Farmer Saint

I think there is a lot of respect in the building for Martin, and appreciation for what he has done and the person he is. But let's see.

He did earlier in his career for sure, but like Mourinho, that type of football is dead and has been for a long time. Where did he go to after us, pray tell? Oh yeah, he couldn't buy a job and ended up at Bradford for a season, four years later, and was sacked from there in that first season (18th in League 2). But yeah, let's bring him back in as he's demonstrably better than Martin. Anyone thinking you can compare early career Mark Hughes to the one we had is a fucking idiot.

There is no way Martin is worse than those 3, I know there is a lot of hate for Martin but I think that's pretty ridiculous. Jones had a far more talented team than he did, and Hughes and Selles are useless. If we bring in someone like that we will be in far worse shape as our players are bought to play a specific way.

I would say Jones, Selles and Hughes are worse. That's the history of our mid-season replacements.

I'll find out more tomorrow, but very quiet on that front ATM.

That is completely untrue though, we could definitely get worse. I don't think it matters as he's done, but I'm not hopeful of who we'll bring in.

Yep, on his way I believe, is being given the Charity match but then is out...will find out more tomorrow.

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The football was pretty poor Nick - people down here were glad to see him go and certainly didn't want him back when De Zerbi left.

Ah, so I should see it as a positive thing then - that I'm doing something right. Cheers!

Absolutely - he's not the teaboy by any stretch but agree, we may be able to buy our way into their thoughts. However, I think we'll be sacking too early if we sack now as both Moyes and Potter will bide their time. The issue is we do pay people to make those decisions, but those people have appointed Jones, Selles and Martin as the last 3 Managers. I was just asking outside of those two above who realistically you would want in to take over.

Bit awkward...

Who's this @tdmickey3 character? Seems to be following me around the forum like a bad smell? Is he the same person as @Kermitzasaint as they both seem to be following me, but we all know Kermit cos his wife's been shagging RM.

I get that, I'm not disagreeing, but come up with a solution - unless you're proposing having no manager for the remainder of the season.

May be worth a go, but feels a bit too much a risk considering he's never managed in a top division. We've already got a Championship quality manager, not sure it's worth risking another one.

No.

It's a fact - I heard from my best man who happens to work for Wassermans (hence why I know about Moyes as well).

But I think this is the problem with society nowadays - people are problem makers not problem solvers - so who should we bring in? I don't think I've seen a realistic good option (a top division Manager, or at least one with some PL experience).

Rightly or wrongly, he's not interested. Neither is Moyes.

Statements like this just erode any credibility for your other posts I'm afraid.

That's not Saintsy. Saintsy is keeping him here until Xmas, sacking him with no contingency plan, putting Lallana in charge (he draws the first game and wins the 3rd and 4th round FA Cup match against lower league opposition). This mini-resurgence proves we don't need to improve the squad and we buy no-one in January, before we go on a run where we get 2 points out of a possible 24 and Lallana gets sacked. We then bring in Big Sam for a mini-resurgence before we go down with 19 points.

Well, I think that's the issue - they don't. There have been various people on this forum, even in the last week, saying that we have a team easily capable of midtable, a superior team to Bournemouth and that we easily have a PL squad. So no, not everyone does. It's not about insight, it's about realism. We were favourites before the season to finish bottom. It wasn't because of the Manager, it was because of the squad.

Mate, been banging this drum for ages - people won't have it.

As you say, it is a Hobson's choice for sure.