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Your Southampton v Fulham Match Reports

I_would added 17:18 - May 13 Yawn! Even with Prowsey showing his leadership by cajoling the players, encouraging them vociferously and leading by example by attacking Fulham with extreme skill and determination, we still unluckily lost. We might have fared better if we'd have been at home.
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codge added 17:24 - May 13 Just another day at the office for most of these so called professional players,yawn.
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Mattsgrandad added 17:52 - May 13 Thank goodness that is over. Been watching us go down slowly for two years. No fight , no tactics, no experience , no manager but some amazing fans who have put up with total cr@p.
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LordDZLucan added 18:22 - May 13 Not sure whether the main issue has been poor management or poor players or both. Priority must therefore be to make our next managerial appointment quickly so that he can assess the players straight away and adjust the squad as necessary in time for the start of next season. The new manager must have Championship and Premier League experience and a good track record. I would also like to see an emphasis on attacking football rather than the crud that we have been watching of late. I would go for Bielsa!

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silverspringsaint added 18:28 - May 13 Out with a whimper! KWP seemed to be trying, Lavia too, but not many others. No chemistry at all in the final third - does not seem to matter what the line up is.
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SaintPaulVW added 18:35 - May 13 Can't defend, can't attack and can only sporadically pass. Use a 6ft 7 striker and only one player KWP tries and hits high balls. Lavia looks good but gets swamped too easily. Alcaraz is good, a natural finisher- far better than Adams at placing a shot and competitive but skirts close to bookings Lyanco and Bednarek and Lyanco just cannot play well enough for 90 minutes. AMN is just not a full back, Theo has lost his pace, Stu looks to be on the decline. JWP and KWP just too much to do. Selles picked a good side but it just doesn't have any spine and he couldn't adapt it to stamp out the single way that Fulham repeatedly counterattacked with. Time is up for him unfortunately. 2 more games to see out now then into the great unknown. COYR

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SaintPaulVW added 18:40 - May 13 PS I knew we were down today when I read the news that Romeu had been sent off today for the first time in his career. Awful omen.
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YosemiteSaint added 19:12 - May 13 The conspiracy theorist in me kicks in finally: Despite the damage done by the Nathan Jones appointment, the season was still salvageable. But the board threw the season away once and for all in appointing Selles for its remainder. One wonders, given the amount of debt Solak has accrued, whether after the £50 million January outlay the board realized they were well and truly skint. Surely they'll use player sales to scratch some of that back. We might as well strike up the refrain we're singing for my other hapless team, baseball's Oakland Athletics: Sell the club! (What a sucky sports year I'm having, btw!)

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NewburySaint added 19:58 - May 13 Pathetic surrender.
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halftimeorange added 20:06 - May 13 So our giant centre forward gets a chance to shine and he does actually try hard. Trouble is our goalkeeper prefers to boot the ball up to our miniature right winger who is way past his best and never able to control it. Our crosser and corner taker prefers, for once, to play along the floor or overhit. Our manager decides that we shouldn't play anyone alongside said target man. Net result - ineffective centre forward who is unfairly taken off. Who is calling the shots here or, should I say no shots.

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silverspringsaint added 20:17 - May 13 Out with a whimper! KWP seemed to be trying, Lavia too, but not many others. No chemistry at all in the final third - does not seem to matter what the line up is.
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Block8 added 21:39 - May 13 Strange that if you asked Saints fans, before the game, how many Fulham players they would pick in a saints eleven, there would not be many. The difference on the say was stark, they passed and they moved particularly through midfield and created chances. We on the other hand dwelt on the ball played between defence and midfield and the thumped it forward without any real ambition. it seemed like we had four forwards and six defenders and bugger all in midfield. And its been this way for ages, Onuachu plays today and how many crosses did we put in, One! Absolutely dreadful set up and if Selles is not shown the door e have a zero chance of bouncing straight back. get rid of the players we can get money for & the past there sell by date, have a look at what we have in the B team, appoint a manager that wants to play football and move forward from there. COYR

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IanSouthstander added 11:55 - May 14 YosemiteSaint. Weren't the Oakland A's the original Moneyball team. Seems it didn't work out too well for them in the long run.
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YosemiteSaint added 20:34 - May 14 IanSouthstander, the A's have gone from Moneyball to Slash-and-Burn-Ball, with no investment at all in the team or the fanbase. The owner was holding out for a sweetheart deal with Oakland, and when it wasn't forthcoming he's decided to take the team to Vegas. Saints, by contrast, are headed down a division. But they're not in danger of leaving Southampton, which I guess is something.

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IanSouthstander added 10:31 - May 15 Cheers YS. Thats an horrific tale. As you say, relegation sucks, but at least we will still have a team in the city to watch.
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