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He's a coach who's coached a team who look badly coached. The fact that nobody can justify why they want him to get the job says it all.

Apologies...so the cluster fuck that has been this season...an ever present on both managers watch. The point remains - what has he done to persuade anyone that he's the answer for the remainder of this season?

I don't see Marsch as a failure. I'd prefer him to Selles who is an ever present in what's been the cluster fuck if the last 18 months or so. He should be out of the door and I'm struggling to understand why people think he'll offer anything that's neat good enough...seems to be based on hope. Marsch has at least managed at this level.

Not sure where I said we'd only get bad managers mate, you made that up. What we won't get are people who at the start of the season who saw us a forward career step. Who would come here as a caretaker? Really easy to say something like that, but who would you realistically suggest?

So who do you expect us to get given where we are, and where we're heading? If this were the summer and we were safe we've have all sorts of options. That's not the case though, and people need to accept the reality of our situation and how we attractive we're not to decent managers right now.

Fifth

it's reasonable to assume that he won't be lying in a hotel in Southampton once Chelsea eventually sack him. If he's got any sense he'll be lying on a sunbed in the Caribbean for about 6 months with a Pina Colada in his hand until he gets a call from West Ham to move across London.

Blimey, that's night and day from Jones. This bloke is an actual likeable human being.

Jones had plans A - E each game, and that was just for our defensive shape. They were all shit though. If we can get a manager with a decent plan A for the rest of this season, that'd be a start.

Ha!! Very good... although either would probably do better than Jones, I'm not convinced that Tessem's management spell for Totton in 2008, and Benali's under 12 and Romsey Town experience is quite what we need.

You jest, buy according to Al Jazeera, they're not ruling out aliens...

Culture

That must be absolute bollox.

Who would want relegation from the premier league on their CV? Who would want relegation AND a failure to gain promotion back the premier league on their CV. Work ain't just about the money - it's also about career prospects, achieving something, not failing, not getting shit from the fans and media, etc. I can fully understand why people would swerve us.

Yes. Mexico for PL (Spanish commentary though) and Australia for FA cup. £35 up front for 12 months. We had it anyway as there's some good programmes on there (Yellowstone, Tulsa King etc) so having the football is there is a nice bonus.

Surely inaccurate, unverified figures provided by Ukraine are as reliable as inaccurate, unverified figures provided by Russia? We're fed spin, ditto the Russian people. The truth will be somewhere in between.

He seems a bit of a maverick for sure. Seems wedded to a back 3 though. We've been there once or twice and it doesn't go well.

Can we please stop with this judging based primarily on stats nonsense. How Marsch did at Leeds with the players available to him there is not comparable to how Ralph did here with the players at his disposal. They also managed 3 years apart at Leipzig. Stop comparing apples with bananas.

Treacle

He's never managed I don't think, purely a coach?

I've been quite impressed with him tbh. Bigger, faster and just a lot better than I expected. I'd prefer him at RB than Lyanco or AMN. If anything, this lad is the only positive to have come from Jones tenure here.

Nuno feels like a good fit for us. He did really well at Wolves, and is a big enough name to command respect and restore some credibility to the club.

We'll find out soon enough mate!

I reckon we'll end up with a proper curveball. Some fella from a far flung league that we've never heard of. Or Scott Parker.

I did a double take when I saw that AMN was playing as a CB. DCC, arguably our best CB, isn't in a 20 man squad and we have him at CB. Crazy.