James

Meeting is tomorrow apparently. We should find out then I hope.

Are you serious?!

Good post.

Fair enough. I'm in a similar situation to you and have seen it go wrong. I want a chance as I don't see us kicking on under Puel but I'm not 100% confident in our board to get the right man in.

If you look at his stats since he came to the Prem he's in the top 5/6 assist makers in the league I think. I'm not sure I'd be quite so confident of the black box replacing a player who on his day is genuine top quality.

To be fair today was the first time I heard anyone signing for Puel's head. Out of interest, do you have a season ticket? If you do then fair play for being so objective. I'm trying to be but on the basis that we've only scored 17 times in 19 games (and on the basis 9 of those were scored in, I think, three games) I'm really struggling to get excited about another season watching a Claude Puel saints team.

Who would you replace him with?

Definitely stay. We would have no chance of attracting a player of superior or even equivalent quality at the moment.

I made a run for it before that. Care to expand?

Spot on. People on here banging on about it as an achievement is as irritating as citing a League Cup final that we lost as some kind of job saving achievement for Puel. I applaud him for taking the LC seriously but that's probably about it. The strength of team we faced away at Arsenal in the quarters shows how little stock the big teams put in that competition. None of that is to say I didn't enjoy the day though.

Can't believe we have only seen four more Saints goals at home all season than Spurs have scored in their last two games.

46 points wouldn't be far off relegation in some seasons...didn't West Ham once go down on 41/42? If we'd have gotten that many last year it would have been 13th or so I think.

Thankfully neither will Puel next week.

It's the last game of the season! If he's so unfit that he can't last another 30 mins then he shouldn't have started.

It's the last game of the season, we need a goal and he's a professional athlete so yes, I would expect it possible for him to last another 30 mins.

Austin off. Another joke decision. Crowd has gone mad. He's a goner.

Crowd singing for Puel to go.

Crouch. 1-0. See you Puel, don't let the door hit you.

Bielsa?

Don't understand the rationale in these striker selections at all. Austin goes from unused sub in a game where we need a goal to starting and JRod goes from starter, to first used sub to not in the squad. Just bizarre.

Good god I hope we wouldn't go anywhere near Moyes.

So its the players fault that we lose games and it is Silva's fault that Hull lose games? Got it. Also, to try and claim that the HBS game was anything other than bad tactics by Puel is a little silly. We played for a draw at home to effectively a League One standard team and we got punished for it. Celtic put 5 past them.

Given that he came in, they sold their two best players within 2 weeks of him arriving and he had to build a new team in the January transfer window I'd say he did pretty well to get anywhere close to survival. To judge him on 2 important games that he lost is a short sighted as some of the criticism of Puel and could equally be put on Puel. Arguably Puel failed in three of our most important games of the season: Milan away (incredibly important to the fans), HBS at home (to get out of the group) and the League Cup final.

If we are to get rid (and I'm no real fan of Claude's) then I hope that the ownership deliberations don't delay our next appointment. The time it took us to appoint Puel in the summer set us back a bit I think.

Looks excellent - so nice to see how he's progressed from being subbed on v Leicester. Is better than Yoshida now IMO.