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Steve Clarke is a good shout, especially if they are going to have a continental system with a coach instead of a manager.

Continuity is desirable, the ONLY important thing at the moment is promotion to the Championship. Hiring someone because you think they might do a job if one day we make it back to the Prem in nonsense, it's going to be hard enough getting out of this league let alone the Championship.

I think you will find Mark Dennis is entitled to an opinion.

I actually noticed that last night, and I had drunk enough to kill a small horse by then. There is either some truth in the rumour and there is a split in the camp, or the rumours are nonsense and they are all ****ed off about the Pardew sacking.

I'm setting up the Association of Southampton Supporters, anyone else want to come in my A.S.S?

Professional footballers, like any professionals, put themselves under pressure. They have the weight of expectation of being favourites on their shoulders, pressure from the manager, fans and the press. They need a jumped up little banker telling them what they should be doing like a hole in the head. IMO

There is alot of pressure and Cortese seemed to enjoy piling more pressure on the shoulders of the manager and players, which I don't think has been a great help. At least now the pressure is all on Cortese. If he screws up this managerial appointment the liebherrs might start to think about replacing him with someone with a proven record of success at running a football club.

Today was a shining example of what happens when a lunatic chairman sacks a manager after a 4-0 win. Any team spirit they had has just been completely shot through.

Has to be the worst rumour thread ever.

Why are you retards still going on about Martin ONeil FFS. We're in Div 3.

Maybe everyone disagrees with you but respect your right to an opinion. Shame you don't share that view.

The team today played like one who had won 4-0, only to have their manager sacked. Cortese is ****ing clueless. It will probably take a while for the penny to drop for some tho.

I don't think there is anything wrong in letting Cortese know he has ****ed up in sacking Pardew. The way they played it was obvious the players agreed with the Northam monkeys.

The obit in the Independant was an interesting read.... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/markus-liebherr-entrepreneur-who-saved-southampton-fc-2063201.html Apparently some in Switzerland were put out that he invested in a foreign team but he saw Saints as a "once-in-a-lifetime deal" and had to act quick.

But he did predict Pardew's sacking.

If the situation stays the same the photographer ban will only mean we get less money in sponsorship/advertising revenue - that is screamingly obvious to anyone who knows anything about advertising.

Unless you are Mrs Cortese, you are talking out your ass.

He was a big Rochdale fan I think.

Has been brilliant for Bournemouth, would be no more of a gamble than someone like Shearer or Zola. I would be concerned at how well he could handle the pressure/expectations though.

I don't believe the rumour, it's all too convenient. Pardew ****ged a players missus, and oh yeah the other sacked people were all in a drinking club. Fitzhugh Fella posted on here ages ago that he was a dead man walking. IF there was an incident, it was just used as an excuse IMO.

True, also don't assume there is any truth in rumours posted on the internet.

Hammond has pretty much said that there was no problem with Pardew. I find it hard to believe Cortese would ditch the manager he wants because he "approached" some tart, doesn't really fit with his "win at any cost" style. And the drinking club sackings just sound like made up nonsense.

There's good reason as well, basically newspapers want GOOD photos and the more photographers (and better photographers) there are the more likely they will get better photos. If they have to rely on one club photorapher, probably some local inbred with a Cannon EOS400 sat at the wrong end of the pitch they wont get the pics they want. Alternatively the club could pay a host of top photographers for each game and hope that something interesting happens so they can make some money. But if no papers want pics from the 0-0 draw with Wigan they will lose out.

I would join Dog and the train - awful manager.

So in the hope of maybe making a few hundred quid a game by flogging photos (unlikely) we will: Lose money through lack of sponsorship - having no pictures in any paper will devalue next season's shirt sponsorship and pitch side advertising. Lose publicity - once the lego/cartoon stories die down we will just not be featured as much. Publicity helps promote the club and get fans into SMS. Have the press more likely to stick the knife in, print stories unsettling players etc By ****ing off Murdoch risk having no games shown live on Sky (was about £200K-300K per game when we were in Prem). I was told by someone at the club that last season's JPT semis and Skate FA Cup game netted us £1mill in total, partly because they were televised. Look like a bunch of tossers.