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To be fair the PL has had 4 different winners in the last 6 years. It's far more open than most of the other big European leagues. For me that is the most important thing. Admittedly desire and belief and confidence don't win points on their own, but without it even the best tactician in the world will struggle.

Putting 2+2 together and making 5 I would interpret "so far" as "not any longer". After all they have only really had a chance to see our transfer strategy in action in the January window. They've had plenty of time since then to assess it's effect. If club wants Hughes and Hughes wants to stay then maybe it's only the decision on LR that is delaying things. If I was MH I'd like to think I had enough experience in British football to not need to defer to LR or any other DoF

6min55secs in, to save you having to endure it all again.

No, he correctly said they were inexperienced - the context being managing an English team in the PL. That's something completely different to no one had heard of them.

Except he didn't say that at all did he.

I hope they didn't. He kept us up with 8 points from 8 games. He could have achieved that with 8 0-0 draws but that would have made him even more boring than the last two, and we'd have no idea of he was any better than that. I wouldn't want to keep him under those circumstances. Thankfully his 8 points were achieved by arguably improving the side with every game, so no reason not to think he can't continue improving it into next season. I'd like to think with hindsight it's now just a case of the board rubber stamping a new contract.

The Tadic that ended the season compared to the Tadic that played the first 30 odd games is like making our first summer signing before the season even ended. 2 months ago I wouldn't have picked him, now he's a must keep (provided of course we keep Hughes or sign a new manager who can continue to get the best out of him)

Dressing room scenes

Seeing the reactions of the players at the end of both the Everton & Swansea games don't think we can ever again suggest they don't care. Clearly they are as one as a team and care about the club, if only the last two managers had been able to find a way of getting even half of that level of enthusiasm out of them. Got to keep Hughes for another season.

This. Totally agree with the above. Only cause for complaint was the ghost foul given against Redmond right in front of the lino ( who's facial expression showed that he didn't even consider for a second it might have been a foul) then letting them take the freekick from miles away. If that wasn't given they'd never have got back up our end.

That was my initial thought as well ...... then I remembered even if we do go down (which personally I now think is unlikely) we'll still be above them for another year at least. So mock away.

For a younger readers the Painted Wagon was a city centre pub. The blue few did not travel by horses drawn transport (Embarrassingly that's how I read it the first time)

That's true, even as a teenager stood on the Milton terraces in the mid 70s I seem to remember the same rumour going round virtually every time we played someone in blue. Never saw anything in the ground, outside may have been a different matter (but I doubt it) To be fair they'd have had trouble getting into The Dellin those days. It was cash on the day, turnstile operators would have been well trained in checking for webbed fingers when the money as handed over.

I'm writing off the Man City game ( although secretly hoping they'll be in holiday mode by then). For me tomorrow is the crunch day. The way I see it if we beat Bournemouth we will also beat Swansea and Everton. If we lose we won't get another point. So it's either 9 more points or zero more points, really can't see any other combination of results happening. And unfortunately even the optimistic 9 still leaves us depending on the results of others.

Relegation is irrelevant. Pretty much all of those points (probably with the exception of administration) need addressing if we manage to stay up as well. Up or down, next year isn't going to be pleasant without a few changes from bottom to top.

You mention Palace and ManUre. I was reading only yesterday about how good ManUre support was against Spuds on Saturday (which it was). They put it down to the club learning from what Palace had done at Wembley, i.e ensuring when selling their Wembley tickets that certain blocks (lower tier behind goal) were allocated as singing section. Better atmosphere, no right to moan if people are standing but far to difficult for our club to implement (if they even though about it, which I doubt).

2nd favourites for relegation back then? ....... Burnley !

That performance looked good enough to get points out of Leicester, B'mouth, Everton and Swansea. We ain't down yet.

That performance looked good enough to get points out of Leicester, B'mouth, Everton and Swansea. We ain't down yet.

But why would we do that (or any other team with players in same position)? Effectively suspend him ourself to avoid an imposed suspension that may never happens? Makes no sense. Yep, definitely want to see work horses not show ponies for the rest of this season. 'Tis our only hope.

For those of us hoping that by the time we play Man City they'll be concentrating on the ECL Final ....looks like Liverpool have dashed our (admittedly very slight ) hopes of an easy ride there ?

The previous manager bottled so many "must win" matches by setting us up not to lose them. Things are clearly different now.

Austin AND Gabbiadini up front in a 442 ! At least Hughes understands what trying to win a game means.

Being another in the 50+ brigade as well that's pretty much how I see it too. MLT at his best was amazing but too often we'd be playing with 10 men for 85 minutes of a game, when he'd suddenly decide to turn it on for 5 minutes and win a game on hIs own. Channon was not as spectacular but was more of a 90 minute team player (except for whenever he had money riding on a horse running during a game when he'd hog the touchline for a few minutes till the race was over ). MLT probably shades it in the context of the OP's question, i.e. best known for playing for us, but who was the best player? How can you compare but if I had to it would be Channon and his 46 England caps.

FFS you couldn't get it more wrong if you tried. The borrower who gave the charge is Southampton Football Club Ltd. Their only concern is the playing side of the club. They can't give a charge over the stadium as that is owned by a different limited company. They can't give a charge over the training ground, that is owned by yet another limited company. The catering is owned by , guess what, yet another limited company. And so on. Can't be arsed to look up all the different company names. Yes they are all owned by one umbrella company but one company can't give a charge over the assets of another. That is one of the reasons businesses split their affairs between separate companies. SFC Ltd can only give a charge over its own assets . The only assets that company has are the players and the guaranteed income from the PL. Nothing but a normal cashfliw enabling transaction.