Mr X

whats bizarre is he often never even refers to the game in question! he just generalises everything with statements that could refer to any game. Why can't he get back to basics and some simple honesty? i.e. we were awful but heres what Im going to work on to change it around next time.... might have a bit of respect for the man then. I realise its not his job to discuss tactics with the media or anything

It seems that even constuctive critisicism of adkins is shouted down on here. Personally I want him to stay till xmas to have the chance to prove himself but I'm totally fed up with his lame and wet after match interviews seems to keep repeating "we score goals" like that's all we need to do and doesn't seem to be worried by the fact we haven't kept a clean sheet this season and are still shipping the same average of goals it's like he thinks its all going to magically click!

A thirty million pound+ yo yo ?

As the club thats our closest likeness in terms of being newly promoted and a similar sized fan fanbase, Cortese will no doubt be making comparisons. They haven't spent quite as much as us but seem to have got the basics so much better than saints. What do you see is the primary reason: 1) Transfers, they built from the back and invested in the defence first with physical strong players. 2) They have solid experience in Sam, he knows whats needed in this league. 3) Their direct Style is much more effective than saints and they utilise it. 4) They can adapt formation better and have a plan B 4) you own reasons Do you think West-ham are currently in a false position and will be brought down to reality? fair play to them for their achievements so far

People seemed to confirm there was something in the fonte's mrs rumours but noone was really ITK. That makes more sense to me, would it count as gross misconduct?

I agree with the sentiment and i think we should indeed stick with him till christmas at least and fully get behind him and the team, it will be hard to though if we are humiliated again against spurs saturday, but thats life

Will we ever know the real reason he was booted out?

HP sauce?

Agreed a bit of transparency with the fans wouldn't go a miss. I'm waiting for the fateful vote of confidence in Adkins!

That is true! And will we ever? Adkins interviews are just corporate rehashings like he's primed and on autopilot he reveals nothing and that's the way Cortese likes it.

. I believe nige has the skills to keep us up problem is it would need him to stop being a yes man, ditch the ridiculous formations and taking of the best peforming players at crucial times! Also without that quality left back in jan we are a goner

there is a correlation between money spent and league position but its not as black and white as that however whichever way you look at it Adkins has been given the largest transfer kitty in the clubs history and has spent it absolutely bizarrely (little premiership experience and in totally the wrong areas when we should have built up from the back four) in Adkins defence I don't believe these our solely his signings Cortese is pulling more strings behind the stage than anyone can imagine

. Finally the real facts on paper Harry isn't some wonder manager he's only any good when he's had serious money to spend and even then it's not like he's ever took a club from relegation to the top five. Also when he decides to walk out on a club he leaves them with truly crippling wage bills like putting David James on 90k a week. There's zero chance that he'd want to come back after publicly declaring he didnt want to be here the last time! and he would just walk out on us the first opportunity he got to go to a top six club so what's the point it would be a huge step back.

A unlikely win against spurs and I will feel much more positive that we have the bottle to get out of this mess. Another tonking and the same people that are on this thread will be back to doom and gloom

http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/ex-spurs-boss-redknapp-not-interested-southampton-return-3592351

What do we actually know about Cortese and his "great vision" ? He keeps fans just as in the dark as the media

The most unloyal and doodgey manager in history he'd stay with us all of two weeks tops before he was onto the next big club in town and then leave them too, right? Or has he and don't s******............. Learnt his lesson?

No slower than Ricky though

He also knows where the net is more than billy

For me lending him out for the whole season is a joke exactly the kind of poacher and physical player we needed against westham. J rod is probably technically better? Thoughts ?

Thats thee problem Adkins has thus far shown no evidence of learning from his mistakes as he makes the same ones in the next game

As it says in the title we have spent one of the highest amounts on transfer fees and we haven't brought any experience with one or two exceptions. This surely is a basic basic error one that I feel only cortese's influence could have made Adkins isn't that dumb or is he?

Mine won't be a popular view but I vote get someone new in I'm confident that we are good enough for at least seventeenth place with a manager of premiership pedigree question is who would want to come here especially if the Cortese is in control rumours are to be believed? Act now while we have time to get out of this shambles

If a hoofball westham put four past us you have to fear that spurs will rip us to shreds next weekend

The problem is if we don't act now then it will be too late I personally feel Adkins isn't the main to turn us around because he shows no signs of learning from his mistakes. I do think that he may be a puppet to Cortese maybe le Tis really does know the truth either way we are leaking a ridiculous amount of goals. Cortese may even stick with his man as yet he probably won't want to admit Adkins isn't working.