Saint Without a Halo

Cortese is a goal orientated ruthless buisness man, he knows where he wants to get to and will make his way there!So far he has done little wrong I for one have been enjoying the ride long may it continue!

Ha ha ha nice one Phil I just got home and listened to the arabic commentator he was raving about us and our style of passing play comparing us to Barca and Spain!

The Abu Dhabi arabic commentator said we are a pleasure to watch with a great cutting incisive passing style reminscent of Spain and Barcelona and theat Reading had no amswer to our style of play! enough said! We are Southampton we are famous worldwide!

Shhhh you may upset Turkish, anyway he would only say we are 11th not 10th! best to wait till next week when hopefully we will be 10th!

We can now add Jrod for England as well as Lambert he does at least have age on his side!

Yup we are all but safe now particularly given the number of teams below us and the fact many of them are playing each other at least 4 teams will not make 36

Doesnt really matter where the 40 points come from! But I agree its time we put the bottom teams away in the 6 pointers! look at the effect our 2 wins over Villa have had in our respective league places this season!

why are we paying so much attention to a piece of lazy Italian journalism?

Your right! But unfortunately it happens in business and companies all the time! Once the decision to replace someone is made the search for a replacement begins including headhunters and interviews, usually whilst the incumbent continues in place and is unaware. This is certainly the case in the financial sector where Cortese comes from! The logic being it could take time to get a replacement and even free him up from his job meantime better to have the incumbent in place keeping the shop going than an interim manger!

We can't be 1 point away from relegation on Saturday as Wigan, Sunderland and Newcastle dont play till Sunday!

Fulham hang on!

I want QPR to still be up for it next week v Wigan!

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Excuses for Harry started already! According to Coleman you need six months at a club to get them playing your way! so based on that the best of MP is yet to come!

Personally I think QPR are virtually down and so much as I dislike saggy chops would like them to beat Fulham today to keep them in touching distance of us! However a draw is also a good result for us!

So why has he formed a Transfer committee if he intended to go about buying players on a whim? surely he wouldn't need to given he effectively has the owning families power of attorney to do what he feels is right for them! The fact he formed one tells me he recognises he is not qualified himself and needs good advice!

if he does he is doing a good job then

This With 8 teams in the mix from 11th to 18th at least one of them will only gain 4 points or less meaning 38 should do it with our goal difference! I will be surprised if all 8 end up on more than 40 points (given there are many fixtures between the two it is probably already highly unlikely if not yet impossible) This is why the more teams in the mix the better! also our GD is worth a point against at least 4 of them if not more!

Even better when translated! This guy is a local legend and commentates on all the major matcesh very week he has a strong local following as the premiership is big out here with 7 national channels dedicated to little else all week whilst the season is on!!

Has Sir Clive Woodward been reappointed as coach by any chance?

I second that! can't stand saggy chops! We need not look down anymore we need to focus upwards now anyway!

Will they appoint Mcdermott then to complete the cycle!

The second of these has yet to be updated with our Chelsea result!

http://www.sportsclubstats.com/England/Southampton.html This is a good one based on the monte Carlo Technique used to ascertain and allocate probability to different complex outcomes! the last line shows the likely outcomes after Chelsea with our most likely finishing place now being between 12/13 and the likelehood of relegation being less than 2% now!

My view too as there are 8 teams who could fill the third slot and one of them is bound to do badly over the last 7 or 8 games and collect no more than 4 points! 38 should therefore be sufficient.