NickG

if you give up your season ticket over these nothing comments you are mad. if for other reasons -e.g. where we are now, the football, lack of optimism fair enough. you are being over sensitive about these comments and niave if you thought anything different that chairman meeting with managers etc and wanting it their way. Be interested if you do confirm you have given up your ticket

bank will only intervene if they will there is serious mismanagement of the finances, they won't particularly care if people think he gives team talks or used to like hockey etc. If they feel there is a better way forward financially they may well let their feelings be known, if not they will accept he is their contact and deal with him

Perspective allegation is (not heard it but from first post) RL picked through HR team and wanted more younger players. HR disagreed and RL did not therefore pick the team. This clearly would be annoying. Many on here moaned about the likes of Cranie, Blackstock leaving due to HR playing likes of Fuller etc. Bassett was happy to work with CW. Bassett was happy to work with Lowe -even having experienced this regime. Bassett applied for the job Bassett suggested a joint management team derided on here Bassett was turned down. A few years later Bassett says above in interview. This is not the big issue for our club today!

-agree with this George Bush bit - would not be surprised if Lowe saw himself at similar level as Bush!

I agree with all of those -just think Bassett's comments will have zero effect on board or crowd

what if you only have peanuts?

I can see how annoying it would be to "pick over" the decisions but to put it into perspective - it was not forced as he said HR resisted and Bassett said that he was quite happy to work in that regime and wanted to, also happy to work with CW. This confirms what we all suspected that Lowe is more hands on than some chairman but IMHO bit of a storm in a teacup - anyone expecting this to change a thing at the club will be disappointed IMHO.

and Arsenal could afford / attract anyone

has Lowe spoken publically since start of the season?

is it just me but it doesn't seem that much of a revelation? Just read it again in case I missed something but it is not nearly the level of involvement accepted on here as the norm for Lowe

sorry didn't mean for middle bit to be that big but can't work out how to edit it down!

sorry had a phone call and posted before finished writing! As Ponty says -he was did apply for the job working for Lowe knowing this and was turned down so 1) it couldn't have been that bad 2) he was shunned BUT it doesn't mean its not true. Also in above he sounded quite positive about the system and keen for a two in charge system. I am not saying at all that Lowe should be picking the team!!

says he is willing to allow the former England rugby coach greater involvement with the first team - something that Redknapp balked at. Indeed, the uninvited attempts by Woodward, during one training session, to show players such as Nigel Quashie how to kick a ball proved to be the final straw for Redknapp - who walked off shaking his head. But Bassett says: "There's nothing wrong with having a different coach. Clive is a performance director and is very good on the analysis of Pro-Zone and some coaching methods that they used in rugby, the nutrition and certain things." He goes on: "Clive's not an ogre or anything like that. I'm sure he's got things to bring to the table that could be interesting." However, the former Wimble-don, Sheffield United and Nottingham Forest manager - to name just three of his seven clubs - also adds: "But it's not that he's all of a sudden going to take over the first team. Because I coach". Emphatically, he adds that he is not "a manager who sits in the office, on the phone" but one who expects to be out with the players. Bassett's conciliatory approach is sensible given the decision taken by the Southampton board at their meeting on Thursday to back chairman Rupert Lowe and to allow Woodward an increased role with the first-team squad. Lowe would like to go further and give him full control, but it has been agreed that, probably, that will not happen before next summer at the earliest, and may have to wait until the year after. Southampton are drawing up their shortlist of candidates, but say they will not be rushed into an appointment. The immediate targets are a cadre of young, forward-thinking managers such as Watford's Adrian Boothroyd and Brentford's Martin Allen. Interestingly, both are well-known to Woodward, as is Derby County's Phil Brown, while another who could be considered is the Northern Ireland manager, Lawrie Sanchez, who had wanted the Portsmouth job. Bassett knows he may not fit the desired profile, but his weight of experience, and willingness to fit into the system being planned by Lowe, may help if the club cannot secure their favoured names. He will be in charge of today's meeting with Luton (whose manager, Mike Newell, is attracting covetous glances)with Dennis Wise. Interestingly, Bassett also makes it clear that he and Wise, who, although 38, has a playing contract at Southampton, want to be regarded as a duo. He adds: "If I get the job I want Dennis to be with me and Dennis has said he'd want me. It's not like boss and assistant. We bounce ideas off each other". The two worked together at Wimbledon, of course, and, more recently, at Millwall, where the roles were reversed and Bassett assisted Wise. "We've spoken about it and think we can do a good job," Bassett says of the present situation. "We're confident. In the next 18 months, if we couldn't get Southampton up then we'd resign." Tellingly, he adds: "You always plan, but perhaps if it's not here then we might get a job somewhere else". His current coaching contract expires at the end of January - "but contracts don't worry me," Bassett says - and he also dismisses Redknapp's statement that he always felt he was "keeping the seat warm for someone else" (i.e. Woodward). "Every management job I've been in I thought that," Bassett says. "As sure as eggs is eggs you either leave or get the sack. So someone replaces you. There's no point worrying about that. You have to be flexible to survive." It's a credo that may stand him in good stead right now.

how much?

I would like Lallana and Holmes to stay to

I watched that game as well. I am not going to Arsenal. No surprises in quotes -of course he would be interested and only speaks positively about us. It is commenting on the speculation so depends on whether there is any truth in that. He only confirms the speculation and his interest -both of which we know! Still according to many on here he was a waste of money! Hope he stays.

no worries, no harm done

is Crouch rich enough to make a real difference? His shares seem a bit of a waste to him at the mo -not a good investment and not part of the club he wanted to get involved with

I think that's about the way it is unfortunately

thought the predictions were relegated by Christmas! It would be ridiculous to guarantee safety just as it is to guarantee relegation -we aren't in bottom three so this crap would be good enough to keep us up!

I am sorry if I worded that badly but I meant it genuinely as I guess you thought you would always want to be there and didn't envisage us getting this low etc. I did my bit of growing up this year -moving out of Northam to Itchen! Personally I still want to go to each game -whether that will change who knows. Certainly doesn't feel the same as it used to, but it's not about growing up and finding something better to do its personal choice.

putting it in capitals doesn't make it right! relegation is far from certain -we are not even in bottom 3 it may well be a real risk, possibility or likely if thats your view but to say its is certain is ridiculous -we have been well adrift and been ok before. Are the bottom three clubs looking at us and our reviews and thinking they will be ok as Saints are already relegated?

real shame that you have moved on.

spoke to Micky a while ago, admittedly he was in Southampton and doesn't know me well so may have just been being polite! But he was saying how managing us was his dream job and would drop any job for it.

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