James

I mean it’s bound to click eventually right?! Notwithstanding the fact it hasn’t worked for the best part of a season and a half...!

You're right of course but ultimately we need to stay in the league and we don't have the time to overhaul the squad in January. We need a manager capable of keeping us in the league which, IMO, Pell will fail to do. We need to act and to change something to give us some new momentum. Unfortunately you can't sack an entire squad of players mid season but you can sack a manager. Comes down to whether or not you think Pell is getting the best out of what he has (deficiencies or not) - clearly he isn't as even Puel did a better job with more games to contend with and a weaker starting XI. Our squad may not be as good as some think but clearly its good enough to stay in the league, yet if we reproduce our results to date to the end of the season its touch and go whether we will do that with MP.

If Big Sam wanted the job to the end of the season to guarantee our survival I'd take that and rebuild in the summer. Longer term I'd like AVB (I wanted him when RK left) but my feeling is that he's too big a gamble at this stage given our position. Could see us turning to AVB though, especially given his ties to the Chinese league.

What I don't understand is that if the delay in sacking Puel was due to us scoping out Tuchel then why did we continue to sack Puel knowing that our first choice replacement had turned us down? It's hard to believe anyone at SFC actually thought Pell was qualified to do a better job than Puel (he has no track record of anything other than a carbon copy of our season last year) so why didn't we just stick with what we had? Whilst I commend the club for being ambitious in trying to bring in the standout available candidate it is frustrating that we've ended up with someone so utterly incompetent as the second prize. If we'd have been a little more realistic we'd have appointed Silva (but, then again, we'd have rolled over and he'd be at Everton in any event so probably doesn't really matter other than the fact we'd have more points on the board).

At home it really wasn't.

I’m sorry but any manager that thinks we played with “good energy” at any point during that dross yesterday or uses the fact that we played well for 25 minutes of a home game against Burnley that we ended up losing is anything but an “excellent coach”.

Completely agree. I think most Saints fans are united behind the fact he has to go. Haven’t spoken to one that thinks he will come good.

But he’s Argentinian and his initials are M and P - that must have been enough for Big Les - I genuinely can’t see any reason for him getting the job other than the hope he was another Poch. Have to wonder whether De Boer was our top choice but binned us in favour of Palace. If we got rid of MP, wouldn’t be surprised if he was heavily linked.

Completely agree - MP is the Argentinian Steve Wigley. We’ll get rid eventually but when we do it’ll be far far too late.

He would be a fantastic appointment given our current predicament - pretty sad to say that given I wouldn't have touched him a few years ago.

Absolutely this. It could easily be Black as caretaker (certain relegation) or some other cheap, unemployed gamble from the Continent. We need someone with the experience to get us out of this mess.

God no - we need someone who will keep us up. If MP goes (and big if given Big Les won't sack him) we need a safe pair of hands not another gamble.

Les is to blame for this current mess, that's for sure. ****ed away our strongest ever position two seasons ago by believing his own hype and trying to do things in a way which was too clever. He's got a lot to answer for.

It was just the manner in which we set up for me - no adventure or shots on target yet we still picked a team that was at least notionally attacking (Redmond, Boufal and Tadic) - we were always on a hiding to nothing, never going to score enough to get anything (as we can't score) but we didn't set up defensively enough for a point. I'd love to know what he thought/hoped would happen after picking that team because personally I couldn't see anything more than the hiding we dutifully received. At least we've put the theory that MP might get us a few good results against the big teams to bed. He's as incompetent against those teams as he is against the ones we should be beating. I haven't disliked a manager as much as Pellegrino since Burley and we've had some serious sh*t in that time.

I mean what is he watching? I watched the stream and it was a completely turgid, inept performance. I suppose he has to say this to try and save himself but my God he's out of his depth here. Do the right thing Les, please.

Big Les will not sack him, as Pamplemousse says, he hasn't got the balls. I fear we are in serious trouble this year.

Out out out. Going down if he stays. Totally clueless.

We’d better hope you’re wrong as we will be down if he doesn’t sack him. Won’t help that Pulis will be gone next week which will undoubtedly improve WBA. Fat Les will probably wait until we are bottom to sack our clown.

No they aren’t - Puel wasn’t the right man for us just because we’ve managed to appoint a significantly inferior manager doesn’t make wanting a poor manager sacked look “silly”.

Clueless manager - what do you expect?

Complete non-performance from us. Pelleclown will probably claim we deserved a point or give some other alternate reality assessment of the humping we’ve received.

Got to get Pell out.

Depressing isn’t it? Not surprising as we’ve got a clown for a manager. McQueen not even in the squad either so no option of changing Tadic or Redmond.

Well we are not going to score, that’s for sure. What is that team selection?! The constant swapping of Yosh and Hoedt is also seriously odd.

Agreed. If you watch his footwork for the goal its just awful. Good header yes, but not unsaveable for a half decent keeper.