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"Oh no we're getting relegated - we're gonna have to give a **** about the fans again."

Had us relegated with 35 points. That’s including wins over Burnley, Stoke and Bournemouth. I’m just not confident about getting enough points on the road. We’ve only won two away games all season and both of those were against the bottom of the league sides. With this clown in charge I don’t see how anything is going to change.

Too many people on massive salaries for doing me t to nothing nowadays. Whilst nurses are using food banks. He’s just typical of a ****ed up society.

Working in International football is still football so it's not like he's been out of the game. It's not rocket science, it's just a bunch of blokes running around a field kicking a ball - he would be fine.

Yup, apart from losing us the game he had a cracker.

He must be on a high though, to be finally working under an actual football manager.

No club has self destructed so spectacularly since West Ham under Glen Roeder. Sack a perfectly good manager then persist with a relative novice for ever, and even make a £50mill profit in transfers during the window whilst sliding down the table. We just have to hope we don't go through the Championship in similar fashion next year.

I wouldn't be surprised if Les and Ralph have no interest in working for a Chinese crook like Gao and are just sat there waiting for their contacts to be paid off.

He is a rubbish manager but not replacing Van **** doesn't help. We are a couple of injuries away from a Yoshida - Bednarek CB pairing - that is just ****ing scary.

Usually Hughes is not my choice of manager but in our situation we need someone with experience and stature who knows the Prem inside out, he would be a good fit. Think we have left it too late though, I expect he would look at our fixture list and run a mile. Les' dithering has got us relegated.

Think we’ve left it too late to change manager now, just have to hope Pellegrino can somehow get us enough points.

Not much Saints could do about that, unless of course, it was Les’ dithering that opened the door for Everton? Whatever happened over Walcott doesn’t change the fact that the window was a disaster. A few days into Jan we should have either signed Walcott or moved on to the next target.

It’s crazy that one of the star players in our greatest ever side should be in such a situation when you look at the money in the game today.

Because jumping up and down because some bloke kicks a ball into a net is a really grown up thing to do. Swearing has always been part of football, long may it continue.

By that rationale Walcott is an Arsenal product.

We should have given Walcott the deadline then and moved on if he chose someone else. It's not rocket science.

Whatever way you cut it it was a disastrous window. If it was because of Walcott we should have given Arsenal a deadline and moved onto Promes earlier. We knew VVD was leaving way before the window opened and Walcott and Promes are not the only pacey wide players in the World.

Agree with this, the more abuse the better. Unfortunately football today is too sanitised - full of tourists and happy clappy morons. So I expect they will all get an easy ride.

I was happy with Strachan, His Coventry side got relegated because they flogged their two top scorers (think it was huckerby and McCallister or Dublin), any manager would have struggled to keep them up. That said, his appointment wasn’t that well received, but unlike MP he soon won the fans over.

Looking at the fixtures and we do have the toughest run-in out of all the teams down there but if we can get results against the teams around us away from home (and we look like we could) we stand a half decent chance of staying up. Having only two ‘winnable’ home games left is a pretty **** situation to be in though. I doubt any one else will be as poor as West Brom were at home. We need to get at least 3 wins before we play Arsenal to stand a chance IMO. West Brom have 4 ‘winnable’ home games left but are playing catch up and have a tough run in after those so I can’t see them pulling away wit the form they are in. Swansea, West Ham and Huddersfield all have 5 ‘winnable’ home games left so they are well placed to pick up enough points. Newcastle, Palace and Brighton all only have 3 ‘winnable’ home games left. Brighton have a nightmare last four games (Tottenham Hotspur H, Burnley A, Manchester United H, Liverpool A) so if they are not a few points clear by then they are up against it. Palace have a nightmare run coming up where they play Everton away then 4 of the top 5 so they will probably be up to their necks for the final few games. It’s almost impossible to predict because there are so many 6 pointers and not a lot between the quality of the whole bottom half, plus there are always some freak results. But I would guess at the bottom three being West Brom, Brighton and Newcastle.

Lallana has always had a very punchable face, even when he played for us. I enjoyed watching him play but he did come across as an irritating little scrote.

That really bugged me as well, there is no way it would get a mention if it was us involved. Whilst watching Liverpool mess it up was hilarious it was also a bit irritating watching Spurs get decisions that Saints would probably never get at Anfield in similar circumstances.

Do a line Nathaniel Clyne, you will love it more than you will know, wooahhh

Van ****, for the way he ponced about not giving a **** for half a season. I would gladly lose with 10 men Sunday if one of our players puts him in hospital.

No petulance in rugby, just eye gouging, punching and stamping on heads. Respect.