Pat from Poole

I know I shouldn't have laughed at that, but much LOL'age.

John Parkin? What with Murty being at Saints as well we'd have the fattest side in the country. Campbell-Ryce is quality but wouldn't drop to League 1. Alex Pearce is a good shout.

A decent list. You missed Graham Potter, Craig Maskell, Paul Moody, Alexei Cherednik and David lee though.

I must admit, I rather admired Pardew when he used to really wind up Wenger. I think at one point Wenger hated him more than Ferguson and Mourinho put together.

No, I remember reading about the MOTD2 thing in the papers at the time. Haven't looked on Wikipedia since they said the manager of the Dutch Under-21's was our new manager (when it was actually Poortvliet).

Has Pardew signed him before?

Wise did get Leeds relegated from the CCC in the first place, if memory serves.

Pardew seems a bit of an odd chap. Think he got in a bit of trouble last season when he was a pundit on MOTD2 and he was talking about a challenge when a player grabbed hold of an opponent to stop him getting to the ball, and Pardew described it as raping him. Think there were a fair few complaints from viewers, and I'm not sure if he has appeared as a pundit since. Apart from his experience at Charlton, he has a pretty good record. I don't think he could do much about Charlton going down from the Prem, but he was largely responsible for them going down from the CCC last season, which was criminal given that they would have received a SKY parachute payment last season. He has something to prove, never a bad thing.

Fret not, there's no way Adams will get the job.

Shame about Lancashire. Tough ask to make the grade in the game if you're not a born star. There just seems to be something not quite there.

He'd be superb for us. He is going to be a top manager.

It is a very long season. Many a poor decision have been made in haste.

Am I right in thinking that he played for Saints at some point in his career? He has done astonishingly well at Bury, their fans think he is a God. Think he also did pretty well at Rotherham after they went into admin a couple of years ago. There will come a point when he will get a move to a biggish club. Problem is, after all the fanfare of the last 10 days or so, most Saints fans would be very underwhelmed by him. However, I'd take him over the frankly insane Boothroyd any day. I am hoping we get Strachan or Pearson, our two best managers of the last 10 years (including Hoddle) but Knill is probably a far more realistic possibility.

Much LOLage. Rupert boasted that his young Saints were going to storm the League. And still some people defend the clown.

Sol Campbell is on about £100,000 a week at Portsmouth. Dean Windass isn't a bad shout though.

Keegan picked Wise for England in Euro 2000, if memory serves. Think I saw him play against the Germans in Charleroi and possibly also Romania. I too think Wise is an extraordinarily good bet at 33-1. Oldknow wants somebody who knows League 1, Wise knows it very well through his experience at Leeds (not sure if Millwall were in this League or CCC when he was there).

I sense one or two people would have taken a perverse pleasure from the club ceasing to exist. Nineteen Canteen also suffers from this affliction. Just move on, and look forward to hopefully better times. I didn't go all season last season, partly due to Lowe, partly due to personal circumstances, but admire those who did continue going despite our inevitable relegation. All this sniping doesn't help anybody, I had hoped that a new broom would help to bring unity amongst us.

Post of the month.

Roy Keane is a spineless quitter who made a career out of kicking people. He deserves to be in prison for some of his heinous deeds on a football pitch. He's also an utter utter gobsh1te.

Not so sure. BBC South (inclding Solent) are pretty ITK, Oldknow gave Solent an exclusive interview earlier in the week. They do have some naff commentators (step forward Tony Husband) but in terms of gathering actual facts, they are unrivalled for finding out the truth. We'd better hope for Coppell then.

Draper was a better signing than Rosler.

I think it's dangerous to assume he'll be gone forever given Oldknow's involvement. Have to hope this Nicola dude cuts the mustard.

Yup, 3 seasons. Has to be said, he was pretty shaky in the first season and he did cost us points with some real blunders, but he has improved the longer he has been with us. If we can get a big commanding centre-half to make up for Davis' tendency not to command his penalty area we'll be looking a lot stronger.

Not good business, but I'll be surprised if it cost more than £50K in compo. It probably would have cost us a lot more to get a goalkeeper.

Very interesting shout. Could tie in with this continental style set up which Tony Husband was hinting at on South Today tonight. I have a feeling this appointment will be one which will surprise virtually everybody.