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Last day of Gettysburg. Very apt! Sent from my HTC Desire S using Tapatalk 2

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I worked for one of the country`s top housebuilders and this was their style of doing things. Every year at the end of the financial year they would have a cull and you would go on the spot. Sad, but an example of life in a modern successful business.

I won`t be protesting - mainly because I know that it won`t change anything and it will be like water off a ducks back to Mr Cortese. Others should do as they see fit, but it should not affect the teams performance tonight. We need three points.

Whilst I am as unhappy as everyone else with Fridays happenings, you have to be realistic. You build a team to do a job. Once that job is done, you build a team for the next job. This is why the players that got you promoted to the Prem are not always the players to keep you there. How often has it been said on here "he`ll do a job in the Championship but is not good enough for the Prem?" Surely this can apply to players AND managers?

Why do you say this? The problem is that football is littered with managers (and players) who have a good record at one club but turn out to be crap when they move on - Mark Hughes, Owen Coyle, Roy Carroll, even Kevin Keegan anyone? This also works the other way. People who have been unsuccessful at one club can be successful at another. Previous records do not always mean much. I don`t have a clue if MP is going to be successful at Saints anymore than anyone else.

I know that a lot of knee-jerk stuff has gone on on this forum in the last couple of days, but this kind of sums things up. On a different note, as you have posts in single figures, be prepared to be accused of being a Club plant!

Good article, and sums it up for me.

Wasn`t there supposedly a "war chest" put aside to allow for a 5 year plan to get to the PL? This has been achieved in 2 years which, if true must leave a fair bit.

All true. I would imagine that NA, being the sort of guy he is, wouldn`t want all of his good work wasted and would want things to carry on going forward. I am sure that he won`t want Saints to fail and get relegated. If he has a beef it will be with NC not the fans.

Do you think that they (and Cortese) are completely unaware of the uproar the yesterdays events have created? Cortese is a ruthless business man used to taking cold hard decisions in whatever business he is in. He, and almost certainly the family will know whats going on but will probably put up with it because in their eyes he has made the right decision to carry out the next stage of "the Plan".

Nothing positive then??

Agreed.

D o you not think that NC is totally aware of the fans feelings on this? He may be many things but he is not stupid. He knows how popular NA is and must know how upset his decision has made everyone, but he has made it for what he sees as the right reasons. I am as gutted and shocked as everyone else but there is nothing that I can do about it and I guarentee that if MP is as successful as NC expects/hopes NA will just become a happy memory to most fans.

It`s a change of manager FFS! Doesnt compare at at with the shenanigans down the M27. It happens all the time. A shock - yes. Very sad - yes. Bad timing - yes. Right choice of replacement - who knows. Lets just see. Demonstrations during the game will achieve nothing aprt from distracting the team.

Totally agree. Only time will tell if it was a good decision or not, but we need to give MP a chance.

This ^^

In what way is this going to help? I am as gutted and shocked as everybody else (as I was when Pardew went) but I really can`t see it having any poitive effect. These things happen in football and it MAY just be that NC has done the right thing. Only time will tell but to condemn MP out of hand, even though most of us hadn`t heard of him is a bit of a knee-jerk reaction.

When the stadium was being built, I did a visit and I asked about underground heating and I was told that it was not being put in as it was expensive and was not really needed as instances of games being called off in Southampton because of a frozen pitch were very few and far between. I suppose that this has been proved correct.

Saw this review of Les Mis online, made me smile this morning; Went to the movies with the wife. We saw this obscure movie I had never heard of, some French foreign film. They must have been giving away free tickets because the lines were out the door. Anyway, the movie starts and Wolverine is singing his guts out. then Catwoman starts crying and singing and it's all very moving. The only problem... was, the girl next to me, who had apparently read the book or something, starts singing along. it was very distracting. so Wolverine is on the run from the Gladiator because Catwoman had a baby at Borat's house, but now she wants Wolverine to care for her. Time skip. A bunch of kids get shot, and in the end everyone dies. Four stars. ....and this Funny!

Really doesn`t take long does it?

Absolutely agree!! Seen them 8 or 9 times. Never fail to excite. Closely followed for me by Oysterband.

Indeed, though weirdly most of it is about Newcastle!