Lighthouse

With MoPe, as ludicrous as it feels to say it, we could scrape our way to survival through bore draws, a surprise win or 2 against an underperforming crap team and (mainly if we’re being honest) because 3 other teams are even worse than us. With Kelvin and Rahdi we could easily become a hopeless, 6 straight defeats, relegation team like West Brom or Villa and Sunderland in recent years. One was a championship goalkeeper, the other is a mediocre U23 coach who really hasn’t moved any mountains even at that level. Cue the "yes but Adkins.... don’t need to be a top player to be a good manger... but you never know... etc." Posts but for every Adkins, Wenger etc. There are a thousand Dodds and Wigleys. It’s the managerial equivalent of being in massive debt, so scraping together the last of your savings and sticking it all on 23 on a roulette table.

Said in summer I’d have sold Jay Rod, Long and Austin, then started afresh with Gabbi and 2 new faces. A goal shy nobody from the French League wasn’t quite what I had in mind but I stand by the original sentiment. If we stay up I’d try and offload him to someone else who will take a punt on him staying fit and try and find a more reliable player.

No, I for one wouldn’t be behind them. That would be the cheapest, worst thought out, cop-out of an appointment since Wigley. I have no idea what Kelvin is supposed to bring to the club as it is anyway. I’m sure he’s a nice bloke and popular in the dressing room but he’s not exactly a font of world class goalkeeping technique.

Right so, when we got spanked at home by Spurs, Man City, Arsenal, West Ham and West Brom under Puel; if we had comfortably won all those games we’d still be 8th but that wouldn’t change your opinion of Puel at all. On the other hand if a bunch of other fixtures on the last day, which had nothing to do with Saints, had gone differently and we’d ended up 13th, that would mean Puel was a worse manager.

Poch - 56 points, 54 goals, +8 GD, 8 points behind 7th, 23 above relegation, entertaining football Puel - 46 points, 41 goals, -7 GD, 15 points behind 7th, 12 above relegation, boring football Yeah, they were basically the same.

No. The right man would have this team around Burnley in the League. A very good manager would be giving Arsenal something to think about.

Pellegrino Long Fat kn*bber who sits behind me in the Northam Warm p*ss in larger bottles Still no petting zoo

Yes, that’s exactly what I’d do. If he takes us down, do you think he is the right man to get us promoted?

I don't think you've quite seen the point of my analogy, so I'll try and simplify: Doing something good doesn't excuse you from doing something else much worse. 2 wins against, for e.g. Spurs and Man Utd in the semi and final would not make up for 38 games of abject dross in the League. Yes, it would be a great achievement but the fact that you would judge him on those 2 games and ignore the long list of hopeless league performances, I find remarkable. What logic are you using here? If he won the cup, would that make him the best man to get us promoted from the Championship? Or would you just reward him for winning the cup, regardless of how he performs next season?

Since the whole saga Leicester have lost at Everton, been spanked by Man City, drawn at home to Swansea and Stoke (Only saved in the latter by that Butland howler) and now snatched an injury time equaliser at home to Bournemouth. They've picked up half as many points as we have.

That's like saying if you give lots of money to charity but you murdered someone, should you still go to prison. If Pellegrino avoided relegation AND won the Cup, then flew over Pompey the next day and napalmed the place, I'd still want him sacked.

Carrillo and Gallagher is different to the other examples as Clasie and Redmond both looked superior on paper at least than anyone in our youth team. I think if we'd replaced Schneiderlin with Reed, there would be a public lynching of Les.

He’s a striker with 1 goal in over a year of football. They’re called lost causes for a reason. Running around after defenders might scare a few League 1 teams but Premier League defenders are too good for all that. He runs around, can’t shoot, control the ball and is always offside.

Long is not more effective than anyone at anything.

Please, let's not go through this again. R.I.P. Davide, truly shocking. 31 and supposedly fit as a fiddle and he apparently just drops dead.

Was 'mixed' in the Northam to say the least. I think it was mainly frustration at how badly we had played for the first hour when it was obviously a poor team to anyone other than MoPe.

The cross for Boufal's header was decent. If he could do that more often it would be fantastic but too often he looks for the safe ball inside.

TBF we did chuck a turkey onto the pitch after 79 minutes.

That first half was just painful viewing but you can bet your last penny MoPe will go back to that same system he started the game with and wont have learnt a thing. Why he waits until 63 minutes to actually try and win it I've no idea. It's like he starts every game thinking, 'let's just get through the first 2/3 without getting beaten and go from there'. Carrillo - Isolated Tadic - Useless on the right Redmond - Negative, wont take his man on Long - Offered absolutely nothing Boufal - One header aside, neither did he. Useless show pony, falls around a lot. On the plus side Sims - Ran at them, caused problems. Gabbi - F**k me, we actually looked like we were trying to score after he came on. Lemina - If we go down, he will be the best player ever to get relegated IMO.

I've never thought he was great but I can't really criticise him as he's been given nothing of any substance to work with. It's no coincidence that when Gabbi came on after 63 minutes it was a different game and we had them on the ropes for a while.

Went with two mates for the SOLE reason that I hadn't seen either of them in about a year and we fancied a good old fashioned Saturday afternoon get together in the pub. We went in with absolutely no expectations of the game and left with an even greater sense of apathy. I think it's gotten to the point, for me at least, that Premier League football is so sterile, vulgar and out of touch with the real world that I struggle to care about it.

£50m for a Championship fullback? I'm done with this planet.

I think it could be the worst thing that has ever and will ever happen.

Nice, although anything otherwise would be taking the p*ss a bit TBH. I know it's the paths etc. and not the pitch which need to be cleared but there's almost 48 hours between yesterday's snowfall and kick off. To not clear a relatively small area of land in that period would be a bit pathetic IMO. Good effort from all those involved!

And yet here we are.