CB Fry

Funny all that talk of "we've never had this investment before, Champion's League here we come" has died out and the precise same people are suddenly desperate to reclassify us as tiny little plucky little Southampton and chiding anyone expecting us to win a game as being "impatient" and unrealistic. Funny that. Turns out the Dell-sized mentality was right after all.

I don't back you up. He's been counting his money for half a decade, and a couple of games in the second tier doesn't change a thing. And as for "double his wages".....Jesus H. Christ.

Reading to win for me. Would like to see the QPR meltdown if they lose. And Reading are going down anyway. Probably with us.

With their glittering coaching careers behind them, they clearly cannot fail.

Bruce Hornsby's The Way It Is for, I think, the same reason.

I thought this was a fantastic new era for the club where anything is possible and we just have to believe and we can be in the Champions League. What happened to that then?

In that case, agreed.

Who? Pardew?

Hasn't Nigel been in charge for two years?

I hear he's in the frame for the Blackpool job.

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.