CB Fry

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Alan Carr's dad is back on the market if our scouting department needs a shake up.

"Finished Mid table in a major European League" seems to be very high on the "key achievements and experiences" list this time out.

I don't know why Tuchel needs to come out and give "actual quotes" - we're not that important, he doesn't need to justify himself to Saints fans. Through his agent Sky Sports have run the story and through the club Jeremy Wilson has run his story. I see that as two sources, not one. While I'd love to be surprised as he was the only candidate that looked like a true step up, I think clinging on to Tuchel in the face of those two stories feels like a forlorn hope.

I only read that fact about the 3 month rule and how we don't enforce it yesterday. Not something that I was aware of. Feels really odd that Remain didn't make that point in the campaign. Although on reflection not that surprising as they were so scared to stray from the "we're not racists, UKIP are the racists" position they failed to articulate that immigration could be controlled if we wanted to.

Would be interesting to see you name a single contributor to this forum that has ever described Southampton as a "really, really small club". Meanwhile, on plant earth, Southampton Football Club has no waiting list for season tickets, still by some distance the best metric in the best business cases for investing millions in stadium expansion. Also on planet earth our position in the attendance table is relative exactly to our capacity compared to the other clubs. Our position on that list is not "in spite" our ground size - it's as much to do with all the clubs with smaller grounds than us. Other than you are right on the money.

If those three things had happened, Puel would be our manager for next season no problem. Those three things wouldn't have got him the, say, Sevilla job or the Dortmund job, or any vacancy at top six Prem club. I don't understand your point. We are where we arenow. We'll see how much we want a long term manager we want by the contract we give him. 5 years? 6 years? Bet we don't.

Koeman was "good" for his first season and didn't jump ship. I find it unlikely that our next manager will be "good" enough to suddenly be good enough for a much bigger club than us in the space of one year. And if he is, we will have had a brilliant season and would be highly attractive to our next manager.

Seems unlikely we would make such a demand unless we are going to give him a five year contract, which would be a mental thing to do. If I was MP's agent I'd be saying if you want my guy for the long term, give him a long term contract. Ker-ching.

The most transparent bullsh it artist on the entire forum. We're all expecting it to happen this week, so if it happens tomorrow, or Thursday, or Friday then yeah, that's what we all think will happen because that's been in the papers. Don't even dream of pretending you are "proven right" by saying something that basically anyone could guess.

Just reading about this "Day of Rage" thing. McDonnell, supposed to be a potential Chancellor of the Exchequer, egging it all on. Going to be a real vote winner for Worcester woman and Mondeo man in key middle England marginals this one. Gawd help us all.

If you think a child talking to a player in Finland is an "orchestrated campaign" then God help us all.

No really worthy of a thread really, is it?

I think there is an odd rumour flying about concerning Javi Gracia, current manager of Rubin Kazan. Both the rumour and the candidate look like utter dogsh it to me. Move along.

Exactly. Couldn't give a monkey's about someone here for a "good few years". Basically that means mediocrity. If our next manager buggers off to Arsenal in two years time, that'll be because he's done a brilliant job. Fine by me.

There are some good reasons for that.

Now that's fu cking more like it. He's bloody John Beck with a sombrero on. Bobby Gould on the Sangria. El Davide Bassetino. Get him, and Jon Walters, in in in.

Who's going to start the sweepstake for the Hummel Denmark kit revival. I'm going 2020 after two more "standard" stripey seasons after this. Then the Pony tick revival in 2026 is going to be effing epic.

Seanio Dychillino.

I think the phrase "every single one of them better than your dream candidate Garry Monk" is definitely applicable.

Yeah, but apparently this idea is unique to horrible old Les Reed and his "demands, rules and regs" which are so demanding nobody has actually managed to say what any of them are. All we know is our track record of Les appointing lots of very good managers is proof that no decent manager will ever work for Les or something.

Except we have had a very, very consistent run of excellent managerial appointments, so good that 8th place and a cup final is now considered a failure, which history will judge as being perfectly fine. Personally I have no interest in us employing some big name high profile manager who gets to control everything because they won't be here any longer than the "coach" type appointment you seem to object to. We employ Pellegrini or LVG or whoever this "decent" manager you are thinking of and you give them total control of anything and everything they want. Great. They will be gone within two years either through success or failure. Meaning we end up perpetually starting over and over again and each "decent" manager turns everything up and down. Not sure how that is going to deliver better than 8, 7, 6, 8 and two Euro qualifications. Why do you think this would be better, and how much better would this approach be over a five-ten year period, not just the "I wish we'd employ X manager" short-term view. But the bit I don't get is the biggest clubs in the world have "coach" managers embedded in their structures and the biggest managers in the world are very used to working in "coach" situations with layers of directors with huge influence on sporting strategy and player recruitment. And lastly, Southampton have recruited a run of "decent" managers under the very director you say "decent" managers won't work for. All quite odd.

On Twitter, surprised there hasn't been a thread on it. Will be in the area on Monday helping out. Good lad.

Well, yeah.

I certainly wouldn't ever say that. All I say is he was a fine chairman but he found his level, which was the Championship. The Neil Warnock of football administrators.