hypochondriac

Well he sits in corporate every week and knows a lot of people inside the club.

Neither although the player is friends with mlt.

Yep can't remember the name he said though. Someone involved with florentina. Think he wants an Italian

Difference is yours is made up and mine comes from an ex player.

I will back him. Am told that if he fails to win Saturday then he is out and we are looking to bring in Di Canio or some randomer from Florentina.

Are you seriously suggesting there is minimal state intervention in China?

I'm not sure it's our togetherness that is the problem though.

Well it's a tweet from an ex player about the club. Is it really that surprising?

Could have fooled me. Not a lot of fight in that last performance. Hope we can recapture the second half of spurs for an entire game.

They can go on any short breaks they want. It's not going to change much.

I'd be interested to know how they would know that. Speculation?

He was a beast on championship manager 3. Him and Alex Farnerud were gods.

Bobs Burgers is excellent.

TBF I believe Obama won more votes than Mitt. It was tight though.

I would feel happier with that side of the CEOs responsibility but less happy with the football side. It's not really an either or scenario is it. I mean its not like the photograph thing or the poor value for money of the corporate area has directly contributed to our success over the last two seasons.

Precisely. It's quite a simple point and I thought was pretty clear. Obviously not...

If you can't understand from my previous post then there is no hope for you. I really would just ignore my posts if you can't understand them.

I respect your opinion but personally I think that's a really defeatist attitude.

Again you are clearly misunderstanding my point. The photograph debacle, the shambles that is the corporate areas despite being in the Premiership, the stopping of the training ground improvements, the shambles of the ticket office getting a myriad of things wrong, the huge turnover of staff (meaning that we lose staff doing a really decent job such as David Luker.) My point was that there was more to the job of a CEO than just how we do for a season or two and I used an example of where a football club could be doing well on the pitch but a CEO could still perform poorly in other areas and do harm to the football club. At no point did I state that Cortese had done anything to the academy. I can't explain it any clearer.

That there is more to the success of a CEO than simply the three points every week since that is looking on a very short term basis. Yes Cortese has been successful in helping us to be leaders in the NPC and league one over the last two seasons, but in other areas we are very much not 'best in class' and in those areas he should very much be questioned and probed. Turkish pointed out most of these concerns in a post earlier today. I still fail to see why you find it amusing. I quite clearly used an extreme example to illustrate my point. I even pointed that out in the original post.

It's not ridiculous. Our team looks totally passionless. I want to see us putting our bodies on the line to win and I am not seeing that even a little bit. We seem resigned to a defeat. Nigel needs to change our approach to certain games if he wants more positive results. For me he has had enough time and has been found wanting so we need to get someone else in so we can try to stay in this league and the riches it brings.

Nope I think they are very much part of the problem. The main problem is that I think something has to change to turn this around. If Cortese won't get rid of Reed (and he won't be firing himself obviously) then changing the manager may be the impetus we need. I would rather we changed the manager than kept things exactly as they are as nothing is changing and in fact we are getting worse.

Well if he is then it clearly isn't working. The player's confidence looks shot (the sort of thing that is sometimes fixed by a change of manager with fresh ideas.) we are still much too open away from home. Are you seriously telling me that no manager could make us harder to beat? No manager could instil more fight in us? I would also like him to use his substitutions a lot more effectively and use Mayuka more. A new manager could easily do that as poor substitutions basically lost us the United game.

Instill more confidence in the players, try a new approach that doesn't leave us so open (especially away from home.) Instil in the midfielders the importance of tracking back and defending from the front, even if it means we score less. Make us generally more difficult to beat. I want the manager to show a bit more passion which may translate to the players (they are really lacking some urgency and putting their bodies on the line as Neville suggests.) At the moment we are going down with a whimper and I want to see us fight for our place rather the slow buildup play that we see at the moment. I refuse to accept that under every available manager we would have conceded the joint most amount of goals in the history of the Premier league. We are better than that. Southampton deserves better.

I can get that confirmed for you. Give me a sec...