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This is obviously the ‘what did the Romans ever do for us?’ post of the night.

What about if they brought Adkins back as a stand in to the end of the season, would that please you?

Ditto

What's the betting he looks thoroughly rejuvenated on signing for Leicester next season ?

True but sadly not going to happen between now and the end of the season is it ?

Shame Ralph can't bring in coaches of his choice, rather than being saddled with Watson & Co. It doesn't seem a dynamic backroom.

Is that 'Relegated Eddie' from Bournemouth ? With one relegation on his CV he probably doesn't want to take a job fighting another.

To be replaced by who ? Unless there is some £ available in the summer, and that seems unlikely, no new manager will be able to put his stamp on the club. Up shit creek whilst Mr Gao remains here. Other than a short term fix and boost perhaps (and we could do with one that's for sure), a new manager solves nothing.

Not really that new to us though is it ? Seem to remember this happening under previous managers. Didn't we go from 0-2 at HT to 3-2 away at Hull a few seasons ago, possibly under Koeman. That said it is now the norm for us to have a good first half, not make it count, then collapse in the second appearing cluless in the process.

Agree. Poor squad, little investment, compounded by injuries. Why people start bandying names like the Brentford manager about is ridiculous, they are ambitious, seem well run and could be promoted. Why leave that for Gao, and the penniless Saints.

That's the first 8o seconds sorted, but then what ?

My first couple of seasons following them I remember: GK - Gurr/Martin FB: Kirkup and Hollywood (never particularly impressed with either),c1972/3 Steve Mills CB: John McGrath, Jimmy Gabriel (did a good cameo up front a couple of times), David Walker (Jim Steele from 1973 I think) MF: Fisher, O'Neill, Wing: Paine, Sydenham, then Jenkins Forwards: Channon, Ron, occasional run outs for Frank Saul, Micky Judd Channon was breaking through when I started watching (69/70) by the end of the season he was a regular. Of the GK - Gurr was meant to have great potential, Martin was the perfect'alehouse' keeper, always coming off his line to catch a high ball whilst showing the oncoming striker his studs. Don't remember Kindon, but I do remember the header with Alun Evans that lead to Shankley's famous 'alehouse' comment. Also remember various players having a toe to toe with Mike Summerbee. Probably some I've forgotten.

"Southampton can't afford to live in the same street as Leeds United and our supporters have to get used to it " - Ian Branfoot c 1991.

Heroes all of them from the Alehouse Days. McGrath was a favourite player of mine. Fisher wasn't the same after his broken leg though.

Saw a link to this on the old thread this morning. Wondered if it was another defensive masterclass from future superstar Jack Whatmough, and even checked their line up for the Bristol Rovers match and apparently not, he wasn't even playing. Seems Whatmough has got some competition for their 'Bestest Player of the Season' award then.

The two tackles on Djenepo yesterday were easily on par with the one he was sent off for against Newcastle last season.

Interesting that he talks about leaving the club as we wanted to raise funds to buy Charlie George, and the club had Steve Moran coming through. Rumour at the time was that Funnell had a bust up with Lawrie’s son who was also a junior at the club.

One of the hopes of VAR was that it might remove the ‘big club bias’ and allow an objective review of an incident. All it seems to have done is move the ‘bias’ to Stockley Park, and bring in a new strand of incompetence.

Shilton was also my first thought on reading the post you were replying to. Friend of mine said during the 1990 World Cup semi-final as it neared penalties England should take Shilton off with a couple of minutes to go and replace him with Dave Beasant, as Shilts doesn’t save penalties. A good point, but very few would select Beasant ahead of Shilton in their line up.

No, they have in recent seasons been in the top half, often pushing for Europe. Fair point but they seem to have come out of the other side of that experience intact and now stringer. That’s two poor appointments to contrast with three we had after Koeman left before Ralph arrived to steady the ship. Like us they now have a better manager who is likely to be sought after but don’t appear to have left themselves financially up shit creek in the process. Leicester have managed to retain many of their better players they want to keep (albeit by paying higher wages than us) and where they have sold (Maguire) have made decent investments (Maguire barely missed, Maddison not Elyounoussi, £40m was it for Tielimans ?). Think it’s a case of red and white striped glasses not to see they’ve managed things better over the last few years and are in a better position because of it.

Annoying thing about Leicester is that is how we could be, and might have been. But they're a well run club with an ambitious owner and not handicapped by the Les Reed years.

Poor Spurs and Daniel Levy having to pay massive compensation to Jose if they get rid.

I was at both those matches, great support and atmosphere. Memorable nights. At Orient I was on the side terrace you mention, yes it was rammed full, and no surprise when the wall at the front collapsed as we all tried to celebrate on the pitch after. Always regret not being able to go to Luton away in that run-in towards the end of the season where I believe Saints had three sides of the ground.

Thanks for posting the link above. This lead to the next installment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_j6Dl-6GHAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_j6Dl-6GHA Always felt sorry that he didn't get a run once we'd got promoted, perhaps like Billy Sharpe he was probably thought of as not having the pace for the top flight. Nice of Cherries fans to make something for us!