Whitey Grandad

But it's the style of football that gets the results that you desire.

You don't create atmosphere by making a lot of noise. That comes from the supporteres and not from the loudspeakers.

Our present positon has nothing to do with bad luck. Why is it that people who know nothing about professional English football think that somehow they can come in and try something so fundamentally different that it will be a success in the longer term? There is a very goood reason why not other clubs are approaching things this way. That's because it will not work. There is an enormous gulf between the Premier League and those below it. Their plan will not work if the club is in a lower league.

Not with a back five we won't.

It was the action of a man who wants to be dismissed. Knowing he would walk away with a big pay off can't have helped.

That was the thing about last night. It wasn't as though we were unlucky in any way. We got exactly what we deserved which was nothing. Playing with three central defenders just left us ineffective in midfield and invited Forest to come at us. It's no wonder then that the action mostly took place in our half of the pitch.

I was thinking of the style of play, not the statistics.

I didn’t see it and I didn’t see the point of it. And I was there and I had a wristband. It was too small to fit over my hand.

Mara was on the pitch but wasn’t part of the team. He just ran around on his own hoping that somehow the ball would come to him.

Not possible

Nutshell

If we have an extra defender at the back then we have one player fewer somewhere else on the pitch. In every game that I’ve seen us try to play this system there is a big hole in midfield where our players should be.

OUT, and OUT now. Anybody who thinks that Lyanco and Elyonoussi should start any game hasn’t got a clue. And he has done it more than once.

Absolutely dreadful player. Why does any manager ever pick him?

Sticking with Ralph for too long was the first big cock up. He is responsible for the position we are in. Appointing Nathan Jones was the second big cock up.

Perhaps they’d take Nathan Jones.

That’s why records over a calendar year are not really representative.

I agree, at least for the first couple of years, but there came a point where it went wrong and he suddenly seemed to overbelieve in himself. He started to tinker and we lost the ethos of the way that we played. I think it went wrong after that Cup match against West Ham. Sure, we won, but we never seemed to be the same team again.

Yes, a great aircraft. Designed by Roy Chadwick of Avro. He used to live across the river from St Mary’s Stadium. There is a blue plaque at 38 Chessel Avenue in Bittern “where he lived from 1922 to 29 when the AVRO design team was based nearby at Hamble”

A Lancaster was capable of carrying twenty times that load if necessary.

“I see that Saints are losing again” ”How do you know?” ”It’s five past three on a Saturday”

He scored. A neat trick to play a one-two with the keeper

Exactly. That’s what I mean about not replacing him

£1.50 booking fee for each ticket!

The mistake was not replacing him, not letting him leave.