CB Fry

Honestly stop thinking about it. He is not coming to us. Jesus wept.

I don't really understand how the analytical stats work, but The Athletic said we had an XG of 0.1 yesterday - is that good?

Are you on crack?

Can't see any reports anywhere. Either way it is basically an exact copy of what was being said this time last week. It doesn't take much to say "I've heard reports he's going this week" over and over again. Eventually you'll be correct.

I think we need to resist a completely hasty knee jerk reaction to a total one-off single defeat against the richest biggest club in the whole world. There you go twats, I've saved you the bother of typing it.

That's enough about Jack Grealish.

9/10 transfer window though.

People who don't understand when Box'ng Day is.

All we need to do is activate the "remember everyone wrote off Jose Mourhino" SaintsWeb clause and off we go he's going to be absolutely brilliant.

None of that is relevant to the point in hand. Which is, as we know, that you are utterly full of shit and you know it. You didn't predict we'd win the league that August, and you know it. Just one of two idiot Saints fans on here that didn't celebrate across two hugely enjoyable seasons. I fucking loved it, it was absolutely delicious. Suck it up. Suck it right up.

Er, I think the point being made was about how Ralph can't be that bad a man-manager because players haven't noticeably improved when they are free from him. I don't know what Adam Lallana, Victor Wanyama and Virgil Van Dyke have to do with that to be honest.

Calm down. He's not been sacked yet. If the Telegraph had printed "Southampton have a clear first choice replacement" how do you think that would look? The club aren't going to say that to a journalist are they?

Well the redevelopment of the marina area didn't happen for a fucking start ☹ why would they stay?

100% Bitterne and Saint Lard are utterly full of shit and they know it. Neither of them had Saints to win the league outright on August 1st 2011 and they know it. They've created a little fairytale in their head that we were super all-conquering mega club on the first day of the season in 2011 where the title was some cakewalk formality that Adkins failed on. Everything they say now (over and over again) is post rationalised, after the fact, myth making. Or, in summary, horseshit.

Forest don't need Dyche. They have assembled a ragbag of players on big wages and short contracts. They need a big personality boss with experience of making a team from players they haven't signed. It's a budget version of Real Madrid or Chelsea. I am not a big fan of Benitez but he probably is the right kind of guy. Failing that, Big Sam. A mercenary squad needs a mercenary boss. That's not Dyche. He's s a proper squad builder and much Iess of a fit. Anyway, fuck Forest. We need some teams to be in the shit so long may it continue.

I think we will surprise a few people and lose fifteen nil.

Interesting to read passages like the below and to square that with the common view here that there is absolutely no one, anywhere on earth that could conceivably replace Ralph. Nobody at all. No one. ..... They explained Hasenhuttl’s man-management and communication skills had long been a problem but would tend to exacerbate and become even more insular when form nosedived. Just like now. At this point, the mood in the dressing room had turned to scepticism, with Hasenhuttl described by sources, who have asked to remain anonymous to protect their jobs, as having “no relationship” with his players. Some members of the squad had hoped he would leave at the end of last season and viewed a potential departure as having a deciding influence on their own futures. They shared those concerns with Southampton’s board.

The Atlantic believe he won't be sacked "imminently" so that pretty much rules out today then. Hopefully the club are just holding a bit back from The Athletic and he's getting the bullet at 9am.

It was obvious Adkins knew his time was up from the post-match interview after the Coventry match on the last day of the Championship season. Was just a matter of time.

I'm not asking for Dean Smith. Just making the point that the Thomas Frank comparison to Selles is moronic. Frank was at Brentford for two years, not five minutes like Selles, and was integral to a club on the up, not a club in the shit. I know there are some people that want to go on and on about Selles being some bloody messiah but the Thomas Frank comparisons are ridiculous.

But Dean Smith did a good job.

Come back to me one hour after the first defeat under the new manager.

Ralph's. The Ralph fan boys have had years of blaming anyone but Ralph and delving deep into history for excuses. So the exact same will apply once he's gone. Anything shit that happens in the next two full seasons at least can be blame squarely at this current manager. If Puel and Les Reed can be blamed for 2021 drops in form then fuck me the next two years are Ralph's fault if it goes wrong. 100%. I know the Ralph cult are desperate for a new manager to fail so they can launch into the shitty "be careful what you wish for" routine. But sorry, the excuses you've churned out then can be applied in the future. The Ralph shadow will cast long and dark over this club. We need a strong new manager to really stop the rot.

Needs more time to get his ideas across. Also not his team all Claude Puel's fault.

I mean, our Premier League safety is in the bag so a two and a half month "interim" while we faff around deciding who our next manager might be is absolutely no problem at all.