CB Fry

.....weren't we also quite fortunate to play in front of no fans at home for a significant part of last season. We'd been choking in front of our own fans for a long time. Ralph was lucky to be spared that. Whether we genuinely have got over our shit-at-home issue has yet to be tested.

Who said anything about a top job? He can get a big contract at, say, Newcastle or Wolves or Palace or whatever. Yes sure you can say "well thats not a step up from Saints etc etc" but so what. "Multi-million pound" contract, decent jobs would be available and he's done enough to get a job like that no bother.

At another club. If he walks away (as he has a history of) then he'd get a decent job elsewhere. Puel got a second chance in the Premier League so I see no problems for Ralph on that front. Why do you think he wouldn’t get another decent job?

Exactly. This is why there is no need to panic. This time last year, with 25 games gone we were sat on 31 points. A whole point better off than now. I don't think there has been a team in the last 10 years that have sat on 30 points after 25 odd games and been relegated. And, as been said several times by me already - if only the nutcases convinced that we are relegated showed the same faith in Southampton as they do in Fulham, who have a much bigger mountain to climb than the piddly six or seven points we need from 14 games. One season in the future we may be in Fulham's position, and I will be fascinated to see how those people respond to that.

Jesus wept.

Well, all you need to do is next time we're on a fucking great winning run like we had during the back end of 2020 is make sure you make your voice heard and ensure that this forum spends its entire time not enjoying those wins but discussing how weak and terrible the team is just to cover itself for situations such as now. I guess really what we should be doing right now is all discussing how fantastically brilliant the team, players and manager is so you don't have to berate us as hypocrites when we do eventually start winning again.

Not sure why you keep persisting with this idea that nobody thought our good form would stop. Yes, there were people twatting on about us winning the league but at the same time plenty who knew it was fleeting good form and we were a mid table team only a couple of injuries away from crisis. Plenty of posts along the lines of "if we didn't have (eg) Ings we'd be in trouble" and worries about our squad depth and so on. Why do you need to pretend that everyone here all thought we would go on winning forever?

I don't think Ralph is going to exceed the 46 points achieved by Claude Puel this season.

Oh well at least some people on here can get on with the proper task in hand: blaming the referee, VAR, the pitch and every other reason that we're the unluckiest most hard done by team in football history. Anything to avoid the notion that we are incredibly ropey at the minute, and clearly in this game the better team has won.

We are never, ever, ever going to score.

We missed the opportunity to bring on Alex the nutcase into midfield

In fairness, if you're Leeds you'd be thinking you should be 2 or 3-0 by now. So hopefully we can punish that.

These two will sort it out.

It's times like this we miss Shane Long.

Roasting

Makes sense really. Its a pretty meaningless and inconsequential end of season mid table contest so a great opportunity to give the kids a run out, or experiment a bit.

This coming from the man who in the past week is capable of shitting himself because he thinks we are getting relegated and at the same time shitting himself because he thinks our manager, the architect of that potential relegation, is going to be stolen from us by Tottenham. Utter moron.

Jesus wept.

The Thais are spending millions on infrastructure, millions on players and millions on a top class manager. All I said was they have more "available resource" than we have. If you're going to pretend we have exactly the same available resource as Leicester City (5 year net transfer spend £194m : source The Swiss Ramble) then knock yourself out mate.

I think the main point is they have more available resource than we have. They have had on disastrous signings also - Slimani, Musa, etc - and some terrible managerial appointments. But they can weather it with owners pumping enough money in to allow them to sign players just a little bit higher in quality than us. And an excellent manager. If you think they won't ever again have a season like Spurs are having now, or we are having now or Newcastle are having now then you might be surprised. Good luck to them.

You don't employ managers like Craig Shakespeare and Claude Puel without running a pretty tight ship, I can tell you.

We're on 30 points with 14 games to go. We're safe. We are not going to be relegated. We barely need to win a match to stay up. I get it's exciting to engineer a bit of mild peril into the season but really it's not happening.

Pleased with the point but disappointing to realise we only got that great result because of industrial scale match fixing. Really takes the shine off a decent performance. Sickening really.

Come on, see this one out you bunch of absolute twats.

Stuart Atwell is one of the illuminati lizard people.