Charlie Wayman

SR have had to pay off five managers since Ralph left so from a purely financial perspective it is not difficult to see why they turned to Eckert and hope he comes good. He's already on the payroll and if it doesn't work out he simply returns to his old job. No pay off, no losses whereas there is absolutely no guarantee that a Name manager brought in at great expense would succeed any more than his predecessors. SR don't have an unlimited amount of dole money to keep handing out.

This season is written off anyway so why not give him a go?

You answered your own question

Where's Turkish when we need him?

We could try poaching good ones from other clubs, why not? Die by the sword, live by the sword.

While admiring your optimism, it isn't quite as simple as 93 points to play for and how we perform from now on. It's less about how many points we gain and more about how many points the front runners are likely to throw away. There is already a huge points gap to the top two with no sign of them faltering. Other strong clubs like Ipswich are beginning to close in so I'd say it's nigh on impossible for Saints to recover enough to be in the hunt for the autos this season.

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A win rate of 100% is not to be sneezed at. Unless its Guardiola some people on here will never be satisfied

These arrangements take time, rushing things through is never a good option. After years of failure and poor coaching the last thing we need is another boy wonder manager who is out of his depth. We need the right person, at the right price and given a clear set of objectives. Deadlines are artificial and unhelpful. It's too late now anyway to expect a promotion challenge this season. As long as the new person wins more matches than he loses and is able to instil a sytem and style of play that pleases fans and commentators and is progressive then he will be given time to build a strong side able to challenge for auromatic promotion next season.

Are we harping back to the old trope that we can only beat poor teams? Perhaps we had something to do with them looking so poor?

Beggars can't be choosers

Butterflies!

We'll all take a win however it has been achieved, this was a very lucky win by the second best team on the park last night. QPR must be feeling a bit cheated today. There were bright sparks of course with superb open play goals from Robinson and Scienza but that glossed over what was really a shambolic, aimless and poor performance from Saints. Lots of energy dissipated on headless chicken running up front and last ditch tackling at the back got us the result but as a plan and system of play was just woeful to watch. Given this week's upheaval probably all we could expect but we remain a very long way off being a strong confident team capable of being a force in this league. With Stephens and Manning in the starting line-up and Downs on as a first sub, it seems that the temporary manager is afflicted by the same dead brain cells as his recently departed comrade. When will they ever learn?

The flaw in your argument is that Romeu didn't have to come here so his recruitment was hardly part of a cunning distraction plan, reportedly he had plenty of lucrative offers on the table.

The word new may be the problem, SR may be taking this as a green flag from fans to employ unknown young upstarts like the late unlamented Will Still. Shall we try Old Manager Debate If anybody knows where old Sam Allardyce is buried time to dig him up and put him to work