Whitey Grandad

Colder than ever. What's your point?

Even my missus would not be safe. Still, if he got the results it might be a price worth paying.

The big question is... have our chances of making the top two been improved by the change of manager?

Having looked at all the names above, I hear that Alan Pardew's free. HCDAJFU

Oh God! Now all we are ever going to hear is how things would have been so much better if only we had signed Lambert, or Hoddle, or ....

He was the right man for qualifying but the wrong man for the tournament. By the same token, I believe that we need a different manager for League 1 than we shall for the Championship.

Hmmm, then it all points to a decision taken at short notice, something in the heat of the moment, something that has been brewing up for several months. I suppose the delay until the next appointment will give us some indication of the amount of premeditation.

I did not read that as referring to the Rovers result, rather the fact that we have lost all pre-season and probably any prospect of new transfers. Additionally, we have brought in players over the closed season that any new manager might not rate. If this was the correct decision then the end of last season was the correct time to take it.

This effect is normally short-lived, typically one game, although to be honest I can't remember this effect ever working with Saints when we had a new manager, and we've had a lot of them.

As Daren W has said, it's the timing of the decision that I cannot understand. If Cortese and Pardew couldn't work together then the end of last season was the correct time to do it. Doing it now, at the end of the transfer window and after a reasonable start invites the obvious conclusion that the sad death of Markus has enabled Cortese to get his way.

I think that's stretching things a bit too far.

Then why choose him to start with? If Cortese thinks that Pardew is the wrong man after less than one season, then how can anybody have confidence in his next choice?

Because he can. It's a difficult job with very few priveleges apart from this one.

Well it made me smile. Sometimes you just have to take things in the spirit that was intended.

It's like changing your tyres after 1 lap of a Formula One race because you don't like the way the car is handling.

Am I correct in assuming that Cortese chose Pardew in the first place?

This is all so depressing. Anyone who expects a new manager to have instant results is very likely to be disappointed. I agree with Weston that we shall need a different manager to get us out if this league than the one who takes us to the Premiership. The only name that I have read that I think might fit that bill is Poyet. I started this season full of optimism but at the moment I have a nasty sinking feeling.

I've just found out. Oh FFS here we go again, have we learnt nothing from the past? Another two seasons lost whilst the new manager gets in his own men and the players he doesn't rate languish in the reserves. There's only three days left of the transfer window so we shall be stuck with a bunch of disillusioned players who can only see promises that will be broken. This new manager had better be something special. I assume that somebody must be lined up. If not, then this proves my concerns that Cortese knows precious little about football in the lower divisions. Who chose Pardew in the first place?

We do seem to suffer a lot with injuries, and have done for as long as I can remember. How do we compare with otther clubs? Maybe we just buy a load of old crocks.

I've just looked at it again and he's comfortably onside. Yet another good decision from a lino.

Not necessarily: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100302070156AAvAx2u

As I was driving along Stoneham Lane this morning I saw a white minibus with 'Portsmouth Academy' on the side. It was empty. Who are they trying to fool?

Cats are wildlife killers. The fewer the better, especially in my garden where I am considering installing a water cannon. The more important point is, seh was filmed on a hidden CCTV camera which infringed her human rights. I hope for the owner's sake that he had a notice stating that video recordings would be made, the purpose for them and a contact telephone number or he may be in serious trouble with the law!

My concerns about Davis's distribution is not so much that he hoofs it upfield as the fact that he usually overhits it or sends it into 'touch'.

In 'The Longest Day' Port en Bessin was used as the setting for Lieutenant Kieffer's attack on Ouistreham. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kieffer