Badger

I find the cretins employed to front these call-ins more off-putting than the half-wits from Kent and London who’ve followed ManU and Liverpool “all their lives” . Trying to make Sutton and Savage into celebrities and “personalities” is beyond me.

Credit where due, Martin is spot on in his response here and defending the player publicly.

With Downes alongside him. That is probably the key.

Do TV get a say in rearranging of the fixture ?

Not sure why RM shouldn’t be fully aware of how pitiful we are in front of goal. Most fans are acutely aware of it. Barn door, cow’s arse, banjo … choose your metaphor, but in short the two you mentioned are hopeless, as shown last night. And Charles, as a professional footballer you’d expect at least to get a shot on target rather than drag it wide.

I'd settle for one. Preferably one that is fully fit.

Although Saints sacking a manager then was unheard of ( CN the first I believe), it wasn’t a great surprise at the time. We’d run out of steam towards the end of season. Didn’t we lose 6-2 or something like that at Derby in the run in ?. Several people said after that was the game that sealed his fate.

Presumably he’s an addition to our recruitment rather than replacement. Never heard of the bloke, but name vaguely familiar. Then remembered the punk single “ looking through Gary Gillmore’s eyes”.

He had been under pressure a couple of times during his time as I recall but not immediately before he left. There had been the fall out with Mark Dennis where many would have preferred to see the player stay. We also had the barren run of about 20+ games without a win (was that 88/89) which came to a dramatic end with the 1-0 win at home to Newcastle ( Ruddock’s last minute penalty). The following season though was the exciting one incl the 4-1 demolition of Liverpool. As you say, that season probably set a standard that was difficult to maintain. In his last year we lost at Forest in a cup replay and CN offered his resignation. It was rejected by the board, although they sacked him a couple of months later at the end of the season. Thought that was poorly handled by the club really, and he should have been able to walk away without the sack.

Sad news. He took on an impossible role of following on from Lawrie, and took the club close to glory but for some bad luck. The job he did and style of play wasn't fully appreciated until it was emphasised by what followed.

Same with those suggesting Enzo when Leicester sack him.

Just make sure you don’t overdo it, and win too many games otherwise me might miss the play offs and go up automatically.

Seems an unlikely outcome if we have to win the FA Cup Final and Play Off Final in consecutive days. Expect Manning to play in both days though.

But he was coming from City, so had to be good. Just as Angus Gunn had been before him.

I see Bristol City who brushed us aside quite convincingly about 10 days ago lost at Sheff Weds today.

Anyone offer any explanation on this, or where it has come from ? “noise”, nothing to do with dissatisfaction over two piss poor results and performances you’d hope.

Remember that and at the time thought he was just publicly backing his GK. If he still believes he's the best in the division then he's more deluded than we thought.

Fair point. But we still had the January window available to us.

Winning games at home v the likes of Millwall, and Rotherham would make it more exciting or perhaps I'm missing something. And not having a porous defence with Bazunu behind them.

Isn't the 'False 9' we last used at Juventus ?

A critical failure in the summer, and in January. Again.

Doesn't have a lot of option there though does he ? That and the strikers available to him, are down to the club rather than him

I'm not a fan of his pissing around at the back, and slow build up simply recycling possession, but I think it'd be a greater risk to change manager now. Added to which, the usual question of who would come in and improve things ? Even if you offered me Cooper I'd take the view we'd be better off staying the course with RM. ('old man Steptoe' or 'Lego Head'... difficult one...)

What absolute load of bollocks. Takes “noddyness” to a new level.

Agree with you. I think Fisher went on to work as a rep for a Brewery after he retired. Often used to see him in the old East Stand at The Dell, probably buying his own match tickets. Selling the medals does emphasise the gulf in what players earnt then and now. Thought I read that the club had previously bought Peter Rodrigues medal.