importantly you have to be able to react and change tactics, players and formation at an instant.
Opposing managers seem way too clever for our succession of managers. A change in wing positions, to pushing the midfield up, spreading the front line. they all need immediate changes.
Still does not have a clue, he simply isn’t experienced enough. He tweeks, he makes substitutions, but they seem random hopeful changes.
Football is now full of elite athletes, defenders are skilful, clever, agile.
This is no time to learn your trade . he needed to know it already.
We have simply gone for the wrong manager.
We play occasionally clever football but mostly predictable . and that makes us easy to play against and beat
31 Oct 2025 16:34:41
I couldn’t have explained it better myself - spot on Rich
31 Oct 2025 17:54:00
It's nice to here others opinions. Will Still will probably get the boot soon just think we need some stability, someone to give us some identity and a system to ply by. We look lost and it's sad to see.
25 Oct 2025 20:54:01
I first commented on this website a couple of years ago when I felt after nearly 60 years of supporting the Saints that things had never been so bad but today was a new low.
That includes going into administration before thankfully Marcus saved us.
Sports Republic have subsequently totally ruined us to a far greater degree than losing our stars repeatedly to Liverpool and Man Utd did a few years back.
Appalling player and manager recruitment over recent years has led to where we are today. What a week of disappointment that now sees us 20th in the Championship.
Taking chances on young inexperienced players has not worked. Same policy with Managers has been disastrous.
Only the boy Still knows why he is hasn`t been regularly playing the established championship players bought this year or why he `did not need` another striker. Not world beaters but we never got close to replacing Ings/Adams, a fatal mistake.
Wonder how Will would explain taking off Leo and bringing on Jack today. Clearly out of his depth.
Time for him and Spors to go off to Juventus (haha) and maybe, just maybe for SR to bring back Ralph. Almost 3 years to the day since he was sacked, could he save us from League 1?
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25 Oct 2025 22:42:01
I suspect Ralph wouldn’t come back even if asked. Carrick maybe?
25 Oct 2025 17:03:08
Don't think I'm going to renew my season ticket, that was a pile of rubbish. They haven't got a clue. Will Still can **** off back to France. Not happy
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26 Oct 2025 06:10:49
Unfortunately this latest defeat should absolve WS due to last minute Players sickness but not the cowardly decision to substitute Leo for Jack. KOM.
25 Oct 2025 12:52:28
Ralph was sacked due to results/pressure from the fans. At his best he had an assistant in Danny Rohl.
We went from Ralph to Jones who was abysmal. To Selles, Martin Juric and now Still.
Danny who was most likely everyones top tier choice is now at rangers and just lost his first game.
Now when both Jones and Juric were managing us it was hard to believe how these guys had ever been employed at a football club, yet here's Jones currently high above us in the championship with Charlton having gained promotion from league 1 and Juric up towards the top of the table in Seria A.
Things have gone full circle.
I live in Bristol these days and Bristol are on the up so for me I never saw us winning that game, so I take zero negativity out of losing. Today's game however, is more the game is our remits that we should currently be looking to win, even without a decent presence up front or goal.
You all thought I was in love with RM and the notion of keeping him for championship promotion and yet Jones and Juric are showing you can be totally shocking at one thing but great at other things.
People are upset because we're losing (fair enough) yet they have everything they wanted from still (apart from results) that they were crying out for from RM .and they're still not happy.
I do actually like Will and I'll go on record for that, I think with a team that's willing to invest in him and his team for a few years will see results, wether or not that's us I'm not sure. But one things for sure Saints fans need humbling.
I think expectations shouldn't be on promotion this year, some of you have even said we're nowhere near it and yet the same voices call for Wills sacking when we're not on track for it .I find that odd. Obviously I want us to win/perform every game but I'm a realist and I know that mid table means you lose games along the way.
. hopefully today's not one of them though.
As for team/players. I'm not sure where Ronnie Edwards or Woods came from or how they got in the team but for me they're substitutes. Even though Bellis hasn't been great for a long time is still like to see a partnership between him and quashie long term form. Jalert looked awesome than got injured. Azaz hasn't been great but I'd still rather Play him than Archer with Armstrong just for the physical presence and hope that a run of games is what azaz needs to find his form.
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25 Oct 2025 17:00:51
We have to be winning these games against the struggling teams tho. Another poor display means closer to relegation again. Do we stick with Will into league 1 Leslee because I'm not sure we are even making mid table. How long can we stick with a manager that appears to be taking us the wrong way, although tbf it is also board and players making poor decisions. I just want some stability defensively to build from. We look lost. Teams know there are 3 points available every time they play us at the moment. It is so hard to get behind the team presently.
25 Oct 2025 17:19:28
I think we’re all over thinking it - we are absolute rubbish - plain and simple.
Another defeat out of the jaws of victory.
And what about the substations? Taking off our most talented player to be replaced by Stephens is totally illogical.
Good to see you changing your tune about Boy Still, Lesleee. I said all along that someone fresh out of High School is probably not the best man for the job. I will concede though I would rather have Ralph than Boy Still.
