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Just wait until the Lepzig one which will just be about Paul Mitchell.

The premier league Have listened to Charlie Austin he speaks for all premier league clubs This shall now be known as Charlies rule.

"There is an opportunity now, what I call a space, and we will move on into that space now and make it an opportunity" What an absolute clown.

He didn’t take over from Cortese Are people really that dense that they don’t know what job Cortese did?

It feels like small part of Southampton FC died today. The remaining element of our incredible journey from League one to Europe packs his bags and says adios. He has been the fulcrum of all things football in his time here giving this club some of the greatest times in our history. It's a sad day and with all disasters I have done the only thing to do at this time and change my facebook profile picture to show my support of Les.

Sad day for the club and football as in general. The man who built this club up from languishing in league one, behind our rise to the top top 6, cup finals, European football, the signings of Mane, Van Dijk, Bertrand, Steven Davis, building our academy up. He has been as important to this club as Ted Bates, Lawrie Mac and Le Tissier. I'd like to see the club honour him in some way like naming the canteen at Staplewood after him.

Are these the same wan*ers who didn’t back Puel and Pellegrino either?

He was sacked by Newcastle because they thought they could do better than Allerdyce and didn't He was sacked by West Ham because they thought they could do better than Allerdyce and didn't He was sacked by Everton because they thought they could do better and Allderdyce and haven't (yet) On each occasions the fans were up in arms about the style of football and on each occasion the manager who replaced him did worse than him. Current flavour of the month has taken faliure, crap Big Fat Sams team form 8th to, err 9th, at the moment. Doesn't it all sound familiar..... He was sacked by England for non footballing reasons He is good at what he does, which is get the best out of average players and keep teams up. If your ambitions are just to stay in the premier league then he's probably the best man in the country to do that job. Not for one minute i'm saying i'd want him at Saints but to say he is a failure and a crap manager is pure and utter nonsense. However, his ability seem to match out ambitions so I wouldn't for one second be surprised to see him in the dug out at St Marys sooner rather than later.

I read earlier City are looking to set a club record of 7 consecutive clean sheets, meanwhile a blank for us will set a club record of 6 consecutive games without a goal. What happens when a stoppable force meets an immovable object?

Currently unemployed too which means he’ll be on Les’s secret file of managers he’s tracked for years

We MUST play two up front. Oh wait....

Unless there are some drastic changes from top to bottom at this club very soon even if we stay up this season it’s only delaying the inevitable. Reed, Wilson, probably Hughes and about half the squad need moving on. We have a losing mentality at the club right now, for that to change it’s going to need more than a simply changing the manager again.

Pretty much what you said to be fair. You’re one of the few people on here that appears to know what you’re on about. We have to play with 3 in midfield, the only tweak I’d make to your team is give Gabbadini and start of the left of a front 3, a friend of mine is a Napoli fan and said he looked his best there for them. I think we should go all out to get Gary Cahill in January. Even at this stage of his career he’s better than anything we’ve got and would give some much needed experience and leadership to the back 4.

I thought the geniuses on here told us playing two up front was going to fix all the problems?

It's been said before but the familiarity with our decline now and our decline 2003-2005 is striking. We peaked with a European campaign and a narrow cup final loss. We sold off our best players and replaced them with squad fillers, resulting in us having a big squad full of players of the same, average level. We had a leadership team that believed they had the magic touch and oozed arrogance and complacency and we went through a succession of managers each one worse than the one before it (Perhaps Hughes is a better manager than Pellegrino but as things stand his record is worse). It really is quite remarkable that history could repeat itself. in fact if we go down this season it will be exactly the same time period of two season between 8th place and a cup final to relegation the last time it happened.

Shane Long provided me with one of the highlights of my saints supporting career. IIRC the game v Chelsea and when running through on goal at pace, a relatively tight angle and not far from goal with the keeper advancing it seemed a very difficult chance to score. he then produced what on first instance appeared to be an outrageous piece of skill, appearing to somehow lob the keeper and get enough dip on the ball for it to clear Courtois and his outstretched arms yet come back down and hit the top the bar, it appeared to be a magnificent attempt and cruelly denied a great goal. However on second viewing he'd actually slipped, miskicked the ball which had then hit his standing foot and looped into the air over the keeper onto the bar.

As former leader of the famous DEF, Europes most notorious hooligan firm, I can confirm I have been in numerous one sided fights and always ironed out any of the opposition with the rest of my crew. I have since hung up my Stone Island jumper and now, such was our reputation, an away day is more likely to revolve around posing for photos and signing autographs for wannabe hooligans at other clubs. I can exclusively reveal for the first time that I was due to star in The South Coast edition of Danny Dyers real football factories however this was pulled at the last minute due to Sky believing it was an embarrassment to all the other firms that had appeared in the programme.

Remember when people used to say that sort of stuff about Papa Waigo and Tanadari Lee? Their movement and runs were so good that we didn’t have the players capable to pick them out. Nothing to do with the fact they were both absolute sh*te and Lee in particulars runs were just a headless chicken sprinting around.

Our recruitment has been perfect. When we had success we unashamedly positioned ourselves a a show case club. We bring talented players in, they perform for a couple of years, get a big move, we double/treble our money and we go and again. It worked, it's brilliant. But of course our mong fan base didn't like it, whinging and bleating that we sell our best players, whinging and moaning that some of Europes biggest clubs wanted our players because they'd been brilliant for us. So now web got a sod of players we won't be selling isn't that exactly what everyone wanted? People should stop moaning and be over the moon that we won't be selling anyone, its what they wanted.

I think you’ll find I suggested him 4 years ago while he was manager of Sporting. I said he was great at putting young teams together and would be a good fit for our model. He then went on to do that to great success Monaco. Of course he wasn’t unemployed then so Les wouldn’t have him in his secret file of managers hes been tracking for years that are a great fit for us and that were always our first choice to replace the outgoing manager, but he is in there now, went on the list last week in fact.

And look what pardew did with it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Official-Guide-Basic-Team-Coaching/dp/0340816007 A used version for 63p. That’s the thanks les for for offering to help his underling, no wonder he got fired

Rodgers isn't unemployed so he wont have made it into Les secret dossier of managers which he honestly have been tracking for literally years and are all definitely a great fit for us it's just an amazing coincidence they are always unemployed when we need a manager. The other guy might be if he's out of work as Les will have tracked him for years and know all about him. In any case we're stuck with Hughes now, they wont sack him, it'd look too bad on Les for nausing up another manager. I'm still amused at Ralphs comments that every time we thought about sacking Pellegrino they didn't because results improved. And to think a club that slaps itself on the back for carefully planning everything well ahead of it happening were so influenced by the result of the last game.

It didn't need to come to this though did it. The gay bloke should have just accepted their point of view and found another baker. Instead the gay guy flounced off and decided he was going to try and make a point and to sue them rather than respect their views. If he'd shown more understanding for others viewpoint then you're right, it wouldn't have come to this. Now I see all the gay activists are up in arms about it saying how disgusting it all is. As usual they scream for equality and freedom of speech yet when it doesn't go their way they scream about how terrible it is that someone is allowed to have a view different to them.

Sadly TUI has become an extension of the clubs propaganda machine with Nick a lone crusader to convince everyone what s great Job Ralph Kruger is doing. In fact this is the first article I can remember for literally years where he has actually made some semblance of criticism of the club. Back In Corteses era we had regular articles criticising everything from the lack of full advertising boards round the pitch to the wasting of money on transfers even down to fag packet maths as to how much Dani Osvaldos national insurance payments might be. Now all we get is mainly blaming the fans for being negative as Nicks staunch defence of the club becomes increasingly bizarre. The highlight being a post last season where despite being on a terrible run and clear the manager was woefully out of his depth he proclaimed we wouldn’t be able to tell who was the best manager out of Pellegrino and Pochetino until the season has finished. I admire Nick greatly for a lot of what he’s done for the fans over the years, I was one of those who attend the first SISA meeting at the captains corner in the early 90s, but these days his defence of the club and those running it despite all the evidence is very strange to say the least, particularly in years gone by he’s been one of the most vocal dissenters of those running the club when things have been going down the pan.

this simply isn't true. Another myth about the Cortese reign. Why do you think Schniderlin threw his infamous "6 years ruined in 1 hour" Strop? It was because Cortese had promised him a move the following year if he put a shift in that season. Remember Corteses brash claims of tearing up bids and throwing them in the bin when we started getting approached for oxlaide Chamberlain? How did that turn out? Poch was an ambitious manager, yet he liked Cortese as he had given him a chance to resurrect his career, but do you really think he would have stuck around once a bigger club came calling because he loved he chairman so much? I don't dispute that the players liked Cortese too, to give him credit that was one thing that he did do well, they were treated like royalty and given everything they needed. but again, would they turn down moves to champions league clubs for double the wages because they liked the chairman? Insane to think that's the case. of the players that left Lambert was in decline, Chamberlain was our second choice right back and hasn't developed at all, Shaw and Lovren were both replaced by players at least as good, the only real loss was Lallana. We recruited well and brought in a good manager. There is a lot of sh*t spouted about Corteses, oh if only he was still here! The issue wasn't Cortese leaving it was not replacing him properly, which funnily enough has also been the pattern for players, managers and coaching staff since the summer of 2016.