kwsaint

Agreed. Anything less than three points from the next two games and we are in big trouble. Get four points and we can enjoy the City game. Still think we are more likely to go down than survive - maybe 60:40. But beat either of Everton or Swansea (big if) and we should be OK. It's the hope that gets you.

Why are some posters still picking teams? Might as well put all the names in a hat and pick them out at random. At least it might be entertaining. We are going down. Sooner we start rebuilding the better.

They started life as Boscombe FC - so their supporters tend to refer to them as Cherries or Boscombe. I remember them as Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic and changing to AFC Bournemouth in the seventies. Bournemouth FC play in the Wessex League - might have some local derbies with them before too long

Would not mind if Hughes stayed assuming he wants it. Otherwise think that we need to hope that Fulham miss out on promotion again and offer Jokanovic lots of money. He would certainly get us playing again. Don't think we would be getting relegated if he had succeeded Puel. Although thinking about it most managers would have kept us up.

My old man promised to take my mum to the Ritz if we stay up...

He's died?

I was embarrassed when that knob head said that. What's happened to Benali?

Now, it would be a great escape...

Manchester City won the league and then managed to get relegated the following season. Mind you it was a while ago - won the league in 1936/37 and relegated in 1937/38. No idea whether they sacked their manager,

Imo, yes. He's the first manager since Koeman that the players actually seem like they trust playing for and has the experience of playing English football. Your thoughts?

Puel only seems good in hindsight, with the knowledge that MoPe was even worse. Case of selective memory. The football was turgid under Puel - remember the final Europa cup group match when he set us out for a 0-0. All those home games in the second half of the season where we didn't score or even look like scoring The problem was appointing Puel in the first place and then following up with Pellegrino. Now I wonder whose decision that was?

We are still going down, but at least we put up a fight today. Looked well organised and at least gave it a go.

Would want to keep Hughes for next year regardless of where we are. Seems to have a plan b unlike the previous 2 managers.

GTFI!!

I'll tell you what, if we win, I'll make a full apology.

Going to call it first, reckon it'll be McCarthy. Mainly because he's the least **** player and the club will try and harbour the goodwill there is towards him. Who do you reckon?

The one thing that you can credit Les and Ralph for is getting top dollar for players that they are selling. VVD being the obvious example. It's the recruitment of players and managers that has been the big problem.

Gao is going to want to protect his investment based on the little that we have seen so far. So a fire sale of better players, parachute payments being used to pay off the loan, with little investment in quality. And none of the Van Dyck money will get spent. At some point things will bottom out. But we are on the slide and I really dont see us being top half in the Championship next season. Apart from anything most of the current bunch have no fight in them and the Championship is a tough league. The frustrating thing is that this was all so unnecessary. Better recruitment of both players and managers since the summer of 2016 would have avoided all this. Hopefully Les Reed will be gone in the summer, but he will need to be replaced with someone who actually knows what they are doing.

The worry is that the club could very quickly implode. None of us have any idea how Gao will react when he realises that he has paid a lot of money for a club that is now worth a lot less as a Championship side and that the revenue stream will start to dry up. Given that the purchase of the club was largely done on borrowed money, I can see a fire sale of players to get money in and reduce the wage bill, and that much of the parachute money will go the same way. Dont expect much of the money to be reinvested in quality players to try to bounce straight back. It could start to get seriously messy. Hope I am wrong, but the signs are not good.

Haven't we run out of permutations already this season. Must have tried every single combination of front 4 and nothing has worked. Only point for discussion is how many we are going to lose by.

We can all see a big clear out of players coming. Hopefully including Les Reed. Going to be a while before we are back in the Prem as the Championship is a tough league to get out of. Won't be as straightforward as it was in 2011/12. Would be nice to see a Saints team playing as a team and giving it their all - even if they are not technically as good as the current bunch of prima donnas. Would not mind if Mark Hughes stayed. It needs someone with a bit of grit to sort them out.

Think whoever scores first will win. I know that is usually the case but more so in this game. We score first and their crowd will turn.

Three days before the cup semi-final. Not doing us any favours. Assume that this is TVs doing

tell the teacher to watch the YouTube video and stop it at the point that McCalliog played the pass. Check the lines on the pitch and where Bobby was. Then let it run and see Martin Buchan come into the shot - check which line he was on (and has been rightly pointed out he was running forward). Bobby was a yard or two onside. It wasn't even close. It's just the appearance of the usual footage. First 20 minutes were a bit touch and go, but after then it settled down. Last 30 minutes only one team were going to win - and it wasnt United. LM really did his homework on them that day

This thread is in danger turning into Golden Gordon from the Ripping Yarns series (showing my age)