CB Fry

The jist of it is "good luck Alan, hope you do well down there, what a guy". Or not.

Dowie had a handful of games. He did spend a lot of money but given a full season he would probably have kept them up. Les Reed was the disaster, their in house Wigley appointment.

So just to confirm you are happy if a football club board interferes in player recruitment and happy if the chief exec forces players on the manager. And it is the manager in the wrong if he decides not to play said players. So if a chief exec says "we're buying so and so and you are playing him" that is a scenario you are perfectly happy with? I do hope you have remained consistent in those opinions over the years regardless of the clubs or chairmen involved.

Don't worry about a thread on a forum FC. If you feel that strongly about the stadium chanting the name of a retired player with no affinity to us whatsoever, stand up and start singing tomorrow afternoon.

Not sure we'll fit any Pardew songs in around the chanting about John Hartson and respect for our Armed Forces

This is a fantastic appointment. Good experience, plays football the right way, is capable of managing us through all three divisions, he has something to prove, good contacts and reputation in the game. Also he has no sodding "affinity to Southampton" the most over rated requirement people bang on about on here. If he's still with us in three years time I would expect us to be a solid CCC level club at worst. Personally I am pleased it isn't Strachan, I would have been uncomfortable with that appointment long term because I wouldn't understand his motivation. New owners, new board, new manager, new players, new club. Brilliant.

Well, they've delivered Saints training kit to Strachan's house and everything so he must be being lined up as Pardews assistant. Unless it was dirty kit and WGS is replacing Woggy.

This would be the same Simon Cox that signed for WBA for £1.5m a week ago?

Durham and Ian Wright is a genuinely good show as long as you expect to be entertained rather than educated. Hawksbee and Jacobs are good too. But anything before 1pm on TS is utter turd.

Radio 5 was never "pure sport", in fact it is more sport focused now than at any point in its history. Mark Saggers on Talksport is an odd listen, doesn't quite fit in with the clueless kneejerk reactors talking off the tops of their heads.

LOLtastic.

It's on BBC teletext and everything.

We will rape this league.

For anyone scratching their head, you need to go to the BBC Sport homepage (not the football homepage or any Saints specific page). Tis on the ticker there. Sky Sports News no mention.

What BBC is this on?! It doesn't seem to be on the one I'm looking at.

There's a very silly attitude on this forum and beyond that as soon as anyone fails, that's it. Career over. Coupled with an even dopier worldview that people in the very early stages of their career who have had some limited success will never, ever fail. It's this constant desperation for new new new that sees managers promoted above their station, then a failure and then unemployable in the eyes of the same bloody fans. Pardew will forever be tainted as a failure - Bol**ks to lower league success, a fantastic job at Reading and a bloody good job at ever fickle WHU. But Paul Tisdale is the golden child because he's been promoted from League two and everything and is never going to fail like Pardew. Never ever nosiree. This above quote about Strachan shows how little you know. Coventry fans were scathing about him. Absolutely scathing.

BBC 1 are cutting away from coverage of the Open and will be covering it from 12noon with all the build up following the team coaches to the stadium and in depth build up interviews with Johan Cryuff and Mick Channon. Gary Lineker will be hosting and by John Motson and Richard Chorley are your commentary team.

I bet no one starts it on Saturday, and even if someone does I bet it doesn't really get off the ground. As a few people have said he hasn't got any relevence to us, or Ajax, and he isn't actually dead and its just a bit odd. I know this is one of those threads where someone suggests something quite nice and others get utterly outraged when anyone suggests it might not be the most practicable idea, but oh well. If anyone else wants to start a "nice idea, then get outraged when it is challenged" thread how about: The recent deaths in Afghanistan The crane collapsing at the docks the other day and the seriously injured bloke Michael Jackson Early Poppy Day as Lowe banned it last year etc etc now is our chance to put that right don't you know what they have done for our country etc etc etc. Bobby Robson still ill. It's exactly 1500 days since Alan Ball died so we should all wear caps again. Justice for Hillsborough So lots of causes. Please someone start a thread about one of those please, there's always plenty of moral grandstanding to go around.

That is truly frightening, especially as he is only a year older than me and unlike me has been a professional sportsman since his teens. Granted not the leanest but still. When he's been on the radio I thought he was turning into a pretty decent pundit too. Good luck to him.

When did Tisdale "turn down" Swansea, and not sure he was ever interviewed by Reading, he may have got on a notional short list. What Steve Cotterill has achieved in football ****es all over what Tisdale has achieved and to call it "nothing" shows you only know anything at all about Paul Tisdale because he is an ex Saints player. Try putting things in a slightly broader context. I think you need to calm down, achieving promotion from L2 does not guarantee a life long career of football glory and doesn't mean everything you touch will turn to gold from here on in. Ever heard of the phrase "flavour of the month"? Quite. I'm not rabidly anti-Tisdale, just anti the silly level of hype he is attracting on here.

I wonder if you could name the managers of all the clubs promoted from L2 over the last five years? Or do you only look out for former Saints players, perchance?

Is it "price" they're haggling over or a discussion over who takes on the debts that have been run up? The price of the club is of course subject to as much haggling as you like, but "football debts" have to be settled in full otherwise the PFA and the League will force the club into admin. If Gaydamak can't and Sheikaway won't then that could be the nub of the problem.

Is it too late to sponsor Rudi Skacel. If any player sums up this forum, its him.

They won't need also rans like Peter Crouch once the good Doctor gets his feet under the table and buys Messi, Riquelme, Et'o and eight more galaticos at £50m each on 31st August. I mean, how else are they going to charge into the Champions League next season?

People "rate him highly" because he played a handful of games for Saints. He's one of many, many managers of equal stature in the lower leagues and conference but is getting disproportionate hype on here because he played at the Dell once in a blue moon. Mark Robins, Alan Knill, Cotterill, Mark Stimpson, Andy Scott, Paul Simpson etc etc etc are all "just as good as"or better than Tisdale but getting nowhere near the hype. I'm just slightly sick of the disproportionate hype is all and for that reason I'd prefer someone else.