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They had Jones lined up within about 24 hours of Ralph going - pretty much zero time for fans to speculate before the Welsh Wonder arrived. So maybe - maybe - they are working on the replacement now, so there is a very short gap (rather than faffing around not sacking him). Or, they're just faffing about.

Man-management going great, then 👍👍👍

That's a useful metric. If nothing else Nathan Jones has brought certainty to Southampton Football Club. Before he arrived we were possibly going to be relegated this season. Now, with Jones in charge, we are certain to be relegated.

I'd prefer that you didn't broadcast my private affairs all over this forum, thank you very much.

Not sure about that - I don't think Jones is in a position to start saying "my real reign starts NOW from now not before" like kids trying to restart a playground five a side because they're eight nil down.

Me neither - Wikipedia just before writing that 😔

Tedesco is exactly the kind of manager we should have gone for (basically a similar level to Hasenhuttl when we appointed him). Too late now, he's taken over from Martinez at Belgium (I would think easily on less money than we could pay him). But no, Sport Republic are much cleverer than us plebs.

This was my favourite bit: Nathan Jones reveals on Wednesday two players came to him during the game against City and shared concerns about going to a back five. He says it's "absolutely" a positive that the players can feel comfortable in offering their advice.

Luton Town win the Nathan Jones derby 1-0.

Still, hE hAs mAdE uS sOoO aGgREssiVE aNd hArD To bEaT

Obviously appalling appointment is obviously appalling. Should never have been anywhere near the job. Pure arrogance from the too-clever-by-half club leadership. In the fanbase, we could all see it, we all knew it from day one. Terrible mistake. Unfortunately its probably too late to save the season now, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't go. He should go. Fuck the fuck off.

Sturrock, Wigley and Redknapp went great.

Big boy to get two and Sulemana the other for the greatest comeback of all time, which proves to be the catalyst to a famous day in Wembley in May and an open top bus round the civic centre.

We're so aggressive and tough to beat these days. No team will ever want to play us.

I don't think its right to berate Jones for not starting the two new kids. I don't think I would have. A little surprising cameo of the big lad or Sulemana would be great.

Get big boy and Adam Armstrong on at 60 minutes to win the game #mixer #scraps #littleun

Agree with this. Always the laziest of slurs - Puel used it get it as well "he's just a yes-man" when it was obvious to anyone sane that Claude was a stubborn old bugger who did things his way, for good or ill. Jones whatever we think of his ability, is no yes-man or "puppet". Just a dopey assessment.

I thought their work permits weren't completed. Good news if they can come off the bench today. Just to mix it up.

I'm still waiting to understand what it is in your opinion that make Nathan Jones not a Sean Dyche style manager. The problem is every time the topic comes up you describe attributes of a manager and a team which you want and they are exactly the attributes of Sean Dyche or his teams.

Remember you were pleased with Jones appointment because he wasn't a "Dyche style manager" (no one knows what this actually means) but also why oh why can't our manager be like Sean Dyche.

The Leeds fans didn't hate Clough because he was a terrible manager (he had also won the league in recent times), they hated him because he hated them and used to slag off Leeds and Revie etc etc. So the Jones scenario not quite the same. Nathan Jones, for example, is not going off to another club and winning two European Cups for a start, no matter how bloody "aggressive" his future teams are.

Just won the league under Revie I think.

Maybe - apart from the goalie we are perfectly good enough on paper. The thing that might help us is West Ham or Leicester going mad and sacking their experienced managers, the disruption maybe might help them down on the mix (say if West Ham go mad and appoint Mark Noble or something). We do need some other teams to screw themselves.

Some time around Mid March we will win two games in a row and everyone will get excited and look-he's-proved-you-all-wrong etc etc. But relegated teams do win some matches, they don't lose all of them. We're going down, there is no way there are 3 others worse than us. Fulham having such a great season (and Brentford refusing to deliver a second season syndrome slump) have really screwed us. There's not enough real competition for relegation, just a load of rich enough clubs that in the end will be fine (Leicester, West Ham etc).

We don't need anything remotely like 26 points to be safe. Jesus wept.