DT

Just go now

When the fuck are our owners actually going to realise that Ralph is useless and his coaching team are worse?

Please go Ralph. For the fifth week in a row

perhaps he's - gasp - become a better manager with unlimited funds

this. we need a more defensively minded manager. Or at least one who recognises the problems and adapts. Plus a new coaching team.

It's an appalling record. And still he stays

Amazingly

Think you can add Forster and Ward-Prowse to that list, plus I suspect moneybags Newcastle will come in for Salisu. Maybe they're all going because they think he's a limited manager. PS watch him play McCarthy on the weekend

I got 200-1 when Newcastle were taken over for a top 10 finish.

Me too. Would still have rather Saints clung on. But it’s easy money

150-1 if anyone's interested. Think we might scrape one more point. But bloody hell.

I get it. Some people think McCarthy is marginally less poor than Forster. I think it's the other way around. But either way I find it disappointing that the club has a lack of ambition to actually improve here in a key position. It's a symptom of our general inability to 'kick on'. Seems a bit engrained, but I suppose when you admit you're a place where youngsters can get a chance before moving on, that comes as a side effect.

Think we could usefully pop into the timeline the period when players are looking at transfer windows or thinking about next season. Suggest big correlation between that and poor results. Problem of being a stepping stone club.

Sheepdogs employ quite clever tactics to get the job done

Oh sorry, I forgot to be ‘positive’ again

Regulation home win against team picked out of a hat by clueless non-tactician mystifyingly kept in place despite clear case of emperor’s new clothes. 2-0

Gareth Southgate called one of those keepers up to play for England.

Given our number one is not very good, we are effectively after someone shit. Great.

Spot on. Still in post, nothing from the club. Dare say he will survive until the end of the season. Then there needs to be a big clearout. At this rate we may finish below Everton

That’s basically his management style in a nutshell

How bad does it have to get before he gets the push? 20-0? No wins in 10 games? Our threshold seems amazingly high

Getting a bit pissed off reading his after match comments where its all about us not having enough money or players. Try working better with what you have. Start with selection. Then add tactics. And reacting to things that happen during games. Or working out other team’s strengths. Swear he just applies the random number generator and then hopes a natty waistcoat will do the rest. Time to change it, Saints.

We need to start by getting a manager who can give us some shape and make us hard to beat

Maybe we are not good enough, Ralph tells the press. Crikey.

Hasenhuttl: “We didn't see a very good game today. The team that had a little bit better subs made the difference.” never his fault is it?