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A few?!?! We've been rock bottom of the form table for 20 games. That's almost 2/3 of a season. It's not a rough patch, it's an epic slide. On the other point, you absolutely have to judge an employee on his individual performance. He's the first team manager / coach and is doing a poor job of it. The excuses are getting more ridiculous now.

We agree on that 👍

You're a sweet man, touching. In the real world, the shit employee gets canned.

This is a daft stance. If I have an employee who was once decent but who's not cutting it anymore, I don't cling onto them just in case the replacement is no better. A simple manager change may not make a positive difference, but we won't know unless we try but nobody is convincing me that after 15 points in 20 games, that Ralph can simply turn it around.

When you were sulking the other day you said you wouldn't be replying to me. It was nice while it lasted. Back to Ralph, I only wish he'd change his mind about his tactics that aren't working.

That's my recollection too. I've got it in my head that he said he wanted 20 players plus the kids. Don't get me wrong, he would have meant 20 good players, but a small squad is what he wanted and what he has.

In fact it's worse than that, we've been rock bottom since matchday 13. In all my time as a fan, I've honestly never heard so many excuses for a manager.

And since matchday 22 we're rock bottom...

Yep, great fella, I enjoy the energy we play with, his energy is terrific, there's lots to like. I don't think he isn't willing to change, rather that he knows nothing else.

If it's a Puel 8th, he's a dead man walking. If it's a Poch 8th, he'll deserve a Knighthood.

Yep. I really can't fathom what people think Ralph is a capable of doing to suddenly start getting results. There's been loads of posts on this thread over teh last couple of days from people saying give Ralph time, and unless I've overlooked it, not one person has said what they think will change.

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That's like saying that a man who once made his wife cum 3 times a day shouldn't be surprised that he gets dumped when he can't get it up anymore. Ralph has the same players at his disposal (plus Minamino) as he did when we were doing brilliantly. The only person who's to blame for them not performing as they once did is Ralph. The only person responsible for shit in game management and inability to alter tactics to our advantage is Ralph. He's become an impotent manager.

You're settling into your new name nicely mate. Enjoy your day xx

That response confirms my thoughts. Just have one login and stick with it mate.

Devils advocate time. His contract is running down. Saints won't offer him what he thinks he's worth. Another club have indicated they'll sling him a mil or two as a signing on fee, plus Saints will have to pay a chunk as a loyalty payment on his transfer, then he gets another X thousand a week for a couple of years at least. Anyone can see that's tempting for the lad. The above, or something like it, may have been the case for a while. Our Danny might want it to happen, he's a hired gun after all. That would unsettle Danny, that's obvious, but I'm not sure why it'd destabilise the whole club. What we also don't know is what's preventing a move or new deal. It's a negotiation. Whether it's Danny being unrealistic, or the club, or a potential new club, or the agents, we don't know. What I do know is that I wouldn't be a twat and label Danny a twat cos it hasn't got sorted yet.

Paranoia, behave!! It appears to me that you're an existing member posting under a different name and you are, it's not a drama. If you really are new, welcome. On subject. You're essentially saying that the players need to be changed because Ralph' management and coaching of them means that he is is now getting poor results out of the very same players. How that becomes a player issue rather than a Ralph issue I can't fathom, and pointing to you're preferred evidence of the net spend table doesn't make your argument any better.

Thank you, I hadn't seen that. Interesting read.

And there's the rub. We have the same players as we did when Ralph was getting a tune out of the players. Thus, the lack of spending is irrelevant to our recent form. The team consisting of those players is now massively out of tune and Ralph hasn't been able to fix that, and doesn't look like he can. Not sure I'm feeling the new alter ego by the way. Slightly less abrasive, for now at least, than the old one though.

Had he just changed a forward for an inferior forward your point would be valid. If you think making 3 changes and disrupting us as a result of 1 injury was good game management we'll agree to differ.

Matthew, let's get back to spurs. Did Ralph's changes after Ings got injured help or hinder? Would just swapping out someone from the bench for Ings have been less disruptive to the team? Straight answers please.

For me it was part the poor decisions / changes Ralph made, and the changes tactically Spurs made. They didn't bring players on that improved them.

If Bale and Son came on when we were one up and changed the game you'd have a point, but they were already on the pitch. Ralph chose to make multiple position changes when Ings went off and we went to shit after that and lost.