Saint86

The same place that led to Les Reed being fired...

I suspect the appointment of Mitchell would be delayed but is perhaps agreed verbally or in principle. Perhaps for next summer? Its not a coincidence that he was previously linked and now we have gone for the Leipzig manager who were both at the club together. We are very clearly going to copy the Leipzig model (our old model under Cortese and Poch - Pre balding old greedy fat man). Its brilliant really, Les did nothing but dismantle the previous regime from the second he got control of the club. He's gone, and immediately we seem to be in for a Poch style manager and getting Mitchell back. All his hard work, completely ripped up and reversed within weeks... Love it. If reed had stayed he would have been far worse for this club that Lowe. Taking us from a European contender to a league 1 team, whilst destroying our identity. I have no doubt.

Shane long is laughing...

You've given yourself away here cabbage

What!?!?!? We were too fecking slow in sacking Reed. Jesus.

Think it goes to show that any line up without Hoedt is capable. Stephens, Yoshi, Vest - they are all better CB's. Valery was a beast. Redmond did well. Obafemi looks a handful if nothing else. Midfield 3 were good. I know its popular to hate hughes, but our performances have been solid recently (bar city). I honestly think we are very low on confidence and we just need to get some luck and a wiin and things will improve.

Unlucky. But good performance. The fans need to have some perspective on this one. We really should have won this. Hit the woodwork numerous times, ball cleared off the line, another goal ruled out harshly.

We are getting absolutely no luck. Hit the woodwork 3 times? Another perfectly good goal ruled out. Joke.

Not if he play for Nigeria first, as I said

Doesn't capture the thousands of regular season ticket holders / members that have turned their backs on funding this board. So a flawed and biased survey before it even starts.

We have some real die hard axe grinders who are incapable of even considering this isn't Hughes' fault.

Literally. Austin scores. But you two are slating Hughes for bringing him on, and one of you actually using that substitution as a reason for hammer Hughes' decision making. I mean seriously, you cant find better examples?

Watford are a good side who had 65% possession at Newcastle... Saints made them look our equals and very beatable. We are just very low on confidence, and it was good to see us playing Gabbi, Yoshi, and being more attacking this game.

Big improvement in performance this weekend with Reed no longer affecting selection and tactics. Still not enough.

We were unlucky. But its not because of the ref. We just didn't do enough to win. Armstrong shot missed, Hoedt free header etc etc.

You really should get banned. You just come on here to be aggressively anti saints.

Yoshi's header...

Yoshida really is our best defender.

Its actually quite scary the difference Les Reed leaving has made. Yoshi and Armstrong in, more attacking football. How can he have had such a negative impact on the club. Scary!! Come on Gabbi!

I'll tell you one thing. Now that Reed has gone, you can widen the shortlist to managers under contract

So laughable.

Kat Leibherr. What a legacy.

Very coincidental that he's going now. Statement less than 3hours old... I'd certainly take him, he has done a fantastic job at Brentford and is the kind of name we should be looking at more regularly.

Following all his negative PR spin and personality assassinations that he sanctioned... why should he then get a better send off. They did more for this club than he ever did.

Spot on. The revisionism is bizzare from so many. Once he got his sweaty paws on the steering wheel he utterly dismantled Cortese legacy over 3 windows... Lets not forget that first summer.... "Nobody will be sold", season ticket renewals close..... Lambert sold, lallana sold, lovren sold, shaw sold, chambers sold... etc etc etc... all of which only stopped when the fans turned on the club over the chambers transfer of all of them... Negative PR over almost every departure, lying to the fans... Got rid of Poch, the scouting set up and the rest of that team all in quick succession. but still - "Praise be to the almighty Les Reed" - after all, don't forget he single handedly kept Kelvin at the club and signed Lambert, Fonte, Hammond, puncheon et al.... oh wait....