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Just seen a BBC poll that shows 71% think we were wrong to have sacked RM - WTF! - who are these people?!🙄

Rohl for me, with Cooper as a fallback option. I don't really know how good either are, but going on the reaction of Wednesday fans to Rohl's imminent departure it seems he was well liked there. They are sad to seem him go but also want to see him succeed and know their management is the issue,

What an embarrassing shambles of a season. Has an announcement been made about the new manager yet? SR have had plenty of time to plan ahead of our predictable relegation. Juric needs to go today with our without a replacement in mind. They need to send a signal that things change as of now. My hope is Rohl comes in asap and helps us keep the one or two players we will need to compete for a promotion place in the Championship. Also get the points we need to beat Derby's unwanted record. This season has been such a cluster-f_ck I suspect people will be referring to 'Doing a Southampton' in a disparaging way for years to come.

Please tell me you're joking! The irony is, with SR I could believe it to be true! I think that would be the end of my over 55-years as a Saints fan, there's just so much punishment you can take.

Why isn't he gone already?

Noooooo! Help me understand...you'd bring in a criminal 'park the bus' defensive manager waaaay past his sell-by date to re-ignite our re-birth?

So can't be bothered any more. Even when we play moderately okay you just know we will contrive a way to lose. When we were 1-0 up at half time my Arsenal friend texted me 'Come on you Saints!'...I texted back 1-4 to Liverpool final score...so I was out by a goal - but real reality for us is so predictable. If we were a horse we'd have been shot by now...can't wait for this misery of a season to be over. Vultures have been circling for weeks. We have the joy of watching our best players be bought from under us and being left with crap and a total rebuild in the Championship next year. Juric has to go, but SR will probably bottle that. Rohl a glimmer of hope if he gets hired early, after we've been relegated so it's not on his record, with enough time and money to rebuild over the summer.

Ha! I am so disengaged from this pile of crap I didn't even realise there was a game today until I chanced on the (entirely predictable) result. I don't believe anyone sets out to fail, let alone fail as spectacularly as we have done - but SR is rotten to the core and needs to be cleaned out from top to bottom. I don't blame Dragan so much - think he's a victim too. He's put the cash in and put his trust in the SR team who sold him a dream. If he's made a mistake it's tolerating gross incompetence too long. I look straight at Rasmus Wankersun. His over-confidence and belief in himself led to what must be the single most devastatingly bad managerial appointment ever in Nathan Jones - that was the catalyst that put the club in a death-spiral (accelerated by some furthur mind-numbingly bad managerial and recruitment decisions). Anyone still think Hasenhutl isn't the worldclass manager he clearly is/was? So it's done. Juric is not the right guy to lead us next season in the Championship. Not all his fault but he's also not right. We need someone youthful, energetic, who wins football matches and makes individual players better players, but builds a team first and foremost. Someone who realises that this is a game about goals. And that after five years or more - we need goalscorers. It's going to be a long rebuild my friends.

Meantime back at the ranch - Moyes defines Mew Manager Bounce with our friend Charlie Alcaraz scoring the winner for four wins in a row. Us, we didn't even get a dead cat bounce. Just a deeper hole.

Nailed it. I only saw the second half because i just couldn't be bothered to get up earlier to watch...correctly predicted we'd be 2-0 down at half time (but had us down to lose 3-0 so Sulemana goal a bonus. There was a brief 10 minutes after we'd scored that if we'd scored again it could have been interesting. Of course we concede again to eliminate any chance of a nervous last few minutes for them. Thought Aribo played well, Fernandes, Dibbling, Ramsdale, Sulemana. Onuachu needs to get infront of his man and be more aggressive in the box. Juric? - anyone who plays Smallbone, let alone starts with him is an automatic incompetent red card in my book. I've had enough of him already.

Two incredibly boring teams in an incredibly boring match. Did we have a shot on target after they scored? Does Juric really think Will 'gamechanger' Smallbone is the answer to anything? Fortunately, SR have done an incredible job of detaching me emotionally from the club I've supported for over 50 years. I just don't care .

I'm interested to see if there's a gap in quality between bottom of the Premier (by a mile) and top of the Championship...

Yea, a win! Happy for Juric and the team. Watching two well-matched Championship teams here, but what was clear was the players putting a real shift in for the manager despite our position. Thought both our debutants showed promise. Fresh blood with no baggage made a difference. Lots of adversity with injuries and forced changes and we kept going. Joe Aribo my MOTM. We need a new, big CB or two - you'd have thought Juric cou;ld've found a Croatian hard-man CB...don't they specialise in those?

Was out so watched the recording of the game...thought we looked like a proper football team for much of the game...no fear, good quick passing interplay....Sulemana taking the Mickey out of their right-back...some freedom and joy back in our play, Fernandes should have scored earlier and a two-goal cushion would probably have been enough. Of course at the 81st minute I just knew we'd find a way to lose it and predicted a 2-1 or 3-1 loss...true enough. I don't understand why we didn't keep Fernandes on to see the game out - and Aribo for that matter. They were at game speed and in control. Our subs made us much weaker. Feel bad for Juric and the players...deserved at least a point from that game. Man Utd looked rubbish all the same.

Well we actually won a game of football - that's a novelty and something to hopefully build on. I actually hear the commentator say "Southampton are too sharp for them" - not words we've heard this season. Swansea a very average mid-table Championship team though, playing Russball with even less talent on the pitch than we have. Thought we weren't very good actually. Everybody singing Aribo's praise but thought he looked sluggish today. Sulemana good in the first half. Dibbling in the right places at the right time. But all our goals more about poor defending than great attacking. Smallbone's cameo hopefully enough to show Ivan he should never start - no tackle, and pass it backwards or sideways every time. Missed opportunity to get Onuachu off the mark?