Noodles34

at the end of the day, money talks, in football, in everything. Would you blow 10 blokes for a million? Sure............. but i'd want the money first this time!

Mate, employment law doesnt apply in football. Not saying its not legit, but we all know how clubs get around it, they just pay the guy off, and unless the pay is not big enough then its not going to an employment tribunal (and how many times does that happen?). Interesting that AP was probabaly sacked under 'gross misconduct', so how did he get rid of the coaches, Downes etc? Probably with a big enough pay off, and why would they want to stay and then get released by Adkins, might as well take the cash now.

the Police haven't got enough to charge him yet? And really they should have had enough time by now. or, there is so much evidence it is taking too much time to compile? Probabaly the first, which would be positive for Barnard

disapponted about your spelling, son!

Listen to any pundit and they talk about 'the spine' of the team and that was the problem yesterday, Fonte, Chaplow and Barnard, and I guess you can go to KD as well, playing, but, well... no strength in depth either, look at the bench. We got a fully fit first 11 that is good enough to win this league, but without some of them available, its going to be difficult, January is going to be MASSIVE month, on and off the pitch, it will undoubtedly define our season.

Leftback???

the point being, that would be some on here that would indeed see him let off, even if they knew he was guilty, because he plays for Saints etc and could score some goals etc, so many on here would really mean 'good luck' on getting off, regardless of whether he is a mindless thug or not. I hope he gets off because he is innocent and i hope he scores us the goals to take us up (more chance of him than RL at the mo), but if he did do it, then he should be sentanced in the same way as everyone else is.

Good luck??? This isn't a raffle, if he is innocent then fine, he will get off without luck, if he did glass someone then he dont deserve any luck.

Jesus, evryone knows it was Jason Dodd, for Christ sakes

apparently there may be an announcement on Friday afternoon....

It was locked but maybe it needs to be reopened...... Discuss

Solent were on about this on Saturday, DM was saying how nothing really difinitive has come out from the family, which I guess you could look at both ways. Lets face it, if we end up buying no one in ja n and selling Lallana then we will all know which direction we are heading.

source from Zurich that England bid failed because wives etc didn't want to go to plymouth and Milton Keynes, another source quoting West Quay as the missing link. Beckham, Cameron, Wales! but West Quay would have won it for Ingerland.

****!!!!! that was 500th post, forgot that i wanted to make that one special, ******, wasted on Ali Dia

I got Ali Dia!! VERSUS Rich Dryden

I'm worried too, what if we end up meeting Chelsea in The Champions League Final in 2014 and its in somewhere like Istanbul , would cause massive transport problems, surely they would be better off holding it at Wembley or something....?

Sisa agm

agreed, he aint that good otherwise someone would have come in for him and he would have gone, good players dont sit on the bench in the prime of their careers

have to agree with all of that, especially not letting the likes of people who dont even go comment on stuff that they didnt even see.

if you were tere I think you wouldn't have come out with that rubbish

sounds like too much hard work...

I am with you on this argument. At the end of the day it is the chairman/CEO/owner who must have the final say. Surely it goes like this: Manager identifies player he wants and says to chairman he is going to cost £xxxxxx on the fee and maybe about £xx per week in wages (because by then he has already spoken wiyth the player's agent) Chairman agrees in principal Chairman sorts out other club with permission to speak etc and agrees fee etc... Manager meets player and tells chairman, Yes, we need him Chairman meets players agent etc and sorts out wages etc Clearly, if the agent then says, actually, we want £xxx per week, then at this point the chairman says no The chairman says no, manager a bit miffed but thats that or the player signs with the chairmans approval At which point is the manager responsible for the club finances? Clearly, if the player is crap, then that is a different story..

I was under the impression Redknapp missed out to Strachan, had an interview etc

I'd have to agree there, even though i have put a case forward that he could have done a job for us (and probably (on management abilities..arguably) could do a better one with money), after all that has gone on, if he ever came back, it would be very, very hard to go SMS. I can't wait until one day we get Spurs, and there is only one chant and thats "Twitch in a minute....He's gonna twitch in a minute, .....Twitch in a minute.....", its funny and even better he really hates it, actually became very upset about it, can't ****ing wait!

we appointed WGS over Redknapp, common knowledge that he had an interview and at that time he was well up for it, but obviously Strachan got the nod. I remeber when we beat the Skates (might have been the cup game) and he was quoted as saying what a big club we were with the faciliies, ground etc, etc and no comparrison to portsmouth (obviously before the Russian came on board), and he'd love to have it there. You always had the feeling that this was the job he always wanted after WHU but by the time he got it, we were were in trouble on the pitch and heading for plenty offit, thanks to RL and his visions. Lets face it, you get the job you want (theres no way he walked out down the road without having SMS lined up) and then your boss brings in someone above you that has no experience of that field, you are told to play the kids when they aint ready and your transfer requests are blocked. He is a moany, whingy old git but working under Lowe? Well. who wouldn't be? Lets say we get to the PL, and we have lots of cash, HCDAJFU?