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Dont forget our resident Jimmy Tarbuck double isn't going to home games anymore out of protest due to no payment plan. Maybe the club saw this and deicded it wasn't cost effective now their main customer has gone.

Being someone who goes to football to watch the game and not eat, i had no idea that they had stopped selling pies.

thanks for pi*sing on my bonfire both of you. Obviously not being someone that has to eat every 45 minutes i wouldn't know this.

Bad news for you greedy fat c*nts, apparantly SFC will no longer be selling pies as snacks. Before you all start banging on about my source "Saints Stop Selling Half time pies to Fatties" is hardly headline news. You'll just have to take my word for it on this one and see if you can get one over the next few games, not sure if this is with immediate effect or not though as i'd imagine they'd want to seel the ones they have left, so dont start gleefully tapping away with your chubby little fingers desperate to prove Turkish wrong if you can still get them for the next few games.

Yep, jewell has got a great record in the PL in 5 seasons two relegation and two last day scrapes to stay up. Including No wins at all and a record low points tally at Derby. Great record is that. Of course no one will definitely be a success, the point is that is someone has had relvative success or experience at a higher level there is a better chance than some who hasn't. And i cant mention Curbishley but you can mention Robson to try to prove yours? How does that work? And your point about Mowbray, Davies and Jewell getting promoted into top flight proves my point, all got promoted and then relegated or sacked. So all a success at Championship level, but not in the premier. Thanks very much.

So nothing at all to do with the chairman putting the whole squad up for sale then? Obviously this would make no difference to the morale and performances of certain players. A similar squad finished 9th.

SSN have just said their sources say Paul Hart is high on the wanted list.

:lol::lol: I rest my case!

It depends what your interpretation of success is isn't it. For example Zola did well with an okayish WHU squad to take them to a 9th place finish, for West Ham that is success. Yes they struggled the following season, but that was a lot due to the whole squad being put up for sale and lot sold was it not? Despite this Zola kept them up. Again to me, that is an achievement under the circumstances. Some Boro fans moaned about McClaren despite midtable finishes, one of 7th and their only trophy ever. Some Charlton fans moaned about Curbishley despite midtable finishes regularly, look what happened when he left. It is really that difficult a concept to grasp to suggest that a manager with a reasonable record with an average side, two divisions higher in one of the top leagues in the world could be successful with a very good team for that level, two leagues below? As for your lack of success at Premier league level point. Well Davies, Jewell and Mowbray hardly covered themselves in glory during their time in top flight and Scotland did they, but 5 promtions between them i believe in the Championship and L1. So think again, a manager with a reasonable record at a higher level, is a good bet to have a decent record at a lower level, it's the common sense rule. And Bryan Robson, is, was and alwasy will be a s*it manager, just like Tony Adams.

Obviously apart from the big clubs who are already in the Championship, like Cardiff, Notts Forest, Leciester, middlesborough, Leeds, etc. And as we have seen, getting there is not easy either, there are a lot of big clubs in the Championship, clubs of comparable size to Saints, we simply will not storm through the divisons like some believe.

You know, what you're right. It's idiocy to look at a managers record of managing against the likes on Man United, Chelsea, Arsenal etc with an average premier league team and suggest he could do well with a very good league one team against the likes of Carlise, Peterborough etc. Alex Ferguson didn't win the league last season, if we got him it's unlike he'd win it with us either. I mean it's not as if the likes Billy Davies, Paul Jewell & Tony Mowbray have been really succesful at CCC level and not quite cut it at top flight is it.

Do you have pictures of him on your bedside cabinet?

Dont get me wrong, Stuart Pearce wouldn't be my first choice, i just think anyone that it moaning that the likes of Curnishley, Zola and even Pearce etc are not good enough for us because their premier league record wasn't that great is seriously deluded.

Behave yourself you whinging, miserable sod. It works out £0.013 per day, you wouldn't get this much pleasure anywhere else for that.

I dont see why everyone is turnin their nose up at Curbishley, he was excellent for Charlton over a long period of time.

Zola reminds me of another manager we had not long ago, in his first football management job at a middle sized club, he did a decent job, bought in some good players, then had a number of his best players sold from under him. Zola kept his side up though, the other manager got relegated and sacked and ended up at Southampton to a response of WTF (i include myself in that initially) from the fans. The other manager went on to become our best manager since McMenemy.

Better to become sexually arounsed about a person than a post on an internet forum, wierdo.

It's not my opinion on the manager, it's my opinion on the madness of some of the posts i have seen on it. Aren't you a bit sad getting a boner over a new thread?

Now whilst i dont agree with the sacking of AP, we are where we are. I cant believe some of you are turning your noses up at the likes of Zola, Curbishley and Pearce, proven managers with premier league experience. Apparantly Zola is not good enough because he has no league one experience and didn't set the world on fire at West Ham, depsite mid table finish and keeping them up when they were a mess, likewise Stuart Pearce. I spoke to my boss this morning, he lives in Cheshire and a Crewe Alexandera fan would you believe, he burst out laughing when i told him some of the names linked, saying 'why would any of them go to League 1?" This is how it is seen outside of Southampton, why would Curbishley, Zola etc come here? If we get anyone of them, it is a massive coup. You are mad and deluded if you think otherwise. Get a grip of reality people!!!

Wilkins says in the echo today we are still looking to bring players in and there was a meeting yesterday afternoon to discuss this.

according to Wilkins in the Echo today we are still looking to sign players, a meeting was held yesterday afternoon to discuss new signings before the window shuts.

Precisely. I also find it laughable that people are saying managers who have a reasonable record at Premier League level cant cut it in league one. Ridiculous to suggest that a decent manager cant manage at a level lower than the one they were last at!

A few weeks ago this clown was saying that they are going to become the biggest club in the South.

Such as? He has had TWO seasons at club management, not done brilliantly but then neither did a certain Mr Strachan in his first management job. I think he would be a decent shout two divison below PL. The more i think about it, the more i'd like Paul Jewell.

so taking England U21's to the European Cup final is serial under achieving is it? Robson has failed with 4 clubs, Platt has done nothing with all of his. Pearce has been successful (by England standards) at U21 level and reasonable with what was at the time an average PL side. Hardly in the same league as Robson who has three relegations with 4 clubs on his CV. Pearce has PL and international experience albeit at U21 level, isn't our focus on youth developemnt? He do a good job in L1, If you think he'd be a shocking apointment you are mental.