Lord Duckhunter

Lawrie Mac's total football.

For a non football person Adams proberly ticks all the boxs. He could make his CV look very good. Ex England Captain, good leader of men, won the lot with Arsenal, will have Arsene Wenger's backing, was Harrys number 2 when they won the cup and has coached abroad. However lots of people have looked like they'd make good Managers from Bobby Moore to David Platt, but they never actually were. Hopefully ML will be taking advise from football people and his results at Wycombe and Pompey just dont merit him being given a chance. This along with his Pompey past will make his appointment a massive dissapointment and again split the fan base. Personally, I cant see it happening, however if it does, lets hope we all get behind him and judge him by results alone.

Is this the same Lowe, that took us over our agreed overdraft limit, plunging us into administration and nearly costing us our Club?

Leicester have just waltzed the League we're going to be in. Other teams of comaprable size and history have struggled to get out of this League, but Leicester walked it. If they had any other Manager, and that Manager was linked to our Club, everybody would be 100% behind the appointment. The fact they are not is solely down to the divisions Lowe brought to this Club, and how hard it's going to be to get over these splits. This just shows how poisonous Lowe was for our Club, and just how hard it's going to be to get over his legacy. Victims of this have included Lawrie Mc and Dave Armstrong and now seem to include a good young English Manager in Nigel Pearson. I will be delighted if we can get in the man who won League 1 last year .

Adams record speaks for itself, which is why he wont get the job. The fact he's a Skate makes no difference to me, look at the job Bally did for them. I just want the best man for the job, and if he's a Skate, then so be it.

Alan Pardew's got a pretty decent record at Reading and then West Ham. Ok, it didn't work out too well at Charlton, but then WGS got Coventry relegated.I think it's good to employ Managers with a point to prove.Paul Jewell is another one, got Bradford and Wigan up, with a point to prove after what heppened at Derby. If we want a solid sustainable rise, then Peter Taylor fits the bill. One out of left field would be Lawrie Sanchez, who I think could get us out of this league even with the -10. Whether the fan base would accept him is another matter. Pardew or Taylor would be ok in my opinion.

He tried to, but missed.

Great news. First football decision and they get it spot on.

I've just come back from Spain where I drank most nights in a bar owned by a Dutchman, who loved football. He said Jan was respected in Holland as a very good player and a decent guy, but that Wotte was considered a "show off" (in his words), who has never achieved much.At the time of leaving for Spain it looked like Wotte was off to Egypt, when I told this Dutch guy that he was off, his exact words were "you've a lucky escape".

They did it to Leeds and Luton. To transfer the Golden Share to the new Company, the FL made them sign away the right of appeal.You can not play in a FL comp without a Golden Share and they have to approve any transfer of this share.

I heard the interview and there was nothing wrong with what he said or the way he said it. Said he'd spoken to Matt yesterday and it was unfair on Saints fans that there hopes of KK had been raised. When Brazil asked him if KK would be Manager, he said "almost certainly not". It came over that he loved the Club and Brazil asked him about kicking the workmans ladder away, Mark replied along the lines of "I'd kick more than that". He seemed pretty sure the takeover would happen today.

IF he becomes Manager it sends out a powerful statement that the new owners have some money. He wont come cheap and neither will the players he'll want.Whatever the merits of KK as a Manager the fact that they dont appear to be messing about, makes me positive for the future.

LoL.... That'll get a few foaming at the mouth.

If it had gone belly up at 11am, would you have heard something by now?

I'm hoping that with Matt Le Tiss' involvement he can use his contacts in the game, to get advice on our next Manager. I believe that Don Revie recommended Lawrie to the Saints board and over the years SAF has given good solid advice to Chaiman about up and coming Managers ( I think I'm right in saying he recommended Moyes to Preston).Those within the game know a lot more about whose suitable than us supporters, and hopefully Matt can tap into people within the game and make an informed choice.People like WGS might not want to come and manage us, but I'm sure if asked he would give his opinion on who could do a job for us.

He would put another 10,000 on the first home game of the season. Bring all the media and spotlight on us for the first game. There are'nt too may Managers in the game who can do that. His record at this level is there for all to see and if Pinnicle are serious about getting him in, there must be some serious money behind them. If anyone can bring the feelgood factor back to SMS and overcome a 10 point deduction, with a united fan base, it's KK

Sorry, that was a bit too far-fetched .

A retirement home CEO will come in. His plan is to appoint a Manager a year, before giving the job to a Rugby coach. He's then going to bring in 2 lower league managers, and play the youth team. His revolutionary "Baldrick" like plan will stun football and lead us out of this division.

Just about sums Wotte up, had that been Harry Redknapp wanting these terms, this board would be in melt down. Still it gives us an insight as to why Lowe got on with him.

And Wolves have done nothing since Hoddle's fantastic reign there.

Pearson kept us up. Wotte got us relegated, regardless of any points deduction. Pearson was new to the Club. Wotte was part of the "duo" that presided over the first few moths of the season. Had Gorman taken over from Dodd and Gorman, and then got us relegated, would people want him to stay on?

Agreed 100%, and why are people banging on about him running the youth. All the young players (save for Lloyd James) seemed to get worse, the longer he coached them. Lallana went backwards rapidly as did Morgan S. I keep seeing people saying he works well with youth, on what evidence? He's hardly the next Dave Merrington or George Prost.

Ronnie Moore for me. I would be happy with Tisdale, provided he had an "older head" as asst. Not sure how much he relies on Perryman at Exeter, but personally I'd like a asst thats been around the game a while. I think comparisons with Martin O Neil are a bit much at present. Yes, O Neil started in the lower leagues, however he was a top class player. Played in European Finals and a World Cup. He was Captain of the NI 1982 in Spain I believe. He also played in the top flight under a genius. O Neil may not have needed an older head to help him, but I think Tisdale will.

When Pearson was appointed I'm sure I saw Matt on Sky, saying that he thought Micky Adams or Dowie would have been a better bet. Whether that has any bearing on this now is another matter. As for Wotte's "old boys network" I would rather have that than the Kim/Jan/ Wotte "total football" network.