CB Fry

Probably the Quincy Promes of football administration. A load of media hype/rumours and then it all goes quiet and then we recruit no-one or someone utterly hopeless.

On this forum, we've had people actually running a kit-based boycott campaign who couldn't scuttle down to the Saints shop quick enough to buy it the day it came out.

Let's hope she does it like they do it on the Discovery Channel.

But you've just explained exactly what I was responding to in my original reply. So turns out it didn't go "over my head" after all, then. Utterly bizarre. My point, pretty simply, is there isn't really anything that Puel has done to give Gao any pause to consider that a decision that happened before he had any control was a mistake, when far more pressing errors have been made, on his actual watch, since. Spoiler alert: this isn't Quantum Leap and Gao isn't Sam Beckett. Understand?

What would that board do if Hughes decided to resign then? If you don't think they are capable of overseeing a simple recruitment process for a board level sporting director, how can they ever recruit anyone connected to the playing side?

But Lander were involved/negotiating/getting clearance/etc etc from January 2017 and it progressed through the summer, so it's not like they had no idea, and not impossible that they would have been informed. At the very least the new leadership team would have looked at that decision as a potential root cause of where we are now in retrospect, even if not at the time.

Well, on reading that, I've got to say yes it did go over my head. I have absolutely no idea what point you are actually trying to make about Leicester, Puel, Gao, the Chinese, Saints, Les or anything. I think it may be because your post was just absolute dogsh it.

Puel has not gone on to be a "great ambassador for Leicester", that's just garbage. Leicester fans don't really rate him and he hasn't achieved anything there thus far. He's done a perfectly good job in the face of a non-footballing tragedy but so would any manager thrust into a situation like this. Craig Shakespeare or Claudio would have also dealt with things in a dignified way, as would have Pellegrino or Mark Hughes had a similar thing happened to us.

2/10.

I'm honestly not that fussed about "a football person" recruiting our next manager. If the Chinese want to do it, fine, if we end up with someone with a decent CV, especially if we show some intent to better ourselves. It's not really that difficult. Our last football man appointed three successive duffers so we haven't got much to lose.

I've tried to read the whole interview but I gave up when he started talking about amateur arms. Personally I have moved into a space and area where the figurehead and leader of strategic direction for global Christianity would very much target the action of tears and the opportunity of crying in the same direction we are moving in with regard to weeping.

I'm not a Reedite sweetheart, I just think you write utter horsesh it on this forum. And you do.

Les we forget.

I'm worried we might end with a Steve Walsh/Craig Shakespeare/Claudio Ranieri dream team. "It worked before" type stuff. All available I believe, and the kind of lazy appointment I can see Gao regime making.

If Yoshida isn't playing because of a fall out with Reed, I'd say that says more about Mark Hughes than Les. Pathetic if Hughes is not picking players because uncle Les says so.

Well done to all the protesters. People are quick to sneer and belittle the efforts of those people prepared to put the hard yards in. The people grafting at the coal face: manning the telephones, painting the slogans, organising the marches. Someone has to chair those committee meetings. Blood, sweat, toil and tears. What's brilliant is how the protesters have brought the supporters together. The unbelievable momentum that those efforts have built up will carry on not just for the next six months but for next season and then the season after that too. And then it stops, of course. Well, anyway, today is your day. Enjoy it, you've earned it.

Blimey. I've only just found out. Great news. He's had enough chances. We march on.

Fair play, that journalist fu cking battered that intern trying to take the mike off him. Should be strung up for an assault like that.

I really think so.

Jesus wept.

It's about time someone had the balls to say this.

For a club in a situation like Saints, or any team in the bottom half then that's an excellent CV. As will be proven because if he wants one he's likely to get a job at a top flight club before the season is out. I don't think we'll approach him and personally I don't want him but if we did hire him, I'd be confident in at least staying up. I would suggest anyone you suggest (that's a realistic prospect for us) will not have a CV as good as Big old Sam. Suggest away.

Just done part one. Quality. High hopes for the Clive Woodward Redknapp stuff, will listen tomorrow.

Thanks for the tip, looks good. Just to help others it's actually called Undr The Cosh (no e in under) - there is another football podcast called "Under the Cosh" which I found on Pocketcasts and confused the hell out of me. I take it people on here subscribe to Quickly Kevin - new series just started and it remains absolutely superb.

What land has he bought around St Mary's and what plans has he put down? And which land could he not just have bought from Southampton City Council/the land owners in isolation, without buying a football club he has little interest in?