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And we could finish in 8th place. You're right, I'm not saying the fans HAVE to like him. Like that idiot who thinks Nigel Adkins did nothing for us, whoever that is...

Football fans are fickle. If we go and win at Anfield, all of this talk will go away pretty rapidly. Perhaps the board has seen morale is low, the players are on the beach, and have decided to use the media as an opportunity to fire a rocket up a few asses before Sunday.

I agree. We'll finish in 8th. All of these reports are coming out because a French sports newspaper wrote an article based on the fact that the fans booed on Saturday. Cracking journalism.

I mentioned this a couple of days ago, and surprise surprise, nobody had a valid response.

I've translated the actual article https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Claude-puel-sera-t-il-la-pour-une-deuxieme-saison-a-southampton/797506 The actual article contains some errors (like saying our match against Hull was 1-1 rather than 0-0) but there are zero sources at all and it seems to be merely speculating if he will be in charge, rather than offering anything concrete. I've also translated the comments

Look at the comments under the article! They're making fun of our fanbase, along the lines of "They're in the top 10, what were they expecting?!" And I have to agree with them.

People are too quick to blame the manager for a poor performance but refuse to give him any credit for a good one.

And yet people would like you use not reaching the final as a stick to beat him with. What is a FACT is that he got us further than Pochettino and Koeman ever did in any competition, and you can never take that away. Hopefully, next season, he'll go one further and finally prove the doubters wrong. Although no doubt, the usual suspects would still moan at something.

Top trolling by the Mayor of Southampton

Utter, utter rubbish We were on the backfoot for most of the home game. And they didn't name a weakened team by any stretch. 2nd leg, we defended superbly. A little bit of luck, but also a lot of effort and superb defending. The only match against them where we got lucky was the home league game, 0-0, where really we were lucky to keep a clean sheet. Tactically, Puel has outsmarted Klopp, at least in the cup matches. For what it's worth, we will be the underdog against Sunday, and if we get a point, it'll be a superb result. But we seem to be their bogey side currently.

Three game against them this season, three clean sheets and two victories Not to mention we seem to play better away from home these days

It raise a slight chuckle, I'll admit

I don't want this to be a thread about the players you think we'll sell, but rather, which players do you WANT to go this summer? For me - Martina definitely. Gardos too. Isgrove I imagine will leave. All three not good enough. I wouldn't be too upset if we sold Long or J Rod either. We need strikers who can score. Gallagher back from a good spell at Blackburn would be better than an obviously demoralised J Rod. I'd like to see Clasie and Hojbjerg stay, I think they can improve still. And Reed probably needs a loan spell away somewhere, but I still think he could offer something in the future.

I must admit, I was half tempted to start a similar thread and see if it would get any bites. Alas, SKD, you did this far too soon after the previous one.

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They've got an outside chance of winning the league next week

I saw one moron on Twitter saying he wanted David Moyes :lol: That's the level of intelligence we're dealing with here folks.

The odd missed one you can forgive, but he has missed too many now. Drop him, or get Rickie Lambert to do some drills with him. JWP has never missed for us, right?

Instant Classic is the only one posting anything intelligent. Everyone else is posting the same old rubbish.

Thank god this forum isn't remotely representative of what the real fans think. What a laughing stock this place has become.

No MOTM poll?

I do think our fanbase is abnormally thicker than others, I really do. Some fans don't realise how lucky we are.

They only got a point because of Tadic. We were very, very poor, and we still almost managed to somehow win it.

They were in a relegation battle though, they had little option really but to change the manager. Let's say that this is Puel's worst season with us. Not that bad for a 'terrible season' - a (probable) top half finish, a cup final, and with a whole host of injuries (I know I keep repeating that fact but it is true, and we have been unfortunate in that regard, more than other teams). As long as there is a real improvement next season, and we're fighting higher up the table, then I think most will be happy. If it doesn't look like we're progressing, or we're going backwards, then that's the time to make the change.

We finished 6th after 2 seasons of the same manager! Remember, half of you lot a month ago thought we were in a relegation battle Just see what happens next season. If there isn't any improvement then yes, that's when to get worried. And I'd like to think that we'll be battling for European places.