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Merchant

Yep. Genuinely can't understand the support for the bloke, and the criticism of a team who've been decent.

I'm starting to wander if he writes down six different teams/formations, numbers them 1 - 6, then rolls a dice.

Your commitment to Ralph is admirable, but Saints have been dreadful for a year +. West Ham haven't been.

Pit

It's a poor argument. His squad, at the club where he is manager, has got worse and as a consequence his results have got worse. How he would have done with players that we know longer have is entirely hypothetical, and pointless as they ain't here anymore. Anyways, we're on different pages - I'd happily see Ralph sacked today and Rodgers replace him. You don't have to agree, tis cool.

It's up there, but I think it's probably Warrington.

I like them. I avoid Aldi as they don't have them and I don't want to line up behind full trolley's with a bottle of milk and bunch of bananas.

Not sure of your point mate. I'm saying I'd have him here now. Bednarek and Long aren't here. What Rodgers may have done with players that we no longer have is a pointless hypothetical.

Care

I'm with you on the last part, but I'm not comparing Ralph to anyone. I'm looking at what I see as his clueless negative tactics, and a year + of poor results and regression. I also look at Rodgers and Moyes and see managers who I would have here in place of Ralph.

More time? He's been dreadful for a year.

Neither of us know the overwhelming concensus of their fans but I suspect many of their fans, like ours, sense danger and want change. As an outsider it looks as though he's taken that squad as far as he can, but that doesn't make him a bad manager. I'd have him here over Ralph in a heartbeat.

Leicester signed nobody and sold their best defender. Ralph was given money and bought loads of players. Leicester's bad start is hardly surprising and doesn't reflect on Rodgers at all imo.

Yep, sad move. The little one at Sainsbury's one was great. This one was brilliant, cheap too, although I was confused that it was halal but there was a whole pig on the bench at the back.

We didn't have time to shop Friday or Saturday so I popped into Lidl yesterday afternoon. It looked like there'd been a supermarket sweep tournament in there. No bread, meat, rice, only dregs of fruit so I went to an eastern European supermarket in Shirley. It was brilliant - a proper butcher counter, good fruit and veg, nice polish bread, all the staples. I'm guessing it was like that cos it's only Brits who are divs and stock up unnecessarily.

Youth

Behave. It's not the villa game. It's the last christ knows how long. It's the lack of a goalscorer, the lack of a creative force, the lack of midfield cover, the lack of proper full back cover, a kid in goal. The rose tinted specs/blinkered view/head in the sand of some fans is truly something to behold.

I think the truth is that every case is different, but, football standard is a fixed term. Ralph has relocated to another country and you'd imagine he'd have a contract that gives him more security than it gives us flexibility.

Prove it.

There's an air of inevitability about it Del. For me, it's gotta be the end for Ralph if we lose it. Get a new man in and up and running before the West Ham game.

Emotions

But we'd still be paying him, paying compensation for a replacement and then paying the replacement. He'd also be hanging around the place. Apart from all that, it's a cracking idea!!

This is yeasterday's news lads, time to move on.