Ted Bates Statue

He's had his howler. Maybe if Leicester have a pen at the weekend he could just stay put as everyone hits it down the middle against him. Christ. We could be 5-0 down here.

Not to worry. We will get another chance to call for Hasenhuttl's sacking very soon. West Brom can still overtake us.

Like the seven sides they were unbeaten against before today? Like Everton? Like Leicester? Arsenal?

Yep, the noble folk of Chelseaweb will be asking serious questions of him. He's only as good as his last game, guys! On that note, "Poch out" is trending on twitter. Something to do with Jose Fonte's Lille (TM) going top of Ligue 1.

I think you're onto something, this must be why Ralph doesn't wear a suit any more.

Glad I'm not the only one who would prefer to discuss Saints v Leicester rather than debate endlessly whether something is racist or not. I think there is a ready-made thread in the Lounge sub-forum for that.

It just dawned on me that we could end up signing Walcott permanently as our supposed Ings replacement. It's like 2005 all over again.

Any team that considers their manager to be competent enough to keep on track for the absolute minimum requirement, i.e. stay in the top division - so that would be around 14 clubs in the PL who wouldn't react to isolated dreadful results in a knee-jerk fashion. I was going to cite Watford as a likely exception, but then again they only sacked Flores after losing against us, months after they lost 8-0 to Man City. Maybe I'm self-centred in my ignorance but I think the reason why nobody banged on about teams like them getting thumped is because they were shit for the whole season and they have a reputation for serially firing managers. On the other hand we get talked about because as a side Hasenhuttl has us capable of blowing hot and cold, as opposed to just cold.

Wigan have beaten Man City three times in the FA Cup in the last ten years - 2013, 2014 and 2018. I thought it was "only" twice. And only one of those times was as a PL side. The footballing gods must have a sense of humour when allocating bogey teams. I wish we were Wigan

It's getting there, think we have a couple more games to go before we reach those depths. The difference is that Hasenhuttl has shown he can get a tune out of this side, whereas Hughes never did. That's why we have the odd scenario of goodwill towards a manager having presided over two massive defeats. A defeat against Bournemouth would be a major turning point.

Had a quick look to double check. "He's not much better" apparently. To even consider comparing the two managers is insanity.

Hasenhuttl just as bad as Hughes, is this for real? Happy to revise my opinion of Puel but had to check the win percentages, as my memory of recent times must be very different to others: Puel: 37.74% Pellegrino: 23.53% Hughes: 18.52% Hasenhuttl: 37.25% So if the above is correct, Hasenhuttl could fail to win his next 98 matches and his win percentage would still be better than Hughes'. Feel free to draw your own conclusions.

Let's see them do it for the whole year. Prestige awaits before a plummet down the table

Yes, happy to eat my words over some of the garbage he signed that ended up alright. Perhaps he might be viewed a little more kindly on here had he not banged on about what a mastermind he was, only to disappear from view once results took a turn for the worse.

Les Reed

In that season we had a defeat by the exact same scoreline to the mighty Watford, who would go on to finish a respectable 18th in the Championship. I think that your point is a tad overblown, considering we have already racked up more points from 28 games than we managed over the full 38 in that season.

I don't think we have much chance of winning the league title now. Guess we can concentrate on the Cup after tonight.

On that note, Cortese Junior must be about to break through at AC Milan.

Adidas? Unless there's something I've missed that means we're not allowed to wear that brand any more?

I wouldn't normally pay any attention to them but in the post-match reaction, Radio Solent are talking about nothing but the team down the road. Smashed 4-1 by relegation threatened Northampton, they're now slithering out of the playoff spots. "No-one thought they could be hit for four by the division's lowest scorers." Aww bless. The Jackett Out brigade is well and truly up and running. Earlier one of their fans texted calling for Mark Hughes (lol), now one of them is asking for Eddie Howe! As if not one of the >50 clubs above them would be interested in employing him, let alone a PL side. Next week they have the mighty Salford at Wembley...

It's in Golden Posts. All that comedy was slowing the lounge down.

Off on a tangent but Inter are on a bit of a precipice as they chase the title. Their owners want £750M before they sell up and in the meantime, players and transfer fees aren't being paid. Of course getting UCL qualification would help, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility that they could yet get penalised with a relegation or three.

Charlie Austin has also been on fire for QPR. I look forward to seeing the HCDAJFU thread on him.

Presumably the humblebragging from the "cheeky insurance bet" crowd on here. Not a peep from them when they donate directly to the bookies, they only sing when they're "winning"...

Years ago I heard a top referee claim that VAR would ruin the joy of discussing the merits of a referring decision post-match. At the time I thought that opinion was absolute nonsense and I understand he has thoroughly changed his mind on this also. First and foremost, just get the bloody decisions right!!! The sooner that happens, the quicker we can get back to moaning about Redmond or whoever our official Saints scapegoat is at any given time. Or god forbid, actually celebrating getting a point or three.