Southampton V Aston Villa (League Cup 4th Round) : Wednesday 28th October at 7:45PM

Five full backs in one team?

Not been able to follow this but told we looked better in the first half than at any point under sherwood.

Going by bbc text commentary we appear to have had more shots on target and posession.

Spoke too soon, yet again posession stats mean jack sxxt, being punished for not taking our chances

Still can't defend though!

Shot from outside the box, Yoshida scores his Guestede's gets saved.

Grealish and Ayew on, still more shots , 11 with 6 on target for us, 4 with 1 on target for Saints, 1 that matters.

Outclassed by quality again chaps

Game over at 2-0. Oh well. What we need to do now is consolidate. Don't concede more and ruin our confidence further and then tomorrow go and get Garde and his merry men to get us out of the shit.

We've been far from good, However still looked more solid and with a purpose than under Sherwood. So imagine what a real manager and coaching team (with proper tactics and coaching methods) can do. Can't happen soon enough. Hopefully this will just accelerate the need for our new man asap.

IF Garde can't come, go and get DeBoer or Rodgers!! Pronto!!

On a positive, very attacking, lots of shots and over half on target, won lots of corners.
Difficult to assess from bbc text commentary but I think we committed too many fouls.

I should comment on our penalty, but I can't raise any interest. A big Lerner out banner evidently, but it wont have any effect.

GadgetMan wrote:Game over at 2-0. Oh well. What we need to do now is consolidate. Don't concede more and ruin our confidence further and then tomorrow go and get Garde and his merry men to get us out of the shit.

We've been far from good, However still looked more solid and with a purpose than under Sherwood. So imagine what a real manager and coaching team (with proper tactics and coaching methods) can do. Can't happen soon enough. Hopefully this will just accelerate the need for our new man asap.

IF Garde can't come, go and get DeBoer or Rodgers!! Pronto!!

GM you did the same as me, switched off and missed the pen.

GadgetMan wrote: So imagine what a real manager and coaching team (with proper tactics and coaching methods) can do. Can't happen soon enough. Hopefully this will just accelerate the need for our new man asap.

IF Garde can't come, go and get DeBoer or Rodgers!! Pronto!!

Sky reporting that we're giving MacDonald another two games as we wait to hammer out the snags with Garde. Worth waiting for him or going for another coach to speed up the process?

I don't think sky know anything. Post match KMac implied to the Ian Abraham that the next manager will be the guy that's heavily featured in the press. Sounds pretty much done for me. I'll be gobsmacked (although I shouldn't be) if we go to Spurs without a new man. Announcement tomorrow I hope (pure guess)

Here's KMac interview wire WM, speaks really well and really cares for the club. He said he's had one phone call on Sunday and not spoke to anyone else since. Our senior guys really are real shitbags aren't they? I really don't like Fox and his mate Charlie. Give me bad vibes. Horrible bastards I think. Watching thier own backs first and foremost. Little things like that piss me off. Take the guy to one side and soeak to him and ask if needs anything. Not just a quick call.

https://audioboom.com/boos/3746804-listen-kevin-macdonald-on-capital-one-cup-defeat-to-southampton

GadgetMan wrote:I don't think sky know anything. Post match KMac implied to the Ian Abraham that the next manager will be the guy that's heavily featured in the press. Sounds pretty much done for me. I'll be gobsmacked (although I shouldn't be) if we go to Spurs without a new man. Announcement tomorrow I hope (pure guess)

I hope so too. I had been thinking that we'd go for that quick an appointment up until today. How long does it take to tie up a manager? If his lieutenants are having difficulty getting out of their contracts elsewhere then it's surely a case of yes or no rather than a case of waiting a week and a half?

GadgetMan wrote:Here's KMac interview wire WM, speaks really well and really cares for the club. He said he's had one phone call on Sunday and not spoke to anyone else since. Our senior guys really are real shitbags aren't they? I really don't like Fox and his mate Charlie. Give me bad vibes. Horrible bastards I think. Watching thier own backs first and foremost. Little things like that piss me off. Take the guy to one side and soeak to him and ask if needs anything. Not just a quick call.

https://audioboom.com/boos/3746804-listen-kevin-macdonald-on-capital-one-cup-defeat-to-southampton

I don't think much of them either, know a couple of people who have met the pair of them (maybe just Fox now that I think of it?) and the adjective that seemed to come up was 'slimy'. At the end of the day KMac is somebody who has given our club 15 maybe even 20 years in two spells and has stepped in as an interim manager a couple of times and is somebody who should be treated with respect rather than taken for granted. He and Sid have also brought through many good youngsters for us (no coincidence for me that the setup went a bit off the boil when KMac left and Sid started to get shuffled round various coaching positions).