Charlie Wayman

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?

Tosh. He is proving every week that he is not a very good player and no better than any of the others.

Why oh why do we find it so difficult to keep the ball out of our own net? Two or three major cock-ups in every match seems guaranteed. People seem to be on Bednarek's case every week but Salisu seriously worries me, when he drops one it is always a big time screw up leading to goals. Yesterday's hapless lunge about sums him up. He seems very hot headed under pressure and prone to panic. Not sure he is learning very quickly and is certainly not the rock on which a strong defence can be built.. I will be glad to see the back of this season and hopefully some of these players.

Times change, social mores change, you either change with them or become a relic of a past that was never as utopian as clouded minds recall.

Fair comment. Don't rule out the possibility that Ralph could get the boot at the end of the season. He is another who seems to have become too complacent about their position. The buck stops with him after all. Replying to John B (below), we have no choice but to buy better players if we want to stay in the PL and the money will have to be found. We have to face reality, the bigger clubs are setting the financial and quality pace and each year the bars for both are getting higher. Not all clubs are being left behind and are finding ways of hanging in there, e.g. West Ham, Leicester, Wolves and arguably they are not bigger clubs than us. We have to come up with the money somehow or we will go down sooner rather than later. Some fans argue "so be it", it is an unequal struggle and we are better off out of it, that they will be happier if we are in the Championship. Rest assured they will not be when those bad times come around. The PL has global reach everything else here is insignificant.

Criticism is fully deserved if you are open minded.

What a load of crap. Bloody insult to fans.

I still hold the view that it will be better for both parties if Fraser moves on in the close season. There is just too much baggage that comes with him with any new contract; one or two bad games and the Club will be under the cosh from fans for failing to take decisive action on the goalkeeping position when they had the chance to do so. We should stretch the coffers as far as possible on a proven young international keeper with many good years ahead of him and not just go for the easy out that could backfire. There must be some really decent keepers in Europe who would love to get a crack at he PL even with a middling table am like Saints. Niemi, Boruc some body at that level....

Lazy sod! 😉

Not really a win, more the avoidance of a defeat. 3 points though so good outcome. ...but for Fraser Forster!

Do we know how to do that?

That's the way to do it. Get stuck in, get rid of it, bang it upfield, great football as it used to be played.