Pamplemousse

It can't be any worse than the Newcastle shambles.

I wonder if our new manager will be in attendance at Bradford v Wigan?

I notice that Matt Targett ‘liked’ the post announcing his sacking on Instagram

Hughes will do well for us initially, but things do tend to get stale after a while. I think the best we can hope for is him doing well for us and then another club taking him off our hands, Everton probably.

In my opinion, three wins would be enough. We have to beat West Ham though, a draw really isn't enough.

Charlie Austin ‏ @chazaustin10 That was mouldy ????

Funny how he all the time three years ago to all of these media interviews, and now is very unwilling to speak in the press. Has he gone shy, I wonder why he's reluctant to appear these days?

Stoke fans are comfortably the worst set of fans in the league, and possibly all of English football. You won't meet a set of more bitter, deluded people anywhere, except perhaps down the road towards the eastern end of the M27.

I imagine he'll get a job with one of Spain's clubs quite easily.

The West Ham game will be fun, Mark Hughes will be desperate to get one over Arnautovic http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11701/11175946/mark-hughes-criticises-marko-arnautovic-after-pair-clash-in-west-ham-win

Yup, but anything is better than Pellegrino, and hopefully an ‘OK’ manager will be able to do enough.

Batman can call me a snob, but Mark Hughes would be thoroughly underwhelming.

I hope you’re right SKD. I’d prefer Marco Silva to Hughes.

He’ll be remembered as the worst manager we’ve ever had in my lifetime. So at least he can say he’ll always be remembered by Saints fans. Sadly not for the right reasons.

They're discussing tonight's news on three separate threads over on POL... but they definitely don't care about us at all, no sir

This is from Pompey Online...

I'm not old at all I'd only want him until the end of the season, he certainly isn't the long term option. But he could give us the short term push that we need.

No doubt if we stay up, he'll be doing the media rounds at the end of the season, congratulating himself on appointing the manager who got us to safety.

Martinez - has Hazard, De Bruyne, Lukaku etc.. or Tadic, Redmond and Long.... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tough choice.

Why would we do that though? Makes no sense to me at all.

Graeme Bailey ‏ Verified account @GraemeBailey 20m20 minutes ago More Marca Silva favourite for Southampton job https://goo.gl/35uNXH Former Saints players Mark Hughes and Graham Potter also mentioned, as well as ex boss Gordon Strachan.

According to Simon Peach, Davis and Watson will be taking training for the time being.

Michael and Martin

Pellegrino gone... One win away from Wembley... Austin near the first team... the good times are coming back

Anything on social media from the players? Or have they all been told to keep quiet?