Mark Hughes confirmed as First Team Manager

Welcome Sparky. Lets hope the moaning morons get behind him and support the sodding team until we either stay up or fail trying.

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I’d go upvote. This is his spiritual home.

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OK there you go Big Fella - I shall hound you mercilessly if he turns out to be a bell end and we go down :lou_wink_2:

The chances of that eh?

Sparky’s Red amd White armeee!!

Seriously considering getting a ticket for Sunday now…c’mon @pap and @barry-sanchez where are we going to meet??

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I’ll give him the first half against Wigan to prove me wrong.

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I have down voted all @fatso because in my opinion Hughes was fucking useless when he was here as a player and his management skills look like a lot to be desired.

Will he leave us in the same position he left Stoke?

if that is the case we are down.

Hughes has an average win ratio of just under 30%.

Which implies we will win 2 league games under him.

Which is double what MoPe would have done.

Which right now is the ONLY thing I give a shit about as that is a better chance of staying up than I expected last Saturday night.

Oh rumour is Les may be recovering from doing an impression of a hair dryer on the players on Monday

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That’s very generous of you… I intend giving him the team announcement before whinging like a school girl.

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Notice the club haven’t said they are ‘delighted’ to announce… or even ‘pleased’ to announce. That speaks volumes as usual!

Oh well. As many have pointed out, this is not a particularly exciting appointment but at least the club has done something, because we were limping towards the Championship. I genuinely didn’t feel like we would win another game under Pellegrino so any change is worth a try. It’s also better than an internal appointment of a caretaker manager in my opinion.

I think he’ll give us a fighting chance.

Not thinking of going by train are you @btripz ?

I was just about to buy a ticket earlier this week. Luckily i checked the prices first. £202 and would have to spend the whole day travelling, just didn’t seem worth it.

They did

On Twitter

HTH

Anyone else feel surprisingly optimistic and happy about the appointment??

No. Me neither.

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Oh well. As many have pointed out, this is not a particularly exciting appointment but at least the club has done something, because we were limping towards the Championship. I genuinely didn’t feel like we would win another game under Pellegrino so any change is worth a try. It’s also better than an internal appointment of a caretaker manager in my opinion.

I think he’ll give us a fighting chance.

They did

On Twitter

https://twitter.com/SouthamptonFC/status/974050669475774467

HTH

delighted -fuck off, more like relieved that they found someone that we have heard off to take on this mess.

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fucking Mark Hughes

FFS

Ahhhh…at last, the nearest we’ll get to a ringing endorsement for a new Saints manager from Baz. :lou_lol:

Just hope he doesnt dismiss the Cup in desparate search for his staying up bonus.

In the original Pellegrino Out thread I posted way back last year that the only reason I was not part of the Pitch Fork brigade was that I could not see any viable (or available) alternative.

So now he is gone.

And I am sorry, but a lot of our fans are a bunch of utter two faced shits. Those who regaled Liverpool or Everton fans on Twitter about their sense of entitlement or arrogance are the same ones swearing and saying the board has no ambition because we did not get Hiddink or Ancelotti in.

I mean SERIOUSLY?

Why the flying fvck would ANY big name big reputation manager accept a short term likely to fail offer from us? “they will enhance their reputation” they cry. “They will earn a big pay check” they argue.

Fvck OFF. They are already millionaires with a global reputation. They do NOT need money and the ONLY thing that could happen by coming to us with our fixture list is FAILURE.

We the fans wanted MoPe out - as did half the players by the sound of the silence today.

But there IS no future UNLESS we win TWO matches and draw 2 out of our remaining 8.

NOTHING else matters.

Oh bring in Bert van Market they cry. Someone who is NOT watching Premier League games every week, will have NO fvcking idea how useles Carrillo is or how unfit Gabbi is? Who will see FF in training and put him straight back into the side and who will play his European Tiki Puka Puka football when we need some fvcking GRIT and PASSION.

I honestly despair about our fans at times.

I do NOT like Hughes as a manager, but he really was the only choice.

HOPEFULLY he will stay after the end of the season, bringing some new European Hotshot MP clone into the fold and having taken over from Les Excel Spreadsheet Reed as DoF Tech Director or tea Lady whatevwer that idiot does these days

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Tigger is neither happy or impressed…

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Well you are the only one! (That’s the wonderful thing about Tiggers, apparently!)

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