aintforever

I disagree, relegation this time round wouldn't be nearly as damaging as before. I think with our current squad we would be very well placed to go straight back up. We have basically only brought Championship players so far.

It all depends on the relationship between manager and chairman. If Adkins said we need x amount of new players before the start of the season or we're f*cked then the blame lies solely with Cortese in failing to deliver. If Adkins said the side is more than good enough to stay up but we could do with x or y to improve the squad, no hurry Don. Then Adkins has to take the blame if we don't perform. Like I said, none of us on here are in a position to say.

None of us on here can say what is happening behind the scenes. It does appear that Adkins wants to bring in players and so far Cortese has failed to do it. But for all we know Adkins might have told Cortese that the current squad are definitely good enough to keep us up.

No one will lose their job over a bit of transfer gossip. There are employment laws in this country FFS.

Cortese needs to stop banging on about Europe and get his cheque book out.

It was Wigan FFS, I was more excited about some of our League 1 games than watching ****ing Wigan. If they had brought more than a few hundred down the ground would have been pretty much full anyway.

The thing is we don't know what has gone on behind the scenes. We don't know who has targeted who. I wouldn't sack Adkins even if we get relegated. But we are owned by billionaires, have a chairman banging on about Europe and have just got easily beaten by the Prems sh!ttest side. It wouldn't surprise me if Cortese decides to get someone who knows the Prem.

It is crazy talk, especially wanting c*ntflaps in. However it wouldn't surprse me if Cortese ditches Nige for someone proven at this level if results don't improve.

That was dire today. beaten easily by one of the worst teams in the league. It's gonna be a long season.

Bagging a sunlounger first thing in the morning then not turning up until the afternoon is just rude IMO. Sure all nationalities do it but the Germans do it with a ruthless efficiency made famous by the holocaust.

It's definitely not an urban myth, the Germans are alot worse. When I last went to the Canaries they were actually putting their towels down the night before. Needless to say by the end of the holiday they arrived at the pool the next morning to find their towels floating in the pool and some other Krauts in their loungers.

I expect Chanrai knew the trust was never going to be a goer, now he will get the club and administrators will have halved their fees.

Just goes to show how a fan base can grow with success.

Agree about the Wilde/Crouch disaster sowing the seeds of administration but Lowe failed spectacularly trying to salvage the situation. The banks only called in the overdraft when it was clear we were nosediving into League 1. There is no excuse for the Wigley or Woodward episodes though.

Lowe obviously did some good in getting the Stadium built and though we have always brought through good players he has to take credit for the academy. However he was unsuitable as a football chairman. You cannot argue with the fact that he took over an established Premier League club and left us in administration on -10 in the 3rd tier. Some of his decisions were crazy. Hiring Steve Wigley as manager of a mid-table Prem club is probably still the most bonkers managerial decision made by anyone at the highest level ever. The Woodward/Clifford farce was without doubt completely barking mad - suicidal experimentation when we had just two seasons of parachutes to try and get back up. Then there was the Dutch disaster. Anyone who knows anything about football knew from day 1 what would happen there.

I thought the coverage was good. Even Gary Neville was complimentary.

It is ****ing crazy that Adkins is favourite to lose his job.

Well done lads, I was expecting a stuffing but they did us proud. Bring on Wigan!

I would play our best player for a start.

I can see this being embarrassing, that is a sh!t Saints team there.

That team is going to get stuffed.

I just hope we are not being used to try and push through a deal with another club.

You couldn't create a thread this size if you tried, a club your size physically couldn't do it. You just don't have the support. The rest of you post is laughable, you Skates have been turning your back on the club in their thousands since it's stopped being bank-rolled by criminals. Anyway, surely you should be more concerned about you upcoming liquidation that going on Premier League club's message boards throwing insults around?

I'm not too arsed about Redknapp, I blame Lowe way more than him for our relegation. He's a c*nt for going to pompey but with the sort of money they were throwing around it wasn't surprising.

That's only so they can make it -27 if they exit without a CVA.