Fitzhugh Fella

Yesterday was a big step in the right direction and heartening that we are improving under NA but next week is an even bigger step. We will know more come Saturday night.

Got to really praise Saints today - they played well even taking into consideration the poorness of the opposition. And Do Prado was simply superb. It may have been a fluke but his flicks and lay offs were world class. He looked a very talented player and his influence rubbed off on all the rest. NA seems to be taking us in the right direction.

Dare I say this but one person who handles the media really well, calls a spade a spade and usually has something entertaining to say is our old mate Harry. He certainly looks more relaxed than any other current manager. Strachan could be funny but he could be arrogant too. Burley was soberly dull , Pardew spoke well and made an effort to know about our past. Sturrock I can't really remember while Wigley was just Rupert's mouthpiece. Souness was always straight to the point while Hoddle you never felt meant what he said. David Jones was a straight talker but the best was of course Lawrie Mac who usually managed to hit the nail on the head. Like some wise bird said though, NA can waffle as much as he likes as long he gets us out of this League. 3 point stomorrow is a neccesity.

I am a fan of NA but I do agree with the OP. His after game analysis are long but are rarely insightful. I always look for a managerial quote to go with the stats of the game but so far struggle to get anything meaningful from him.

And thereby lies the rub. I suppose we could argue we are no longer in debt?

There were some reasons for the low attendance. Two days before we had been beaten 8-0 by Spurs, the game took place on a weekday so in the afternoon when many were at work and it rained heavily throughout the match. The 30s were a depressing time for Saints fans - just one win in the FA Cup throughout the whole decade.

Back in the early 1900s Saints players were regularly arrested for drunkedness in the town. The Board minutes are full of fines and suspensions

March 30th 1936 v Port Vale at the Dell att 1875 Source - Saints A Complete Record, Chalk and Holley, Published by Breedon Books 1987 HTH I wasn't there!

Ottery would make a great mod - FACT. Thanks to all the departing Mods - didn't always agree but it is a hard job.

I agree Dave, cut out all the personal stuff and also stop accusing people of having an agenda just because you don't tow the line

Totally unhelpful comment.

Again THIS, some people need to open their eyes

Indeed

I think Pardew knew his card was marked and couldn't be bothered. I think ML's illness meant NC took his eye off things. I also think AP started applying for other jobs which was the excuse NC had been waiting for to dismiss him. By that time however the rot had set in, and like last season we are playing catch up.

No Chairman should take a footballing decision. Finance, personnel in fact everything but football decisions.

Just as a matter of interest it can't, of course, be libel if it is true. I did say IF!

If you had a copy of ITN you would note that they are not my quotes but ones lifted from the "press cuttings of the day" - our research is genuine, unlike your fallible memory.

Bit harsh banning him! I am not sure about the libel aspect of what he wrote but let's face it he was right about Wilde and I and many others were wrong. Sometimes things need to be in the open. This forum needs posters like GM regardless of whether you agree with him or not. Perhaps he should be let back on if he agrees to underwrite any action that is taken by the club?

The fringe of the Milton was close enough for a 15-year-old! I saw some fearful battles underneath the Toomers, most notably when Chelsea were in town, but we won't go there on this thread.

Actually if you check P 109 of ITN you will find Shanks exact words were "ale-house football".

With Hollywood the assasin, Big Jake, Jimmy Gabriel, Docker Walker, Brian O'Neil and Terry Paine in our side we were no angels. But Shanks was just a bad loser. Can't believe that match was 40 years ago.

I used to find the States the hardest place to get a result - I often rung the local press association or the sports desk of the local papers. In Anchorage, Alaska I was finally beaten.

Listening to the World Service on a flight deck of a 747

Topcat - although I have a position at Unite, through my role with BA cabin crew, I think they are a monolithic waste of space. As for my politics - well I usually end up voting Lib Dem because of where I live but politics has left me disillusioned too much these days to to get too excited, but I suppose I would say I am a bit of an old fashioned Labour person, not left, not right in an Ed Miliband sort of way. Otherwise thank you for your confidence although I have to say most if not all I hear these days is from outside the club. I would hate for anyone working for the club to get into trouble by confiding in me and it doesn't happen.

Accepting what you say do you think football clubs need "to manage the image they put in the public domain". Surely what you see is what you get? I suppose what I am trying to say - a bit cackhandedly - is do we, as fans need to have our club's image manipulated for our benefit.