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Yep. The waffle here is miles better but there's still enough of it to be interminable. I wonder if he's the same in private? A bit of straight talking would be fantastic.

I hope someone at the fans forum calls out the club for its carefully choreographed PR campaigns over the last few years with scheduled interviews in January and at the end of the season with nothing in between which comes across as inauthentic and patronising to fans.

Massive pressure on Wilson. I have seen nothing from him so far to suggest he is anything particularly special unlike the previous bloke.

Personally I don't think either of them are currently good enough to be first choice. I'd probably sell hoedt and bring in two new cbs but I know that's incredibly unlikely.

“Les Reed and Ross Wilson [the recruitment chief] are excellent leaders in our football department,” he said. “We have to see the bigger picture – we don’t need a wholesale change here. We need to take a few percentage points, fix those and we can surge back up. That’s our reality" Very concerned about that. The fact they don't feel that wholesale changes are needed despite regressing in almost every area from the academy to the first team show how out of touch they are. We need some serious leadership to underline how unacceptable the last two years have been and it doesn't look like the Gaos are capable of that.

"judge us on out response" we'll they could have said the exact same thing after our poor end to the last season. I assume if we do poorly next year they will just say the same thing again...

Well that was a slightly better interview than I expected, largely because Adam pulled no punches. You can tell he is really p*ssed off at Les and the club in general for mugging him off for months., incredibly disappointing that seemingly no one is going to pay the price for this appaling season. Does anyone have any incidence that they won't just repeat the same mistakes next season? I'm gearing up for a terrible January window for the third time in a row...

Whatever he says it will be an absolute load of b*llocks. Just resign mate and save us all the hassle.

I disagree. With the resources available I can't remember a worse manager. I'm not sure a manager has ever gone for such a long time without winning and not been fired.

What rubbish. Go headbutt an axe.

That's not going to happen is it. We will get one, a new striker, a lb and possibly a cm or a cb if someone leaves.

Eh? I'm nothing to do with Glasgow! I don't have a new account, I've always had this one.

I concur.

Plus two January transfer window debacles.

I think the fact you are in the extreme minority here should tell you something about your opinion. Hughes kept us up and deserves a crack to see what he can do on that basis alone. The fact the players like him and are playing for him is another bonus. It would be incredibly harsh to discard him now.

Nope he had the worst squad the premier league has ever seen. Whilst our team wasn't great, we should have been nowhere near relegation.

Worst manager we have had since I've been supporting saints. I would have preferred to have wigley or portvliet in charge. Even Dennis wise and the Mike Bassett bloke he had with him.

If the comparison is the "style" from the rest of the season- even worse than our championship relegation season for me- then sign me up.

I'm glad I'll never have to think about this season again. It's been a complete shambles, only salvaged by a hail Mary appointment in the final few games. Les Reed and Ralph have to go, they have been appaling for two years and have continued to be endlessly patronising. I want some straight talking from the manager so Hughes will provide some of that and I want something similar from those at the top - which means the current incumbents have to leave as they incapable of providing that.

No thanks. Resign Les and let your successor sort things.

It's unanimous. Hughes please, he deserves it.

It's going to be absolutely sickening if they do go down that route. Saying things like "we never panicked" "we showed loyalty but changed things when it mattered" "Hughes has been on our radar for a long time and he will now be leading us to a new era with exciting and attacking football which is the Southampton way." Don't forget "this has been a challenging season with the VVD saga largely to blame for our temporary difficulties. With our acquisition team in place, we know that a small club like Southampton have the capability to double digit next year."

Which you can sort of understand considering they have won the league.

Mccarthy, romeu and yoshida are alright. Everyone else I couldn't really give much of a sh*t about considering how bad we have been.

Agreed. I'd rather go for some of the stars of teams that are going to miss out in the playoffs or other stars of the lower leagues. Sessegnon is obviously out of our reach but James maddison would be good. Ryan fredricks in defence maybe? Has Ben Gibson been good this year? Is Bradley Dack worth a punt for the squad?