Maggie May

I do respect JWP for everything he did for the club but he was not captain material when he needed to be last season.

I would love to know what happened in the build up to the 4-0 defeat against Villa in Ralph’s penultimate season. It seemed to be the catalyst for our tumble towards the Championship. We were a fairly established mid table side off the back of one defeat in nine before that game. Then we only won one more match and have been largely outplayed ever since (bar the first few games of this season before reverting to type at Sunderland).

I’ve stuck up for Martin and thought Sunderland was a blip. Obviously not, this is clueless football.

It starts at just before 1hr 28. Says it was the worst time of his career. Treated very poorly, if true.

Interesting words from Mark O’Brien on NJ on the latest Undr the Cosh podcast.

I bet he used to say Nigel Atkins as well.

Mark Wotte in.

What was THAT?

Defeats and Don Goodman - and there are people who said the Championship was going to be fun.

There will be some fans who will take this as he’s not getting his message across to the players.

The fan base hasn’t been this divided over a manager’s haircut since the appointment of Mark Wotte.

Edit

Sums this place up right now perfectly.

Fair enough. Appreciate your perspective. I’m positive RM is going to get this team cooking with gas soon, hopefully against Leicester. And I think the “pally” nature with players is positive. It seems genuine.

It was more in reference to this: ”RM seems uber relaxed and pally with his players, but that can be a dangerous thing....he's the boss, not their mate.”

Wow - all this after one league defeat. This place is ridiculous.

Bet they’re begging for him back now, though. Seven wins in the last nine at the end of the season to a winless start under Duff.

Tall Paul to come in from the cold and fire us to the Prem?

Yesterday was bad but the way this forum goes into meltdown mode after a defeat is embarrassing. We have 10 points on the board already without playing to our best. Our closest rivals also lost yesterday. This process is going to take time but you can’t write RM off just yet.

We need to get out of this league ASAP to save us from Don Goodman.

First impressions of Rosco: he needs to cut out the knee slide celebrations.

Hello dad!!

Ings will probably end up at Burnley #spiritualhome

I’m amazed at how many Saints fans have an opinion on pretty much every player we are linked with. How have you been able to see them play enough to have a judgment? I haven’t a clue about any of them.

Someone telling Percy porkies?