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Danny Ings was available for £12m in Janaury, so we signed Onuachu for £18m. Wages will probably balance them both out. Neither have any resale value and while Ings might have fitness issues, he'll still score more goals between January and the end of the season than Onuachu and pay West Ham back through Premier League money, while we're scrounging around parachute payments. So much money spent on absolute cack this season. 15 players signed and we're still watching Elyounoussi play 80+ minutes every week, while making the inexcusable decision to recall Jan Bednarek. Not a single Southampton fan would have recalled Bednarek, no matter how bad our defence was. Then making out that he was some aggressive leader, when we've all seen him shy away and make himself smaller against hundreds of shots, lose composure and score weak own goals and stay away from a crucial cup match to sit on Poland's bench the next week. Okay, you recalled him, I can get over that, but then he's also playing every week, despite two summer centre-back signings and cost us games against Wolves and Leeds. Sometimes I think someone is actually having a laugh at the top because a lot of the decisions, Jones, not sacking Jones sooner, Bednarek, Elyounoussi, Djenepo contract, amateur goalkeeper, no Broja replacement, no cover for JWP/Lavia... Just don't make any sense! You could justify keeping Hasenhuttl in charge due to his streaky record with us and if he could do something more with a bigger squad more resources, so I don't include that. One of the few things Ankersen can justify. Sometimes as fans we aren't always right, but we've been almost spot on in our criticisms of SR's decisions over the course of their year in charge.

We’re definitely going down then, lads. Straight through Bazunu and our right side of defence.

KWP on at halftime please. Only player with any attacking ability.

Spare a thought for James Bree. At least he wasn't £20m.

Didn't mention the best coach in Europe, bizarrely.

Anywhere he goes shopping goes straight into admin, so for the best!

Jimmy Jay Jack Joseph Julian Jerald Jeremiah Morgan watches on as Dom Ballard makes his Premier League debut at Stamford Bridge.

I predict we get 2 or 3 more losses under Selles and then go crawling back with an improved offer, meeting his demands and again, SR would have wasted more time and we'll have been all but relegated at that stage.

Rank your favourite Polish Southampton footballers: 1. Marek Saganowski (For that half a season he was magical. The Wolves game.) 2. Artur Boruc (The much needed goalkeeper improvement. Not many characters like him in football anymore.) 3. Grzegorz Rasiak (Super lazy, but knew where the goal was. That play-off goal will live long in the memory.) 4. Bartosz Bialkowski (Good young goalkeeper for a time, but looked a mess against Blackpool. Ended up forging a good, steady Championship career.) 5. Tomasz Hajto (A weird choice for the number 7 shirt. Looked okay, went to Derby.) 6. Kamil Kosowski (Can’t actually ever remember seeing him play, but according to Wiki he played 18 times and even scored a goal.) 7. Mateusz Lis (Definitely hasn’t ever played for us) 8. Jan Bednarek (Unfortunately has played for us, has a bigger ego than all of the aforementioned names together and a shit footballer to boot. The Polish Wesley Hoedt.)

He wouldn't be my first choice, but I also don't have any better, realistic alternatives and I doubt he'd be anyone's first choice. We're all football fans and crave the unthinkable happening, but here's why he wouldn't be my last choice: Leeds sacked the idolised Bielsa after 6-0 and 4-0 losses to Liverpool and Tottenham. It was always a tough act to follow, as Bielsa could do no wrong in their fans’ eyes, whereas we’re the complete opposite and believe a pigeon could manage the squad better than Jones. They were in 17th when Marsch was appointed and lost his first two games in charge, putting him in 18th. But, a little undefeated run, three wins, two draws, was only broken by three defeats to City, Arsenal and Chelsea, as you would expect, but drew with Brighton and beat Brentford on the final day, keeping them up.Then in the summer, Leeds lost their two best players in Raphinha and Phillips, while Bamford, who I don’t personally rate, but is their best striker has spent most of the season injured.Leeds haven’t been in the relegation zone at all this season, their lowest position is their current one, 17th. They were 14th when he was sacked. They’ve also lost only three games by two or more goals this season, Brentford, City and Leicester. So, for the most part it’s been narrow defeats that have done it for Marsch.Now, he wouldn’t have been my first choice, but I’ve clearly talked myself into getting on board with him. We were never going to appoint a Koeman or a Poch as we sit 20th this late into the season and the last time we were in a similar situation we ended up with Mark Hughes on a three year contract. But, all we need right now is a man manager after months of players, including a January signing being ostracised after a couple of training sessions. A manager who isn’t going to change the eleven, and especially the defence every game. A manager who realises that Elyounoussi, Diallo and Bednarek are shit and have no business playing up here, let alone starting every week.Worst case scenario is we go down with an attacking manager who has won the league in Austria while being clear favourites, which we are likely to be next season, rather than a defensive dinosaur.

Marsch beat Chelsea 3-0 this season. So, unless he compromises to the imaginary fairies we’ve got a big win coming this weekend. Then Leeds, who we won’t need a scouting report on. 6 points, easy peasy new manager bounce.

Rooney's record at D.C. United is terrible. 9 losses in 14.

Don't expect much in the short term, but could be good in the long term. An attacking manager, but Leeds weren't ever really thrashed under him. A 5-2 loss against Brentford in September their biggest defeat this season. Leicester 2-0 and Manchester City 3-1 the only other times they lost by at least two goals under him this season. It was tight losses that cost him his job at Leeds, sounds like Hasenhuttl. 26 goals scored in 20 league matches also, 8 more than we have in two fewer matches, what dreams are made of. At the end of the day, if we are relegated then I want to see us with an attacking manager in the Championship and doing what Burnley are currently. None of that defensive grinding out results rubbish. Marsch's CV doesn't read too bad, either. Had success in the MLS, 2 time league winner in Austria, although it is a one team league, managed a reputable club in Leipzig and had success in this country in the Premier League at Leeds. Definitely a better candidate than our most recent appointment. Marsch managed Haaland too, so could get him on loan.

As many have already stated, momentum is key now. Both times we've been relegated in the last 20 years our momentum was spiralling downwards, even despite building a team that was far too good for League One. 05-06 after Premier League relegation we got just 3 wins in our first 14, only 2 losses, but the 9 draws cemented us as a mid-table team. Then 09-10, despite bringing in Lambert, Hammond, Harding, Murty and Jaidi into a League One team that summer, while already having Lallana and Schneiderlin, we only won one of our first 10, which meant that with the -10 points we had to spend another season in League One. If we want to come straight back up then we need to stop the rot setting in. I guess Marsch could work, as Leeds battered many, but didn't have a scorer. Hasenhuttl was doing better than what Jones did with this squad and was keeping us within touching distance of safety and Marsch's tactics are similar to Hasenhuttl's, both just needed a striker this season. Whether Tall Paul is that man though remains to be seen, though. We're probably down though, meaning that if we do appoint a defensive minded manager, which is what this team is shouting for at the moment, then we're risking going into the Championship with a defence first manager. The last time we scraped survival, we appointed a managerial merry go round dinosaur in Hughes. The issue there was that we then decided to give him a three year deal.

A win today and we'd have been 3 points off 15th. We gave the bastard one week too long. Every fan knew last week that Jones should have gone. The board have tried to be too clever again, as they were in appointing him in the first place.

That’s the worst loss of the season and nearly as embarrassing as the 9-0s. 63 minutes against 10 men, 1-0 up, we had all the power. But, the Welsh bastard went reactive, rather than proactive and he only went reactive after they scored the equaliser. I’m glad I’m not a religious man because I’d think God hated the shit out of me if I was Jones. Wolves came out flying in the second half, they brought on our kryptonite in Adams Traore and it was clear to see that we needed some fresh legs on as their 10 men were dominating ours. But, the answer was not bringing on Lyanco to play a back three against 10 men at home. For all the talk of being on the front foot, bringing on Lyanco and playing a back three put us on the back foot AGAINST 10 MEN. And then there was only one winner. We were playing with two liabilities at the back in Lyanco and powderpuff Fanny B. And what do you know, powderpuff Fanny B added to his own goal record today, as all Saints fan knew he would as we’ve been watching his same old shite for years. He wasn’t some new, reformed leader who needs to come straight back into the team. The only positives were the first half, Sulemena looks a level above us and another positive will be when Jones gets sacked, which I don’t think he would have had we also embarrassingly drew. He can’t survive this and him and his Skate family can fuck off. The Jones experiment is done.

At least Traore isn’t starting. He’s one of those Ayoze Perez and Almiron before this season players. Although, I remember being 2-0 up at half time against them before they brought Traore on…

There was me thinking "To be honest with you, I’ve listened to people and it’s been to my detriment. That’s not my team out there." Was moving the attention away from himself. Guess I misread the situation. Here's some classic Jones:

The funny thing is Nicolas Jackson was our primary attacking target and it took a Bournemouth medical to realise he's currently crocked. Not many players fail medicals. We were close to spending £20m+ on an attacker we wouldn't have seen this season, so suppose we should be grateful for the cameos.

Just for some extra depressing information. When Hasenhuttl was (rightfully) sacked we sat 18th, two points above Wolves and Forest and three points off 12th. Now 20th, 5 points behind Wolves and 9 behind Forest, 9 behind 12th and four points off 17th.

It’s pretty astonishing how little the summer signings have had an impact on our team this season. ABK and Lavia being the only two consistent performers and they’ve both had long injury layoffs. Under Cortese we did make the odd Ramirez, Mayuka and Osvaldo signing, although the latter was influenced by Pochettino. But, that was countered by a Clyne, Rodriguez, Lovren, Boruc, Wanyama, etc… It wasn’t the most difficult task to improve our struggling team from last season, but somehow we’ve made it a challenge and failed.

Jones isn't compromising anymore, he's doing things his way and we're about to see how one of the best manager's in Europe manages the team. It's our turn to win 9-0.

Everyone associated with football knows that his time with us should be up and he’s doing awfully. Wright, Sutton, Blackmore, the fans, senior players and staff in the Twitter chat, Orsic’s cryptic Instagram post. Unfortunately, however the decision makers are too egotistical to admit they’ve made a mistake. Watch him alienate the players and the fans more and watch the club go down without a fight. Out of touch bastards.

Considering the Paul Doswell criticism got its way to Jones, you can imagine that Chris Sutton's, Ian Wright's among others as well as the majority of fans now giving up on him completely has all found its way back to him. Considering he's shown his reaction to criticism is to go into fight mode then it's not going to be good at all. Said in an interview that Jones has never called, nor spoken to him, making his decision to stay at Burnley in January a simple one. Poor man management again, even just to introduce himself as the new manager and outline his plans. Pretty sure Koeman used to be applauded for his communication to the loan players, despite a criticism of his being not giving the youth a chance even though we were bringing through those who joined the academy while we were in League One. Jones just seems lazy to me, I remember this particular quote alongside all the famous quotes this weekend: He had been in charge for almost two months and had a six week break. Any other manager in the Premier League worth their salt would have watched all 15 and analysed them thoroughly, rather than "pretty much 12 of the first 15". And, what do you know. A month later and he still doesn't know what our deficiencies are and defensively we are worse. Watching the first 15 games would have told you Elyounoussi's rubbish, Diallo's rubbish, Lyanco's rubbish and what our best defence is, as we all know.

Rob Edwards has won 7 out of 11 matches since taking over Luton, making him one of the best manager's in Europe. Also, sacked at Watford after 3 wins in 11, so has failure on his record. Therefore, ticks all the boxes we look for.