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Someone punch Vardy in the face, please

Gabbi so close!!!

Handball from Redmond, surely?

Open goal there for Obefemi?

The bare stats do tend to dispell the "Hughes kept us up" 'mythology', however, IIRC, he adopted a totally demoralized squad that a lot of fans were wondering where we were going to get another point from, let alone another 8. So, it could be argued that he kept us up by getting those 8 points as it was more points than Pellegrino would have likely got us. All that said, I'm firmly in the 'Hughes must go' camp as things stand.

Not bad for a football club that's only 6 years old to be fair

Time for Hughes to go. Obefemi to start from here on in.

Another good chance for obefemi

5 minutes added time

Obefemi has to bury that

'Sitting back and relatively comfortable' probably a more accurate description

No reason whatsoever. Just me thinking out loud #wishfulthinking

Bielsa for Hughes please

Austin

Is it wrong to admit I'm enjoying Redknapp on I'm a Celeb? I'll wash my mouth out (son)...

This

I'm still sticking with my Day-1 prediction that Brexit won't happen

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https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/17217775.southampton-defender-ryan-bertrand-facing-suspension/ At last (IMO), a chance to see how we shape up without Bertrand in the starting 11 (and not as captain either)

I'm half way through reading the Echo transcript and my head is in a spin trying to work out what he's going on about. Ralph has succeeded in out waffling and corporate mumbo-jumbling himself with this one. Bizarre.

As a CEO, he wouldn't be a like-for-like replacement for Reed, but we've not had a CEO since Cortese so maybe the idea is to bring back that role with Devlin and scratch the DoF role. Or maybe we'll get a CEO in as well as getting someone else in as DoF. Devlin's role in football has been more about business/commercial development than getting involved in the day-to-day football side of things a la Reed https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-devlin-43516710 Just off to check out Devlin's earlobes. BRB.

Not doubting your info, but makes me wonder why Fonte was included on the bench for our Europa League games if there was never any intention of him coming on?

Wouldn't surprise me if this has happened. Seeing Koeman at the Man City game did make me ponder why he would choose to be at that particular game (I don't think there were any Dutch players on show?). Thinking out loud, would it be feasible/practical to hold both jobs at the same time (i.e. international manager + club DoF)?

The timing of the announcement does strike me as a little odd. If things aren't very well advanced then a more logical time to have announced it would have been at the start of the international break rather than 48 hours before an important league game (IMO). Unless they see the Watford game as a "must win" and feel that announcing it now will somehow jolt our players into becoming goal scoring machines.... As such, my hunch is that things might be quite far advanced (in terms of installing a replacement), otherwise why announce Reed's departure today (thus putting Hughes in a potentially awkward position at his pre-match press conference) rather than, say, early next week?