Some noise on Twitter from unverified accounts on this one. A reputable source saying he's likely to leave Southampton permanently, less reputable sources joining dots and saying he's close to joining Reading.

Our best player sat on the bench for 90 mins again. It's gonna be a "second ball game" if none of your midfielders have an ounce of ball carrying composure. Just before their second goal Noel was about to make some changes. The groan from the West stand when everyone realised he was calli...

Hunt fits the description for me. Not a great player, but got the club and gave everything, culminating in the 11/12 promotion. He's then given a lot of his post playing career to the club during the dark days. He did a great job with the academy and got them into Europe, before taking on an impossi...

This idea seems like a waste of wage bill to me. We have 4 specialist CBs plus Dorsett, and enough depth in FBs and midfield.

Put his potential wages on a striker.

Doesn't Elliott only have a year left on his contract? Worst case is he doesn't feature like he should, leave for peanuts in January then smashes it for another club who knows how to use him properly. Whereas it should be we make him a key part of the team, tie him down, watch him develop and sell h...

I'm fully on board with Hunt, I think he's doing and will continue to do well here. We have had to replace most of the team, this window. And with players out of contact and the returning loan players, we'll probably have to do the same next year too. Over achieving last season has massively increa...

I'll take conceding fewer than 5 this time. But can only see a defeat.

United looking pretty good against Arsenal, but should have invested in a proper GK alongside their attackers. Raya has made a worldie at one end and Bayindir has gifted one. You can't beat the best teams when you give them gifts like that.

When we have made good signings in the past, Brian Carey has been given the credit. Why is Noel now to blame for the not so impressive signings and not Brian? I assume he is still at the club. Recruitment has been good. O'Connor and Lane have barely featured which is unlucky. Burns looks good but w...

Our midfield is Wing unless unavailable, alongside one of Savage/Fraser and one of Doyle/Elliott. Workrate, cover for the defence but also ball playing ability and guile.

Any game we lose without Elliott or Doyle is on Hunt.

Good uses
As cover for Wing when injured
To be a deeper option that allows Wing to push forward
As part of a double pivot when defending a lead or against high calibre opposition

Bad uses
As an attacking or creative midfielder when Doyle and Elliott are available.

Discuss.

Nah stick with Hunt, this team just needs time to gel. Would be a bit silly to sign players for a manager and then give him just 4 games to get it right. This. Losing three on the bounce is rubs, obvs. But let’s not devolve back to a revolving door philosophy when we have all witnessed what giving ...

For balance, I was at the Lincoln game before Christmas last year. We lost, were poor and had 1 point from his first 3 games. We'd been outplayed by Blackpool and Lincoln, but Hunt's interviews infuriated us all by saying it wasn't that bad and blamed refs. Talk on here was whether we had enough poi...

With all the dialogue around Hunty getting his P45, I honestly think that if it got to a point whereby he thought there was somebody else out there who could do a better job, he would more than likely stepped down anyway. He's clearly a man of integrity and has the club in his heart. Plus he would ...

Hunt is getting shown up where he's inexperienced. He had the luxury of knowing the players when he took over as manager but many of those players have gone and he's never built a first team squad from scratch before. He's never been one who I have thought highly of his substitutions whereas Selles...

I don't get why Jacob is struggling so much. Hull fans were very complimentary and he's got a good amount of experience at a higher level. He had a proper pre season across the 2 clubs, he should be fit and ready.

I want him to succeed, but I also know it's a ruthless game. I'd expect we'd currently be an appealing option for an ambitious manager, much less so if we're still bottom in November. After 2 tough away games, we have Vale and Northampton at home. If we don't win those 2 and get up to 7 winless, it ...

I wonder how big the O'Connor injury has been defensively. He's not just a defender, he's a leader. He potentially owns getting contact on their cross for the first and certainly sets the tone to ensure they can't make those simple passes around the edge of the box for the second. He was our primary...

In the likely event we don't beat Bolton or Wycombe, will Redwood get their wallet out for a CF at the end of August? I would presume League 2 is not in their 5 year plan.

If we need a result to go our way to kick start things, who will be the "typical Reading" and lose to us? Last season Orient lost their first 5 and the turning point was when they won at the SCL courtesy of a CBC howler, because of course Charity FC would do that. Another couple of winless...