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Impressed with SLattery so far....calm, composed and pressing well

Targett having a mare at the moment. Shane Long being Shane Long........

I like Ralph's style. 8 Academy graduates on the bench or starting. I love this approach and you can see how much of a lift his arrival has given the younger players as they now know there is an opportunity for them

All the pundits and ex=players can't be right. Our forum experts have stated their views and must be right. Valery is nowhere near ready according to them. Ralph must start taking more notice of our forum experts rather than using his judgement. Cedric is world class and is a European winner so it's outrageous a 19 year old youth prospect is preferred over him.

Good grief - does anyone still take this clown seriously? You well and truly bit on this. He's as ,much in the know as his Kenyan alter ego.

Shane Long has been stealing a living as a footballer for way too many years. He is utter crap - great, he runs around a lot and makes a nuisance of himself but he has zero goal threat and he is meant to be a striker. Obafemi is already a far better player than Long and that is why Obafemi is a big miss. Him and INgs are our best strikers

That was when Dave Merrington was manager. First and only time I left a game at half time....went to the cricket club's bar that was in Northlands Road at the time and had a few drinks to try and erase the memory of that first half.

Why on earth slag off Targett? He was excellent today: a lot of these players have not had game time in some time thanks to that p***k of a dinosaur Hughes and will only improve with more game time. We are still not a good team but Ralph will have us comfortable mid-table of that I have no doubts. What a change to actually look forward to matches and be entertained. By lord, well overdue for the long suffering fans. Loving the passion from Ralph and how we managed to get him as manager is way beyond me. He is too good for Saints

Woeful today. Vestergaard is a disgrace - switched off so many times it was untrue. Lemina and Romeu OK, Hojberg was garbage and can't pass for toffee. Will get shouted down but thought we looked much better with Stephens and JWp on the pitch. They showed they cared and JWP created more in his cameo than Hojberg or Armstrong did the whole game. We need players who will stand up and be counted: they may not be world beaters but JWP, Stephens and some of the younger players will stand up. Utterly dreadful and no idea how Ralph will keep this shower of s**e up.

Err.....we'll be cut adrift by January. This squad is just not good enough and don't see any way out of this mess. Rebuild next year in the CHampionship - we are not staying up.

What passing - that goal was all started from a terrible piece of play from Armstrong. Bring back Reed, play the younger players. This has been yet another terrible performance with no redeeming features except from Lemina, Romeu, McCarthy, Bednarek and Stephens. Rest have been awful - absolutely awful: can't pass, can't tackle, can't defend. New man has his work cut out

WTF Vesergaard - never want to see this pr**k in a Saints jersey again. Unbelievable - a 10 year old would have done better

Goodbye dinosuar - you will not be missed in any way. Dreadful manager, coach and miserable, dour personality and always keen to pass the buck. Absolute charlatan that hopefully we never have to hear from again.

For the first time in a very long time I am genuinely excited by the next few months. The dinosaur has gone - what an unmitigated disaster and whoever game him a 3 year contract wants their head examined - and we may finally getting back to where we thrived with a progressive coach. Saying Pellegrino was going to be attacking, play the press, etc was obvious spin as anyone with half a brain could see there was absolutely nothing in his CV that showed any sign of the sort. It was a desperation hire: having said that Hughes made him seem a lot less worse than he really was!

HUGHES OUT ........ bloody dinosaur who has not gotten a clue.

TBF....Obafemi has done more in 8 minutes than Austin has all season.

Obafemi plays a lovely ball into Moi .... who had completely stopped

Moi really is sh**e isn't he?

Indeed - but you could level the same concerns about fitness to those that play 90 minutes regularly

Armstrong off....wtf. Hughes is beyond belief! Hope he is gone before the weekend is out.

Yes.....pace on the bench and he brings on another s***e summer signing that has been terrible

WTF....Elyounassi on and Austin off. Turd midfielder for turd striker and Obafemi still on the bench.

F*****g Hoedt. Just put the ball out you useless t**T. Then Yoshi weak and Cedric out of position again. But all Hoedt needed to do was put the bloody ball out.

Absolute screamer from Armstrong! Have to get a dig in though.....who has been ignored all season by Hughes

Great ball in from Targett and Hoedt with a fantastic defensive header. Only way back in is to get that lump of t**d Austin off and inject some pace and movement into our play. So, so predictable and awful to watch.