I believe in supporting my team , I ' m certainly not going to burn my kit and defect to Pompey over a Europa League loss . Granted I picked Southampton , on somewhat arbitrary grounds , but I ' m in for it for the long haul and realize that every team has down periods and , looking in the grand scheme of this club ' s history the vast majority of which I wasn ' t around for , we live in rarified times . But I also believe in calling a spade a spade . We knock the ball around with only a semblance of attacking intent . We dominate possession but have scored one goal in four matches through all competitions . We get shoehorned into a setup that doesn ' t utilize our team strengths . When we get forward we ' re whipping crosses into players that any competent back line can beat on the header service . I know fuckall about football and less about management but it seems a good manager would play to his team ' s strength over his personal vision of what the game should look like and I ' m not sure Puel has done that . We either need business in January or a new look on the pitch , possibly both , if we ' re going to end the season on a positive note .