miserableoldgit

Not sure where else to put this:- https://lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.leicestermercury.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Ffootball-news%2Fclaude-puel-st-etienne-leicester-6103103&h=AT1lNI8svghsfvvfTe2A5PXE2-kxRQ2w1Swg2PIDOpVtJE4WpTM1JyhFAOUPmKIwzSEFoJ0Fv9O8eCXa63h7oPm3ITdQABSQiuo5sH2wxhByhp3DReavaHtSLKOtzLDpInfDrwKEppSvJDGEbA

Which is all I was saying in the original post. When you turn it into points won against Top Six sides as I have done it is more interesting...

How many YEARS ago was Puel?

YOU picked up on a small part of my post and commented on it......you did.......I replied and asked you for Ralphs comparative figures against against the Big Boys. Can't answer? or is it an answer that you don't like and you are deflecting? Perhaps MLG could help......

Errr....you be trying to be ironic or clever, but that wasn't the question that I asked....but you knew that.

What is Ralph's record against the Top 6 in the league for comparison?

"Prove Me Wrong". I don't remember beating the Top 6 very often under Hughes, MoPe, or even Claude Puel very often....

I am in a bit of a quandary with Ralph. I really like the guy. He lives and breathes Saints/Football. I still believe that in the long run he could/will be an excellent manager for us, however, I am finding some of his team selections difficult to explain. The lack of opportunities for Nathan Tella and Kyle Walker-Peters (who was my Player of the Season last year) etc are mystifying. The use of a fading Shane Long (who I have always liked as a player) and Theo Walcott when better players are on the bench equally so. On the plus side, during his tenure, we have,at times, played some good, entertaining and exciting football and tweaked the noses of the "Big Boys" for the first time in years. On the down side we have had some of our worse performances under him too. I am, though, very concerned that should we replace him, who will/would come in with the situation that the club finds itself in with Mr Gao, and in the long term be able to take us forward. It is a conundrum.....

In the same way that Ralph did after his first victory over a Jurgen Klopp team? Not sure that that means that he hates Klopp.

"Yeah...but no...but....."😄

I am not pro- Howe, but can you honestly think of a manager that would come here that hasn't failed somewhere?

Self-awareness is a fine personal trait......

Or Ted Lasso...

Have you seen today's goal?

Thinking about it, I don't remember him saying anything particularly contentious. He is generally very careful about what he says about match officials....

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/30/greg-gilbert-frontman-with-indie-band-delays-dies-aged-44

THIS!!

So not the 11 who are on now then?

I have only been listening to Radio Solent, but they are saying that Saints have been playing very well.......a bit different to some of the experts on here....

Not being MLG pedantic, but didn't he score a hatful of goals for a Championship team?

That is "perspective?"