CB Fry

I think the phrase "every single one of them better than your dream candidate Garry Monk" is definitely applicable.

Yeah, but apparently this idea is unique to horrible old Les Reed and his "demands, rules and regs" which are so demanding nobody has actually managed to say what any of them are. All we know is our track record of Les appointing lots of very good managers is proof that no decent manager will ever work for Les or something.

Except we have had a very, very consistent run of excellent managerial appointments, so good that 8th place and a cup final is now considered a failure, which history will judge as being perfectly fine. Personally I have no interest in us employing some big name high profile manager who gets to control everything because they won't be here any longer than the "coach" type appointment you seem to object to. We employ Pellegrini or LVG or whoever this "decent" manager you are thinking of and you give them total control of anything and everything they want. Great. They will be gone within two years either through success or failure. Meaning we end up perpetually starting over and over again and each "decent" manager turns everything up and down. Not sure how that is going to deliver better than 8, 7, 6, 8 and two Euro qualifications. Why do you think this would be better, and how much better would this approach be over a five-ten year period, not just the "I wish we'd employ X manager" short-term view. But the bit I don't get is the biggest clubs in the world have "coach" managers embedded in their structures and the biggest managers in the world are very used to working in "coach" situations with layers of directors with huge influence on sporting strategy and player recruitment. And lastly, Southampton have recruited a run of "decent" managers under the very director you say "decent" managers won't work for. All quite odd.

On Twitter, surprised there hasn't been a thread on it. Will be in the area on Monday helping out. Good lad.

Well, yeah.

I certainly wouldn't ever say that. All I say is he was a fine chairman but he found his level, which was the Championship. The Neil Warnock of football administrators.

But Les still employed him and it worked perfectly well (very well) for two years. And we offered him an extension. Koeman not a yes man, Les Reed employed him. But still we get this "Les only wants a yes man" bunch of arse. We will see whether this megalomania and rules and regs and all the rest of it is actually true or just the half-baked projections of people that have never liked him and never want to like him. I expect the next manager will be another one straight out if the quivering, gutless shrinking violet production line like Alan Pardew and Ronald Koeman. Lastly, I think the Venn diagram of "People that despise and want rid of what they see as controlling/singlemindedness/rigid vision of Les Reed" versus "People that swoon over and wish they could have back the controlling/singlemindedness/rigid vision of Nicola Cortese" I reckon Saint Billy and co would be bang on the intersection. Odd, ain't it.

Koeman not a decent manager then?

Nothing says ambition than missing out on a relegated manager now snapped up by, er, Watford.

It's a cartoon.

He already has. It doesn't get this far if he was going to refuse it. He will have known for a few weeks.

It's good to get your first capitulation in early to set the tone for the whole process.

If the job is "Lawrie Sanchez at Fulham".

Don't give up on the ambitious choice of forward thinking football clubs, Gordon Strachan. Keep wishing.

Definitely up there with Paul Collingwood.

I quite liked it. The Pompey name plate was a touch of class.

At least you got the riots you've be willing to happen for weeks. Look at dem Corbynistas rioting. I told ya I told ya I told ya.

Will be as successful as the million man march that a) didn't stop the Iraq invasion and b) didn't stop Blair (B-LIAR, more like, right?) securing a hefty majority that Steptoe could inly dream of. The more McD and Corbyn do this sh ite, the more determined the Tories will be.

Three days with a vacancy is long enough to admit defeat, yeah. We've blown it.

So what. Fine by me if our next manager does so well he is promoted off to a big European club or Everton.

Textbook. The Everton star called Lukaku scored 31 goals last season and 31 goals the season before. Mane didn't.

I liked the "now I am going to list some German managers I have heard of" bit. Thorough.

He main role is to say yes to Les Reed all the time because all we want is a yes man saying yes all the time just like all those other yes men that Les employed through the years because he only employs yes men that say yes all the time.

Yeah but Les has such a track record of hiring spineless, weak willed doormats who would say boo to a goose. Shrinking violets like Alan Pardew, Ronald Koeman, Pochettino and Nigel Adkins. Sopping wet blankets the lot of them. Les Reed has never, ever signed any manager prepared to stand up for themselves and he ain't going to start this summer.

Seems unlikely as his name was all over the Sunday papers last weekend. Like to think it was an actual unnamed/not linked person.