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But we could stay up this season, and then next season have an even worse season, finish bottom and then we could instantly turn into Charlton and Blackpool and Coventry and waah waaah waah waah waah. Man up.

Who is saying that we need to go down to win things? (Clue: absolutely no one). The discussion is about win a cup + get relegated in the same season which has happened to clubs in recent memory so is a not unrealistic possibility. Also, we've won just 5 games in the league this season so god knows what point you're making.

Yeah, I think you missed the man up bit. Give it a try. All of those things could happen if we don't win a cup.

Fine by me. I live in Derby, they've been in the Championship for years. Still have loads of passionate fans. Two games a week loads of times through the season. Packed out Boxing Day. The only thing if truly miss if we went down is streaming. Man up.

To be honest I'm warming to the "sign rubbish players to asset strip six months later" thoery. I mean if the grand plan to asset strip everything then you might as well guarantee that the player we are flogging are no good so can asset strip super-quickly for cheap prices or something. It's completely plausible.

This far better than a €30m winger. Great stuff Saints.

Why bother buying Carrillo then? And why on earth would Liverpool want Boufal?

The fact that you have used the word "coach" marks you out as clearly not representative of the "average fan". Run along and tell Uncle Les that you done a post on the forum like he told you to.

You're right. I mean how could a season or two in the Championship compare to the exquisite and supreme delights of the world class Premier League football we've seen in the last eighteen months. Just let us win a cup and I can cope with anything else.

Why does anyone need to do that? I'd take relegation and winning the FA Cup all day long and twice on Sundays. I'd take relegation and winning the league cup to be honest. I just want us to have some actual "honours". I wanted that when I used to look at our page in the Panini books in the 80s and I still think it now. Why have we won f uck all?

I thought it was obvious last week that they were down, now we can see they're truly truly gone. They could win three games on the spin and still be bottom 3. They'll need about 16 points from their remaining games, a run of form that is top 8 standard. Not going to happen now. So thats one gone, two spots to go.

Absolute effing insanity that he hasn't been sacked. Don't worry about a replacement. We can draw a name out of a hat of season ticket holders to put a team out and do the team talk on Saturday. We've got time to get a replacement in, and there will be applicants. Just get him out. Now.

Roger is on the record saying you'd be better than Mark Hughes.

Where has Batman done that? Adkins has no track record in the Premier League and has struggled in L1 since leaving us. Hughes has as good a pedigree as we could reasonably expect - he is, on every single conceivable measure, better than Adkins.

It's okay, I've found a manager who is available. He's worked extensively in one of the four top European leagues and in the full seasons he has managed spread between four separate clubs he has finished 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 9th, 9th, 10th, 10th and 13th. He also had a calendar year of two half seasons at another club which wasn't great but he did save them from relegation in the first half season. Every single one of these finishes were since the last time Gordon Strachan managed in the Premier League so at least he has recent relevant experience. Any way, on paper sounds like as good a candidate as we could expect to get. Hes available and we are a bit desperate. Anyway, I'll not say his name, needless to say some would say he is foreign with a weird accent for English football. PM me if you want to be ITK.

If he was called Marco Julio with the exact same record of multiple top ten/top eight/top six finishes with multiple La Liga clubs people would be in fu cking raptures of excitement.

13th to 9th is 4 places, which is more than zero.

All in all it's the kit I feel sorry for. Effing ruined.

We don't really need him to lift the club. We need to win about 4 games from 11. That's a 36% win rate and his record shows he can deliver that without much bother. We've still got a decent squad and we just need to find those wins. I don't care if it is Hughes, there's others I'd prefer, I just want that idiot gone.

So the leading forum apologist/cheerleader for Pellegrino is describing a manager who has finished top ten Premier League over and over again as "dreadful". Okay then. Your Mauricio ain't ever going to achieve that. Not for one bloody club.

It doesn't have to be Hughes. Not my first choive by any means. I'm just saying he's a far superior manager than Gordon Strachan who has failed and failed in his last couple of jobs. Hughes is proven Premier League manager of this era. Strachan hasn't had a Prem job for more than a decade or looked remotely like getting one since he left us. For good reason. I'd be more excited by the reanimated corpse of Alan Ball appearing at an managerial unveiling than Gordon Strachan turning up. There will be plenty of fans who can barely remember Strachan's time here so fu ck knows you you think is going to be passionate about it.

You haven't got a clue. Hughes has finished top ten Premier League multiple times with multiple clubs. Gordon Strachan has done it at one club once and has done pretty much jack sh it since, failed pathetically at Middlesbrough. Even at International level Hughes succeeded where Strachan failed. Strachan is a pygmy of a manager compared to Mark Hughes. Mark Hughes is bang average, but he is miles ahead of our Gordon and definitely ahead of Pellegrino.

Mark Hughes pis ses all over Strachan.

Koeman Strachan Hoddle Pochettino Puel Pardew Ball all failed managers. Heaven forbid we should lower ourselves.

Somebody run this guy over.