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Another manager we have been linked with in the past.

Rodgers is a different calibre to the others on that list, if he’s interested then he should be the clear favourite for me.

So the final four are assumed to be: Eckhert O’Neil Carrick Rodgers Why on earth would you go with Eckhert from that list?

GON wasn’t interviewed or Solak wasn’t concerned about fan backlash?

”While O’Neil is a contender for the job, it is still early in the process for Southampton.” ”Other managers, including Michael Carrick, have a strong reputation in the Championship and could come into the running, with the former England midfielder reaching the play-offs once with Middlesbrough during his three seasons at the club.”

Gary O’Neil joins Bournemouth after that 9-0 defeat to Liverpool and looking dead certs to finish bottom. He kept them up and was swapped out for a huge upgrade, doesn’t mean he didn’t do a good job though. He then kept Wolves up when it looked like it might be their turn, finishing 14th. Next season though they were playing awful footy and he was sacked. They had sold more key players but he still had Cunha playing out of his skin. Although only 30%ish win rate, for struggling PL teams you can see he was quite effective, he did keep both sides up in those first seasons. Saints are 19th in the championship. It’s not that the calibre of this appointment isn’t good enough (we have failed to find a manager that can keep us up after many attempts and 2 relegations), it’s more that those Portsmouth links will give him very little time to make it work and as a manager he doesn’t have Championship promotion experience. if he did join and get us into the playoffs and winning at Fratton in January, we would all forget the link. If he started slowly we would have the toxic situation yet again. It’s a gamble.

GON: ‘I was a Millwall fan as a kid, I used to love going to watch them, but as soon as you start playing you can no longer do that and it takes a big part of it away. ‘So I turned into a Pompey fan because I was there for so long and they treated me so well. ‘I didn’t really want to leave, so was always looking back at the results and sort of converted into a Pompey fan, so I’ll be down there as much as I can. This was when he was 36 and injured without a club for context.

Are there any examples of MB getting predictions correct in the past? Think someone shared he was first to mention Will Still?

if I recall correctly, the player did pull out on us at the very last moment?

RIP Andy

Didn’t make the cut but does appear on other betting sites at 12/1.

I don’t think Eckert is a real contender, just that we have confidence in him to hold the fort whilst we bide our time and make our decision. We have bottom of the league in administration this weekend and then don’t play again for 2 weeks. Ideally we get the next man in to make the most of that international break with the players that aren’t called up. There isn’t really an obvious candidate, which is concerning. Rohl should have been the man.