SW11_Saint

... the lord. Divine intervention may be our only hope!

Did anyone have a definitive version of this? Still bugging me

Didn't JP play full-back? Worth a recall?

They also weren't too keen on "A picture of Dorian McMenemy"!

That's Oscar rather than Michael I assume?! Mind, MW might think that too...

Not this season - ask any Charlton fan... (boom boom!).

Let's cross everything that Um starts a post with that next year - it'll mean that you know who has gone and we are starting afresh!

Surely you mean 10 years?

Ahem... wakey wakey... the "Dutch way" has already failed, please pay attention! The fact we now have a Dutch manager finally playing a very english formation, using our more experienced players as the spine and blending in the youngsters, shouldn't be confused with us playing "the Dutch way" with kids. Wotte has reverted to a much more sensible approach in this league - FINALLY someone has woken up to this! Please don't use the "financial mismanagement" smokescreen either - incidentally started by our relegation under Lowe - mere, anti-Crouch propoganda that doesn't wash I'm afraid. Crouch is just as culpable as Lowe is, no more, no less. Why are you so obsessed with Saejis? - is it just because it's the one signing that has worked? That's great, but what about all of the others who have come and gone this season? No mention of them? As for signing Dean Windass - if I thought he's score a dozen goals between now and the end of the season, yes I'd sign him in a heartbeat! But then perhaps that's where we differ - I'd be prepared to make some short-term decisons to keep us up, than stick to my (misguided) principals and watch us go down. Thank God JP quit when he did otherwise I have no doubt that Lowe would still be persisting with his ridiculous experiment. Mind, you'd be happy...

Ridiculous because he was immense in the run in last season? Don't quite follow? Would it also be rude to point out that we won the game he chose not to play in, and we stayed up? You're starting to embarrass yourself now 19 - ranting and raving about anything/everything Pearson ever did, and now resorting to personal attacks on posters. Pearson is a decent hard working manager - and he kept us up - get over it. Other people will have different opinions to you too - and many will be able to put their points more eloquent and logically. You need to get over that too and try to keep to making your points without resorting to personal insults, otherwise you just come across as somewhat immature...

Lordy lordy lordy... what colour is the sky on Planet Nineteen? Or perhaps it's a typo and you just mean IoW? Even that would be a stretch to believe though...!

I agree, but Saints being Saints, and our major shareholder being our major shareholders, it would be the best way. Perhaps the only way. I just can't see Lowe, Wilde, Crouch all agreeing on one person to take this role, particularly not Lowe as he see's this as his role exclusively. Whatever happened to Mark Palios? He was very well thought of at the FA, before getting involved in that office nookie...

I think phrases like "playing them off the park" and "awesome" are a bit over the top. What I saw in those early games was some considerable promise, but obvious frailties too. It was fairly clear that as the season wore on that we were going to start getting steam rollered if we persisted in that vein. The QPR away game was to my mind a microcosm of our season under JP - some of the neatest, prettiest football you'll see, but also some real naivety (notably Lancashire in that game), and lack of experience /nous - hence we end up losing, somewhat flatteringly for them, 4-1.

True LOL, 10 years is probably a little quick to expect him to pick it all up!

Of course we would have been - pretty much anything would have been preferable to the situation we are in now, but investment, sensible leadership and decent young manager like Coleman, and after a worrying finish last year like us, now sitting comfortably in mid-table and building sensibly. Yes please. Coleman was talking the other day on R5L about how good it was having a supportive Chairman, who also knew the game.

I think we got the answer to that, didn't we!

Erm, different team manager, different coaches, different team blend, different tactics, use of previously discarded loanees... Guess what - different results! To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

I remember some discussion on the boards, but nothing more than that - certainly nothing you could describe as a "fan backlash"?!! In fairness, from the rumours I had heard at the time I thought they were going to appoint the Dutchies, and I remember being elated that they'd instead gone for Burley (who was just off the back of his incredible start with Hearts). Does seem incredibly bad form by our board "making offers" to both candidates - surely you decide who you want, act very swiftly, and if that doesn't pan out you immediately go for your #2 choice? (as Wotte correctly points out). Perhaps this hints at Lowe overstepping the mark and 'making promises' he wasn't able to follow through on due to a split boardroom. Although he also hints that Lowe was complicit in the Burley decision "Rupert told me his motivation...". Some of the remarks on Lowe do worry me too - although not sure why, we should know him by now! - for instance, seeing the Acadaemy Director role as "more responsible" (presumably than Team manager?). I'm not disputing that the production of young players is important, but at any football club THE most important person has to be the Team Manager. That Lowe seemingly doesn't understand this is no real surprise, but still very worrying. Wonder if Sir Alex has to go report into the United Academy Director each week...??!?

I don't think it's got anything to do with "hindsight" - rather common sense, and having a modicum of knowledge of the CC Championship. Sadly, and rather incredibly, our board seem to have neither!! You'd hope that its abject failure will have taught them a lesson, but with Lowe, I suspect not (in fact, given how deluded he is, it wouldn't surprise me if he saw what Wotte is doing now as some form of justification - even though it's almost the polar opposite of what Lowe originally intended!).

I think you've stumbled across Lowe's latest 'strategy' there...

Thank God someone has finally explained to 19C what proper "succession planning" is!!! Loved his use of the phrase "you've risked it all" - I can think of no better description of Lowe's M.O. !

Been thinking about this - how to show our total support for the team during the run-in, yet also get the point across to the board that we have had enough? What about a concerted effort to get everyone out to every remaining home game - I'm talking about getting our gates up to c.25k+ for every game left (if we can get to 30k so much the better). We can publicise this via local media so that the board understand it is a clear show of support to the team (and a reminder of the potential of SFC IF you get it right) and is in effect a positive protest against their running of the club. We could even do something around the red cards etc. as the board take their seats for the second half... Worth a thought?

Rick Parry is looking for work...

All of the above I suspect. Actually, these resemble some of our recent AGM's and/or board meetings... PS that second South Korea pic puts me in mind of a Madness album cover, but can't remember which one...