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Hope so, but Ralph has yet to experience Saints v weak team after playing well against better teams.

Not true. We could have afforded fitter proven goalscorersr But our owners and Les Reed chose not to spend.

Poch said he paid the players to train, and by heck he make them train damn hard. And the players that trained hard enhanced their careers and did well for themselves. I'm with our manager.

Yes, you OVER pronounce the U. Hass-n-hooo-tle. (the 'ooo' is sounded whilst making your mouth shape like a 'you' sound - hard to describe in text) Happy to be corrected by someone fluent in German though My Austrian aunt taught me to pronounce umlaut O more like 'err' But that was years ago.

Ignoring Reed's catalogue of errors, for me the significant moment was when VVD's foot was deliberately jumped on by Vardy.

How come our defence got so bad under Hughes? They were all adrift and getting ever worse. Yes, Hughes managed at last to get the team moving forward and playing some interesting football. But leaving the back half totally at sea was hardly Premiership quality management.

Including Les Read again? After paying him a handsome sacking fee to re-employ him on an increased salary. Nothing would surprise me from our incompetent owner.

If only ... Gao (o even Ralph) have ever heard of Arsene Wenger

If we can't score in normal time we don't deserve anything. A pity as a cup run, even against ManCity would have been a good opportunity towards resolving our attacking and defensive issues.

I couldn't get tickets in the away end but my son managed to get a couple of seats in a Fulham stand. Hoe long before we get chucked out?

I'd like Martin O'Neal and Keane (despite his previous scorn of Saints when a player)

Which shows a better attitude than many of our players have.

Then Pearson should do a damn better job for us than Raneiri would.

Kruger is saying that we have plenty of players and there is no need to recruit in January.

The players' poor passing and decision making at critical moments, ie who to pass to (as often analysed in MOTD) are both symptoms of decreasing confidence as a result of indifferent management and training.

Raneiri could make a good replacement for Uncle Les.

Let's see how PEH leads the team. Bertrand's suspension could be a blessing.

Don't you mean 'Hughes hasn't a clue what his least worse team is'

Keep them going. Who's next?

Can we have a poll?

You've nailed it. We've been rudderless and clueless since Cortese left. Perhaps Cortese should be on the interviewing panel - if he doesn't want the job himself. Saints must be an unfinished project for him.

btw that fellow Billy Smart is scoring for fun in the Championship again.

Danny Murphy was spot on. But why on earth does Hughes push everyone up leaving the defence so exposed against probably the most skilled and ruthless team in the world? The naaivity of current tactics amazes me.

This. At least the players did their best for Adkins. They don't for Hughes.

Our forwards are suffering from some basic tactical mistakes like three players running for the same ball. They are better than that. I blame coaching for that. So change the coaching team before ditching our forwards. Hoedt has improved a lot recently. JWP did better on Saturday too and was nearly successful with an assist from a clever pass at the end of the match. Keep both.