Charlie Wayman

Tottenham look likely to beat Manchester United to the signature of West Bromwich Albiongoalkeeper Sam Johnstone, 29. The England international, who started his career at Old Trafford, would be back-up to Hugo Lloris at Spurs. (Standard)

Having fallen for all the hype and bullshit surrounding Adams and Armstrong in their Championship days, one hopes we will not again fall into the trap of grabbing a bargain from the lower leagues.

Which planet did you say you were from? 3 out, 2 in max. is probably the most optimistic outcome of the summer transfer market that can be expected. The rest stay either because nobody wants them or we can't afford to terminate contracts. We need to keep at least 11 players on our books to meet PL obligations.

Head of the Nail. Well said! The nettle must be grasped, rank bad management that it hasn't been already. Suggests Semmens is spineless, all talk but no walk. Get rid of the pair of them.

Right now I would take 0-6 Ah! but what if we have to win to stay up?

We don't have any others to select!

This predictably pathetic performance surely tells us that we must be odds on favourites for the drop next season. Despite our (fans) wishes for wholesale changes in the summer common sense tells us that at best two or three players will leave and only one or two new faces will appear. It will not be enough to change the character of the team. Not withstanding a managerial change, in effect what we see now is pretty much the player line up we will see in August when the new season kicks off - probably minus Broja and definitely Livramento. It is unlikely that there are any hidden qualities in our team that have not been revealed over the past three years. Bleak prospect indeed, pessimistic outlook, most certainly. Silk purses and sow's ears? A new manager will have to face the daunting task in his first season of shoring up our defensive capabilities to stop leaking goals whilst doing his best to find a way of coaxing goals out of a striker line up that would on current form disgrace League 1; at the same time finding a way to put 40 points on the board against opposition teams that inevitably will be stronger than this season's rivals. Good luck with that one pal!

This must be the last straw. Logically he must be sacked in the morning.

Better than what they've got? I don't think so. Give me Bowen and Antonio any day.

Give it a beak mate, I've only just got up. 😧

It's not so much that people want him gone, unquestionably he is a decent bloke, very engaging and open in conversation and very clearly an honest nice person. The fact remains his teams performances over the past three years have been depressingly below average and many have come around to the realisation that Ralph is no longer the new broom on the street nor the new Special One that the early hype had us believing. It is time to realise at last that if he keeps doing what he's doing then the outcomes will always be the same. Time for a change of direction is needed for our club if we are ever to be lifted out of the doldrums.

A somewhat chastened and cautious Ralph at today's PC. Not his usual confident and ebullient self at all. One wonders if he has been read the riot act by the Owners this week. Why did Adam Blackmore pass up the chance to nail Ralph on his team's recent atrocious performances? Talk about sycophantic twaddle, loads of supportive questions including even offering Ralph off-ramps to avoid embarrassment at times. You can do better than this Adam, hang him out to dry otherwise what are you there for? No excuses even if you count Ralph as a personal friend.

What they have to do is set sensible transfer fees so that these players become more attractive. If they ask for top dollars then of course there will be very little interest. I wouldn't be in a hurry to re-sign Broja either, if we have to rely on him for goals to keep us up then we will be in in deep doggy doo especially if the anointed one moves on to a bigger club. The harder question is who's worth keeping?

Is he still here?

If the defence was supplied with anti-tank missiles and land mines also we'd stand a chance of keeping a clean sheet

Sure, but we were right royally entertained and enthralled, verbs that are not often in evidence today and we finished quite high up in the table regularly if my memory serves me right.

Exactly who has claimed that this has been a good season? It has been dire by any measure and the football quality appallingly dismal. On the other hand we have about as much chance of being relegated as we have of Ralph looking in the mirror.

Not that long ago we had very good teams playing attractive football under Strachan, Pochittino and Koeman, when our relative position and stature in the league were little different to now. Isn't that why people are moaning.

Just sod off Ralph and take your clueless bunch of useless twats with you. I am sick of the aimless crap that your are serving up week after week. You should be ashamed. Relegation seem a certainty next season if we leave this bloke in charge

Every chance. Ralph will do his utmost to play KWP out of position.

As it's a "must win" game we'll lose about 3-0 but Ralph will still quack on about a top ten finish when in reality we are a 14th level team. Will Saints ever be reliable? Yes, in the sense that they will always be reliably unreliable. On the plus side, I am really looking forward to the kiddo's match at SMS tomorrow afternoon. Free ticket, sunny afternoon and passionate new stars to watch, what's not to like.

Depends upon his ambitions, there is nothing else for him here except a long service medal and an ornamental clock.

A very rich thick as bricks hod carrier though.

Voting now open, what do you think? Straight fight between Oriol Romeu and Kyle Walker-Peters or a three way tussle with JWP? Oriol Romeu for me!

Trouble with that is we are not having much success with Ralph's "playbook" anyway so sustaining that long term has no appeal whatsoever. Tell me what is worth keeping if he leaves?