I'm a ST holder and I haven't seen us win a home game live since we beat West Ham last April (I declined to travel down from the north west for our demolition of championship standard Burnley). The weekend was a shambles and our home form for the past 15 months has been and is shocking. We stink of a relegation team. The only question for me is will we be in the bottom three or bottom six.
The following sides are nailed on to finish above us: Chelsea, City, Arsenal, Utd, Everton, Spurs, Southampton, Stoke, West Ham, Swansea, Liverpool, Newcastle.
We will finish above Burnley.
That leaves two of us, Sunderland, Hull, Villa, Palace, Leicester and QPR to be relegated which mathematically lives us with at least a 28.57% chance of relegation. QPR Have an expensive team and Redknapp will spend in January if needs be, they are already improving after a terrible start. Villa always seem to sqeak home. Taking just two teams out off the above list increasing our relegation odds to 40%!
Disturbingly we have already played Burnley, Sunderland & Palace at home but could only muster 4/9 pts.
It's no good Irvine bemoaning a lack of drive or intensity when he fills the bench with defensive players. Clarke who gets far too much stick on here always has plenty of attacking options on the bench, as you would expect as it's common sense!
Interesting to see Idaye Brown defending himself as we'll - the longer he is out of the team the lower his confidence will sink.
Also is any other fan sick and tired of professional employees missing the bleeding obvious?
I.e. Statistically we never win without Sess, I don't think we've won a single game he hasn't started since he signed? Secondly Anichebe always contributes from the bench nut is terrible when started from the off. Faced with those two FACTS our highly paid head coach and assistants start with Anichebe and then subb Sess and put him on the wing late on when we all know he needs to be running at the back four in the hole.
It's all so frustrating I could scream - and to think its only November. How many more clueless decisions are we to endure? Plenty I suspect.