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We don't have the budget or really the players to be a bottom six championship club thpugh. We can and should get better.

O'Neil should not be overlooked just because he played and supported pompey. There's plenty of other reasons too.

So you accept that there are realistic suggestions out there that are better than O'Neil and that fans not wanting O'Neil are not asking for a manager like Zidane ?

We played better prior to the subs in that second half than the first.

We played four at the back in WIll Still's last game and all of preseason. Five at the back is not how we play, it's randomly what we decided to do after getting smashed by Hull.

I don't think I've ever heard other managers say that formations don't matter.

Well that's the first one right. Bazunu stays in goal for the game and Fellows will be staying at full back. Just bizarre.

All I'll say is a significant percentage of saints fans would disagree with you. Twitchy is the definition of a cunt and a significant reason for that is his history with the great unwashed next door to us.

Yep he had reasonable success for a season at Bournemouth (with some dodgy bits in between) and a good season at Wolves. He then had a terrible season at Wolves resulting in his deserved sacking with the vast majority of Wolves fans thinking he was a nice bloke but not up to it. None of them wanted him back when he was linked recently.

I do understand it's not as black and white as someone like Lowe given that it is generally accepted that Solak has put money in. I get the protests like that are kind of half arsed for that reason.

You never cared about the skate history of Saggy chops?

Imagine Rangers fans accepting a Celtic legend who previously described themselves s a Celtic fan as their manager. Would never happen. It's already happened here once with Saggy which was an absolute fucking disgrace. We are beyond soft if this goes ahead without comment.

That too.

I listed who I felt was better above. Even the person trying to push back against that has accepted that the names I posted were better options. As someone else said, he's the type of manager who isn't particularly tactically astute and has had some mild success by being a nice guy. That's before we mention the fact that he is very much a skate.

That's just one reason to add to the other reasons for not appointing him.

I don't agree than O'Neil is a good appointment. He had an up and down opening season at Bournemouth, a decent season with Wolves and then a terrible second season where he was rightly sacked. Plus he's a skate.

Anyone being alright with someone like that running their club shouldn't seriously call themselves a saints fan. Might as well see if we can rehire Saggy or check what David Norris is doing.

In what way is he good? He had an initial bounce when he was appointed at Bournemouth before not winning in 8 games and just about surviving at the end of the season. He went to Wolves, had a good first season and then it all came crashing down, long winless runs and got sacked with them in 19th. Where does it suggest he has the qualities required based on one decent season with Wolves to get us firing and up near the playoffs? Plus he's a skate.

No they aren't. The six I touted as possibilities in what way are they worse or not realistic? What does O'Neil bring that makes you think he'd be the best man for the job?

When Spors appoints Reinald Gerhad from the German third division, O'Neil won't seem so bad.

I'd rather have Sturrock than O'Neil.

I'm not sure why we'd think that. Carrick has an example of being an impact manager at Boro. I don't think oniel does.

My prediction: We will play five at the back again. Bazunu will stay in goal and make mistakes which may or may not lead to a goal. We will score and then panic allowing Wednesday to score. We will get a second and hang on for an unconvincing 2-1 win. Off the back of that Sports Republic will announce that they've seen enough and appoint Eckert as the new manager. I wonder how much I will get right.

My mistake! He's the equivalent of appointing Sturrock.

I'm not avoiding anything! I didn't consider it relevant to the discussion since I never disputed that a managerial choice would be a gamble. What I said was that the response to someone saying they don't want O'Neil of "who do you expect Zidane?" is ridiculous which it is. You are aware I am sure of a number of realistic managers we have been linked with, many of whom I would rather have here than O'Neil. That does not mean I am asking for someone completely unrealistic. If you want to go off on a tangent and debate something I haven't disputed then six managers we could conceivably get that I may not even be a huge fan of but I would prefer to O'Neil: Hassenhuntl Carrick Corberan Robins Wagner Carsley