Barry the Badger

We went into admin owing local businesses money, those businesses would have had to accept less than what they were owed. A month later we spent 1m on Ricky Lambert. I'm not trying to suggest that what we did was on the same scale as the skates, but take your Saints tinted glasses off and you will realise that we too 'got away with it', just to a lesser extent.

I love how short peoples memories are. We all seem to have forgotton that little over a year ago we were subject to a takeover, which forced our creditors to accept a percentage of what we owed them. We then went out and spent more than any other L1 club on transfer fees. This is the way football deals with debt, get over it.

Again, I do think this comes back to keeping it simple and this is where I'm optimistic about NA. If a team are sitting 11 behind the ball there is no magic tactical formula to unlock them, it's about good players moving the ball quickly and with confidence, making things happen themselves, stretching the opposition, that is all.

Obviously the further up the ladder you go the more tactical the game gets (to an extent). But at the end of the day a team of 11 lazy, uninterested players with a tactical genius as a manager will always lose to a team of 11 similarly skilled but hard working, enthusiastic players with only basic tactics. Not really sure what my point is... Ah well.

I like what he is saying, almost a back to basics approach and getting the players to enjoy their football. Fingers crossed that he can get the message across quickly.

I would bet my house that no current Premier League managers applied for the job. I don't think it's a brilliantly worded statement from the club, but I don't think its meant to imply that we had applications from the English Prem. People saying Holloway might have applied, why on earth would he? The guy has spent his entire career trying to get to the Prem, why would he drop all that to come here?

That doesn't mean we need another player, it means Nigel Adkins has to come in and get the best out of Hammond, who is a good player at this level.

Just interested, who would you have preferred?

They are getting more out of worse players.

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I think you will find that is an opinion, not a fact.

That's because it's our club. I will twist facts however I can to support my club, but to twist facts in order to criticise it is just wierd.

Very enlightening. Would be interesting to hear from at least 1 other atendee though.

Nigel Pearson too IIRC

So hang on, you're saying it's ok for you to believe what the Chairman of S****horpe has said to the media, but it's not ok for somebody to believe what their own club have stated. Personally, I think it's ridiculous that you are actually buying the whinging bleatings of the S****horpe chairman. Quite frankly he sounds like he has no idea what is happening. It seems to me that he's trying to use the media to manipulate the situation in his clubs favour, but we aren't having any of it. Fine by me.

Not really, it happens all the time. Goes to tribunal that way.

Surely if that was the case he would just say he didn't want to leave, rather than try to make it look as though he wanted to come but compensation couldn't be agreed.

I am hoping this is all just a hard bargaining process being played out in public.

You what? So a manager who has TWICE done exactly what we are trying to do here, does not have a good enough CV for what we are trying to do here. Hmmm.

Tim, how did you end up with an American, given that most of them live in America? Do you live in America?

I would be quite happy with Adkins, although tinged with dissapointment that it's not a bigger name, ultimately I think he would be perfect for us.

I don't think anybody is really criticising him or having a pop. It's fair enough to point out that he doesn't look his usual self, he's clearly not fully fit and that is not his fault, doesn't mean we cant discuss it or be worried by it though. The reason people are picking up on it is because he's usually so f*cking awesome.

Regardless of how the counter attack started. It was still only 3 on 3 and we should be able to cope with that, in fact we looked like we were until Fonte decided he didn't trust Martin with the man on the ball and came rushing over. I've played with defenders who don't listen and take it upon themselves to try and defend everything single handedly, it's admirable in a way, but a complete nightmare to play with. I think Fonte was awesome last season, love the guy, but I've noticed this twice this season. The other time was Plymouths goal when Butterfield was up against a one of their players for a header at the back post. Rather than keep himself free in the centre, Fonte decided to go across and try and win the header himself, which led to us being stretched and eventually the goal (although he certainly wasn't the only one at fault). He's still our best defender but I do think he needs to trust his fellow players a bit more.

The first goal was entirely Fonte's fault, for not trusting Martin. They had a man each and you could see Martin pointing, telling Fonte to stick with his man and leave the man on the ball to him. Instead Fonte came rushing over, leaving his man in space, the rest is obvious. Hopefully they just need to play together more.