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I believe we are looking to Poach someone from another club

Nearly 11:23 OS watch time yeah right

Actullay they can just Google any one of us from here

You know what? I think what NC has done is actually really impressive. He is no expert, so he has taken his time, done it carefully (and probably lol'd at us & the Press). I am a heck of a lot happier to think he has actually done it this way. OK you can argue he needs to find a stooge BUT at least if that is the case he won't go getting into any "Political" rows too quickly. Professional and Businesslike Approach. Knowing it hasn't been a knee jerk appointment will just help me get even more behind Nick Holmes when he gets the job tomorrow

Lol Like I said at the start - I was trying to keep this away from defending or protesting about specifically Adkins. IMHO the more I have learnt about him, the more I can see why he could be a good choice. No, he wouldn't be MY choice, that is Mourinho BUT he fits Proven at this level but not Proven with where we need to go. Alex Oxy-Chamberlain has potential. He could go a long way, BUT he isn't going to be ready to start EVERY game YET. We sent Lallana on loan, he was still inconsistent until last season. Potential takes TIME. Mistakes have to be made and lessons have to be learnt. IMHO right now, as things stand, I honestly do not think we can AFFORD to gamble on Potential. I think we could have done LAST season, but not now. Somebody who has Proven their ability to come to a new club and turn things around, work with new people outside of their comfort zone. That is NOT Adkins, not because he isn't any good, simply because he has been at Scunny for 14 years and has not walked into a New Job and said - ah no, sorry that is cr@p it now needs to be done this way and then show or tell everyone HOW he did that change elsewhere and what the effects were. Right now we need nothing more than to get out of this League. using Charlie's analogy would I buy Gerrard or Wilshire to do that? Come on down Stevie G

I am many things but I ain't no Twit. I did register to read some of the stuff about the Skate court case, but feck no way I want the ex wife, divorce lawyers, customers etc to know what I get up to all the time!

I've got WGS on the I told you so Thread. The Gossip (ie unsubstantiated rumours) back in May were that NC had Hughes lined up to replace AP. Stranger things have happened But never to us

Ah ha That last one. The sudden missing link. Ex Saints Gingerish hair family live in Ireland so counts as overseas. Well done, good spot

There was a quote from the Saints Twitter site earlier today mentioning Tractor Saint, Costa Coffee at the Airport and the Grand Harbour, so yeah I think the way it has swung backwards and forwards is a classic. To the guys pulling the strings - well done, have actually enjoyed this week, it's been fun, we've been analytical, and TBH this forum has been far more of a sensible debating point than for ages. Only occassional bursts of "my opinion is more right than yours"

NC would NEVER turn up at a meeting with zillionaire Arabs who are about to save his club, during Ramadan, Drunk. Apart from that

Hindsight TDD is a wonderful thing. I was recalling the media before anyone was appointed not the Lowe spin Sturrock had won

OK don't want this to be about names but about specifications of our new manager. I have read many eloquent posts about the many names, BUT in years gone by we have appointed mangers with POTENTIAL. Sturrock was "The Best Manager outside the Premier League" Wigley "The best young coach of his generation" Stuart Grey "Respected by all the players". All had one thing - Potential. So we are now in L1 but want to get out of it. Do we go for Potential? What are the real merits of this? Or should we go the "AP path" with a Proven track record?

RICKIE LAMBERT FOR MANAGER?? feck me I know he is a hero but I didn't think the injury he is carrying was THAT serious

Don't get hung up on a name. See, even Manchester United have a Director of Football http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_football It isn't as simple an argument as is made out.

OK, so how do Man City do it? Chelsea? Thing is you are right it will never work in English football is the correct attitude. Trying to do it into an existing operation will never work. BUT just for a moment, if one club DID introduce it, and it DID work, what happens then. The It won't work in football argument means we'd still be playing the old W formation and Sir Alf would never have won the World Cup. Done with WISDOM all around the table it would work. Downside is that it needs only one c*ck (to quote Top gear) to make it a disaster......

I drove past there back in July with my tent & GF, never thought I'd get to that part of Devon and there I was with a good old fashioned no tapatalk mobile, couldn't even PM you. Never mind, should be back that way in about 20 years unless I come down to Tipton with the mighty Coombe some summer soon

Logical. He SHOULD have started down the ladder in the first place. Think that would put me in the "meh was moderately closer to being whelmed by Adkins than him" camp

That works. 1 more to interview tomorrow Adkins not yet had a meeting was in Scunny all day & NC was here. Perfect, just what we need more contradictions. Not doubting your integrity or that of the other 3 who posted counter information, but just what we need to send us onward to the 11:23 deadline

You just KNOW NC and the crew at SMS have been having as much fun this week as we have. I can see them all now over a celebratory bottle of Chianti Classico with our new Manager Jose Mourinho PMSL'ing themselves at having led the Press such a merry dance... Can you BELIEVE some of the stuff they wrote on that forum about Adkins of all people.... How funny was THAT, and as for the Echo at 2:30 - Brilliant! That will teach those bstds to mess with The Nico

So, what you are actually saying there is that you are so old and unfit you wouldn't actually make it back to the changing rooms at Half-Time so will just lay down in the goal for a little rest (we'll get some slippers for you but sorry no Pipe allowed). See, being a Journalist is so easy, headline sorted. Old fart should stick to catching Young Cute Chicks not Footballs

Yep for all the stick he gets, he is NOT a football man, so having Reed around isn't a totally stupid idea. In fact having someone like him around would have been such a good idea it must surely have been in his Business Plan when he pitched the club to ML

OK so things have been interesting the past days. Seems we have all been taken in by the new approach of Interviewing a NUMBER of potential candidates (blimely when did we ever have more than one good manager applying for the job!) So I thought I'd bump this to see if we can now extract WHO we think has actually been interviewd by NC. Phil Brown - OK easy that one. Seems to me like the others include KK Shearer (with or without KK) Howe (quietly probably) MoN Some ex player who is now overseas that may be Petrescu, Killer or Golac John Gregory??? Anyone else

OK so maybe like everyone else he would WANT to be top dog, but at the same time he showed he understood the way it could work AND was prepared to give it a go. Meanwhile I have a view on transfer committee. Is it such a stupid idea? That list MLG keeps putting up. We have about 5 Scouts, 8 or 10 coaches. That is too many for a First Team Manager to control full time when he has 25+ players The club will get a ton of calls emails and you tube clips a week from agents that all have to be sorted through. From that there will be "players worth a look at" which eventually will become - wow this one is amazing and we need to sign him (the new Messi). Some of the Yoof may be coming through and could be ready in a few weeks or so. Then you have the Manager - he has a gap in the squad he will have attributes (yeah like FM) that he needs so he goes to the boss of the scouts and says go find me... an Antonio who is consistent Then you have the Chairman who has the money. He has to say - Manager you really want to blow your whole budget for the year on an Antonio clone when we can buy the next Messi for 50 quid? Simplistic view I know, BUT there is one advantage to this - There will be MORE than one football man at the meetings with the man holding the money. In SOME ways that puts the football side first (The Damned United way doesn't always work where Cloughie signed the players without telling the Chairman) So the real issue is how the Committee WORKS. Is it equal votes? Is there a veto? Is there politics? Does the transfer committe work in REVERSE - ie do Football people decide who gets sold or who goes out on loan? Or is it the man who may need to raise some money? Lot more to that whole thing than a smiples answer and a whole lot more convoluted

See, we are still big and important. Phil Brown showing that he is still somebody who can be interviewed by a real football club So that he gets at least the chance to get a real job with Accrington, Hartlepool or someobody Nice bit of self marketing, leveraged the relationship with us, knew he didn't actually have a hope of getting the job so did the marketing early. May be a twit but he isn't thick