James

Playing on the left is why.

Jack Stephens has a way to go before becoming a PL centre back sadly.

Shocking defending that.

Can’t fault that team. However, it’s Pell’s in game management that leaves the most to be desired. Let’s see.

Not sure I've made a "Puel argument" but completely ridiculous to suggest that leading a team into the top half is "equally as bad" as leading them into the relegation zone.

Will be amazed if Forster comes back in. For me: McCarthy Cedric Stephens Hoedt Bertrand Hojberg Lemina Romeu Tadic Boufal (or Sims if fit enough) Gabbi (will be Long we all know it),

Please do explain how getting Watford into 10th place can be deemed an "equally bad job" to Pellegrino guiding us to 18th...

Promes?

Would much rather Silmani than Carrillo.

Apologies, was being flippant. No argument from me that Puel is a better manager than Pellegrino and, with the benefit of hindsight, he did a much better job than I appreciated at the time. I don't necessarily agree it was an error to fire him but it was certainly an error to fire him and appoint a vastly inferior manager in Pellegrino. We shouldn't have sacked him until we knew we had someone better lined up but we messed up, couldn't get Tuchel across the line and were left scrabbling around for anyone who was available.

Unfortunately, enthusiasm from the crowd won't bestow improved managerial abilities on Mauricio Pellegrino and whilst we have him at the helm we will go down no matter what the fans do or say. Our support has been pretty bloody fantastic recently (5,000 at Fulham in the cup, full away end at Watford) when you consider how bad its been. Didn't Steven Davis taking a dig at us for being "unhelpful". Tell you what's "unhelpful", players and managers making basic mistakes which cost us goals and results.

Reed didn't appoint Poch - Cortese did. If you read Pochettino's book he barely mentions Les Reed (apart from him being in a meeting with Cortese) so you can't credit Reed with "appointing" Poch - he didn't.

Yes, everyone bar Duckhunter did apparently.

Fonesca would be my guess.

Not sure about that. If the bits and bobs from the itks are correct we considered him only to put all our eggs in the Tuchel basket and, by the time we'd been turned down by Tuchel, Watford went for Silva. I'm convinced Silva would have been higher on our list than Pellegrino. If we sack Pell I'd expect Silva to be very near the top of who we want next.

Your hatred of Silva is becoming slightly irrational. He's clearly a vastly superior manager to Pellegrino and that's all I care about. Claude Puel is now the manager of Leicester City and so is irrelevant to how any prospective Saints managers compare.

Les - go and get him now. The fact Pellegrino is still here looks even more ridiculous now.

It’s clearly good enough to be outside of the drop zone. Do you genuinely believe we have a squad worthy of relegation?

Doesn’t really have much to do with reputation if the selling club won’t accept a bid. By all accounts he is keen to join but we’ve messed up by announcing that we’ve got £75m and are now being held to ransom.

Hope we move on from Carrillo (fingers crossed Pell won’t be around to manage him) and go get Dembele.

But everything to do with Puel leaving right?

Agreed, in performance terms we’ve literally got nothing to lose as we couldn’t be any worse. Sadly, it’ll cost money and make Les look a bit foolish (more so than he already does) so we probably won’t do anything.

I’m sorry, but as one of those unfortunate enough to travel to all three European aways and not witness a goal, I can’t agree with you that we had a “good” European campaign. The fact we failed to progress from that group was serious underperformance.

Quite. Even our senior pros, maybe Steven Davis should take some time off criticising his own fans for being “unhelpful” and concentrate on not pirouetting on the edge of our box to concede a goal.

Must have missed the 0-0 against Spurs? Oh yeah, the greatest manager of all time oversaw a 4-1 defeat....