We recently highlighted the experience lacking in Saints coaching staff, the departure of Ross Wilson is the opportunity to revamp the Saints backroom team.
Just how inexperienced the first team coaching staff at St Mary's had become had slipped through the radar a little of late and our article on Tuesday came as a big shock for some.
The truth is the likes of Kelvin Davis and Dave Watson and Craig Fleming should only be promoted to first team duties as part of an experienced and established coaching set up not as the backbone of it and our coaching staff is now lacking in not only experience and respect, but the know how needed to get the best out of players.
The board now need to recognise this and bring in another coach, one that has that experience lacking in the top leagues and can bring in fresh ideas to a training regime that seems to no longer be getting the best out of players.
He also needs to be a sounding board for Ralph Hasenhuttl, a man who can provide good advice and whom he can bounce ideas off, this does not seem to be the case at present, certainly from the coaches whom have been at the club before his arrival.
Ralph has his own man in, but he was not so much of a direct replacement for Danny Rohl but another who is learning his trade as a coach after coming through the ranks in a different role.
So the board and Ralph need to sit down and bring someone in who can not only implement Ralph's way of doing things but bring in new and innovative ideas.
That does not seem to be happening of late and when you have so many coaches all of whom have been at the club before a manager there is a danger of divisions forming in the back room staff, have the likes of Davis, Watson & Fleming truly got the manager's back or are they more concerned about covering their own backs.
Saints back room set up is based on continuity, when a new manager comes in the core of the coaching staff remains, he brings in an assistant and maybe one other coach.
That is a good way of doing things but has it's drawbacks, the first being as mentioned the in situ coaches can distance themselves from the manager when things aren't going well so they aren't seen as part of the problem and sacked by the club if the manger is ditched.
Secondly they can be too near to the board and director of football etc for comfort and can have undue influence over them.
Thirdly in this case is the balance can be wrong and whilst I am throwing no accusations in the first two instances, in the this third one it is plainly clear that we do not have enough balance in the coaching staff it is all inexperience and no one who can command the respect of the squad.
So the board need to act on this and act on it fast, Ralph Hasenhuttl needs to be backed in what he is doing at the club for the long term and just as importantly the short term, clearly something is wrong as we don't have the drive and intensity that we had ast season.
That doesn't just come from the managers team talk but the training and coaching midweek, it has to be fresh and innovative, it needs to make the players desperate to get out there on Saturday and when they do all know their roles and what they need to do.
All of this is lacking, it is not going to come from our current coaches, they might get what it takes in the future, but not at present.
Urgency on this from the board is required, a new broom needs to sweep clean.