Charlie Wayman

Shame on you! Nigel Adkins was one of the best manager we've ever had and one of the nicest blokes in football. He transformed the atmosphere at our club before the Poch arrived. Your demeaning put downs are unworthy of the debt we owe him and unworthy of you. All real fans will wish him well and be hoping that he can revitalise the once great club that is Charlton Athletic.

I don't remember anybody saying that, when was that?

Wow! You admired a bloke who was acting like a hooligan?

That's the Spirit. Better still, why don't we refuse to travel as its outside our lock down area and concede the match.

Context my child, context!

Not daft, essential. He's run his course as a magician, there is nothing left up his sleeve or under his hat. Reality has trumped hope, the cupboard is bare. Just suppose we could get Pochettino back or failing that Benitez, what would you say then?

Thanks a bunch Ralph, please just leave. Abysmal reaction, laughable performance. Even the commentators couldn't be bothered to mention us as we were so useless.

Team selection, tactics, demeanour after a thrashing, take your pick but be careful with the insults please.

After the last match fiasco I am not hoping or expecting a 2 or 3 - 0 win today but Demanding it. You owe us this one Ralph.

Let's try this the other way around. Who has never been a scapegoat? Lambert Sydenham Moran

Right now I think they might want to disassociate themselves from us as much as possible. Not sure we are quite in the position of looking down on them metaphorically in the way you seem to do.

.........but where are the results? Only results count.

It still shocks me how many of our fans are still trying to defend the indefensible. Any other club would have ditched Hasenhüttl long ago. The very fact that he smiles and joshes his way through humiliations and spends much time ingratiating himself with top club managers tells us all we ned to know. He is so deeply entrenched in Saints management set-up that he senses he is fireproof, Semmens can't boot him out simply because they are in this together right up to the neck. The one unknown factor is Gao. Why hasn't he intervened yet? That's the question.

What the heck was Hasenhüttl doing at the end of the match ingratiating himself with Guardiola. He should have been angry and spitting blood and bawling at idiots like Stephens and Adams for making costly mistakes, not smiling and behaving as though he had been a very good boy and needed praise from the All High Priest of World Football. If you're a Saint Ralph than act like one. We don't do crumbs from the table of arrogant twits. Grow some will you for goodness sake. It is not OK to smile and fawn when your team has just been thrashed 5-2 and made to look like chumps. Guardiola succeeds because he has hundreds of zillions of ackers to buy the best players in the world not because he is some kind of over-arching Authority who must not be challenged. All the time you hold these people in such high esteem you will always be in awe and never be able to challenge them.

In fairness it was the word 'pal' that he objected to and where it was placed in your sentence. He read it quite reasonably as sarcasm and a put down.

Bizarre from beginning to end. Angry, frustrated and thoroughly disillusioned yet again. Half their best XI rested, never needing to get out of 3rd gear and yet they score at will and win at a canter. Where is the satisfaction of surviving in this league by being only slightly better over a season than the three relegated teams?

Popularity has little to do with management ability. Bielsa is about as lovable and communicative as a grizzly bear in a bad mood yet Leeds fans adore him.

None of this adds up to a row of beans. Effectiveness and success are measured by results and points on the board.

Not at all. Ralph has suffered two 9-0 defeats no way will his CV stand another. He has no option but to play his strongest team and go for it, This will not be the time for pointless experiments, he doesn't think like that at all.

One suspects that the London Life suits him rather more than the sylvan glades of the New Forest. If he is happier and more settled there and that is reflected in greater dedication to his trade and improved performance then we should all rejoice for him. In which case why on earth would he want to come back to this sleepy backwater.

We're not in the Championship thanks to Mark Hughes. Hasenhüttl was fully aware of the situation when he came here and also when he signed an extension to his contract so to imply that he is a great manager dealt a rotten hand by the club is just fantasy. He is being judged on his merits; if you think that a 33% win ratio this season is a satisfactory metric then nobody will ever change your thinking but don't slag off people who have a different view and who expected and demand more.

Well you know how this will pan out, Pep demands a reaction and we are the poor sods who get both barrels straight between the eyes. Ah well, there are no easy games in the PL Ralph?

KWP & Diallo need game time to reach match fitness. Also we need to keep our best team together to recover our automatism which has been lost since the injuries crises. Calls to field a weakened or experimental side are daft, we need to put out our strongest team and go for it. If we lose 2-1 so be it but we'll improve our cohesion and team work ready for the next few games where we could grab a fine haul of points.

Makes you wonder if we will see Ings in a Saints shirt again.

One thing's for certain the PL will be much better off without Sheffield U - Effing - nited who surely must be the dirtiest, least, skilful team ever to be there. It will be surprising if we don't have four or five injuries to contend with after the dust has settled on this brawl of a match. Adams was lucky not to have had a broken leg after that horrendous late tackle on him, how was that not a red card? At least we stood our ground and refused to be intimidated by this bunch of Yobs. Impressed with Tella, he's our future and Redmond is our past. Superb strike from Adams. Ings out again. Diallo and KWP need game time to get up to speed and build their fitness. Forster looked good. A fully deserved win and now more or less safe.