Topcat

You omit the extras which bring it up to well over £50k for 5,000. Appearance money for CC would be in the range of £3k to £7k so at an average of £5k we get 10 players appearance money.

It was not good business sense. A team competing in the Championship would have had gates 5k higher which would have more than covered the extra appearance money. Admin came in when we were doomed for relegation.

What does Adkins need to address first? He has to start winning. From tomorrow he will need a win ratio of 60%. If he draws the next 3 then the win ratio jumps to 63%. He has little room for a slump.

Not feeling as negative, but the scale of what Adkins has to do to win automatic promotion does need to be quantified. It is worse because of the appalling start. 1. A win ratio of 60%. 2, A draw ratio of 25% 3. Only lose 15% of games. Would get us to 88 points. Previous 5 years, 2nd slot needed 79 to 89 points. The win ratio (I believe) is better than any other Saints Mgr record.

Very true.

Cortese may only give him 12 games to get us into position as promotion challengers. If we fail to go up this season he will be fired.

Thorpe you were right and I posted it in a few places. It convinced me that the deal was on for tonight.

In a co-operative manner?

Press Release from Scunny http://www.s****horpe-united.co.uk/page/News/0,,10442~2152040,00.html

Jealous?

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2152032,00.html "Southampton Football Club is delighted to announce that it has appointed a new First Team Manager. Southampton Football Club is delighted to announce that it has today appointed Nigel Adkins as the Club's new First Team Manager on a three year deal. The appointment follows an intense, but thorough search, with the Club having received a very high volume and quality of applications, the majority of which came from well respected managers currently working in the top two divisions of English football and abroad."

Winner of the order of the brown nose.

The report relayed by Thorpe saint on this site (from Legod) that Adkins was seen today arriving at Soton airport would indicate that we will have an announcement on his appointment today. 5.5 hours left before midnight.

The recent results would support your theory.

Compared to the previous 4 or 5 seasons I thought that our squad had most of its essential components in place better than those seasons. We had in the Championship first year a gross shortage of strikers, then in other seasons a shortage of central defenders and under Burley no full backs. It culminated with the Kids-r-us starters that Portaloo was forced to select ahead of the experienced pros. But maybe my memory is going?

I do not think that he will resign because he said he would not. I do believe that the Scunny chairman will cut his demands, it then will depend on Cortese upping his offer. We are probably talking about a £100,000 gap at present. But there is only 10 hours left to Monday, Adkins deadline.

Which bit of makes him a moron?

It is amongst the best squads ..... on paper. But it could benefit from a loan with pace and a loanee striker to back up Ricky. Key as LTC writes is the fact that it needs an able Manager. It is clear that Adkins wants to be signed up today and the Sc***thorpe Chairman will be under significant pressure to do a deal as this is unsettling his own side.

Exactly right, we do have a credibility problem in the eyes of other Clubs.

Fine. So he should have fired Pardew at the end of last season and given the new Manager chance to get ready for this season.

Well Les Reed has a better managerial record than Wilkins with a 14% win record....

But as each day goes by there will be fewer options to bring in on loan. There is also a credibility factor where some Prem Mgrs will question what the setup is to utilise their loanees.

If you are right, the problem then is that we have run out of time for transfers and we are running out of the best choice in the loans.

Through the Transfer Committee, Reed + his staff can out vote the Team Mgr on who comes in or is sold/loaned out by the Club. Why do you struggle to understand that this was a major cause of conflict with any Team Mgr?

He is on the transfer committee along with one of his staff... Are you saying that is untrue?