Lord Duckhunter

What's taken the shine off it for me is the disloyal selfish twts trying to get away from our club. I doubt we'll see Adam or Luke in a Saints shirt again, so don't really care if he's warming the bench.

Perhaps its because they didn't claim to be the only leader willing to take on the Murdoch press. What will Ed's next trick be, a selfie waving an N Power share certificate?

Its Rogers I want to screw up, not the team. He loves himself and he is ultimately the guy unsettling our players. The press love him, but he blew it last year. Just needed to tighten up against Chelsea and accept a 0-0 and shut up shop against palace. He thought he could blow away José and then disrespected palace by trying for more goals. I hope he's found out next season.

Happens all the time. Stevie Williams made totally the wrong move and Kevin Davies became a bit of a laughing stock at Blackburn. James BT never really did much and lawrie and Bally both messed up their managerial careers. I personally think Adam will struggle early doors, what with the WC and the nature of the transfer saga. Will he be a Henderson who turns it round or a Downing who sinks. He's got the ability to win them over, but a Suarez less Liverpool could do a man utd and seriously start poorly. They had a unique set of circumstances last season , no cl, a poor utd side and Chelsea having no decent forward. This season will be tougher for them. He could become a scapegoat.

What about Eddie Howe? Had a text this morning from someone with Dorset FA connect ions, claiming he's on the short list. Can't see it myself, but will kick myself if it happens and I didn't post it.

Does this mean that Labour people will finally stop banging on out how Ed stands up to the Murdoch press?

So his barber was itk after all.

Exactly, the only way we'd have ever fought off bids and players wanting to leave was to become a genuine top 4 club. The only way that would happen is spending stupid money and quite frankly I don't believe either KL or Marcus would have done so. Perhaps Nicola's project was based on a bill gates type figure taking over, but under the present owners it was never going to happen.

Isn't loyalty a two way thing. Supporters didn't show much loyalty to Danny Fox , jos or Jermaine wright . What if lovren had played every game like he did spurs away, would supporters say " we need to honour his contract". Players are a disloyal bunch, the mugs are the fans who get fooled by the hand pumping on the heart and the kissing of the badge. Make no mistake had big clubs bid for Rickie and Adam last year , they'd have been off. The only loyalty in football comes from the supporters, remember that when our next hero bangs on about ending his career at SMS , or kisses the badge.

So you think that Ashton went into work and decided to make something up. He could have made anything up, but decided to make something up about Southampton rather than a bigger club. Once he decided to make something up about Southampton, he didn't pick Luke or Adam but thought he'd make something up about Lovren. He then decided to make something up that can be instantly proved or denied, rather than add the caveat "I understand" .

Get your head out of the sand. They would not claim an email had been sent, unless they had been told that one had been sent. It would have been reported that he wants away, as they have with Adam. I'm not saying that an email has been sent, but a credible source has told the paper that one has. It is a very specific allegation, not a general " he wants to move". If they were going to make things up, why not say Adam or Luke had sent the email? I would imagine the leak has come from lovrens people .

Anyone who thinks Mancini will come to us is deluded . Unless we're going to pay way way above the odds, what on earth is the attraction for him? If we are going to throw around the type of money to tempt him, Poch would have stayed. He's left his job and people wet themselves. Just because Katie Price has dumped her latest husband , doesn't mean she's going to let me give her one does it?

This web site had an " insider" saying tuchel was being looked at back in march. http://www.footballdirectnews.com/premier-league-news/43081-southampton-bundesliga-boss-in-frame.php I didn't know much about the guy, hence the search of Google where I found this. Lots of positives about him on the internet from respected people. Talk of spurs and Everton previously. Starting to prefer him to RK, although RK is a bigger name in the game. If we accept that Adam and Luke are gone and therefore don't need a big name to try and keep them, could be a good shout.

Don't they also take into account where the money is coming from. Harder in the internet era, but I read somewhere that the book was closed on Rickie to Liverpool, not because of the amount bet because a few small bets came in from Merseyside initially. My mate in the press reckons a certain English international made a killing when twitchy went to spurs. If RK's nephew starts placing bets, we'll know.

Im interested in their techniques. Saw an interview where Rickie says he knows where he's going to place it and then hits it believing the keeper will guess the right way. He claims that he hits it so hard that even when the keeper guesses right, he'll never save it. Whereas I heard matt on the radio saying he ran (well ambled) up to it, knowing where he'd put it but watching the keeper. He said that if the keeper moved towards where he was hitting it, he had the ability to "roll " or "open " his foot quickly to go the other way. That's why it sometimes appeared that the keeper would have saved it had he gone the right way ,as it was never right in the corner. It was only placed in the corner if the keeper waited until it was struck. If he waited then he had no chance and if he went early Matt stuck it the other way. Based on that I would say that Matt took a better penalty, but as the great Brian Clough used to say "I've yet to see a bad goal, they all count as 1". Interesting that both players at various times have said they love taking them as its a "free" shot at goal .

The club have a delicate balancing act to perform regarding our youngsters. Nippers sitting down and deciding which academy to join or whether to sign their first pro contract with us will want to move to the biggest clubs eventually. The scouting networks are now far superior than they ever were so the big clubs will have been aware if Luke and his ilk for years. Reed, or whoever sits down with the next batch of young stars can sell the club by saying " get a great grounding, get into the first team earlier" , players will know that they can also move on to the Chelsea's and man utds later. If we start standing in their way or start getting a reputation of standing in their way, the parents or increasingly their agents, will advise going straight to a big club or not signing pro forms with us.like it or not youngsters will see us as a pathway to a big club and that must be a selling point for the best 9,10,11ect year olds.

Not for me im afraid, pretty poor article. I don't know a thing about the bloke but anybody who says that he'll go and support another club with different songs, and that sounds ok, ain't no proper fan. Im also confused about his point regarding players wanting away as we slipped down the leagues, whilst praising Rickie, Adam and the present lot. The lot who all seem to want away. We need to put thus in perspective, we finished 8th. 8th, we weren't a reincarnation of keegans Newcastle , we weren't Bobby Robson's Ipswich running the champions close, we weren't even Lawrie Mac's Southampton finishing top 5 year after year with swashbuckling football. We finished 8th and got nowhere near winning a cup. Yes , it was a really enjoyable season and we played some great stuff, but were in danger of becoming west ham fans pining after a period that never actually existed. I serious reckon some of our supporters will be telling their grandchildren about the glory days of our 8th place finish. We weren't on the verge of greatness, we may have mafde the giddy heights of 6th or 7th if we didn't lose anyone, but some people are talking as if the soul has been ripped out of the club and our rise to the very top has been sabotaged by the big clubs, and how very sad this is for football. Nonsense, we had a great season by our standards, but so did west brom the year before, so did Ipswich under whiskey George. It happens, but order is soon resumed. Why should that put people off following their club?

Once you've failed your next job is really important,particularly if you've lost a job at a level you've not been before. Look at Moyes , if he gets it wrong next time after failing at a bigger club he's toast. Reading was an accident waiting to happen with a dodgy Russian taking over from Madaski. Norwich would be a perfect fit for him IMO.

The people who arranged this are jokers. I worked 4 years in south fla on the building sites and this time of year we started at first light. We always got a days work in by 2pm otherwise you'll be rained off more times then not.Believe me, you don't **** about if there's a lightning storm there.

Some of the performances last season were up there with the best of lawries days. Hull and Newcastle at home, Fulham second half away. Our away stats speak for themselves and we were in every game last season, even under lawrie we had some stinkers when we got battered. That said , he didn't build the side he inherited it. He made certain players better and we were an extremely well coached side. On occasions we lost games we should have won, dropped points by continuing to play the same way instead of changing slightly and changing tactically during the game. I always got the impression that if sides could stay in the game and then adjust their game to neutralize ours, they could overcome us. All Jose did was throw 2 men up front, go a bit longer and both games went away from us. I loved Nigel but clearly Poch was a step up. How he gets on at spurs will be interesting. He had a group here who wanted to learn and were receptive to ideas, as well as some great senior pros, not just Rickie, but Kelvin , Steve Davis and even Guly was happy to muck in when needed. Spurs has been a graveyard for managers, players who think they're better than they are, senior pros who think they should be playing and a structure that is puzzling. I think that unless he's prepared to be a bit more flexible he could struggle, but he's Levy's man so I think he'll get more time than people think. Sack him early and levy may have to go as well. As for Nigel, he's been sold a pig in a poke at Reading. He'd be a great manager for Norwich or west brom. By taking the reading job he's basically consigned himself as a lower league manager, which is a shame. He should have stayed out of the game until a Fulham, west brom or Norwich came calling.

Im sure he's walked out on a couple of clubs, my mates a Huddersfield fan and he hates him. I agree with you, too many middle of the road clubs and never really done much. He's had the advantages of a man utd career but still hasn't landed a big job really. Flavour of the month because they had a pretty easy cup draw. Id have Adkins back before him.

I think you should lay off the sauce for bit Viking.

I was completely against him, but I thought he came over really well whilst commenting on the cup final for ITV.

For all we know they may have RK on the back burner, so to speak. Spurs Cleary wanted LVG and then ancholotti. When they were out of reach, the got Poch. How do people know we're not chasing Moyes, FDB or another big name, with RK as our fall back option.

Gaston excuse number 53, he'll be tired after the world cup.