James

Not sure Walcott, being a local boy, would lack motivation to be honest.

Yes, without question. Survive and rebuild in the summer.

Walcott and Sturridge are underwhelming?! Who are you expecting? Messi? Some fans have truly unrealistic expectations.

If we lose the next two and he isn't sacked post Palace then I don't think he will be sacked this season. I can't see him surviving a defeat at home to Palace.

Has also been very poor by his standards this season.

As far as I can see all they’ve done is repeat what a few blokes on the Saints Not606 have said. Hardly conclusive.

Totally agree. Can see a mauling here. We will get a conciliation goal in stoppage time and MP will say that for 3 minutes we played exactly how he wants us to play.

If he’s right on the targets bit then that’s worrying. We won’t be able to secure any of the identified targets in the summer if we are in the Championship. Club seem very very complacent/blind to our situation and how bad we’ve been playing recently.

I think, at this point, we are past the whole “we need to play attacking football” idea and are at the point where we simply need to survive. Burnley are an excellent example of how to pick up points (even against decent teams).

Walcott should be the priority. Actually cares about the club, vastly superior to the players we’ve got here at the moment (here’s looking at you Redmond) and will give the fans a big lift. In reality, it’s more likely to be Elia on loan.

Ridiculous that we will let him oversee possibly the most significant month we’ve had since we went down. Cock this up and we are toast. A loss against United is inevitable so we need a big performance against Palace. We won’t get it from Pell.

Exactly - did the VVD situation force him into bizarre midfield selections, implementing no discernible shape or style and us generally being a pretty crap side? He hasn’t been in or around the squad for the last two games and we’ve been woeful. If MP gets a stay of execution because of VVD then Virgil has done us even more damage than we first thought. Makes me sick to think we are not even close to sacking the clown.

Just hope Les has been working as hard on new signings as he has on selling our best player. Christ, we could do with some good news after the last week. Top scorer out long term, spanked on Boxing Day and now sold our best player (admittedly for a huge fee but means nothing to us fans if it’s not used to improve things on the pitch).

Don’t let the door hit you Virgil. Utter scum and disgrace of a professional. Just a shame that we’ve let this drag on and hang over us only to let him go at the very earliest opportunity in Jan. Need new blood in quickly and hopefully a new manager.

What, because a handful of people claim to have told some telesales employees from SFC that they didn’t like the manager? The “lynch mob”?! Hilarious. There have been boos at more than 3/4 games this year and a much greater amount of social media vitriol yet Pellegrino remains in situ. Your failure to acknowledge Puel’s refusal to change his ways and willingness to blame the fans is pretty silly.

Yes, boards have bent to the wishes of fans after periods of sustained pressure from the terraces but I was at SMS when Puel was booed after the Stoke game and if that’s enough to sway the board into making an important company decision costing millions of pounds in compensation then it’s fully their responsibility for being too weak. It’s the new thing on here to say that the fans drove Puel out of the club but it’s total b*llocks. In reality there was no sustained anger from the stands at SMS, just frustration at our inability to score goals and then a load of posts on here (and unless you’re suggesting Les Reed has a login and takes advice from us that’s totally irrelevant). Puel was sacked because he was asked to change his style and he refused to do so, he was not sacked by the fans. Seriously, some Pro-Puelers need to get a grip. We are where we are and I suspect most would freely admit they’d rather have kept Puel than appointed the hopeless Pellegrino but at the time it was hoped we’d do better (don’t forget we had finished sixth with record points the year before). As it stands and as we currently are Puel did a spectacular job but at the time people were commenting on Puel they didn’t have the benefit of hindsight from the car crash of this season.

The same Swansea we failed to beat at home and the same WBA that we only beat at home thanks to a piece of brilliance from Boufal? The way we are playing at the moment, and without Austin, I don’t see how we would beat either of them away from home.

Someone else that thinks a multi-million pound company sacked one of their most important employees because a few fans booed during a lap of honour at the end of the season...

For him to take our second half performance as a positive is just embarrassing - we conceded 2 goals in the first six minutes of it FFS!

Which part of what he said do you disagree with as I really am struggling to think of who we could beat at the moment.

Do you actually believe that fans sack managers? If you do you are seriously naive. A then Southampton Football Club employee was asked by his bosses to alter the way in which he went about his duties, he refused and so he was removed from his post. If he had changed then there’s every chance he’d still be here but he didn’t. To insinuate that the blame for Puel’s sacking lies with fans who expressed displeasure at having spent their hard earned on a season of very few goals at St Mary’s (culminating in zero in the last six) it’s just total nonsense.

Celebrated it in quite an over the top manner given we were 5-1 down.

Puel would have become one of our best managers ever?! I’ve read it all on here now.

There were plenty of boos for VVD when he came on at Palace. Don't have any issue with Redmond not trying just the way he behaves on the pitch in relation to his team mates.

He does I think but he takes someone on once every five games. Far easier to turn back inside and pass on the responsibility to someone else or, like today, give it away to set up the opposition counter attack. Hopeless player.