CB Fry

I think this is about right. And now we are Premier League the bankrolling stops. Hence the loan. As far as I am concerned, we are not a rich mans toy any more, just one business owned by MALI expected to run its own affairs and wash its own face.

So what? There are far more teams who have got relegated without winning the cup, and far more that have won it/got to the final and stayed up. But you cling on to your one club example. We should be trying to win matches and we should be trying to win this cup.

...and? At least they're trying to win a trophy. A trophy we should be trying to win, not last night's joke.

He said it on a members only forum specifically saying that it be passed on without attribution to him. He didn't post it on here. He's being naive, but he'll still go apesh it.

FF is going to go apesh it when he sees that on here. He went proper loopy when the name of the Pompey takeover thread was changed. This will send him off the scale.

I remember we sacked Pardew. We ended up on the managerial merry go round and it was a complete disaster. Oh. Hang on. No it wasn't.

Good read although slightly over playing the "rise from the ashes" bit. Adkins inherited a squad that was NPC bound whoever was in charge. Has Nige earned his chance? Yep. Is he going to get it? I doubt it.

Actually, the Feguson case study is much like Moyes - Fergie had a very good start at Man U finishing second in his first full season. He proved he could do it. It was this that helped keep him in a job, although some people on this forum get very upset with this fact, not sure why.... Sticking with a good manager going through a rough patch is a good thing to do. I am happy for Adkins to get more time -he's earnt it - but I don't think he'll get it.

...says the unfunniest man in the northern hemisphere.

You're never more than ten posts away from the Alex Ferguson case study on here. Thanks for coming.

What if Ricky has been thrown on for 20 mins and then scored twice and we win the game?

The usual patronising garbage from David, I see. And wrong as well - unless you want to go into detail about MLT's supposed on field contributions in the SMS era in the 2000s

....anyone care to remember us being fourth at Christmas? He wasn't going to be sacked. Jesus.

He'd just relegated Cov when he came to us last time. Boro didn't work, but so what. He's the stop Arry candidate who can get the fans on board. Come on Spoony, give it to Gordon! (if there is a vacancy of course.)

If Wonga Cortese does sack Nige tomorrow there really is only one man he can parachute in to bring the fans together....and, conveniently, organise a team robust enough to stay in the division. It's going to happen, not least because WGS had some monogramed SFC tracksuits delivered to his house only three short years ago, according to the ITKs on hereof course. This is happening. The wee man cometh.

We are not "ahead of schedule". That is total rubbish. And would that be the same "managerial merry go round" that saw us sack Pardew and appoint, err, Nigel Adkins? There's no merry go round. Just having the right man for the job.

League cup win is worth countless tedious mid table finishes. It's a trophy and cup final. I'd take one all day long over finishing, say, eighth.

Weren't people saying Mayuka should start games over the weekend? And we know the hero worship of Lee of course. Chaplow and Jos have significant fan clubs here, and of course the wonderkids who will shortly make up half the team according to our experts. People can't have it both ways by dismissing these players out of hand now. This is our squad. It's not good enough.

Correct. Which is where all this man in the glass stuff is coming from. Just trying to keep his dignity as it all goes to sh it, and he knows its not all his fault.

I love him from the bottom of my pencil case.

Oh. God. Not three, surely?

Pathetic. We should have tried to win this game, our next game is a freaking week away and we needed the confidence of a win. Pathetic.

He'll have loads more time and space to weave his magic in Premier League matches to be fair.

Lee just got a proper pasting from Craig Burley on 5LX. Probably just anti-Saints agenda, though.

That's right. The whole team is spraying it around like Platini every week.