yuppie wrote:Aidan11 wrote:Saints sack Puel.
Didnt Saints finish 8th and nearly win the league cup? Very strange?
Only just catching up on this.
Forget about the league finish. That has more to do with the ineptitude of others, than us "achieving" 8th. Even when we lose at home to Stoke on the final day, WBA, Bmouth and Leicester all contrived to fail to take 8th from us. We won something like two of our final nine matches, and yet managed to move up from about 12th to 8th - so bad were sides around us. The entire league below Everton was awful last season.
We finished two places lower than the previous season.
We finished just six points above 17th. Six points above 17th.
We finished, I believe, a massive 17 points worse off than the previous season.
We score just 17 home goals all season, and nine of them came in three games. So just EIGHT in the other SIXTEEN games.
We dropped points to Hull (twice), Sunderland (at home), Watford (at home), WBA (at home), West Ham (at home), Leicester (at home), Bmouth (at home), and Stoke (twice). As well as away defeats to Swansea, Burnley and Palace - the latter being a thrashing.
We got dumped out the EL group stage, when we only needed to beat (or draw 0-0) a side from Israel who no-one had ever heard of before.
Other than the first five games of the season, we never played two up front.
Player power seemed to rule. For example, Tadic complained through the media back in February that he was always being subbed. For the remainder of the season, he was only subbed twice more - despite being awful in some games.
Ultimately fans wanted Puel out long before he was sacked. It's the first time I didn't stay after the final home game of the season to applaud the players and staff for the season. Indeed, the ground was less than one-third full.
Will Pellegrino be any better? I have no idea. But thank the lord Puel is gone.