CB Fry

Whatever son. How many threads do I start? We're not going to go bust, we're going to be taken over by businessmen. And whatever happens, you'll be moaning, and you won't be going to no games. x

Yawn. I'd fuc king love to see you cheering when Lowe comes out and "calls for everyone to rally round". I for one don't want to see or hear from the c u n t ever again, but that doesn't seem enough for you, and hear we are with the same threads about the same garbage day in day out. It's a piece of **** to sneer at the autistic ill informed horsesh it you spout out daily, and f uck me will I carry on doing so. And whatever you say to me I won't be the one squinnying off to the moderators like a six year old girl to the dinner ladies everytime anyone challenges you. All hail king of the webmongs.

Where of course, if Lowe was in the Echo or Radio Five every other day.....you'd be moaning like a *****. I'm still laughing at you congratulating yourself on your "patience" in giving administration a whole fortnight before you started slagging the whole thing off, ignoring the fact you had been screaming screaming SCREAMING for administration all sodding season. Just shut up you clown, who the fu c k apart from you wants Rupert bloody Lowe to issue rallying cries? Whattttt?

Richard Chorley in self aggrandising ego feeding hyperbole shocker. In other news, sources in Rome report the Pope confirming his absolute Catholicism-ology ness.

Surely this article is wrong, after all the club is going to be saved by a load of anorakers shaking buckets about. Bring on the businessmen, and bring em on quick.

he is still unproven in the way some talk of him as "the best young manager in Britain" etc etc. As I said in a previous post, L1 has been won by/promoted from by a fair few managers that most Saints fans would look down their nose at. And Christ, just to confirm, again, when Pearson was appointed, I had heard of him, I knew the name and remembered him as a player, specifically for Middlesborough and Sheff Weds. Lots of fans on here hadn't even got that knowledge. I'd say it was about nine in ten had my level of knowledge or less. And could I pick his photo of him, as a manager, out of a line up on the day before he was appointed, no. Could I name the man who was WBA caretaker manager for two games in September 2006 if someone had asked me on the day before he was appointed as Saints manager? No and neither could the so-called lifelong Pearson experts giving it large on here. Was he on my top twenty names in the frame on the day before his appointment? No. Was he for anyone? No, he wasn't. No one knew him as a manager was my point. And none of you did. Enough bloody revisionism, for christ's sake.

This is all bang on, and I have stated earlier up the thread it was by far Lowe's biggest error not keeping him on, an error I still cannot fathom it was so stoopid. But of course within this general agreement you get the king chavs like the Farmer who scream "Lowe luvvie" with snipey little comments whenever anyone says anything they see as the slightest slight on Super Nige. Like, he is still unproven, or no-one knew who he was when he was appointed. You know, facts, and stuff. You couldn't make it up. Welcome to the new Taliban :rolleyes:

Oh yeah, I remember now, all those posts on here saying - you know, him, he used to play for Shrewsbury Sorry, the appointment of Pearson was met with a collective shrug, or worse. The hindsight its easy to layer it on thick that everyone was dancing in the streets like the favourite son had been brought in but essentially no-one had heard of him, except maybe as a player, if you want a caveat. The Carlisle thing is a good example - everyone including me could recall "Jimmy Glass" instantly, but not who the manager was. I was surprised to find out it was Pearson, and I only found out on his appointment that it was him all those years ago. And a better example is I know a few Leicester fans and none of them had heard of him except him as Saints manager the season before. This is what makes me laugh about Pearson - you can make innoculous and innocent but perfectly true remarks and certain posters get ridiculously upset as if any minor tiny slight against Nigel bloody Pearson is like a slight on their mother. Collective shrug on his appointment. Fact.

Excuse me while I **** myself. Where exactly do I make any claim that we have "any divine right to be in the Prem"? I am one of the last contributors to this forum to even think such a thing, and anyone that ever reads what I post would know that. But the fact of the matter is we are a bigger club than the likes of Moore or Adkins will ever manage and them and managers like them would take the job on, just like Simon Davey dropped a league to take Leeds on. "Manager of Southampton" is a bigger job to have on the CV than, say "manager of Peterborough", regardless of them being in CCC next season. We'll have plenty of applicants. We'll be a big club in League one, sunshine. Relegation won't turn us into Hereford, just like it didn't turn Man City, Forest, SWFC and Leeds into Hereford either.

It's fair to say nine out of ten saints fans didn't have a clue who he was when the appointment was made. Despite his credentials, that's obscurity in anyone's book. Not having a go at NP, the boy's done good, but he was a pretty left field candidate. Oh, and he just happened to be best chums with Lawrie's son, which played more part in the appointment than any lightbulb in Leon's head.

You really are retarded if you think that is reality . The Saints job would be the biggest jobs that either Nigel Adkins or Ronnie Moore could ever get, and both of them would rip your arm off for it, even if we were deducted twenty points. They'd take the job for free.

Not sure about that, the jury is completely out on whether NP will ever make a Prem manager. There's plenty of managers who have been promoted out of L1 and done very little else. And people on here slag off the likes of Billy Davies ("what has he ever done" etc) when what he has "done" is ten times better than anything NP has achieved thus far. The only way he will manage in the Prem is if he promotes a team to it, because there is no way any established Prem club would give him a job, much like Davies, or Dave Jones, or Mick McCarthy or Garry Johnson etc etc. Those guys will never get a chance unless they get promoted themselves. However, if Steve Gibson likes what he sees there's a soon to be ex-Prem club looking for a manager soon and he is a ex-Boro player.....

I'd give it about three months. After the first TV deal, the TV companies and the big clubs will realise that Middlesborough vs Wolves in PL2 is not a "Premier League" tie any more and the top 16 will shoot off into the cashosphere leaving the rest of them back at CCC level. The advantage for Saints is we'd probably get invited back into a new CCC which would be rebranded Coca-Cola SuperCity MegaLeague by then, with League One renamed Premier Elite Championship One and League Two renamed Coca Cola Premier Secondary Premier Championship.

For me its got to be someone with absolutely no connection to the club at all. This idea that only "saints people" need be considered is just garbage. Lawrie Mac and Strachan had no connection to the club whatsoever. Look at the top ten in the Premier League, look at the top ten in the CCC, where are all these managers with "connections" with their clubs? Just the best man for the job, please. Providing we have a clean sweep of finanaces and are reasonably healthy, someone like Lawrie Sanchez would get my vote, Dowie too (yes, I know but at least he is an active manager, not just some celebrity Saints person), Ian Holloway as we'd be in L1 would be fine too, Mark Robins would be a good shout. I still think managers like Mike Newell and Martin Allen have got something to prove as well. But absolultely no "Saints celebrities", thanks.

Well done Nige. Echo all the sensible posts on here. Lowe's single biggest error by a long way, not least because he had several fu c k ups behind him to learn from. And I still don't really understand it. This was Lowe's chance to come in quietly, let Nige get on with it and get the crowds in. And if you had to create a perfect manager for Rupert Lowe out of thin air, then he would look a lot like Nigel Pearson: tracksuited, young, hungry, something to prove, track record of youth, a "head coach" rather than a "wheeler-dealer", not much baggage. Perfect, perfect, perfect. Just give him the job Rupert. I can still hear myself yelling that out now.

We are relegated. Start getting used to it.

I do hope you're not exaggerating, Pancake. Oh, Alpine hates that.

Arf. Anyway, what is it you are so outraged about in Wotte's quotes?

Oh, in that case, I heartily applaud your unbelievable restraint and patience

As promised, I've got my ticket and there is no way I qualify as an uberfan by any of the convoluted descriptions put up in this debate. At the end of the day all the rules in the world can't stop someone who knows someone who knows someone with a ST buying a ticket for them. Can't wait, got a brilliant Hotel to stay in as well....:cool:

As opposed to the usual moan about everything ******** we come to get used to from you. Loving the way your little dream of DO IT NOW DO IT NOW DO IT NOW NOW NOW NOW FOR GODS SAKE NOW NOW NOW administration has become a nightmare within minutes and you're moaning like a bi tch about that as well. Absolutely Hilarious. How on earth you can get offended by some pre match quotes about how the team need to be composed if we are going to get anything from the next couple of games. You do actually realise that Wotte's job is to speak to journalists pre match? He has to say something, you do understand that, yes? And as for no quality - no sh it sherlock, thanks for telling us. Which is why Wotte's quotes about "composure" are even more apt - the team aren't going to become world beaters overnight, but the right mental attitude is something you can change match by match. So what he is saying makes a whole bunch of sense. So, in summary - what he's said there contains nothing to get offended over, except in your dopey warped little mind. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

What exactly do you take exception to in that article, then Alpine?

Stop it, you're killing us. I know the great thing about forum wind ups is you'll always get passing traffic to bite, and off we go again, but come on, enough's enough! And I did like the gag originally.

Wikipedia has been fixed. Again.

Yawn. A report from a high court judge is hardly going to blame Joe Public is it but what is there shows that fan behaviour being a problem. Its not about Thatcher losing votes in Liverpool. Last time I looked Hillsborough had quite a lot of coverage on the national news as well Don't tell me, Heysel was all those nasty Italians and Dutch peoples fault was it with the saintly wittle Liverpool innocents accidently charging at Juve fans through no fault of their own?