CB Fry

Look, you just need to get on with changing your username to Messie Jarsch or something.

Feels a bit weird but Gordon Strachan actually relegated Coventry so it might work. If he has agreed to stay to get us back up then great. If SaintsWeb official ray-of-sunshine @DT was a Leeds fan right now he would utterly convinced that a Marsch led Saints will survive at the expense of Leeds. Utterly convinced of it. So lets see if the football gods make that happen. Would be funny.

I am not completely convinced by Marsch but blimey the amount of people who are suggesting a manager who has failed at Reading in the Prem and the Championship, then failed at Sheffield United and Charlton in League One as an appropriate replacement compared to someone who has actually kept a struggling team in the Prem, plus a load of experience in the Bundesliga and at the top of other Leagues. I've said it before, anyone on here suggesting Adkins must really dislike the man to put him in a position where his perfect, untouchable achievements with us are pissed all over by making sure he has our relegation on his CV. And make him a bloody football trivia question for the rest of his life. Why are so many of you so desperate to do that to him. Absolutely insane on all levels, fucking insane.

Honestly all of those suggestions are pointless/terrible.

Say what you like about Sports Republic but they don't piss about when they want to appoint a new manager. At least we had about two months of lovely speculation before Puel and Pellegrino came in. Looks like about 24 hours and done both times already.

People really need to spend less time on Twitter.

It's weird we don't have forum experts going on and on about how brilliant Jankewitz is these days, because it was non bloody stop on here at one point. Come on lads, surely he's still definitely brilliant and still definitely a disgrace that Ralph wasn't picking him?

The job he did at Villa was terrible. One win in his last 8 (remind you of anyone). Appalling.

It will vary but basically Chelsea will keep paying him until he gets a new job. However I would think that he is tasked to getting into the Champions League, so if he fails to do that his dismissal conditions will change. I remember with David Moyes Manchester United sacked him within 24 hours of it being mathmatically impossible for them to finish top four that season. There will be break points. Whatever happens he is no way going to immediately take the Saints job or anything like it.

The references to the fragility and inexperience of the squad really suggest that collectively there isn't/wasn't the know how to stay up. But also, if there is such a lack of experience why was he dropping Croatia Internationals from the squads completely? Oh well. I don't have much faith in Ankersen to find the rightreplacement.

When Graham Potter gets sacked by Chelsea, he is not going immediately take a job at some shitty relegation threatened team. This is not a computer game. He'll go off and take some time out etc etc. You'll notice Thomas Tuchel wasn't in the frame for the Bournemouth job when Scott Parker got sacked. Honestly.

"We should only appoint really good managers" is not the sparkling insight you seem to think it is.

The days of Adkins we were in League One and the days of Pochettino no one had ever heard of him and there was uproar.

This is a list clearly showing the bookies haven't got a clue yet. But they've worked out, probably from reading this forum, that there are enough stupid people around to lay money on Pochettino coming back to us.

On the other hand: This thread is an absolute blast. Wrong at both ends.

Honestly, get used to it. No one coming in and turn it round enough now. 3 teams have to be relegated. There is no chance now that we won't be one of them.

Literally the manager before, this season, with the same players, did better so you haven't got a clue.

You think every single other managerial option available to us in November could not have done better than one win in eight league games?

Me too. It's pretty obviously not going to be him anyway. Or that bloke from Argentina.

Why wouldn't he? The last Everton managers before Lampard had won major leagues and European trophies. He wouldn't have thought that was viable back then. We're now pretending Sean Dyche is some mega elite manager we can only dream of now? Jesus wept.

We're relegated. Pretending someone can come in and save us is deluded. Get used to it.

Personally I will miss the days of the forum experts telling me that Sports Republic know what they are doing, that Jones will definitely be in charge next season if we get relegated because they're thinking long term and anyway Jones won't get sacked because the club are seeing the bigger picture. Everything that has happened was utterly predictable.

On a Sunday too.