Matthew Le God

Again, you have not explained why Everton can challenge for the top 4 but not Saints. btw you mention Everton in the top 4 once in the last "30 years", in the last 30 years Everton have won the league ffs and Saints have come 2nd. So really not sure the relevance of that!

Everton have made the top 4 under Moyles and they are currently 5th this season with 22 games played. Well what over factors are you going to use why Everton can put up a challenge for the Champions League but Saints can't? Cortese/Liebherr's are investing more money than Bill Kenwright has. My point was in terms of match going fanbase, Everton are on a similar level to Saints despite them challenging at the top of the league and Saints at the bottom.

People remember him for his brief unsuccessful spell at Tottenham, that ended in 1998! 15 years ago! Since then he has had a good record as a manager.

Rather than just dismissing it out of hand with a sweeping statement like that, please at least attempt to counter each and every point I made.

Everton after 22 games are still in with a chance of a top 4 finish. - Everton 5th with average of 36,874 in a 40k stadium - Saints 15th with average of 30,496 in a 32k stadium It is easier to have a higher average attendance when for the bigger games you have a 40k capacity to fill, Saints can only get 32k max when the big sides come to town, Everton can get 40k which makes it easier to boost the average. Everton are also having a more successful season than Saints, yet only average 6k more. Everton are hardly "wealthy", nor have they had anywhere near the net spend and investment Saints have and Saints can out do them in the transfer market. If Everton can challenge for the top 4, then why couldn't Saints in the coming years?

Liverpool fail in £8m bid... http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jan/18/liverpool-bid-internazionale-philippe-coutinho

I think he would have kept us up, I think Cortese wanted more than that (7th largest net spend in the whole of Europe this summer). I don't know enough about the new manager to decide if it was a good or bad decision yet.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jan/18/liverpool-bid-internazionale-philippe-coutinho

He was the right choice to get Saints out of the Football League, the next level in the Premier League is Cortese's new aim and clearly he doesn't feel Adkins is right for that.

Cortese paid for Peter Reid to have a holiday in Barcelona?

He was the one that made the training ground and academy status a priority and got it done. Planning permission for Staplewood went in as a League One side and construction started as a Championship side, for a facility that wouldn't look out of place at a Champions League club.

And without SMS we would currently be struggling in the Championship or League One. I'm not a Rupert Lowe fan, but give him his credit he improved the club's infrastructure. Many said similar when Cortese sacked Pardew. Give Pochettino a chance.

Can add this to the list... Plus category 1 status for the academy. Setting us up for years to come in terms of infrastructure.

I mention it because it is a current example of a home crowd over a number of games creating a negative atmosphere and it seemingly effecting the players on the pitch. If we aren't careful the same could happen at St Mary's.

How do you know it is damaging to the club? The last time Cortese made a decision to change managers worked didn't it? Do that not allow for some trust in him to make decisions for the long term of the club? You speak of "potential damaging for the club", if a negative home atmosphere leads to Southampton performing poorly in home games like CHelsea are, is that not damaging?

"People like me" All I've said is I want the best atmosphere for Saints so they can beat Everton. Negative chanting doesn't help achieve that. It is you advocating creating an atmosphere like Chelsea currently have at home, and they are currently struggling to perform in a negative atmosphere. Fan in wanting his team to win shocker!!!

So you are willing to create a negative atmosphere even if it runs the risk of effecting the team not to perform as well as it could if the crowd were behind them? Just look at Chelsea and anti Benitez chants in home games.

Ultimately it won't change a thing, but what it might do is make it harder for the team to perform. I'd rather the team do well against Everton, not sure why you would want to do anything that might harm their chances. You only have to look at Chelsea at home in a negative atmosphere with the crowd against Benitez to see what a negative atmosphere can do on the pitch.

And what will that achieve apart from a negative atmosphere in an important home game?

But is it worth doing that if it risks the team not performing in a volatile atmosphere? Chelsea have struggled with the home fans being negative, is that what you'd like to see at St Mary's?

It wasn't just Nigel that left - Andy Crosby, Dean Wilkins and Jim Stannard also went today. That leaves Saints with nothing in the way of senior coaches and Vince Bartram as the development team goalkeeper coach the closest thing we have to a senior keeping coach. With senior goalkeeper coach Jim Stannard going it may leave an opening for the club to let Kelvin Davis have a long term future at Saints as an extra keeper if needed and goalkeeper coach for Boruc, Gazzaniga and Cropper perhaps? I'd guess we'll see a number of Spanish and/or South American coaches join the club soon, but would be nice to involve Kelvin.

So you want a Stamford Bridge style atmosphere which affects first team performance in home games? You may not be happy with Adkins sacking, but remember without Cortese/Liebherr we may not have a club or at the very least be in the lower leagues still. Force Cortese out of the club and I'd guess the Liebherr estate would sell up. People were starting similar threads when Pardew was sacked. Cortese made a good decision then, maybe he has this time aswell even if it seems very harsh now. How about we get behind the new manager and don't sing about Adkins or Cortese in order to provide a positive atmosphere for the team to win on Monday vs Everton?

No, Corns is thanking them because they are leaving. Adkins, Crosby, Wilkins and Stannard are the only ones to leave.

Only Adkins, Crosby, Wilkins and Stannard have left.

Is what I said not true then?