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I think we have solved our problem. The answer is clear. If changing a manager improves your chances of winning we need to change our manger after every game. Sorted.

So an ocean going liner leaves Southampton and sinks and yet there is no connection whatsoever with The Titanic. Whatever you say Guan. Be sure to post us a picture of you in your clown's outfit.

Apparently we were never interested in Sturridge. Walcott clearly went for the money. Monaco have rejected our first bid for Carrillo which doesnt mean the deal is dead unless we dont raise our offer. Good old Batman.

A quick question. If it is not the fans job to select a new manager, why is it their job to sack the current manager?

My thoughts entirely. He is coming across as a lover scorned, and in the most bizarre fashion. As for dragging the Titanic disaster into this, WTF? To quote another long standing poster "Jesus wept."

So which is it? Do you want a protest or not?

You talk about common sense. Where is the common sense in knee jerk reactions and total assumptions based on no hard evidence? Of course you need to keep an eye on your "customer base" but it would be extremely foolhardy to base your decisions on feedback based on people who have no idea how to run a business let alone a multi million pound Premiership football club business. This Board and others like it goes into meltdown every time we lose a match, sell a player, buy what is perceived to be the wrong player etc. They might well monitor these boards, but as I said, if they base their decision making on that feedback they must be crazy. You cant run a business based on reactionary feedback. Just look at the number of people on here who say they would have Cortese back again. That tells you all you need to know.

Anyone running a business and being influenced by a bunch of Internet warriors really should not be running that business.

£20m with £5m add ons apparently. How many players ever say they moved for the wages? It’s all about ambition apparently! And he really wants to work with Fat Sam. Good luck Theo, no shots on target on the last couple of games and currently a worse away record than us.

Sorry you left UJ. I take your points and do agree that when it is good it is very good, but there are times, as with all forums, when it sucks. Sometimes I miss the ignore button (which has served me well on here over the years) but sometimes you just have to exercise a bit of self control and know when enough is enough. I dont like the racist stuff either but then most of the posters dont either, so if that rears its ugly head it tends to get shouted down. Fortunately the race and migrant stuff seems to have taken a back seat since our poor form with the Board and the players getting stick now instead. It generally has a nicer vibe over there and most posters dont take themselves so seriously. Being a small forum (I'm getting the hang of this sizest thing Ralph) when things do kick off there is generally a call to cool things off which works sometimes, and sometimes it doesnt, but generally there is a feeling that we just want to go somewhere to hang out and exchange views rather than point score. It is far from perfect, but then the perfect internet forum does not exist. If you prefer dryer sheets and less scarred wrists though, you could do a lot worse.

Really? I am not sure I believe you. It would be even funnier though if you had impersonator over there. If it wasn't you they were very good and had your wet lettuce persona off pat! You even have your own thread over there discussing whether it is you or not. Fame at last eh hypo!

Thing is you did used to post over there up until last August but you didnt get away with the rubbish you post there so you bottled it and took refuge back here. As for the site itself, there isnt the same level of bed wetting and wrist slitting. We do have a couple who would be better off here but in the main it is a lot more rational when it comes to football matters and it does have a sense of humour - something sadly lacking in the main here. But the major pluses are that hypochondriac no longer posts there and it doesnt have Batman, Shurlock and CB Fry. Give it a try for yourselves. It isnt everyone's cup of tea but if you are sick of the constant calls to sack people from the tea lady to the Board, and the biggest swinging **** competition between the forum bullies, you might find it a pleasant change. This place is badly in need of the internet equivalent of heavy medication, that and some decent moderation. It is all very well saying that abuse is not tolerated, but then prove it by doing something about it. A number of decent posters dont post here anymore which is not surprising. You'll find some of them over at Sotonians. Enough moralising for you Shurlock?

Out with a knee ligament injury until November.

He's back! What does "stock piking! mean?

Beating on your own team to go down? And some here say our supporters aren’t sh*t!

Not an unreasonable piece, although it won't placate the pitchfork brigade. Not sure what they mean about looking for a wide player even if they get Walcott unless they have told him he will play in the middle. As for Hoedt being Van Dyke's replacement - nothing wrong in that as long as we now finally replace Fonte.

That would be Lemina and Hoedt then!

To be fair I don't think that they need much fuelling.

He didnt say that though did he. He just said there had been a cloud over the club and negativity. He didnt blame the VVD situation on where we are now. And no, no one at the club blamed the Fonte situation on a loss of form either. How do you know everyone is falling out with Reed? Once again, you make something up to fit your own agenda. Christ, how on earth did we manage 4 top ten finishes in a row? It must have been a complete fluke.

Where have the club blamed our position on VVD? There is talk of a "cloud" and negativity and lets face it, having your best player sold by the media for months on end cant help morale within a club, but not once have I heard anyone from the club blame VVD for being where we are. The Chairman talked of joint responsibility and that everyone had to do better. Is that not taking responsibility for the situation rather than apportioning blame elsewhere? Not one of us knows what has gone on behind closed doors and yet there are many quick to jump to their own conclusions because they are desperate to pin the blame on someone. It seems to me our best chance of getting out of this mess is to pull together rather than seek and encourage division, but sadly that doesnt seem to be what many others want. When people hope that you lose a football match so that the manager might be sacked, you are well on the slippery slope downwards.

Just watched an interview with a an ex senior police office conducted after there were four fatal stabbings in London in one day the other week. He said on the same day there were 5 non fatal stabbings in Sheffield. He also made the point that although it was unusual for so many stabbing fatalities at one time, sadly it wasnt at all unusual to have multiple stabbings in cities and towns across the country on Friday and Saturday nights. The point remains that when Muslims carry out these atrocities this place lights up like a Christmas tree, yet the same people dont bat an eyelid when the butcherers are "our own." But then you know that dont you? Not one to let that get in the way of a cheap jibe though. You are danger of turning into hypochondriac mate.

There apparently has been talk of both Targett and McQueen being loaned out. If that is the case you would expect a new left back I would assume?

But we dont do we. We had to sell initially to get things back on track but we dont have to any more. VVD went because we were offered silly money and he clearly didnt want to be here. Every club aims to get its recruitment right every season and every club buys duds. That would be a problem for us if we were reliant on buying and selling, but we are more self sustainable now so less of an issue.

If anyone wants to read a well written piece about The Southampton Way and where we are now then go to Tom William's article today in St Mary's Musing. No histrionics. No knee jerk reaction. Just a well thought out and written piece about our philosophy and how it relates to the current situation. It makes a pleasant change to read something that isnt full of the usual bile. Sorry but I cant post the link.

I'd be more than happy to score one goal a game for the rest of the season as long we didnt concede any.