The Kraken

Fact. All of these separate threads about either soldiering on through adversity or making a managerial change are becoming rather repetetive.

I can't see anything on this thread.

Ah, another one who claims to speak for all other fans and how they think. There are plenty of reasons why some fans prefer life in the Championship; its not just about winning games (though it probably largely is). But also: - there are more games per season, 46 instead of 38. - there are less games put back to Saturday 5.30pm/Sunday/Monday for Sky. - there are plenty of midweek games on offer. - games are cheaper. - its easier to get a ticket, there's more often than not the possibility to choose to attend on the day. - its overall a much more competitive league; on any day one club can and often does beat any other club, its much more open than the PL and therefore more unpredictable and exciting. - away games are more fun as there's a higher chance of getting a result. - we actually have a chance of winning the league (perhaps the major plus point of it IMO). - away days and away fans seem better than the sterile environment the Premier League has become. - the league is kept fresh by having 6 clubs leave every season and six new teams replace them. There's just 10 reasons why football is more enjoyable to some in the league below, in addition to the fact that, yes, we'd likely win more games. Disagree with it all you like, its not for everyone of course, and natural ambition states we should aspire to play in the highest league possible. But for God's sake, accept that some people don't feel the same as you and don't presume to tell others what they should be thinking, or what they should be preferring.

Well, somebody is telling porkies.... Nabil Hassan ‏@NabilHassan79 #pompey boss Michael Appleton tells @solentsport he has not held talks with Blackpool. He only knows what he has read in the media.

I do enjoy hearing from posters who feel qualified to tell others fans how they should think, and what they should prefer. It is most bizarre though.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/southampton/9658684/Nigel-Adkins-survives-day-of-crunch-talks-with-Southampton-chairman.html Adkins has acknowledged that he is favourite to be the first Premier League manager to be sacked this season, but he took training at the club’s Marchwood training base on Tuesday morning and is continuing preparations for the Swansea game.

Pack the fecking park!!! :lol:

For some reason I've just got a feeling we're going to win this one. I've no idea how; I just think we will. I think Rodriguez needs to be dropped, and we need to play 3 proper central midfielders. But we probably won't do that, we'll just plod on with the formation that looked pretty poor at West Brom. That said, I think we're going to fluke a win.

Do we still get to play in the FA Cup? If so, we could target all our efforts towards that and win it.

If we mothballed the stadium for 9 months and played all games at Staplewood, just think of the monetary savings we could make not having to maintain a 32,000 seater stadium. I think there's a possible financial case to be made for it.

Really?

Great post pap. The general hand-wringing at dissenting voices often just misses the point entirely.

They'll be lucky to get 51%. No wonder this has taken so fecking long; there's quite clearly still some absolutely enormous holes in the takeover plans. It truly will be hilarious if they decide to plough full steam ahead.

I like it. Its akin to Alpine's previous "lets rest Lallana and all the others for the playoffs because we're never going to achieve automatic promotion" suggestion. That was a flawless idea then, this seems a flawless idea now.

Les Reed won't go. He's got his fingers in many more pies than just being on the transfer committee. Unfortunately.

Is "lambasted" the new "shouted down"? Hope so.

Good lord no. A few years back then maybe, but not now. Although to be fair I doubt we'd be any worse off with him in charge. The problem now is similar to when Burley was getting towards the end of his tenure here. Pretty much everyone knew he wasn't good enough; that wasn't difficult to see. What was difficult to see was what was the solution; who was suitable and available to come in and hit the ground running and get us to perform? The answer was; well, nobody really. We didn't have anyone lined up when he left so resorted to Dodd and Gormanm which was a disaster. When we finally found a full time manager he took so long to get going that we survived only by virtue of victory on the final day and other results going our way. There are simply no other likely candidates I can see that would do a better job than Adkins. And simply replacing the manager would not in any way address all of the currnt problems we have, not by a long way.

"It is very rare I am lost for words but I saw the statue last week and it is awesome - a tremendous tribute to a great man. [southampton] Fans have waited a long time for this and it is going to be fantastic. I really believe it will be the best football statue anywhere both in size and the amount of detail" Ted Bates Trust chairman, Dave Ford. :lol:

I bet you I can't be bothered to try, either.

Because I knew I was right at the time.

The revsision of history on here is spectacular. From "the defenders we have are good enough, they should be allowed to prove themselves in the PL" in the summer and denigrating anyone who said otherwise and pointed out that we didn't prioritise signing defenders; to all of a sudden "well we all knew the defence wasn't strong enough". Its quite incredible, really.

According to one complete lunatic on the match thread last night; there's no chance we could have got a left back, centre back and central midfielder better than we have for the amount of money we spent on Ramirez. Its insane how deluded some people are.

So, Tricky Trev wants £200,000 for UnAppy. Or, to put it another way, 22 days worth of fees for PKF. That should be just about enough to cover their costs for making sure the deal goes through (and give Trickster a nice little wedge to buy himself a gourmet Christmas hamper). Nice of Simple Neil Allen to broadcast UnAppy's wages to all and sundry, though.

Yes I know Neil. I was being a trifle sarcastic. I'll use smilies next time to make it clearer.

Alan Nixon got everything wrong about us, and this is negative news, so I'm filing it in the "bullsh*t from lying journo" pile.