James

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.

Absolutely. Would rather see Sims/McQ or Hesketh on over Redmond every game.

We've got to spend the Virgil cash wisely but we can't allow Pellegrino to be the one to spend it.

Pellegrino confirms Austin will be out "for a long time". Oh dear.

It seems we caught City on an "off" day - they had a bit of a wobble (be their standards) when they played against us and then West Ham. We credited the narrow defeat to some sort of tactical inspiration by Pell because it came immediately after the 4-1 against Everton. Yes, we had some players out today but we are going to sell Van Dijk so it was still our first choice CB pairing out there today.

Exactly. Reminds me of when we had Jason Euell and he got dogs abuse for being total s*it when he was our highest earner. He didn't care a jot about us and it showed whereas players like Bennett (who was equally awful) got support because you could tell he was trying but just wasn't very good.

Probably because he has been consistently awful all season. I'm struggling to think of any positive contribution he's made except for the run against Huddersfield. The other players you've listed have all turned in decent performances at some point this season. Redmond's terrible attitude on the pitch doesn't help him - his first reaction is to mouth off to someone else. Also, Forster gets his fair share of ironic cheering from the fans so its hardly unique treatment.

He literally set up one of the Spurs goals from the edge of their penalty area. There were some shocking performances out there but that was a dreadful mistake to make.

He's been on the verge of making the mistake he made today all season. Terribly limited player.

That may be right but the whole "fans who wanted Puel out are getting what they deserved" is tiresome and wrong. Nobody asked for Pellegrino to be inflicted upon us.

That may be right but the whole "fans who wanted Puel out are getting what they deserved" is tiresome and wrong. Nobody asked for Pellegrino to be inflicted upon us.

Says everything about the quality of the manager/coaching when you set up as defensively as we did at the start and still concede 5 goals.

Those two mistakes by Lloris will have bought Pellegrino more time. It was an awful performance but can't see us sacking Pell until after Palace at home at the earliest.