VectisSaint

This is due to the Dolson Principle. People can be demoted to their level of incompetence rather than promoted. The higher the level of management the easier the job. The logical outcome of this would be to demote Adkins to the Physio job and put Cortese in as manager of the team. That was what Lowe tried to do so it must be a good idea - or did Lowe just promote people randomly?

So he's quite good against Championship opposition and in the Reserve league. How does that translate to being good enough for the PL? Sadly it doesn't, he really struggled to impress last season, I was surprised we did not look to move him on during the summer. Still maybe with more coaching he can make it, we'll see.

Would have been very odd to replace Lambert with Cork, at least Guly made sense and played well. I guess you were one of the thousands that streamed out before we scored given you think we lost.

Matches last for 95 minutes, the fact that he may have had problems in the last 10 minutes or so doesn't mean he had a bad game. I thought he had a decent game yesterday, not his best but he was really getting stuck in and making a lot of decent runs, interceptions and tackles. His corner led to our 1st goal (struggling to remember the 2nd, although I was still in the ground unlike about 5000 of our so-called supporters).

Even has experience of relegating us, must be ideal for the job. When will people learn that Arry is actually not very good. Even the ****s at the FA could see that, and they are none too bright. I wouldn't be averse to having Joe Jordan back to help out, but as for Saggy Face or his sidekick, no thank you very much indeed if its all the same to you. Even Hoddle would be preferable.

Who is the 0.1% on here whose opinion is not worthless? I think we should know.

They may have targeted Yoshi but actually made no difference. Yoshi was awful I agree, but neither Fulham goal was even indirectly caused by him.

Totally agree, I read this earlier and wasn't able to reply at the time, but if someone genuinely thought Davis and Morgan were hopeless today then God help us. Clearly an understanding of football is not something you get in Kingsbridge. Thought Morgan was very good today, was a bit concerned knowing he had been injured, but he did not hold back. Davis too was much better today. The only other game where he looked this good was against Villa, coincidentally the other game where he did not have JWP alongside. Not knocking jWP but I think him and Davis are too similar and sort of get in each other's way. Great performance from Jose today, covering for an out of sorts Jos and an out of position Yoshi. Note to Adkins, never ever play Yoshi at RB again, for a player I really rate he was like a fish out of water, hopeless with his passes, terrible throw-ins - why oh why was Butters not on the bench, we seem to be overloaded with left footed players, and our only right sided cover was not available as a sub. Hope Frazer is OK, didn't look good when he went down. One criticism for Fonte - why the **** did you take your shirt of and get a booking, stupid, we will regret that when suspensions come along. Lambert looked well out of sorts today, I know how he felt, was feeling like I was hung over as well (though I wasn't). We would have got 3 points today I am sure if Gaston and Clyne had played. Fulham were quite poor, although they still showed more than Wigan. Still 2 home games unbeaten now.

Is it worth getting a sub to MUTV to watch this, on now? Nah.

Then Fernandez will sack him immediately after the game, he will go to Norwich and will be in his first game for them 11 days later.

This. Quite honestly amazed we are selling as many tix as we are for unattractive games like Wigan and Fulham, esp when they are also on Sky. I said it before the season started, all clubs will find it harder to fill their grounds this season, not just Saints.

Confirms what Adkins said after Everton, Fulham would be touch and go. I still suspect he will not start, but may be on the bench. Hope he starts, but only if he is fully recovered, we cannot afford a recurrence for our most influential player.

Probably the easiest of the away games to be frank, their defence is even more sloppy than ours. I know its unusual for Liverpool to be crap, but they are this season, even away to Norwich they were appalling at the back, and even our defence is not as much of a rag-bag as Norwich were for that game.

So, after much debate on this thread, we can now unpackage the facts. In summary SFC are redeploying programme sellers (that suggests some existing sellers)and making programmes available in different places to make it easier for punters to purchase them. It would seem that one or more existing programme sellers have been informed that their services are no longer required, which is of course highly regrettable for those individuals. Programmes will still be available, there will still be sellers outside the ground, but now you can purchase inside as well. An awful lot of fuss about almost nothing except for the caveat about sellers who no longer have a job on matchdays (which may amount to 1 person, because that is all we know about for sure). I know my daughter will be a little upset, although she had already remarked that our preferred programme seller (outside the Chapel) has not been around this season, but then we now more often that not arrive via the Northam end so would have transferred our loyalty anyway. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/location-location-location-409792.aspx

COC(K)up

So this is the initial squad, which will then be changed by tactical withdrawals by Messrs Ferguson and Wenger, then we will get the 2nd round picks of players who will not play but will **** of their clubs such as Saints. International football is a complete yawn and should be limited to a month each year after the proper football season has completed.

And the ticket tax :-) What did the Romans ever do for us?

If you had read the article you would know: "For the purposes of this analysis, produced by Opta and freely available on the excellent website whoscored.com, any attempted pass which is 25 yards or more constitutes a long ball"

In other words then he was not in control. Agood ref would have clamped down on this early on. Still it really isn't too important, a light hearted remark taken out of context by the official rep of the referees union.

Why is it harsh? Just a fact. Saying that 11 cards would tend to indicate a referee who has lost control somewhat.

Mark "10 yellow cards and 1 red" Clattenburg. Could be an interesting afternoon on Sunday.

Let's hope Clattenburg's pencil is worn out, otherwise we could be in for a few on Sunday. He could book Fox for impersonating a Left Back :-)

No, NC is Nasty Nic. Next you'll tell me RL is Ricky, when we all know RL is someone far more sinister. :-)

You'd think as an Arsenal supporter you'd know who plays for Spuds your great North London rivals. Schwarzer is a decent keeper though (especially for an Aussie) but Fulham don't travel well, although they are excellent at the Cottage. I think we have enough to get 3 points at St Mary's

What a load of rubbish, both Lee and Mayuka are good PL material, the problem that NA has is how to fit them into the team, although "in place of JRod" comes to mind.