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Dennis Rofe?

Correct. It would be hard to do worse. But our final 6 games are amongst the toughest run compared to relegation rivals. The 8 games after Spurs are easier!

The Macquarrie loan facility has assigned (in the first instance) all the Premiership Central Funds for this season and next season to Macquarrie. Now is that for a £1m loan, or £10m loan or £100m etc etc?

Yes and Les is soon going off to give his wisdom to the League Managers Association!

Thought for the Day? The previous time we had a Chairman who had played hockey and not much football was Rupert Lowe.

Absent owner + + Part time IceHockey Chairman+ No CEO+ incompetent board + manager out of his depth + demotivated players + no signings = re*eg*ti**

An amazing stat.

Just need to beat Spurs.

Is one of those pledges to install a safety net all round the stadium to avoid anyone in the crowd getting hit by a puck?

We are due a lucky win. It could save the season!

In a bad slump in form and my rough calculations have them us and Swansea relegated on recent form.

If, there really is £200m of debt (a big if) loaded onto the Club, then we will be in a worse state than when relegated under Lowe. Let us hope that there is very little debt.

Statistically you could be unfair to Wigley as Pelligrino's winning record is worse and getting worse each game.

Pelligrino is happy as he is still in the job and cannot believe his luck.

Is that the Les Football Club?

You and Talk Sport are correct (Pilchards). A well run football operation would have done this. We have Les Reed "reporting to" a vacant Chief Executive role and a Part Time expat Chairman.

Networking for a new job for himself?

Pamplemouse. Amazing how the Daily Echo seems to have overlooked it? "Among a range of topics, one coach intends to pose the hypothetical question whether it is appropriate for the son of an executive director to act as an agent for academy players at the club where his father runs the show." That and the fact that LMA will sit there and think why has Reed hired a nonLMA manager who has turned in the worst performance in Saints history. What does Reed bring to the LMA?

It should be noted that Lambert is better acquanited with the Bundesliga than most British Managers. For example "Stafylidis was first watched by Lambert when the Stoke manager went to watch him train at the German club." http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11701/11212350/kostas-stafylidis-joins-stoke-on-loan-to-become-paul-lamberts-first-signing

Less does not mean ALL.

Yes only a loan but they are an experienced pro to shore up a gap where they have had a teenager.

Saint Albert outlines what should have happened.

Which may explain the form in 2nd half, 4 wins from end of Jan? Yet Puel still exited with twice the win rate that Pelligrino had.

If debt is loaded into a Business/Club to fund its purchase (look up leveraged buy outs by KKR etc) then the Business has to pay that interest and has less money to spend on its other expenses such as buying players and paying players wages.

So do they.