Bad Wolf

And yet we've had a decent start, there's plenty of midfield and full back cover and that kid in goal is doing fine.

Looking forward to a trip to Home Park next season

Yeah because neither of them EVER produced drab football, did they?

Tadic, VVD, Fonte, Gabbi

The football was utterly horrific but we finished 8th and got to a cup final without conceding a goal on the way there. There's the whole "We were closer to 18th than 7th and all the other teams were crap" but you can use that kind of argument to downplay any sporting achievement. We still finished 8th and got to a cup final no matter which context you look at it in. Personally, I couldn't care less what brand of football is being played. I don't care about "being entertained" because that only lasts for 90 minutes, the feeling of winning lasts until the next game. When we sacked Puel, we saw how bad things could be with the awful Pellegrino who's football was actually very very very very very very slightly easier on the eye. It was still drab and awful but there were a few more diagonal balls than square balls but he was absolutely clueless and had no respect from the players. I think Puel falls into the same category as Ralph; An okay manager just not a great one.

A hybrid of all of the argument types.

I find it baffling that anybody would want to sack a manager before lining up a replacement. What if you come to recruit and the only candidates are worse than the previous person??

How has Ralph spectacularly failed? Who would come in? If you want to replace someone, you line up their replacement before sacking the old person.

That whole "It's been done to death, I'm not going through it again" is right up there with "That was Hitler's logic" and "Well if you have to ask then you're part of the problem"

And yet you're refusing to provide any answers. Something that all the Ralph haters have in common. The logic is that we can take the bad results into account however we can't take the good results because that's always down to how bad the other team was.

But we haven't lined up a replacement as far as I can see? Where is Ralph failing? Comfortably kept up a Championship squad (nobody outside the Saints fanbase thought we'd go down last season. It's reflected in the odds at the time), loads of wins over the big 6 (something we hadn't done for about 3 years before he took over) Who would your replace him with? Realistically...

Even when there's no one better? That's the ridiculous argument. I still can't see how Ralph is failing.

Personally, I couldn't care less what brand of football is played as long as points are being picked up.

Well whenever I ask the "Ralph Out" brigade who they want, they go quiet but that's the option they seem to go with.

I still can't see a better manager out there who'd be realistically willing to come to us. Thomas Frank? And even that would be a huge risk on his part.

We've had more good performances than bad ones this season?

Yes, if Ralph doesn't have the trust of the owners, he should have gone either in the summer or before the WC. Sacking him now would be a bit counter productive.

Yeah but the football was crap or something. So say those who now want to appoint Sean Dyche...

7 points from those 7 games is about what I hoped for tbh.

There was a bug sweeping through the camp last week. Maybe he has that.

I believe in the sequel to my dream, Bednerak lifts off his face and he's under it; "IT WAS ME SOUTHAMPTON, IT WAS ME ALL ALONG!!!"

I had a dream last night that we lost 5-0. That was the realistic part. Things got weird when I decided to vent my frustration at former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon who happened to be wandering around the stadium for some reason.

It'd leave the bench quite bland which is even more important now we have 5 subs to use.

Djenepo instead of Parraud IMO

Yes, I've seen SO many people who call Ralph out for playing players "out of position" and then go onto suggest that KWP should be deployed as a winger.