CB Fry

Any mention of how he was pretending to try but not really bothering to sell the club because he had it all planned out with Lowe to sell it to him at a knock down price at the last minute? After all, that's what SaintRichmond was telling us and he's never known to be wrong.

I'd take Wise and Poyet together - no reason they couldn't get us into the play offs next season. In fact there are loads of managers out there I would take with confidence they could get us out of this league. To be honest, in football management terms, there are harder jobs out there.

You got to love them rumours from the stewards. They know it all, you know.

You're thinking of Richard Branson, who isn't quite the rags to riches story he makes out. Sugar's family genuinely didn't have a pot to **** in.

You seem to be making out that Pompey plucked him away from a Wycombe Wanderers board and fanbase desperate to keep him. There was a good couple of years between his abominal record at Wycombe - 12 wins in a season and a bit and relegation - and his appointment by HR. He nurdled around in Holland or Belgium or somewhere for a while post-Wycombe he was in such high demand. I'm getting annoyed with people saying it is his Pompey connections that are the problem. It isn't. Its the fact he is utter rubbish and proven to be incapable at this level and at any level.

You seem to be confusing fans debating before an appointment is made, and then the reaction once an appointment is made. People are being scathing about Adams now (and with good reason, ie he's proven to be incapable of running a club, NOTHING to do with his Portsmouh history BTW) but were he appointed then the general feeling would have to be "give him a chance". Noone will protest at the Millwall game. But fans are well within their rights to slate a potential manager. Why the hell not? Whoever is named will get a honeymoon/trial/probabtion period from the fans. The length of that will vary on the back of who the manager is and how well they do, but they will get some time to deliver. But its fair to say Adams will get less time than most.

Recent holders of "best up and coming manager in the country" title: Phil Brown Paul Jewell Craig Levein Paul Ince Phil Parkinson Adrian Boothroyd and so on. It's tempting to assume clubs just promoted are just going to continue their upward trajectory forever, but chances are they won't. And the same with managers. Just because Ferguson, or Tisdale, haven't had a bad season, its easy to assume they are never going to have one. They will. Phil Parkinson spectacularly led a unfashionable small town small fry club into the CCC only a couple of seasons back, precisely what Ferguson has done, but against more odds and on much less money. I doubt many Saints fans want him now. Posh have probably found the peak of their level now, and if they squeak the play offs this season they will be punching spectacularly above themselves.

Not sure you can blame this forum for not giving us the option of Nigel Pearson a couple of years ago, he wasn't on anyone's radar, or Jan Poortvilet last season. George Burley was definitely on a poll and did well back in the day. It could be someone we haven't even thought of yet, but we'd need a poll of about 100 names to cover every conceivable option.

I think people tend to think that starting a thread called "Pro Tony Adams" and then telling people what they can and can't think on said thread is quite antagonistic, especially as any fool reading this forum over the last few days could see that "people thought" they do not want Tony Adams. No one is interested in examining why he might be on the shortlist. Other than that, great thread. Hey ho.

Maybe you should realise that Roy Keane is not going to leave Ipswich for us in a million, billion years. They have a rich owner and want to be in the Premier League at the end of next season. Roy Keane is not going to "put up with" being a League One manager on minus ten when he could be challenging for the Prem all next season. You are an idiot for thinking otherwise.

Errr - this is the most euphoric this forum, or any of its predecessors, has ever been. By about a million miles. If you're still depressed by it, then maybe web forums aren't for you.

I very much doubt the non-internet-forum-using members of the fanbase are sat in the pub raving about how fantastic Tony Adams would be as our manager.

What the man said. Do not give the blue few the satisfaction. Do not answer any phone calls from people pretending to be Wim Jansen or Johnny Metgood. Do not appoint Tony Adams.

What this bloke? I can see he uses the same cravat supplier as Tisdale.

I don't think the two things are mutually exclusive. He's a thoughtful, intelligent, nutter. The problem is he isn't quite as intelligent as he thinks he is, and the players see through it, but can't understand his team talks. Tony Adams would be a total disaster. I am sure Wim Jansen has been on the phone to Oldknow heartily recommending his best mate already.

I'm starting to think that - the club or WGS could easily just give a one line quote saying essentially "don't be so stupid" and we'd accept that. Because it is a bit silly to think he'd take the job. So maybe this is going to happen.

Took Cheltenham from non league obscurity into what is now League One and established them as a solid league club in a town with no football heritage whatsoever. Won the FA Trophy. Think what you would think of, say, Jason Dodd if he took Eastleigh into League One in five-six years. That level of achievement. Three solid seasons of CCC football at Burnley. Excellent start at Stoke in CCC, before his ill fated sojourn into the Premier League with Sunderland. Highly respected coach's coach. Lots of great contacts in the game, and Harry Redknapp . He's not my first choice but he has the calibre to do a job for us, and as I said in my original post, has acheived more than Tisdale.

Steve Cotterill has achieved more than Paul Tisdale and he is treated like the second coming by some on here.

No surprises who is starting spiteful threads looking backwards. Desperate to stir up an argument, are we sweetheart? If Lowe released a statement you'd be the first to rip it apart anyway, so why ask for one. None of the rest of us give a flying what he thinks.

Because it is an hilarious internet joke. It was funny to begin with, now it is just maintained by about five posters on here. No one wants actually Widdrington to be Saints manager. Not even his mum.

For some reason I am thinking it is Iain Dowie. That's who I think Le Tiss had lined up (I don't think Keegan was ever a goer, mainly because of his compensation claim). Dowie would rather be manager in L1 (at a club on the up up UP) than a CCC assistant, surely?

Quite. I don't quite get the gooeyness about Wotte. In his position I would have "been loyal" to Saints as well - he's never going to get a better job anywhere else. Not that much of a self sacrifice. Good luck in the Egyptian second division, Mark. Send us a postcard.

Quite - I'd have thought promoting Fulham from the third tier was a more relevent comparison to where we are (I believe it is the third tier). It also happened more recently than the Newcastle stuff. Not sure we're going to get far if our criteria is "better than Alex Ferguson over a league season".

His entire appointment was a "restriction". He got the job on the back of being cheap and being able to work in "restrictions". If we didn't have restrictions he would never ever have been given the job. It's not like he had the rug taken away - quite the contrary, Wotte had more resources than Poortvilet had. We now no longer have "restrictions" so we don't need a restrictions specialist anymore. Thanks, but see ya.

Would be a brilliant appointment and difficult to see him being anything other than a success at Saints. We need efficiency and fitness and he is the man to deliver that, and he has something to prove.