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2 up front - hallelujah - Hughes has shown more bravery in 1 lineup than the other guy did all season. Come on Saints we can do this!!!

I never had a problem with him up to this season but he has been shown to have a fatal flaw, that he's far too slow to respond when the house is on fire. I wouldn't be bothered if he walked away tbh.

It's a very decent record, I get the feeling that things went a bit stale at Stoke and wasn't QPR under Flavio Briatore\Bernie Ecclestone\Tony Fernandez a bit of basket case club around the time he was there? I think because he's been around a while and is not a shiny new manager + he has inevitably got one or two blemishes in his CV that fans have a downer on him but when you look at his complete stats he's been a good manager.

Yes that's what I finally want to see too. If Hughes sets us up for attacking football we can finally see how good the players are. I've not criticised them atall this season because the manager has been so appalling but now it really is time to step up to the plate. I'm in the 'the players are good enough' camp but I guess we'll see over the next 9 games. All the best to sparky, if he can get our mojo back, avoid relegation and get at least to the cup semis then he will have done a fantastic job in my books.

The Echo article sums it up, this is no time to experiment - we need a proven manager and we don't have a lot of options. If Silva isn't coming then Hughes is the next best fit for what we need right now. My biggest concern about him is his motivational qualities, he comes across as pretty dour when the team badly needs an injection of energy after the Mopey reign. That said, Hughes does have a solid prem record so I can see the logic. Like most others not my first choice but when you're dipping in the bins you can't afford to turn your nose up at opportunities. Whoever comes I wish them the best of luck.

Right now we just want an attacking motivator till the end of the season, whoever comes in has to have an instant impact. I'd go for Silva as a short term option, if he does well then talk about extending over the summer. I also like Chris Wilder - he'd certainly know his way round the champ if we do go down but he'd be a real gamble to keep us in the prem.

He handled himself well. Other than that he was so bad I began to wonder if he was deliberately trying to sabotage the club. He had zero ability for flexible thinking, had no idea about players best positions, had no idea about which players to pick and which to drop, continuously chopped and changed in a seemingly random pattern not allowing players to settle, had an utterly bizarre fearful attitude to winning, had no interest in scoring, was obsessed with possession football even though he could see game after game that it was a failed philosophy. The worst manager in my 40 years of watching this club. Made Branfoot look like a decent manager.

Makes you wonder, you couldn't have done a better job at destroying what the club has built up over the last 7 years If you tried. The chairman isn't exactly whiter than white. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/3431770/premier-league-u-turn-200m-southampton-gao-lisheng/ Relegation and a fire sale to come? Let's see.

If we went down I wonder how much the owner would get from a fire sale. He's already had VVD money, does he want us to go down so he can flog off most of the players and recoup his debts? Play the kids in the champ and start again? Probably not but nothing is making a lot of sense at the moment.

Newcastle appointed Benitez 2 seasons ago when they were in our situation. He wasn't able to save them but stayed on and at least had a bedding in period before relaunching a successful promotion campaign. My point is that even if a new guy cannot save us (he may well though, it's still all to play for) then at least he could hit the ground running next season and give us the best chance of bouncing back. MP has to go now, if not for our survival then at least for next season in the champ.

Anyone who asks that question has already answered themselves. I'd never ask that question.

Another game MP won't have to 'fret' over about winning.

Still in the cup Charlie Austin may be coming back ? More Sat 3pm kickoffs next season? Cheaper prices next season? Next manager will be a step up

Rudderless leadership Boring negative manager Potential relegation Poor entertainment

The manager will be targeting a goalless draw and if he gets it under the current circumstances we'd have to consider that a result I guess. 9 goalless draws might bore our way to safety. Odds are we'll lose though.

I wouldn't take it out on him, it's not his fault that Monaco pulled our pants down over his transfer, direct your fire at the people at SFC who put us in the position to get our pants pulled down in the first place. IMO Carillo looks OK, not a world beater but with some decent support and a regular strike partner (not going to happen with the current manager I'll admit) he'd be OK. Shame Gallagher is out on loan though as he could have filled the Carillo role in the first place, another cock up from those incharge.

Just numb to it now, he's going nowhere and we are beyond boring. Flip a coin, it's going to the wire this season.

It's not nonsense when your 1 striker is Long, that cuts off lots of goals. Austin could have carried the burden but was ignored for around 1/3 of the season. 1 up front only works with the right player. We were throttled for a large part of the season by the manager refusing to budge from his 1 up front policy.

We're a mid table outfit and had we had a manager that was willing to play 2 up front and generally show a bit more imagination and attacking flair (play Boufal a lot more for example) that's where we'd be. 1 up front has throttled us and when the 1 up front wasn't even Austin - our 1 and only goal threat - heads dropped as the team played with no end product. If we go down it has to go down as one of the biggest acts of self harm this club has performed in its history.

Forest away Dec 89. The away end was like standing in a wind tunnel with someone spraying water over you. Think we lost 2-0 and conceded in the first couple of minutes but the real battle was surviving the cold. Came down with something after this and took me a couple of weeks to get over it.

Good striker and lethal from the penalty spot. Really liked BT and was sad to see him go TBH, had he stayed we probably would have stayed up in 04/5.

I think this will be another draw with neither side having enough to grab the win. Projecting the form from the last 5 games to the next 10 the table would look like: Everton 48 Bournemouth 48 Watford 47 Brighton 47 Swansea 47 Huddersfield 42 Newcastle 41 West Ham 40 Saints 39 Stoke 38 Palace 31 West Brom 22 Looking at that table we cannot afford to lose this game. It's a toss of a coin this season, we'll be on the cusp of the relegation line but which side of that line will we end up on?

Manager = Chris Nicholl Tiss Rod Wallace Dave Armstrong Steve Moran Let's have some entertainment.

I'm actually hoping that plays to our advantage, quietly slip in, mug them and poop their party. They are favourites for me but will be fallible. We can do this.

Semis suddenly looking good. Wigan is tricky whereas Citeh was no chance. That was a one off, we need to seize this opportunity.