Miltonaggro

Yep, would agree with that.

Think that the necessary solidity / steel will have to be bought in in January after assessment. He will have players in mind, like Strachan with Telfer and Williams, this side needs some reliability and nous above all else.

Can’t expect anything here, more of a case of Jones assessing players. In that sense could be an interesting line up, set up and game. Hope Selles is in the dugout as well as the new boys as seems a good man. Would be wonderful to get a draw in this before the WC.

Our savior has arisen. Hallelujah!

I reckon the rider for Nath and the entourage would have been unlimited Monster energy drink, Haribo Starmix and Wotsits, plus a family box of eslastoplast waterproof plasters. No own brands.

If the compo, length of contract and backroom staff are as reported they must have also given Jones a lot of guarantees in terms of approach. Reckon we are in for a few Lee Todd type signings come January for the nostalgic among us. Genuinely remarkable that Dragan appears to have bet the family farm on the basis of Rasmussen’s laptop.

Nothing can get in the way of the push for Europe!

100% record! 5 year contract.

Rwanda bound?

Worth £50 for the Jesus Jones handle!

Classy touch from saints to also invite his Dad and other half.

Rasmus should have rigged Nathan up to a monitor whilst he’s watching this to gain further data on his anxiety/blood pressure/ heart rate. Would be like a remake of Scanners in the last 10 minutes.

Plus the Lord Jesus Christ!

No idea, but there has to be something in it. If rumours are true that he's in the stand tonight it's a done deal.

I think it's a relevant comparison to current circumstances, perhaps more relevant than comparisons to Lawrie McMenemy or David Moyes for instance. Then again it's all about opinions and perceptions. I wasn't aware that he was an alcoholic and thought that he had a good deal of success in the lower leagues after Saints (Sheff Weds, Swindon, Plymouth, Southend), until his Parkinson's disease got too bad.

Failing that our Ted Bundy moment!!!

2-0 Saints, Selles tightening things up.

or worse depending on the participants...

Ah, the anti-chew gloves again...

This is right too of course.

Fair point, but there are a lot of long suffering Saints supporters who know when they are being pissed on and told its raining. Painful deja vu for many of us, a luxury the brains trust at Sports Republic don’t possess.

Instead asking Spunk Republic to play an introductory montage of his interviews on the big screen at half time should do the trick in less than ten minutes.

Might be, I’m not up to speed on such things these days.

I can’t see a single clear attribute that Nathan Jones has that would suggest he is the right man to manage Saints at this time, not one. This is likely an Ankersen decision and I genuinely wonder if there is something lost in translation here, Brentford in the championship is one thing but don’t see any of Frank in Jones. However, the comparisons to Sturrock are quite startling in that you seem to have a board under pressure attempting to be clever whilst saving money on a candidate that to most fans would appear as a square peg in a round hole. Last 24 hours I’ve watched as much of Luton Town and Jones’s interviews as I can bear and nothing has convinced me otherwise. Turning a team of lower division journeymen into a plucky unit that gives bigger clubs a game is nothing like taking a group of talented but underperforming premier league players and moulding them to win matches in probably the most competitive league in the world. I hope the club sees sense in that they have the luxury of this World Cup window to get this absolutely right.

About time we modernised and got into the twenty-first century with a manager on speed.