VectisSaint

This isn't a pro, its a con. Was completely unable to attract sufficient investment and was not prepared to invest what we had to take us to the next level, when we could have done so relatively easily. Find it very difficult to think of any pros with Lowe. He is the reason we ended up where we were 3 years ago. I guess the only pro is that he was such a blithering idiot that in the end we got bought by someone sensible, because it would never have happened while were a plc.

Nice story. It really backs up what I thought about England during the Beckham/Neville/SGE era, unless you were in their clique you never stood a chance. Wayne Bridge was treated badly in his early England days, you could see players avoiding passing to him on the pitch even when it was the most obvious thing to do. Its still why I really get ****ed off when people fawn over Beckham so much, saying how great he was for the England team, when the reality is that together with some of his cronies he was part of the reason why an era when England had a reasonable amount of talent, they did not perform to their expectations. Well done JB though for continuing to want to play football at whatever level, nice to see a true sportsman doing it for the right reasons and not worrying about whether he has to pay tax or not like some egos do.

As usual. One of the people who are clearly killing this forum, along with the other 2 or 3 trolls.

In the end its a team thing, rather than individuals, but Yosh has been very good, to.drop.him for Forren would be a massive risk, Forren looks average at best. What we need is to make sure Fox is nowhere near the team then the rest of the defence can do their own job without having to do his as well.

I can only assume you did not watch the "new lad" last night. Would rather give Stephens a go to be honest. There is a very good reason Vegard is not in the team. Yoshida has been our best defender for much of this season, dropping him would be stupid. 2nd goal Saturday was primarily down to Shaw.

You missed the good part, we were quite good in the 1st half, but we definitely tired in last 15 minutes and were fortunate to hang on at the end. Probably something to do with playing at SMS, the kids don't play there often enough imho.

Sorry, but good as he is he gets pushed off the ball far too easily. Needs to develop, physically before he is anywhere near ready for first team. I didn't see anyone last night that was pushing for a first team place (including JWP who was quite anonymous, Gazza or Forren). I kept thinking we have something like 14 players out on loan, the u21s look very lightweight without them (Liverpool have the same issue according to their commentator). Forren does not look like he is better than what we already have, and I don't see any need to change from Fonte and Yoshi, as long as Fox is not playing there is not much wrong with these as our central pairing, and I would prefer Jos to Forren at the moment at least.

Thank you precious, thought it had a nice ring about it. Then again maybe I was just fat fingering on my phone.

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You mean Mark Wright, our former skipper. Has been very complimentsry so far.

Why?

Forren scored

Wish they had names on shirts. Offside Saidi, goal disallowed

Makes sense, so he hasn't signed yet...

Who is Mayuka? Does he play for us?

So Plan B went into action on Saturday, but it didn't work, more long balls which kept going astray and actually played to Samba's strengths.

Only if you believe we were playing brilliantly under NA. I don't think we were. What I saw on Saturday reminded me of several games both this season and last where our players do not seem to turn up. We were dreadful on Saturday, no creative ideas, no movement off the ball, poor passing, even an inability to control the ball. But i saw the same when NA as in charge, I don't know why this happens, its almost as if we are meant to lose some games to satisfy some betting ring somewhere (I jest, I don't really think this, but you do wonder sometimes why players don't perform). Perhaps players think they are going to get an easy game, but it is up to managers to spot this and do something, and I don't feel MP is any different to NA in this regard. Comments about Yoshi are interesting, yes he did have a poor game Saturday, but then take a look and see what changed, (1) he moved back to the left of centre because Fonte came in and (2) then has to cover again for Fox and his woeful positioning. Will be interesting to see how we perform against Norwich, this is the first time MP will have had to pick up the team from a woeful performance and will give us some indication of whether he has the skills and ability to pick it up. I just hope next time I'm at SMS I don't see our team play such crap again. I will criticise MP for his subs though, bringing on JWP and not Davis was baffling, and I was somewhat bemused that Guly did not replace Lallana, but I would concede that Guly was probably not fully fit, and that JRod did actually play quite well. But then NA was not exactly masterful with his subs either.

We don't have a reserve team.

Very unlike you to bang on about something for a long time.

I think Henri Camara joined in the January transfer window, after Redknapp was appointed, so to be fair (and it pains me to be) he was actually a Redknapp signing. The rest were rubbish though as Steve said.

Art, most of this post is absolute ********, but I totally agree about the subs. I suspect though that Guly is not fully fit yet, he only warmed up once yesterday (whereas most subs are out and warming up every 10 minutes or so). I don't think he was ever going to get on the pitch. I was shocked that MP brought JWP on and not Davis. We were crying out for Davis' energy yesterday. The stuff about flooding the squad though, really take a look at yourself, you usually post quite sensible stuff.

Disagree completely, Shaw is very very good defensively, he is by far the best left back we have produced in the last few years, miles better than Bridge or Bale defensively. He is getting better going forward, he started off not having that confidence, but it is growing. Unfortunately he was completely to blame for the 2nd goal yesterday, mistake made by a youngster lacking experience. Fortunately it is a real rarity, and he will learn from it, but it was costly for the team.

Lowe did not keep us in the Prem on a shoestring budget, it was Le Tissier that kept us in the Prem. Lowe managed to restrict our progress in the Prem because of his shoestring budget and lack of foresight and investment.

Pay in lieu of notice (PILON) is not tax free. Redundancy pay is tax free up to a certain level, and is then taxable, but Adkins was not made redundant (the post of Team Manager still exists). Whether you can be paid a lump sum in lieu of notice depends on your employment contract, if there is no provision for this in the contract then it cannot be done without affecting the rights of the employee (if not in contract and you do it then any restrictive covenants on the employee are immediately lost). He has been relieved of his duties, and been put on gardening leave, probably until the end of the season. So currently he is being paid his monthly salary as usual. Contrary to the thread title put up by the OP, he is not taking legal action, he has gone to his union (LMA) and sought to resolve his situation through their arbitration service. Sounds to me like the Daily Fail trying to whip up a strom where none exists, and it seems to be working with some supporters. There really is not much of a story here, NA will get what he is entitled to at the appropriate time, meanwhile he is being paid in full on a monthly basis for doing nothing.

Row Z safe then.