Lord Duckhunter

Excluding the first and last paragraph of your post, I agree this is a good assessment and probably correct but there is good information out there (without disclosing good sources) that Pardew wanted out but could not afford just to walk away,

I've never really been in the know about anything but I do know a bloke who works for a press agency. He never really deals much with football, so isn't the source of much football ITK's. (Politics is his special brand of knowledge/rumours). He did tell however tell me that a guy who does know a bit (dont know who) told him that Pardew was being touted around other jobs by his agent and this was the start of his demise at saints. I never posted it because; 1. I dont know who this "other" guy is and 2. You just get loads of abuse. However, this fits in with what you're saying, so could make sense.

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Best holiday we've had in the past few years. My 2 are 9 and 11. Food is top quality, staff unbelievable and plenty of stuff to do by pool or on beach. Only downside is there's not a great deal going on in the evenings for adults, apart from stting around drinking the All inclusive drinks. Mix of Italians, Germans and English and we met loads of nice people.Relaxing and cheap considering the quality of the food. Depends on what your 14 year olds like, there are plenty of sport and games going on, but no discos ect in the evening, just a fews shows which maybe a bit young for a 14 year old.

I got it from trip Advisor, some of the best reviews I've seen and it didn't let us down.

This fixture is jinxed for me. My best mate is a Town fan and in the 30 odd years I've known him we've hardly ever played them. As soon as we were relegated it was a fixture we talked about, but last season my sister in law got married and this season I've got to work. Still I suppose it means continued stick for him, the only 2 fixtures we have been to together was a Matt inspired hammering in the League Cup at The Dell, and last seasons 5-0.He's gutted two of the worst defeats he's seen his side suffer (and he's in his 50's) and he's had to endure me taking the **** all the way home, and for weeks afterwards..........

Mitchell is as dodgey as they come. His Company is called Seven Developments for a reason, the six previous ones were wound up, owing ordinary people and business' money. Ask anyone in and around the building Trade in Poole and they'll tell you all about Eddie Mitchell.

Mitchell's a wide boy whose not to be trusted.

Lets see what Pardews next job in football is. With such a great win ratio and having done such a great job at Saints, it can't be long before a large Championship club comes calling, if not an under achieving lower Premiership team.If however he cant get a job and no decent club will touch him with a barge pole, what will that tell us?Will people still waffle on about his win ratio and how well he did?

I think given the resourses that Pardew was given last season, Paul Lambert would have taken us into the play offs.If Chelsea were given a 10 point deduction and still didn't make the Champions League spots, would their Manager be praised for doing a great job. Or would he be picking up his P45?

All based on what he had done at another club,two promotions and one relegation, with no pressure on his shoulders,little expectation and with players with little pedigree and ego's.

Well.he could not be further from his comfort zone if he tried.

I am amazed how many seem to post 'as fact' that he will take us forward.

The furthest he will take us is possiblly out of this league,shortsighted appointment and not for the long term.

The manergerial revolving door will be in operation again soon,imo.

I don't claim any of the above to be fact,just opinion,those who oppose my opinion...thats what you should base your blind faith on also.

Was Lawrie out of his "comfort zone" when he arrived from Grimsby,was he not at a job with "no pressure on his shoulders"? How would he cope with our star names as he'd only dealt with players with "little pedigree and ego's."?

Thankfully the board didn't take your approach, and they decided that a good young Manager who'd done some decent things with a smaller club was the way forward.

I think Marcus and NC always wanted the club to be self financing, but believe that they spent the cash early on because we were so far behind the 8 ball. They walked into a shell of a Club and spent to bring in a decent first team squad. That achieved the plan was for us to stand on our own 2 feet, rather than to continue to chuck money at it. That's my opinion anyway.

Lol if Ed Balls gets shadow chancellor after years as Gordon Browns 'expert' economics advisor. Britain would be well and truly ****ed if he ever gets anywhere near the steering wheel.

Red Ed was also a close confident of Gordon Brown's and Gordon promoted him to Chairman of The Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers.

So he was giving Gordon plenty of "Economic advice", not forgetting he was the man who in the main wrote the last manifesto.

I thought we had it bad the last few years, with the rise of the Blue Few going hand in hand with our demise, but that's nothing compared to what LFC supporters have had to endure. 20 years ago they had won a dozen more titles than the Manc's and now look at it. Comaperd to Man Utd and their glory supporters, give me Liverpool any day of the week. Proper Club and by and large decent supporters.I think it's sad what's happened to them, but fear it could be another 20 years before they win another title.

With every week that passes Antonio just gets better and better. Strange that he was on the bench a lot of the time and can't get in the Reading side. The way it's going, him and Papa will be up there with Shearer and Wallace this time next year.

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Not quite a pizza hut, but even so ...

****, need to read article slowly before taking the ****.

Do you think Storrie-Teller was invited.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/Milan39s-back-and-he39ll-do.6548614.jp

WOW, MM's really pushing the boat out.

"That didn't stop him taking around a dozen of his former employees for dinner at the Pizza House in Hilsea, to say thank you to them for the work they did while he called himself their boss".

Pizza Hut, what a tight wad...................

I was my Mrs' boss.

In the age old tradition ,I used my position to take advantage of her.

I think that by and large it's pretty good. Enjoy some of the topics in the Lounge as much as the football and the Election forum was great. I get the feeling it's populated in the main by "normal" people, therefore discussions on things like bands, Politics,films, TV ect ect are quite interesting as the discussions are not bogged down by bores completely anal about the particular subject. £5 is nothing really, but can see why some object to the priniciple of charging.

What part of Nick Clegg's commitment to work with either side did they not understand? When they went into the ballot box, they knew that Clegg had made it clear what would happen if the Tories had most votes in a hung Parliament. Did they think he lied, how can they feel "let down" when it was made perfectly clear what Clegg's position was?

As for Cable, this speech is just a sop to the sandal wearers in their party. A bone thrown to them to make the great flip flopper look tough at conference time. He'll go along with the Coalition agenda, because he wants the trappings of Govt. He is the latest in a long line of leftie hypocrites that have inhabited British politics the past 30 years.

If it was down to people like me to start the singing, or come up with some original songs, the ground would be deathly silent.Fortunatly in the past there's been people who can start it up and come up with some original ideas.I'm not so sure that's the case nowadays.

Even OWTS doesn't seem to boom around the ground like it used to. I watched the Stoke game at the weekend and even they seemed to sing it louder and longer than we do. There doesn't appear to be many original songs about these days, with songs just recycled from Club to Club. Look at the Torres one, it's Rickey Lambert, Svylain Banks, Ricardo Fuller ect ect ect. Great song, but hardly original now.I find the whole "we're going to win 5-4" and "we want 1" a bit embaressing, in a "look at us we're mad" sort of way.

There doesn't seem to be much signing from all parts of the ground, but that's hardly the Northam's fault. Would love to hear OWTS and perhaps Woolston Ferry sung by all 4 ends and then the Northam doing the rest, with us oldies joining in now and then.

As for the Northam, personally I dont like watching from that end. Some of the language and behaviour annoys me. However, I was younger once and I'm sure I annoyed a hell of a lot of people. Dont try to change it, they have as much right to watch their Club as anyone, and if you dont like it sit somewhere else. I find the constant moaning about different types of supporters distasteful and certainly something that has got worse in recent times.That applies to all sides of the support. I resent having to stand up to prove I love the Club, but equally resent people trying to preach to young youths how they should watch their Club. Let's just live and let live.There are different stands for different types, so people have a choice.

He flatters to deceive and has done since coming to the Club.If he's the answer, then I dread to think what the question is. I'm not a betting man, but even I'd have a flutter that he's out injured before Xmas.

Of course it is everything to do with Cortese. He fired the Mgr after a 4-0 away win and then demoralised many of the players and removed the hope for many supporters had for this season. .

Had we beaten Plymouth and Orient then you may have a point. Those games followed the same pattern as the Rochdale and Colchester games and we didn't play particulary well in beating Boscombe. The Bristol Rovers game is increasingly looking like a fluke, a one off, when put in context of the rest of the season so far. This is Pardews team and his players, and they're playing **** poor.Dont give us all that pony about them being demoralised at his sacking, players are used to playing for different Managers, its part of the modern game.

Are the players as fit as they should be?

Did we hit the ground running?

That was Pardews job, not Cortese's. We may have a point or two more, but surely nobody thinks we'd be up near the top if Pardew had stayed. Personally I believe Pardew was going through the motions, ala George Burley, waiting for a job to come up, so he could get away.

The more I see of Pardew's team this season, the more I'm glad we made a change.

The Taylor report missed a trick when it came to this, that was the time to implement safe standing. It was obviously a very raw time, but 20 years on it is possible to stand safely. Had I lost a loved one that day I may feel differently, but I believe there should be safe standing areas.

And yet he is however a professional footballer - that is his career description

And his Dad is a Football Manager

If you took the games his Father picked the team out, he's played 20 games in 7 years.

The only Manager apart from Jan/Lowe to sign him is his Dad.

He has been on loan at 4 Clubs that were't Managed by his Dad, and none of them have extended the loan, or signed him.

I dont really think you need to watch him to realise the reason he's made a living as a Footballer.

Well that's what you'd think, but I suspect a number of people would appreciate something other than the identical, bland Blair/Cameron/Miliband types. Political types moan their box off about slimy, insincere "career politicians" but then promptly dismiss as "unelectable" anyone who deviates from this norm. Dear Old Maggie, for example, was an incredibly unlikeable old bag, but she was at least something different - half the population may have loathed her, but the other half f*cking lapped her up.

Balls went to a private school, then onto Oxford and Harvard. He was an economic adviser to Gordon Brown from 1994 till he was elected in 2004. He is the perfect example of a career politiian as you'll ever find.

Andy Burnham was the only one who had the balls to admit there would have been cuts and job losess if Labour had got in. The others are away in a world, where the state can continue provide jobs for everyone and cuts are "taking money out of the ecomony".