Will Still Admits Southampton Mistakes After 2 Championship Wins

Will Still said his Southampton spell never quite clicked, and he admitted there were a lot of things he did wrong. The 33-year-old left with only two Championship victories to his name at St Mary's, a sharp contrast to the club's surge under Tonda Eckert.

Still Reflects On St Mary’s

Speaking in an interview with The Overlap Breakdown, Still did not dress up his time in charge. “There were a lot of things that I did wrong, I will hold my hands up to that. But there were a few really good performances, away to Liverpool in the cup, Swansea at home, played well. But when you wanted to click, it never quite did.”

Those comments fit the record. Still arrived in England last summer after building a reputation in Ligue 1 with Reims and Lens, where he won 37 matches in the French top division before moving to St Mary's. Southampton never found a sustained run under him in the Championship, and the result was just two league wins.

Southampton Under Tonda Eckert

The picture now looks very different. Eckert has already won 19 Championship matches, including his first two games in charge, and Southampton drew 2-2 with Ipswich Town in mid-week as the team secured a place in the playoffs. Heading into the final matches of the season, the club still had the potential for automatic promotion.

That gives Still's assessment extra weight. His side could produce isolated performances, but the manager never got the run he wanted, while Eckert has turned the same league campaign into one that reaches the playoffs and still leaves a route to automatic promotion. For Southampton, the contrast is no longer theoretical; it is written in the numbers.