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we will have had to have done this last season in order to have the knowledge to buy them this summer. Have we?

an effective board needs a range of diverse opinions, but they all must be pulling in the right direction. We at least know that Crouch is a fan and wants the best for the club so that is a good start. Lets hope the other members feel the same.

yes Holmes is over rated IMO. Surman is underated.

I thought Cox was going to cost teams over £2m? Beckford is going up a league and Lambert doesn't want to leave so not sure any of them would come even if the £1m was made available, Patterson might be the instant solution.

very good point and as soon as I saw him against Reading away I said that he looked just what we needed - height, strength, workrate and ability. Him and BWP would have offered the perfect combination of height and pace. That partnership played all season would have kept us up IMO and Patterson would be the million pond man (if not more). How much did Rangers buy Karl Rafferty for? Patterson looks as good as him to me.

perhaps the ther players and tactics were cack? McGoldrick and Lallana were in their first full seasons and should never have been expected to carry the side.

surprised you served him to be honest.

yep, look how we replaced Safri with Wotton last summer. At the higher echelons of football you need quality players to have any hope whatsoever of winning the league. McGoldrick will go and we'll bring in some useless load of old ****e on less money. Our scouting system is toilet. I doubt we have a clue who is decent in League 1 never mind League 2.

he was England U20 captain whilst at Saints. He hasn't progressed a great deal since leaving us. A few games for Pompey in the cups, but mostly he has been out on loan in the CCC. He is still young so is a prospect but it pains me to say anything good about him to be honest. ****ign skate judas ****.

Interesting arguement and £1m is a lot of wedge for a League 1 side. I'd have to argue though that we need quality to get us out of the league not money to waste on old ****e. If we sold him who would be his replacement, some load of **** I bet. Also I have got to pick you up on two of your points let me give you some facts about the previous two seasons for David McGoldrick in 2006/7 Saints League starts 1 Saints FA cup starts 2 Saints Subs 8 and they were for 25, 14, 9, 1, 10, 16, 1 and 30 minutes. in 2007/8 Saints League starts 2 (58 and 45 minutes) Saints Subs 8 and they were for 11, 5, 11, 2, 10, 23, 28 and 17 minutes I don't see how anyone can describe 2008/9 as anything else but his first full season for Saints and at CCC level. James BT was extremely average. He worked hard btu absolutely no quality of end product. A terrible scoring record and little sign of what might come. Fast forward 5 years and he was an England striker.

Blackstock and Best didn't really get lods of chances, not that I am great fans of either, but how anyone can say that Beattie performed badly for us I will never know. In the early years there was little end product, but he was a top top player for us scoring some wonderful goals. Cranie got very few chances and has done nothing since leaving, so doesn't fit either of yoru criteria. Decrap, well say no more.

seriously? I'm amazed anyone considers Holmes to be even remotely close to Surman. Holmes is poor.

Mark Yeates has impressed me greatly whenever I have seen him. Great free kick taker. Same division means it might be a problem btu if we look like we are going to chase promotion then maybe he will see the potential.

no worries, I usually just spend my time arguing with Arizona about Skacel or Saga. I didn't realise there were still people out there that think Pearson was useless. He has a point in that we spent a kings ransom on loans to keep us up, but I can't imagine we would have signed so many ****e players over the summer if he had been here. Michael Morrison would have been at centre half for starters.

my mistake we went from 1 win in 13 league games. Plus an embaressing defeat to Bristol Rovers in the FA cup showed how truely bad we were at that point.

time has told. We didn't employ him and the next guy took us down, or will you only conceed once he has kept Leicester up? No doubt that will be down to Mandrichs millions though so we will never know.

and there's nme thinking it was you that was mystic meg offering us preditions that we would have gone down with Pearson.

after timing? No idea what you are trying to say but you are welcome to check through my posts and you will see that at the time I thought Pearson shoudl be retained. If you are trying to point out the Lowe did well with WGS then you are right. Not sure what bearing this has though on him letting pearson go and bringing in JP.

as you keep rolling out the 21% stat I'll repeat the fact that our win ratio in the 8 league games before he took over was 12.5%. We were going backwards at an alarming rate and he managed to turn that round by galvanising the squad and getting them fighting like their lives depended on it.

I'm afraid that just doesn't rub. I and many other said at the time that we had got a decent guy here and he had done a a very good job at our place so hinsight does not come into play. What has happened at Leicester simply proves we were right about him. Lowe should have recognised that we had stumbled on a decent manager and signed him up. I realise money may have been the deciding factor but good managers are hard to find and we had one in our grasp. rubbish. see above.

but immediately prior to him taking over we had won one league game in the previous 8 games, that's a win ratio of 12.5%. The guy had to turn a sinking ship round, and managed it. He was no genious, but it was obvious that he had the players support and the personality to drive us forward. With Pearson at the helm I believe we would have survived.

I didn't see that at all. Yes his form has been up and down. Let me reitterate that he HAS played in quite a few games this season, but when he has played badly it certainly hasn't been down to a lack of effort on match day. I know nothing about his off field antics but it has been suggested he likes a drink, is that what you are getting at in terms of lack of motivation leading to a carefree attitude?

Kris Commons gave Forest an extra season in the lower league so Surman could do the same. He won't though, I realise that.

not sure Wotte had that much to do with our financial predicament. £6.5m overdrawn before he even walked through the door FFS.

funnily enough I have no argument with your first point, but I'm not sure why you think Pearson would have done a worse job than Jan and then Wotte - how could he have done? I'd of thought getting Leicester promoted proved he has ability, something many of us recognised pretty quickly. Also I prefer to think that ALL the fans were victims or the poor financial decisions made by Lowes boardroom replacements, and then by Lowe's Dutch experiment.