The Kraken

I'll be getting p*ssed.

You could probably borrow Crouchie's lawyer if you get in any libel troubles. Oh those were fun times.

In either case; if he has been given his notice there's entirely no reason why he shouldn't just do things his way. He has nothing to lose; if he's not going to save his job he may as well go out doing it his way.

We've been told that Nik Nak is still learning the trade; hopefully this is part of his learning curve.

What a strange post. You seem to want to suppress the opinions of others who hold a contrary view to your own. "Supposed Saints fans" is a quite ridiculous and pompus assertion too.

Well at least PKF will have bled the carcass of £3M by the time liquidation comes.

What a ridiculous response.

As it should be.

Yes. More than that. Glad I could clear that up.

From the OS http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/adkins-implements-change-of-routine-474988.aspx The bits in bold definitely reinforce my opinion that he's demanded to do things entirely his own way and told others to butt out. I actually feel pretty positive ahead of the Swansea game.

I'm seeing it that Adkins has asked for and been given complete free licence for 2 or 3 games to do things entirely his own way and he'll be judged on that. If he's still found wanting, he's out. If we see an upturn he'll have proved his point.

I think Tricky Trev must have gotten himself a login on the Pompey message boards. :lol:

Really? What has he done to suggest he's not ready?

Everything I've heard suggests that Cortese ensures the players are treated like kings; its VIP all the way for them. The other staff? Not so much, no.

I don't think you'd get much odds on that. UnAppy has done a p*ss poor job considering the wage bill he's pushed out on those underperforming high paid mercenaries. Pompey should be way higher in the division than they currently are. And Blackpool are a busted flush, with their remaining good players now sure to leave in January and condemn the club back to a struggle in the lower leagues. The eyebrowless idiot will get found out for the tactical imbecile he is.

Yep, thats a great reason why we should completely rule it out.

Tick. Especially about the helmet part.

Part of it seems to stem from some posters not wishing to accept opinion of anything unless cast iron proof is delivered. So, as much as you can profess an opinion that Adkins, Cortese, Reed and the players should all share some collective responsibility, it always descends into a "how can you say that, how do you know that for a fact?" type bickering when its broken down into more specific detail. I suspect the flip side of that will be the accusation that opinion often gets dressed up and presented as fact. But this is an internet spazboard and the amount of fact being spoken at any one time is limited at best, so its probably just best off to treat everything as opinion and speculation and leave it at that.

The loan has been secured against future income AND the assets of Southampton FC.

You sure about that? I don't know either way, but I read a comment on here from a certain forum co-owner suggesting that David Bick should be ashamed for his role in that particular leak.

They weren't booing the team off FFS. Pompey fans never do that. So there we are; Pompey weren't booing their own players, of course. They were booing the Brentford fans. No, sorry, the Brentford goalie. Oh, I'm confused.

There aren't. Cortese is the sole director. As to whom the shareholder(s) are, that's unclear, last we knew it was the Estate of Markus Liebherr.

I can kind of understand Billy Sharp going (even despite him having a very good pre-season). Lambert #1 striker, Rodriguez pushing for that, Tadanari Lee coming back from injury and Mayuka in, Billy would in all likelihood have been 5th choice striker in a team that were looking to play 1 up front. Harding; I don't understand why we let him go when we had no realistic left back cover. Stupid, really. I don't think he's quite good enough for the PL, but he'd have been a better option than Yoshida, that's for certain. Hammond, very much agree. Again, not sure he's the answer for a PL team as a starter, but as a reserve he could have been vital. At times we could/should have been playing with 3 proper CMs and with Cork injured we've only had JWP to rely on, which is a big ask for a youngster. If Hammond had been available for the United game I wonder if his introduction to add a bit more bite into CM and nullify Scholes would have made the difference. We'll never know, but again I think it was a silly move to let him go.

Strachan's eyes are on the Scotland job; he was asked about it on the CL show last night. He said very little other than that he'd be honoured to be asked, Matt Smith the interviewer inferred that as he's off to Glasgow today to watch the Celtic-Barca game he perhaps may be meeting with the SFA while there. Vialli? Please no, he would be a major step down. Di Canio, good lord no, I would think it would be a serious f**king disaster, within weeks or even days.

Or how about just choosing to ignore them if you think their post is pointless? If you think someone is just trolling, why react to it? Its only going to encourage them. That "Nigel to continue as manager" thread is a point in case, there's about 5 different people who posted nothing about the topic but just chose to bait Turkish to respond; what do you think's going to happen? I've got my own ignore button, its called my own self control. If I think someone is full of sh*t I'll either choose not to respond, or respond. Its quite a simple system really.