Prepare for an endless game of chicken across the McPenalty Box.
Hope he does well. Seems like a nice enough bloke who can corral a group of players into something positive. Will learn from mistakes, etc, etc.
Canāt understand the SM obsession with him from dickhead saints fans though. Heās not been part of this club for months. Fiversweb and x are full of hatred. Hopefully it will stop now.
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Iām already on record as not considering him entirely to blame. But be honest, you must have been groaning with the rest of us right through his PL tenure as we tried to play like Man City from goalie to full back to goalie to centre half to goalie to full back while the strikers got closer and closer until we handed them their inevitable free goal before weād moved the ball beyond our own penalty area.
What has any of that got to do with an ability to learn from ones mistakes?
Easy jobā¦he only has to beat one particular team and heāll be lauded as the new Messiah. The rest of the league are Div 1 standard.
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Errm, because he persisted with it doggedly from game one until the day he was sacked, despite every commentator in the sport constantly repeating that heād have to adapt his style if we were to have any chance whatsoever of staying in the league? Not to mention most of the fans and crowds, who could see what was coming after two minutes of kick off?
And that wonāt give him experience and food for thought, will it, ffs. Thats the point.
Youād like to think so, and only time will tell, but the overriding thing I got from that BBC article was that he wouldnāt change.
Meh, as you say, not our problem, itās all water under the bridge
Perhaps it is more of a philosophical pointā¦ how you view sporting competition. Is it all about winning at any cost, or about entertainment? Should grown men get more passionate about ātheir teamā than many do about their wives or family? 
Not saying there is an absolute right or wrong here, just that your POV on RM may well be swayed by what he achieved or lack of it, as opposed to how he tried to achieve it. For him to have ālearnedā from his time, we have to assume he made a mistakeā¦ and what that mistake wasā¦
Was his mistake the belief in the style he playedā¦ or that he tried to play it regardless of the quality of the opposition (or relative lower quality of the squad)?
I admire that he stuck to his principles, mainly as I am not a fan who feels his side is SO important that winning is everything. I am probably in a minority amongst fans, but it sure means I have better Sundays than most 
With Saints, we will never have the quality of squad that can compete playing highly entertaining total footballā¦ but I prefer it if we are at least aspiring to as opposed to accepting the pragmatic often desperate approach to try and eek out enough points to stay in a division in which we cant compete financiallyā¦
Maybe its because I am older that the youthful need to have my ego buoyed up supporting a Premier League club at all costs? 
Obviously all our previous managers are shit
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1930929615201001859?t=d-JA6IMQ9hUgZmzhg-CzlA&s=19
Ah the managerial merry go round.
All getting fat and rich on being shit.
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A leap of faith??? God only knows. 
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Apart from high level banking, i can think of no other occupation where if you are deemed to be a failure youll get a massive payoff and a decent chance of employment elsewhere. Remember reading Mark Hughes made 20m odd from being sacked.
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Applies to any job in the CSuite in any industry
Itās easier to pay them off and get a settlement agreement
They know where all the skeletons are buried, they are bright, they know their rights and they have the wherewithal to lawyer up and actually take it all the way