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  1. Some years ago there was a massive fire in a Liebherr warehouse in Newport Pagnell which covered the area in black smoke. Numerous local businesses had to evacuate their premises. Is this Marcus trying to tell us something?
  2. Enjoyed watching him play and a real gentleman with it. While out walking his dogs on the common he stopped to watch me taking shots at my young son 'in goal' then came over and gave him some coaching on how to deal with different attempts.
  3. To quote Margaret Thatcher after the sinking of the Belgrano, "rejoice at that news".
  4. I'll spare myself this amusement. Off to Wembley for the FA Vase final and a few beers.
  5. We seem to have reverted to the Puel/Pellegrino/Hughes days of passing sideways and backwards. The stats on successful completion of passes look good but there is no end product in the final third. Yes, Redmond especially is guilty of that but it is symptomatic of a team without confidence. We also appear increasingly to be just a first half side which opponents must be aware of.
  6. To be honest, I don't think Saints is very different from other club. They are businesses aiming to make as much profit as possible. Saints and the rest stopped being local representatives decades ago. The difference between Saints and the rest is that it is run by someone with little or no knowledge of football and cares even less. I have said both here and elsewhere that people should just stop going and stop buying the rubbish merchandise. Even larger swathes of empty seats on Mo TD should help to concentrate minds.
  7. Anyone contacted the club to tell them and, if so, what was their response?
  8. I remember Strachan at an AGM saying, in response to my question about players having tee shirts printed with "I survived Strachan's pre season" and complaining about feeling tired, he said that if the players were physically fit they were also mentally fit. They needed to be prepared to play 100 not just 90 minutes. He followed that with, "I'll tell them when they're tired".
  9. Write to or email the club. I don't imagine that they will check on here before making their decision.
  10. It might be premature to ditch Hughes. For me the problem lies higher up the food chain and the club's strategy of selling half decent players for hefty profits and replacing them with too many of limited ability. The results speak for themselves and, eventually half decent players will not want to come here regardless of who the manager is.
  11. What has it got to do with supporters? Anyone would think that they paid good money to watch it!
  12. Whether or not there is a clear out from the top down remains to be seen but my feeling is that it will be necessary. Like him or loathe him, Cortese had ambition for the club and that pretty much disappeared when he left. Since then, we appear to have just reacted to events without any clear direction or destination in mind and it is unsurprising that this has been reflected on the field. I am sure Hughes will want to stay if we have the right vision and leadership. Time for Gao Ji Sheng to step up and exert some control.
  13. Hamwic

    Les Reed

    There is a school of thought in business that people are invariably promoted to their level of incompetence.
  14. On Radio 5 the summariser, Pat Nevin,called it early in the first half; all very well having two up top but you need to get the ball to them. Tadic and Redmond seem incapable on that front. He later identified that our midfield was so easily overrun and offered little or no protection. He might well have added that Cedric, Hoedt and Bertrand seem incapable of defending and the latter was 'unable to deal with the 35 year old Zabaleta. There was also the notable absence of any leader on the pitch. If we go down, many of these players will be off for discount prices so really don't worry too much.
  15. I can't remember such elation at the sacking of a Saints' manager since the Branfoot era. It was a sorry state for the club to have been in and, frankly, the fingers of blame might be better pointed at the senior management and owners who inflicted on the supporters two seasons of the most tedious football I can remember in over 50 years by the appointments of Puel and Pellegrino. I am slightly nervous about who the replacement might be but surely it cannot be any worse. Can it?
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