Saint Garrett

Our loss will be another managers gain. Our most successful manager in our history.

Still the club has used it on promoting things, in programmes, on the big screens etc.

If the club try and use this again then it's a disgrace. **** off.

Wouldn't surprise me if he leaves when we go down.

WHO THE ****ING HELL ARE YOU?!?!?!?! OneNigelAdkins!!!!!!!!!

I don't think we should go to the pathetic 10th minute applause for example. But he deserves a lot of chants on Monday night,

Thank you for everything. Ridiculous decision. Don't understand it at all. One Nigel Adkins.

Done it's official. Southampton FC ‏@officialsaints Southampton Football Club has appointed Mauricio Pochettino as First Team Manager having relieved Nigel Adkins of his duties. #saintsfc

Guy from the Mirror saying he's gone.

I don't see any positive of this decision.

Only saw it on their twitter feed.

And Paddy Power. crazy times.

Goal.com say he's been sacked. This is utter madness.

Paddy Power ‏@paddypower Nigel Adkins has been backed into 4/7 from 6/1 this morning in the Premier League Sack Race! http://pdy.pr/xyXDN7 #SAINTSFC Now they've locked betting....

Caughtoffside, clubcall, teamtalk, all got no idea.

Where is all the twitter updates ?! Itchen_dan out FFS !!!

Don't think we'll have a problem keeping it on tbh.

Don't agree it is too late. Would you rather we went for ambitious targets and failed then had backups, or rather just go for the 'backups' straight away? Personally I think we should be going for the best players we can attract, if they don't think we're big enough for them then so be it, but you have to try and get the best options available for the club to grow. Even if Forren had signed by last weekend, he probably wouldn't have played against Everton anyway due to fitness issues. Jos hasn't let us down and can do a job, Forren will probably come in for the Wigan match I would guess. I'm sure we put feelers out to a huge number of players, make enquiries, see the availabilty, suss out whether the player is interested, and then decide whether to put in a formal offer. It's not as easy as, highlight a target then put a bid in and hope he wants to come. Lot more complicated than that.

Look at the bigger picture Alpine. Look where we have been in the last few season, look who we have bought in, and look at the impact they have had. To say that the January window never works....Billy joined us last January and scored something like 8 goals in 12 apps or something...

Do you think transfers only take a day or 2 or something ? For a young lad to move his whole family across Europe?

Really? I looked at the fixture list and thought theres no way we won't be bottom after the first 6 games. We weren't even in the relegation zone!

If anything that video just shows how many sitters he missed !

So you were expecting us to get promoted and then just finish top half without having any struggles throughout the season!? Yes we have more resources this time, but so does everyone else...

Absolutely this. If we do stay up this season, then we'll be in a good position to push on next year, especially with the extra PL money.

Don't think that is the case, It's more the upturn in form, the good results against teams around us, the draws where we probably all expected losses (Fulham, Stoke, Arsenal, Chelsea) Yes it needs to carry on and we need to keep on fighting but we're in a better position that the teams below us, and ever those just above us. We seem to be united and all the players seem to have a strong bond - I'm not sure you can say the same thing about teams like Villa and Newcastle who are in crisis at the moment. I think some of our fans don't seem to realise that our target to stay up, still means losing a lot of games, and disappointing results.