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Taking Spurs to a CL final - Managing PSG with some of the World’s best players - Trying to keep Southampton up with a bunch of kids and without a proven striker. In what world is that possibly a logical career move?

Yet we’ve never been in a relegation fight the whole time he has been here. It’s great that our players are so good we can hire any old shit manger and still be safe every year.

Is 14th failing when you are blooding a load of youngsters? This strategy of buying potential and developing them into top players is risky and will take time. Maybe we need to accept the fact that there will be some shit games whoever is manager. When we have the youngest team in the league, and nowhere near the biggest budget - what position would you say is acceptable?

Against a country that can't even hold a third of Ukraine? We could cut our military funding by a half and still be safe as houses.

I get it, just don't get why you continually bang on about him like he was Pep Guardiola when you think it was right that he was sacked all along.

Yet at the time you said sacking him was "probably the right decision"

Good question. Putin has already flattened cities and killed thousands of people and countries like India and China have just lapped up all that newly available cheap oil and gas.

Are they? Not sure Parker and Tuchel were the favourites for the sack at the start of the season.

How would NATO respond if he used tactical nukes in Ukraine though?

It's not though is it, option two is no, not undecided. I'm on the fence as well really. One thing none of us here know is who is available and up for taking over from Ralph. If the board have a top candidate ready to go then it makes a big difference to what the best thing to do is. We also don't know what's gone on behind the scenes, if Ralph told the board we need a decent striker or we're fucked it's a bit harsh to blame him for not being higher in the league than we are.

The Villa game was shocking but I think he's earned the right to show what he can do with this lot of players, up until the World Cup at least. If Ralph made the decision to go into the season with Adams, Armstrong and Mara as our only forwards then he should be sacked though. If he didn't then whoever did made the decision should go.

To be fair we haven’t been in serious relegation trouble ever during his time here and we are currently 14th. The inconsistency and shit performances are frustrating but we have been here before and he has turned it around before. Having said that I think he’s on borrowed time, the fact that so many new signings are being ignored means something isn’t right. Can’t see him being sacked with the club in 14th position though. Changing a manager is always a gamble, whoever we bring in won’t change the fact that we probably have the worst set of strikers in the league.

It would be interesting to know how much say he has in who gets signed, if he hand picked every one then there is no excuse. I get the impression he's not over the moon at being handed a bunch of kids so is playing the old faces to make a point. If I was JWP I wouldn't be happy, at his stage of his career he should be playing in Europe not spoon-feeding a bunch or teenagers.

Fair points, though I though KWP and both centre backs were by far our best players tonight. My point is that no one came off the bench and made us better, we spent a shit load of cash in the summer but only Ketchup and the keeper were deemed good enough to start from the new signings. That is a big problem, especially when they are not considered better that Djenepo, Adams, Armstrong and Mo. If we had signed anyone half decent they would walk into the side ahead of that lot regardless of who’s manager.

To be fair, Edozie, Aribo and Mara all came on and did fuck all.

Because we’ve brought a bunch of kids who might be good in a few years time but are, at the moment, too shit to start.

Yep. Spent all that cash and most of them are too shit to even make the starting lineup.

All that money spent and we start with the same old shit upfront and in midfield.

Fucking awful game, two really really shite teams.

I thought cancelling football was nonsense. If there are policing issues fair enough but the idea that you shouldn't be allowed to have fun just because the Queen died is just bollocks.

They need to label them Nazis to make them a legitimate target in the eyes of the Russian people. I don’t think it’s a new thing, I’ve read a few accounts from WW2 where anyone who opposed the Communists were labeled Nazis so they could be done away with, one was even a survivor of Auchwitz. Also I expect for many in Eastern Europe the thought of being taken over by Russia was worse than Germany so it made sense to side with the Nazis even though they were against the ideology.

To be fair, don’t people watching golf just stand around in silence looking miserable anyway?

Bit over the top. How long is anything fun banned for?

R.I.P. I’m not a huge fan of the Royals but you have to respect her for the way she served the country.

I think day 3 into her job and Truss has already fucked herself by dogmatically refusing to go for a windfall tax, just to cosy up to the swivel-eyed in the leadership contest. Saddling future generations with £110 Billion+ extra debt just so we can hand it over to energy companies that are basically war profiteering is mental.