Maggie May

My first thought when reading your post was “Austin”. Low and behold he says “Austin should be given a run in the side”

The thing is, hardly any other football fans, apart from the purists, give a f*** about us, and rightly so. Apart from recent days, we’re rarely covered by national media enough to warrant a considered response when it comes to fans of other clubs. Burnley are shocking, but we never hear Dyche getting a bad rep, so who are we to judge? You’d probably find negativity on their forums or the Lancashire Telegraph. The same goes for the likes of Watford, Fulham, Huddersfield, Palace and, to an extent, Brighton. All we really see from other fans is “Oh I like to see Southampton do well, loved Le Tiss” etc. Most aren’t clued-up enough, like we aren’t towards other clubs, to really mean we’re a laughing stock, especially with all the puff pieces about us and how great we are over the past five years. These, of course, stopped nearly a year ago when the media realised the great Pellegrino experiment was failing miserably.

Such an odd reaction.

The Ralph hype is huge. I hope the players take to his methods.

Odd person.

Wow - this post hasn’t had the required effect. Odd people.

Let’s give him our support tomorrow night. You can’t deny the influence he’s had over the past 12 years. Now he’s got a chance of leading a club for the first time, albeit for one game.

SSN saying Pearson open to talking to us with Moyes also interested. Excellent way of getting their Sky Bet accounts boosted. No chance will the club plump for those names.

Gone

A friend of mine told me something once. I didn’t believe them at the time but I kind of do now.

Puel was a mess for this club - a period we’ve not recovered from.

Umm no club gives rumour the time of day.

Sousa? Thanks for taking us down, Gao. “Down, down, deeper with Gao!!”

For me, this is why we either have terrible players or terrible coaches. You play solid at the back but can’t score. Play more fluidly in defence to accommodate our attacking threat but end up conceding more than we score. Hughes was a deadly finisher but why couldn’t he score here as a player - and why can’t he coach our strikers to score? We are as good as down.

Why is this a thread?

Hopefully someone's sent Hughes a link to this forum *waves*

So the “2pm meeting” must be over by now...

Has anyone got evidence to the contrary that selling the club to Gao wasn’t in the best interests of the club’s future? Having no money to sack a manager who will take us down is beyond worrying.

Austin’s just liked a tweet from a QPR supporter about “abuse from Southampton fans” and saying he’d like to see him back at Loftus Road.

I agree too. Hoedt’s constant inclusion must be contractual, as highlighted above

Hoedt is a massive part of our decline. How he can be considered the defensive lynchpin after Fonte and van Dijk defies belief. Get him on the bench and play Vestergard with Bednarek.

We’re the worst team in the league by far. Hughes needs to go now.

You can’t deny his managerial CV, despite the Greece blip, is very impressive.

Get Jokanovic now.

Well he’s clearly not going any time soon. This season is so depressing.