hypochondriac

Lovely. And then you wonder why people are getting sick of this place

If you paid to give the site a catchier name I think it would get many more people.

But it's been debated thousands of times and this thread was really started to focus on Lowe and his decisions since his return.

Lets not rake over old ground.

What is wrong with making an assessment throughout the season rather than at set times? Is it not possible to say that Lowe has done well up until now and then assess it later on as well?

Not at all, I just think differently. I hope you can respect that.

It wasn't premature because my thread title was I have been impressed with Lowe. That doesn't mean that I will be in six months time!

I was responding to the original poster who said that it is all about results for him. I would rather lose with the current saints team than win the premiership with ten billion and millions of players who don't give a crap. I might be idiotic but that's just me. Of course I want saints to win every week, but it's more than results to me.

Fair enough but that's where we disagree then. I would hate Southampton to become what Chelsea have and for me, the win away at Derby meant more than any of the wins from the previous season.

Who knows. Essentially there are two ways, get a load of journeymen and bully your way up or try and play football to earn your success. It would be interesting to see how Pearson would have fared had he adopted the second policy. I like the direction we have taken, but that isn't to say that there weren't other, perhaps more successful avenues available.

Or even hired a promising english lower league manager. It may not have worked but it IS an alternative which was my whole point.

I've already pointed out his alternatives earlier in the thread. I don't want to talk about it anymore as it's getting boring.

I refer you to post number 6 in this thread.

OK. Keep telling yourself that it was the only option. It's not true but I'm tired of talking about it now.

But how do you think he's doing so far? Better or worse than you expected?

How many games have you been to this season?

The thread was not started with the intention of talking about that issue. It doesn't matter anymore. Just leave it.

No. I wanted an acknowledgement from nickh (who was the first one on this thread to state that Lowe had no choice) to admit that he did in fact have one. Stop being deliberately argumentative for the sake of it DD.

It is more what he has not done this time around. I couldn't care less about Lowe as long as he stays in the background, makes the odd comment about football (which is his job I believe) and lets the manager get on with his job. So far I have been pleasantly surprised because he has managed to do this rather better than I thought he would. So he hasn't done anything fantastic but I am sitting here feeling a lot happier than I thought I would 4 months ago.

So it was a choice it was not forced upon him. Thanks, that's all I wanted.

Thanks for your insightful comments.

I don't want anyone else, have you read my posts in this thread? I am just trying to dispel the myth that Lowe had no other choice.

But we could have replaced him with someone else and replaced the likes of Euell with cheaper players (maybe more aggressive like Derby adopted a few years back) and tried to battle our way to success without the emphasis on youth. Do you honestly believe that Lowe's way was the only option?

But this is just guesswork. Even if it were true, we could have replaced Pearson with someone else and gone down a different road. It isn't even worthy of debate, we could have followed a different path.

Nope. I remember clearly that he never posted anything as fact unless it actually was.