Southampton Football Club have made a terrible mistake and they need to admit it - now - and bring in an experienced Premiership manager such as Sean Dyche.

Only a fool keeps doing the same thing and hoping for a different result they say.

So why do we persist in 3 at the back? It has never worked and it never will with these players. 25,000 fans can see that why not Nathan Jones?

We are playing Championship hoofball. It’s pathetic to watch, the players look bemused and all confidence has deserted them.

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We play Nottingham Forest at home and we are lining up defensively with no midfield to speak of, no cohesion, no passion, no idea how to pass a ball even 5 yards.

We had no shots on target.

How can this be after having six weeks to work with the players and ample opportunity to work out your best team?

Clearly Jones doesn’t know because the play is at best disjointed and at worst laughable.

The scatter gun approach to substitutions just gives further confusion.

It simply won’t do and there is no belief that’s it’s going to get any better.

Admit your mistake Southampton FC and act now or people are just going to stop watching this dross and watch from a distance our beloved Saints fall tamely into the championship without a whimper.

Bob Barton

Chandler’s Ford

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