captainchris

Shaq just not good enough. Hadn’t looked at him for while and wondered if he had greatly improved given the recent hype over him. Sadly he hasn’t at all.....

Cedric .... Oh dear oh dear o dear... Never engages the attacker ever... Rabbit in headlights

I take it you are referring to the Chairman lol

God really .... fine ...

If you really really believe this ‘initiative’ will see England improve then jolly good luck to you! Personally I don’t believe in fairy tales. Two weeks off in February changes every thing?

So a two week break will help the England team - and how will that work.... Pure populist propaganda and nothing else!

Hoedt is not a premiership player in my view. Replace with nearly anyone ....

Why are you so contrite and defensive of the staff at SFC? FF has been terrible and certainly not coached on how to improve. That is a given.... Or he would have improved significantly. Mc Carthy I would guess is doing his own thing as his movement and coming for crosses is entirely at odds with FF. Most people can see an gulf between the two styles so who is the coach coaching - it is clearly no both of them...

The buck stops with Kruger at the end of the day and he is with monotonous regularity proving that he just cannot manage this club with any confidence and authority. Every time a leaf blows off the tree in his path it is mountain to him that he can never climb so he just turns around, falls asleep and hopes the leaf will blow away because he ain’t going to find his way round it.... If he didn’t keep putting up the BS smoke screens it wouldn’t be quite as bad but he just continues his weak propaganda messages that mean the sum total F all.... I am actually starting to feel for Less Reed having to work with this individual....

So signing for a club with no Manager is attractive then is it? The longer it goes without a contract the more risk there is that something could go wrong and we are left in the lurch again... These are lessons we should have learnt by now. There is no scenario where I can see an advantage to prolonging the issue of not having a Manager in place....

This is just bloody ridiculous. It can’t take that long to sort out a contract... What on Earth goes on at this club that’s always so bloody difficult .... I’m afraid the buck stops at the top with Kruger not Less Reed !!! (Spelling mistake meant!) The top man’s BS is now becoming very tiresome indeed. He is so slow off the mark - ponderous, a man of little action and a mountain of BS.... Getting things done ‘Quickly’ he doesn’t know the meaning of the word.... Things go on around him which he is often just oblivious to and he doesn’t react to.... All the time! He just seems always to let things slide and we are all left wondering what the hell is going on and guess what, mostly it’s nothing....! I am really not sure we can contually blame LR, the decisions are made at the top and increasingly they are laboured and indecisive. Increasingly it seems we are held back by the man who insists on calling us a small club, it’s time he moved over, his skill level at heading up a football club is a light year away from Cortese...

I think you are stretching the imagination somewhat if you think negotiating a contract for an employee who has now had a 10 week trial should not be sorted! This type of unproductive dithering happens far too often in this club... We are not decisive and the business/club suffers as a result.

Yawn ..... we do provaricate terribly in these situations and I wonder why. Indecision is generally our philosophy, it is even a disease that gravitates to our forwards.... Christ we even had a trial period to prepare a contract, however I would guess very little preparation was done. We are often not prepared for situations and dither our way past the finishing line .... Last summer was the ultimate joke with the indecision over Puel.... Our Chairman doesn’t really get things done because like the developing deteriorating situation with Pellegrino he doesn’t see issues arising and cannot see ahead...

A high proportion of those games were top six, including the champions. Hughes started from ground zero with a team devoid of tactical direction and leadership. He had to find out who had the mental strength and skills required to stay up, none of those players were his. He had the enormously untalented Carillo to call on and the incredibly rude, arrogant none team player Boufal that were not available. The tactics had to be completely changed to suit the players he did have to Choose from and Hughes had to make the players understand the new philosophy. Hughes was effective in doing all this as well as distinctly improving the whole performance of the team not to mention the also the players individually. I really do not believe many people could have walked in and galvanised the players and tackled all the other issues so well .... Mark Hughes has a passion to succeed, a bonding with the fans, respect from the players (which is quite different from being ‘liked’ by the players!) and the skills to recognise which of his players should be selected, his mind is not on a railway track when it comes to tactics Mark Hughes has therefore demonstrated fully all the assets you need to make it work at Saints. Oh and I don’t think for one minute he will be pushed around by any crap directors or ‘Goalkeeping’ coaches ! God forbid that we waste more money on a ‘Mate’ of a coach in Hart who is Forster in disguise... Hughes has done a very good job in the time and ticks a lot of boxes - give him credit....

This just cannot be allowed to happen. Have we really completely lost the plot !!!!!!!!! :-((( There is nothing between him and Forster - both terrible....

Just been thinking why Hughes wouldn’t be 1st on Reed’s list..... Carillo nowhere the first team and neither is Boufal two of the highest capital outlays.... Now this looks a bit crap here for Reed if neither are considered good enough..... Hughes as we know does not suffer fools and Reed looks a very poor decision maker if he does allow Hughes to recognise the frailties of two very expensive failures, one being a record signing for gazillions....(Who really is bloody useless btw) Could be that Reed has an agenda here and it’s based on his ego and not the best manager for the job.... Lets hope not ......

Makes complete sense.....

Have to say your post is scarily close to the truth.... I smell major prevarication ‘again’ and another complete cock up.... Hughesy is a great fit for our club - give him the bloody job, it is very important to show Hughes we have confidence in him and he is on board.... What’s to think about? Who if anyone would be a better proposition right now... We haven’t seen this much togetherness in the club since Poch and haven’t seen the players this motivated since him... Hughes knows who to pick and who to dump, knows his best formation with cards he’s dealt, doesn’t tolerate anyone who isn’t ‘on the bus’ What more do we bloody want for Christ sake!

How on earth can you say that ? Based on what evidence would you place Carillo in your first team squad striker force? He has been really poor to say the least and there is no way we could put him in the team unless we want to repeat the form of this year. Gallagher would be a better option than Carillo - honestly the guy is not good enough for us... Indeed who ever made the decision to spend 19m on him should be sacked for gross incompetence! It’s pretty obvious MH doesn’t rate him either which is hardly surprising...

You couldn’t buy a seat ticket in 1969 .... There was a waiting list for a season ticket in the stands a mile long then.... Well done on the collection :-)

Shame because programmes must be as old as the game.... They merited buying years ago because the actual team line up was in there and reading through used up some time as we used to have to get there earlier in case the gates were closed .... Or to get a decent spot near the front as kids .... Will cherish the old ones I have....

My God Mr Pritchard - really ..... Go on Hughesy toughen em up they needed it and are obviously loving it! Poor Mr Pritchard .....He means well ...

I think we have shown now that three/five at the back suits the players we have. Everton are strong in midfield and we need to control them there as much as possible.... Same formation - we have improved with it. This is no time for gun ho, we just don’t have the players to use 442 or the weird totally useless Pelligrino formation...

Yes there is some post match euphoria going on but then you can’t blame people for being pleased with a win. As for Hughes, at least he seems to learn by his mistakes. There are things I don’t agree with him on - the main one being Hooedt still in the team, however we are scoring some goals, the football is infinitely more exciting to watch and he doesn’t suffer fools. I was underwhelmed at the appointment but he is doing well in my view and I would like to keep him next season which ever league we are in....

No way Hoedt should play in this, by some distance our worse player and a liability.