Dont give a fuck what the board say… they will spin… just be a realist and recognise we are where we are because the modern game means we cant realistic extpect more. We unearth a great manager and he gets poached (will be at Barca or Real one day), good players? they follow the money to. The only way a club of our size will do well is a perfect storm for one season… (like Leicester… even us in 83/r84…) talent that gells unexpectantly… then gets poached… relax or buy some more TENA
He is not good enough. He has never commanded his area. Doesn’t read the game. Poor positioning. Woeful kicking. Utterly silent. Get rid.
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So when I’ve always said it you’ve dismissed it, you must be a Jonny come lately mush, this is the Southampton way. We’re the least successful largest club in the land, I accept it, I know what the board want, Liebherr sold at the right time and the Chinese will try to coast us on the cheap in the Premiership skimming off the TV money, the thing is I don’t mind that as long as the paying punter and fan is told that, the cunts won’t though will they.
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No we are not the least successful largest club. We are not a large club. Get that into your thick skull and you might start posting things worth reading.
I disagree(unlike Barry. How unbelievable is that?).
With the money now in the PL, aren’t all PL clubs in the top 50(financially)?
Forster has been shit for far too long. Had a blinding spell when he came back from injury, but now makes a good save once for every ten or twenty easy saves he fails to even move for, let alone save.
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It’s a shame, he’s a real liability now. His confidence has gone.
I will stand up for Fraser, but he was poor, very poor today, again after being away on England duty. The few weeks leading up to the international break he was looking much more solid and pulled off some great saves.
Lets hope he is back on it, next game.
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Disagree with the communication. Not sure what it is like now, but he was shit hot on positioning his defence, reading the game ahead of him. Perhaps he does not have the same confidence in his defence anymore, or perhaps for some reason he is not 100% switched on.
Whatever it is it needs addressing and sorting, or we need to drop him and give some other poor fucker a chance to be moaned at. 
If only you could get down for him as well, things might not look so bad.
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I’m downgrading him to Threestar
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On today’s showing that should be diesel. Having watched the highlights, I’d now say he was very much at fault for both goals, the second in particular. For the first I think he had the initial shot covered OK and was then left stranded when the shot was blocked straight to Hayden, but he was horribly slow to get up. The second - oh dear.
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Sorry Chutters but can’t agree on much of this. What’s the point of supporting a club if you’re happy to simply accept your lot and settle for the realistic.
Forster gets paid a lot of money to do a job and for a long time now he can’t even get the basics right.
I’ve tried to be patient with him (mostly out of respect for @sfcsim thoughts on it) but the man’s a liability and has cost us more points in the last year or so, than Sunderland totalled last season. It’s gone beyond being simply a bad patch. He can’t catch a ball, seems completely unaware of what’s going on around him and has the body language of a shell shocked casualty of war.
He can’t even hide behind the excuse that we’ve got a shit defence. FFS Joe Hart and three kids are higher in the pecking order for that England shambles. Says it all.
… two stroke
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What other keepers do we have available at the moment to replace him ?
If only we had a back up keeper good enough to be called up by England.
Oh wait…
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From that F365 article posted on the Barcodes matchday thread
And then there’s Fraser Forster, who must surely rival Wayne Hennessey for the Premier League goalkeeper most out of form. Forster was only kept off the bottom of a list of regular goalkeepers sorted by save percentage by David Marshall and Claudio Bravo last season. This season that figure is far improved, but Forster is still making far too many errors in technique and decision-making. He was slow to get to his feet for Isaac Hayden’s first goal, and parried away a shot before somehow making himself smaller for Ayoze Perez’s. Neither Alex McCarthy nor Stuart Taylor constitute meaningful competition for places, and that might be part of the problem.
Used to think Fraser was “four star”.
Has looked a bit Digby for the last year.
e.g. Could not catch a cold.
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