Charlie Wayman

Ralph's demeanour at the press conference was very downbeat and he seems almost in despair of how to engineer a recovery from our current plight. It was almost like he was pleading with the hacks for ideas on what to do next. If he really has run out of ideas and hope then for sure we are in trouble. I don't recall in recent times a head coach so seemingly at loss to understand what has to be done to fix things. Maybe he feels that they can't be fixed because the players at his disposal either do not have the guts for a fight or just haven't got it in them to concentrate for 90 minutes and leave everything on the pitch. Elite athletes that can use all their body's resources to maximum advantage and effect are not like most of us who don't have a clue about their body's potential or how to control it and extract the last ounce of brain and muscle power. In most cases footballers are not elite athletes; yes, a few will be but most are just talented and not very bright kids and what they are being asked to do is probably beyond their understanding. It's one thing for a coach to demand this level of effort and concentration form their players but quite another for those players to understand and know how to do that.

If reports are to be believed it should be easy to get Mr Gao out, just have a whip round in the Northam next week and give him a cheque for £200m. Two weeks of beer money should do the trick lads.

That is a racist slur if ever there was one. Best not set foot out this way any time soon or yer'll be on the ducking stool.

One to enjoy chaps although few share my love of this guy!

Anybody getting the feeling that this isn't going to happen? After the Election maybe, after Brexit maybe.... maybe never?

Hardly rocket science to work that out 'though. Perhaps Fonte is angling for the manager's job, fancies himself as another Mourinho perhaps ;-)

People come, people go, that's how it works. There'll be another lad with stars in his eyes after the job soon

The jury has been out on Hasenhuttl for many of us ever since he arrived last season. He has been here a year, we are no better as a team and few if any of our players are any better than they were before or would have been through their own natural development. The new manager bounce helped us avoid relegation last time but we don't have that anymore while recent rumours of discontent in the camp comes as no surprise considering all the chopping and changing of players and often bizarre team selections. So, the evidence is mounting that Hasenhuttl has brought very little to the team. That does not mean we will sack him 'though. Who could we get who is any better these days. We are now stamped as a second-tier Puel & Pellegrino type club and may have to face the fact that an indifferent manger like Hasenhuttl is about the best we can expect. What we must hope for is that we can find some coaches that know more about modern football than the clodhoppers masquerading as PL coaches that we have now and that these coaches can bale out Hasenhuttl.

Nothing in our recent history of team selection or playing style even remotely suggests that we will suddenly turn it all around and start playing well enough to beat anybody let alone the Gunners on their own patch. Their strikers will have a field day against our woefully hapless defence and I genuinely fear for a 6-0 thrashing.

I am not privy to Pochettino's contractural arrangements with Spurs but can imagine that he has served his 5 years and Spurs have decided not to renew his contract but to go in a different direction. It is probably by mutual understanding as Pochettino knows full well that he probably cannot squeeze any more juice from his current crop of lemons. In fairness to Spurs Pochettino has made no secret of his desire to move on when he gets the right offer from a top club. Any fair minded observer would acknowledge that the playing system he uses whilst attractive to watch has become a wee bit too predictable and stale and the sheen has certainly worn off one or two players who one thought of as almost irreplaceable like Dele Alli. I guess Harry Kane will move on now. Jose (Marmite) Mourinho's is a great appointment. He is an anglophile, loves living in London and is a big personality. I love him and much prefer his tongue-in-cheek 'special one' mantra. Compared to the arrogance of the self styled greatest managers on the planet entitlement of Klopp & Guardiola, Jose is a breath of fresh air. Of course it won't work but the ride will be fun whilst it lasts.

You never know who's standing around you at home games. Maybe many of us have unknowingly chatted to other forum posters on here for years but how would you ever know unless they are personal friends anyway. Bit dodgy to ask strangers what they do on the internet!

You just can't help yourself can you!

Out of work fits our profile for making appointments perfectly.

I saw you once leaving St Mary's after a match, ar least I saw a young/middle aged dark haired guy wearing a Saints shirt with Turkish emblazoned on the back. Was that you? If so should be easy to spot you. I don't think we should all start wearing green spotted handkerchiefs in breast pockets 'though.

In real life most people are a lot nicer and a lot less aggressive and reactionary than they like to present themselves on social media. Social media tends to bring out the worst in us owing to its anonymity. Why people use social media to create false images of themselves I have no idea. The happiest people in life are always those who see themselves as others see them. Meeting up with fellow contributors on here runs the risk of disappointment but it isn't that difficult to find fellow travellers.

Looks like Hasenhuttl and his players have gone into lock down mode again. Not as much as a peep from them on the OS. Wonder what's going on at Marchwood.

He's playing for the U23's

I can't be bothered to trawl back to old entries but I have been a critic of Jaidi's style of play last season and this. It was only a matter of time before the SHTF an this days numbered.

I can't be bothered to trawl back to old entries but I have been a critic of Jaidi's style of play last season and this. It was only a matter of time before the SHTF an this days numbered.

Danso was highly rated 'though and thought of as being a very good capture. Maybe they were convinced he can be the commanding CB we need. Trouble is of course we don't have time to wait now.

There is no appetite for PL football in the South of England and the recent rise and fall of clubs like Swindon, Reading & Portsmouth may have proved that PL football is unsustainable down here, their isn't the level of interest to sustain any momentum or to create larger stadia. One suspects that these facts of life will soon overtake Bournemouth and Brighton as well as the centre of gravity once again shifts back to the midlands and the north west. Saints have the longest tradition of PL football down here but if even we cannot sustain it then what hope for the others.

If we must have a 'local lad made good' in the side then give Slattery a chance every week and ditch Ward Prowse for good. WP has had endless opportunities to demonstrate his ineptness, Slattery can do no worse and can take a bloody good corner time after time.

What? We don't have any assets to sell. Think again.

Explain please. 4000 steel workers and 20000 supply chain workers seem pretty happy about it.

Depends, if it was preceded by an epithet it would characterise a race.