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Wait. We're appointing Rowan Atkinson now? I hope we have a plan, Baldrick.

Tick fucking tock. Think going for the cheap option this time might be the last straw for a lot of fans. Not sure I can be bothered anymore after over 40 years following the Saints. There is so much baked in incompetence in the way the club is run, and a toxic atmosphere that looks hard to shift. The fact that appointing the right manager now could help do precisely that, and appears to be ignored by people who think they know how to rewrite football (and come on, we all know Rasmus is one of the key proponents/criminals here) is even more galling. It also reflects the lack of respect the club has for its fan base. They are in the last chance saloon.

I actually think the Romeu signing will be transformative, and that SR are kind of banking on him making the difference and plugging the shortfall that Eckhert will doubtless have when he is appointed as the cheapie, Rasmus-twattery option compared to a common sense manager with proven experience. It's like Rasmus et al really don't like appointing someone who knows more about football than they do...

Tick tock. Rasmus rewriting his Ted Talk about how he revolutionised everything. Please be some good, progressive, sensible and not trendy bollocks news around the corner. Like a manager with experience. That old thing.

Latest odds: https://www.oddschecker.com/football/football-specials/southampton/next-permanent-manager Eckert, O'Neill, Rodgers, Carrick. Not sure they know anything (the bookies) Amused (terrified) to see Jesse Marsch in there.

I'm imagining Spors singing 'Help me Tonda, help, help me Tonda' in a high pitched voice whilst prancing around the boardroom. It's a kind of nightmare.

I know you'll hate this, but I agree with every word you've said here. 😉

God, I do hope so, although doubt it. I think our board will fanny around, with Rasmus bleating about this or that person who will break all the rules of football and isn't he clever. Again. There will be a lot of churn in the coming days, with Farke likely gone, and even Eddie Howe coming under pressure, amazingly. Then there's Gareth Southgate popping into discussions again (perhaps a return to Middlesborough, although I think he would have been great to instil a complete culture change at Saints), Martin (to Norwich - got 5-1 on this) and all the rest, including Gary 'not very good really' O'Neil. SR will probably then throw their hands up and say they wanted Eckhert after all. And we will end up just escaping relegation.

You can probably add Leeds to that list after they fire Farke. Will be a merry go round. We'll wait until all the plates stop spinning and resort to the shittest pick

Absolutely right. Good post.

Russell Martin is 5-1 for the Norwich job. Can really see that happening. Really hope we don't go lazy and appoint Tonka toy. Rodgers is the best we could hope for from that list. Unless Rasmus gets his clever clever oar in and appoints a 13 year old computer programmer from Penge.

He's a terrible goalkeeper in a pool of two terrible goalkeepers. It's no way to run a football club, it really isn't.

True. We would have lost both with Will Still in charge, though. Hope the Rodgers rumour is true. Need a disciplinarian with experience

How we still have Bazanu and McCarthy as our ‘goalkeepers’ is negligence bordering on the criminal. No-one at the club appears to have any eyes

I really hope the twat Rasmus isn't pointing his little fingers at Brentford again, saying, look, it CAN work to employ the guy that's been there already. Really think he is the prime, root cause of all of our bad decisions over the last years. Eckhert would be a bad move. The players are too billy big bollocks (we should sell all of the troublemakers in January) to 'allow' anyone but their friend Russell or somebody who can command respect immediately (Rodgers would do that, O'Neill less so) rather than the stand-in teacher.