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Personally I can't wait for him to be replaced by someone who's got absolutely no experience of football but has done a really good Ted Talk on DISRUPTING INDUSTRIES! Maybe if we're lucky we can break something to prove it should be broken. WE BUSINESS SPEAK ON!

We've already got them in the gulag, alongside god awful cover bands, dancing nonces and over priced beer. It's the home of the noddy bantz and songs sung at underpaid bar staff who don't want to be there.

I hope to god we never get this at football, the try hard pricks chucking their pints in the air because we've scored an equaliser at home to Watford and drenching people in piss water beer would be a nightmare.

Bus replacement is only about 20mins if you do the tube to Newbury Park instead of getting the train from Liverpool st. Train to waterloo, tube to newbury park, bus to Shenfield, train to Ipswich. Adds about 35mins extra to the journey so nothing too bad.

Yeah there's a fair few smaller allocations in the champtionship next season, and no doubt people will be squinnying when they don't qualify. Not that i'm going to complain if people drop points as it helps me in the long run. I am alright, jack.

Genuinely surprised about the fact they've made general sale, surely people are building their numbers up as there's the game at Goodison that'll be really popular and obviously next season a potential away at Fratton

it's pretty dire to be honest, no one can keep in time, there's way too many noddy songs and the lack of away fans to interact with means it's quiet a lot of the time. The less said about the cheap as fuck scaffold "safe standing" the better too, reckon they just got someone nick a job lot from Trants one evening and stick it in. It's going to be seriously embarrassing next season when we play the skates and we have The Wall singing noddy songs they can't hear and the Chapel and Kingsland full of people who don't give it back, they're going to think our support is soppy as anything.

Manager called Ivan, gulags round the ground, a red wall and flags that say Red Army. What’s the odds any director of football has the nickname uncle Joe?

Into heavy metal music, starts fist fights with board members and happy to have a pop at the players, fans and media. No idea what he's like as a manager but at least he'll be a laugh as a character. To be honest whoever we get we're going down, so long as he doesn't play god awful sideways and backwards football i'm happy enough to give the fella a chance.

Whoever we get all i hope is it's not someone who plays the unwatchable crap that is the tippy tappy bollocks. I genuinely think if i have to put up with another season of that i'll give up my season ticket, because there's nothing worse than coma inducing sideways football with no urgency.

Got Danny Rohl with us, he's got pledges in hand. And they say what they say, 'bout playing the Danny Rohl way. Oh yeah. It's all just a ten year plan.

Pretty much spot on that, even pre-game i was told that SR weren't intending to sack Martin for a number of reasons, the first being cost, the second being that they didn't think they could attract the right manager given the position we are in, and the third being they didn't think they had anyone capable enough as interim manager. But that changed due to the first half performance against spurs and as @Turkish has said he was pretty much fired at half time. I'm absolutely sure had it only be 1-0 or 2-0 he'd still have a job. It's also worth noting people in the club are very, very aware of how fucked we are at the moment and it's not a nice environment to be working in.

It'll be whatever Liverpool or Man City sing, our support doesn't do original anymore they just nick other clubs songs off of social media and change one word (and in some cases even keep the northern accent for some bizarre reason)

I have it on good authority the club do not think the rat faced little cunt is in anyway capable of being our manager, in fact the lack of options for interim managers was one of the reasons they held off on sacking Martin for so long (well that and money). Personally i think - based on the press rather than people i know - that it'll be Rohl unless the compensation is too much.

I think a lot of the nipper have completely overblown expectations of things, they've not really seen much in the way of success and are desperate to have idols. It's the same why you see people call a run of the mill skate midfielder a "legend" because he basically got an attendance award. Plus of course like our song sheet they love to copy other clubs and all this trust the process bollocks started with Wenger at Arsenal, ever since then a section of the middle class/student fanbase seem to think there's a "right way" to play football. Which is clearly bullshit as the only right way is winning

The same as with Ralph SR left it far, far to late to pull the trigger, i think most people with half a brain knew that Martin would be a complete failure in the premier league adn that his style would ship goals. We should’ve sacked him the day after the play off final, as it was obvious what would happen. Sadly the person who will choose the next manager is the utter fuck nugget that is Rasmus, which means we’ll probably end up with the American rhythmic gymnastics coach as manager because we think outside the box. To be honest I trust this current board to select the right manager about as much as i trust Joseph Fritzl to babysit children. Also maybe, just maybe as a fanbase we can learn one thing from this, which is to stop building weird fucking cults around managers and parroting things like "trust the process" which are just marketing slogans

The slow death by a thousands passes is exactly what i hate personally, I forgave Martin for it last season because we won, but even when we were winning i found the style of playing boring and a chore. We've seen tons of passing football from Saints all my life, from Nicholl's blistering attacks, WGS high work rate and even Puel, but this style just sucks the life out of the game, and the idea of sitting through another season or more of it makes me seriously consider if i'd bother renewing my season ticket (which i've had since the days the milton stopped being a terrace)

We will pointlessly play the ball around the back and eventually give it to Son who'll score, Spurs will look toothless and there for the taking, but Martin won't allow our players to attack so that won't matter. I'm going 3-1 Spurs in what will most likely be the most boring game of football all weekend, played at a stupid kick off time so that overseas "fans" can get their fix of paint drying in before the working week starts. After the game Martin will say how brave we were and utterly ignore that his complete and utter fucking incompetence is going to lead to us having the lowest points total of any premier league team ever. Big Ange will praise Martin in a patronising way and we will limp on to our next game, with the Saints fans wondering if overdosing on sleeping pills is more enjoyable that watching the floating turd that is Russell Martin's "style".

Great news if he's being sold, it means SR can invest it into four or five midfielders and defenders who will up our possession stats, whilst also have the benefit of getting rid of one those pesky striker types who give the ball away by doing things like shooting or crossing. TRUST. THE. PROCESS!

Heard a rumour that only two teams are being relegated this season as one of the relegations spots is being taken by us, and another by Martin's ego

It's not "all about me" it's pointing out that some of us warned about SR very early on and that blind faith to the owners leads you down the same route the skates went with their various owners. We as a fanbase should be far more critical of those in charge, but many want to just drink the Kool Aid and believe all is fine. You still see it with the Cortese love, we've seen it with SR, we saw it with Les Reed too. We get taken for suckers way, way too often when we should be demanding they do better. Ironically of all the people who people do go after, the one that gets the most shit is Kat, who actually cares more and has done more for the club, than any of the others combined. Oh and I'm also in a minority in that i don't think Gao was a particularly bad owner, he kept us on an even keel and left the operation of the football side to football people, he'd have invested more too but that was out of his hands.

Funny thing is when I leaked the takeover (including the exit amount the club was being sold for) I warned people it wasn't necessarily a good thing and got a load of abuse for saying it. There were actually a fair few inside the club who weren't convinced by them before the takeover and it was by no means seen as a good thing for many. But obviously on here I got pelters for it because "how could i possibly know"...

Ding Dong pass it round the back. Oh shit now they are winning. Ding dong pass it round the back. Another loss we're seeing. La, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la MARTIN OUT! We're sick of fucking losing.

We are Southampton, a club built on blind faith from the beginning of Martin's tenure. A faith in himself. A faith other's are wrong. He has his beliefs, His own way of doing things that he refuses to change. We don’t just buy failure, we breed it. We don’t take shortcuts, we fail slowly and obviously. Every second of every minute of every day. We’ve move closer to the edge of the abyss and won't come back stronger, because whatever the pressure, however great the temptation, we never shoot, we never win games, we keep passing sideways. We are the saints, it’s not just a name, it’s who we are. We are not even making up the numbers, we march down!

Seriously what's the fucking point? We all know what's going to happen, we'll piss about with it at the back, Villa will score, our heads will drop, they'll score a couple more, in the post match interviews their manager will patronise Martin and Martin will say we're brave, we're learning, he saw a lot he liked and completely fucking ignore the fact he's the worst top flight manager in our history, worse than even Steve fucking Wigley. Team for the game - I couldn't give a fuck whilst the useless lego headed cunt is still in charge. We could have prime Maradona, Cruyff and Beckenbauer in the side and he'd still train them to pass it sideways and backwards.