The rumour is that Mark Hughes is a dead man walking at St Mary's after yet another defeat to reinforce his record as worst Saints manager in the top flight, so is he just still with the club at the moment as there is no one else to pick the team.
Saints travel to Leicester City in the Carabao cup tonight wt Mark Hughes still at the helm, but the feeling is that Hughes is only still in a job because if he was sacked there would be no one with the experience to pick and run the team this evening.
The stark reality is that if Hughes goes then his assistants Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki will go with him as they are essentially a team, that being the case then the only coaches left would be goalkeeping coach Dave Watson or Kelvin Davis who has only been in a coaching role for the last 11 months and certainly doesn't have the experience or the presence needed in the dressing room at this stage in his coaching career.
So there is perhaps a feeling that keeping Hughes on in the short term would be the better option, but that doesn't mean that a change won't be made sooner than later and the media is already suggesting that Brendan Rodgers or Leonardo Jardim are being lined up, Saints fans will certainly be hoping so