Maggie May

Our football goes nowhere. Why do they even bother? Has there ever been a team that’s shown as little fight to stay up as this lot? Forest are awful and there for the taking.

Everton will beat them tonight.

Stop doing it to yourself!

Lampard out!

Chelsea beating Bournemouth. Get Lampard in now.

I see my comment has attracted a bit of ridicule. I’ll stick my head on the block and say Lampard will impress in his next role.

People can joke all they want about Lampard but he’s achieved more as a manager than Selles ever has and, I expect, will. - Performed well with Derby and knocked us out of the cup. - Got Chelsea CL football and to an FA Cup final under a transfer embargo. - Kept Everton up last season (something which Selles failed miserably at) If he hadn’t had a mare of a second season with Everton or tried to steady the ship of a truly basket case club like Chelsea, we’d still be clamouring for a manager like him. I say bring him in next season with a clean slate and see what he can do.

I would honestly take him next season.

Easiest money you’ll ever make.

Sigh. Time to do something else for the next few hours.

Lavia and Alcaraz aside, how any of this current lot is being linked with top clubs is beyond me.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65398885 The article above is BBC Sport’s take on the relegation run in. They speak to reporters who cover the five teams involved, including Adam Blackmore for us. Blackmore’s take is fairly obvious but it completely sums up what sort of club we’ve become over the past few years, coming to a head with certain relegation under a disastrous Sports Republic stewardship so far. It’s sterile and soulless. You read the write ups on how relegation for the likes of Everton and Leicester will have a massive impact historically and within the fan base… how legacies will be tarnished, how hard work will be undone, and how players have just five games to salvage it. Blackmore’s take is the same robotic gospel sung from the same robotic hymn sheet written by board and the manager. He says we will lose the model where we unearth gems to sell on for big fees, how we will obviously rely on parachute payments and how much SR are willing to put in, and how dropping down will impact the calibre of manager we can attract. But this is just the fundamental flaw in what this club has become. The model we have in place that Blackmore fears we will lose has brought us failure in the end. The calibre of managers we could bring in was already impacted because we decided to bring in Jones from the division we are about to drop into. We’ve ended up giving a Premier League job to a novice who has never managed a team. It surely can’t get much worse. It’s massively telling when our ‘expert’ just brushes over the business impact rather than how this is going to be a massive blow for not just the fans but city as a whole. I fear most fans are resigned to our fate and wont care about relegation because their passion and fight has been sucked away, just like what the players have shown on the pitch all season. Relegation won’t just have the financial impact this time. Unless there are massive changes that sees us stabilised, with a group of players who show fight and passion that help us become established in the top flight again, we risk losing a generation of Saints fans who actually care.

The most embarrassing, cringe 90 minutes of the club’s history. - losing to Bournemouth at home when fighting for survival. - Walcott’s note. - zero fight. - starting Adam Armstrong. Thanks SR, you’ve just lost a generation of Southampton fans and the club’s top tier status for years to come. You can hate on him all you want but Chris Sutton was spot on with everything he said tonight. He is no fool.

Utter disgrace.

I see Theo has gone all Nasty Nick from Big Brother 1 by showing notes to everyone. Hopefully it’s a “very dirty” plan to beat Bournemouth.

Yep. Ended up in a league cup final and two FA cup semis with inferior sides. That said, I don’t think I could forgive Ralph for the completely absent performance against Leicester at Wembley a couple of seasons ago. Probably our best chance of winning a major trophy for a very long time.

He’ll be at Spurs next season.

I’m amazed by the reactions to many on here when it’s announced staff like Crocker are leaving. We’ve been awful for nearly two years. I know nothing about him, obviously, but I’d love to know what he brought to the club during his time here…

Bournemouth are dreadful. We just have to hope they turn out a similar performance against us on Thursday.

Alcaraz is a diamond of a player. The highlight of a terrible season.

What do these guys think when they see tonight’s line up? 7 of the 11 starters were part of Ralph’s abysmal descent last calendar year. They spend millions on “transforming” the team to try and stay in this league only to see only one of the January window signings starting with three on the bench. The striker that they spend millions on that’s looked closest to scoring over the past few games can’t get on the pitch over Adam Armstrong who’s up their with Carrillo in terms of our greatest ever dud signings.

I’m only tuning in as it’ll be the last time I see us play Arsenal in the league for a while. That line up is shameful.

Hilarious how everyone’s been reeled in by Pilchards’ hot air.

Les Reed left nearly five years ago.

Considering the lack of youth players who’ve taken the step up and cemented their place in the first team over the past few years… no real loss.