charliemiller

It wont be cowan he is elsewhere

DOWIE is not proven he has failed everywhere he has been .

He isnt dutch he is Bulgarian .........wrong man guys

That is grossly inaccurate Duncan , Wilde was the biggest issue in the runneymede meeting not Lowe , crouch or any of the others.

Words of a condemned man ........Interviewed this morning after the FIRST meeting of the day. The second meeting was somewhere else without HIM. IMHO of course

Dowie ---to ugly (has failed everywhere he has been) Boothroyd---Plays awful football ala Branfoot Ince ----Not sure he is up to it quickly enough. We would need to hit the ground running. With that in mind. Peter Taylor Stuart Pearce Steve Cotterill Mickey Adams Roy Keane Or More radical . Glyn Snodin back as caretaker

Did any of you consider that Roops might have had a resignation on his desk yesterday

quite funny really your comparision as they both have the same CEO

To Answer the thread header yes he is but why ?? Dont shoot me but in parts I agree with the young player , one style experiment. However it has been carried out wholesale in a manner that was only ever going to cause potential relegation. The biggest mistake in all this is JP . He is and has consistantly shown himself to be tactically naive and very very basic in his approach. There are very simple rules which must always be considered when playing the formation he prefers. If you insist in playing 1 up front you must provide width behind the single striker to pull the opponents back four away from each other if you dont you end up with the striker having two centre backs on him constantly , to ask the like of DMG to score consistantly like that is folly it will never happen. This formation was played by Chelsea under Mourinho , its not new nor is it dutch , it worked for them because they had true width (Cole, robben ,SWP etc....) and they had a quality striker in the middle who understood his role to move , drop deep and collect to pair up with the attacking midfielders pushing through in front of a single holding player (makele) that player was Drogba . It does work but you have to have the right ingrediants , quite frankly we at no time this season have played with any width and to expect DMG to play this correctly is ridiculous. So thats the prefered total football formation ??? what about yesterday?? When i saw the team I thought as many did thats probably about spot on . However here we go again , BWP and Holmes on the wrong wings . What this does is it constricts the play by at least 30 ft on either side of the pitch because as they recieve the ball the natural instinct is to pull inside even before they have recieve the ball , look at any winger on the wrong wing he will be at least 20ft from the touchline for the whole match , you will never ever see a right footed player on the left touchline hungging the white line it never happens. The effect that lost 50-60ft has is again the play is pushed narrow , its easy to defend and means you end up playing pretty football up to ten yards from the box at which point you run out of space. An away team is totally happy doing that standing there ground and waiting for a break , which is exactly what they are all doing . Then the narrowness of the team becomes a weakness because you are all pushing up narrow all they need to do is ping a ball with width to the touchline and they will always find a huge gap behind our full backs . Most of the goals this season at Sms have come from a break wide and a cross to the centre, not through the middle of us. The above is also why we have won more away , its not that we are any different its that the other teams appraoch is different and it gives us a chance of breaking away at a disorganized defence and scoring. So The one style football through the whole club passing ethic I agree with (works at Arsenal and has done for years) JP is NOT the person who should be in charge of the team.He is tactically naive .However you cant throw a team of youngsters in on there own either. You need to do this . An experienced MOBILE striker and you need true width with the full backs pairing the wingers ( Bridge and Marsden ) like . An experienced hardman type midfielder And a consistant centerback with Davis behind him . I short a proper back bone to the team . Sadly JP and Lowe cant or wont see it

I think you will get your wish this time ...........heard a rumour . Thank God

I am even getting sympathy text from fish feckers ..........there is a protest going on outside sms and our own fans were fighting in the northam. How bad can it get. JP has to go

we will rise from this guys ........i dont think we can get any lower . Hope is all we have left really because everything else has been sucked out of the club. Never felt so bloody down

I stand corrected thankyou trousers

Oh yes bad arse bob LOL

Is that town key its parked at

Bet the sell on clause doesnt apply if its a swap , bagpuss shafting us again outta our money.

God what could saints do with 100 Million , It would restructure everything . On another note I feel so sorry for Gareth Bale , Harry is using him in as a make weight in the Adriano deal with Bale going the other way. Feckin Harry

weonly got 2.3 million of the 6 million if you check the accounts so if he is sold at least 3.3 million is due .

I think Orville would do a better job of selling saints . IMHO

Lucy Pinder ??? She could get her nads out as additional assets !!

Lucy Pinder ??? She could get her nads out as additional assets !!

Not true acording to Keith Harris on talksport last week , If you go in for a Ten Year growth plan you can make money investing in a football team according to him . What does he know anyway. He had an opportunity to big up saints when someone text in the question . " Have you made any progress selling Southampton Football Club ?" His answer ........." I wish ! " That was it , all he had to say FFS , Knob Jockey . He should have said no and I dont understand why as its such a good buy compared to other clubs etc......... The man is a waste of space.

Not true acording to Keith Harris on talksport last week , If you go in for a Ten Year growth plan you can make money investing in a football team according to him . What does he know anyway. He had an opportunity to big up saints when someone text in the question . " Have you made any progress selling Southampton Football Club ?" His answer ........." I wish ! " That was it , all he had to say FFS , Knob Jockey . He should have said no and I dont understand why as its such a good buy compared to other clubs etc......... The man is a waste of space.

Interesting thread and when you read the opions of some you would think that administration was a absolute certainty . It isnt and it shouldnt be a route that is preferred , If the club went into admin and a administrator was appointed his ONLY loyalties would be to the the creditors . Now i dont know if the shareholders would continue to be creditors or if their debt would be written off but what is a certainty is that if 46% of the shareholding is sitting in the boardroom when the adminstrator is called they would definetly have a plan laid out whereby their investment is protected and they recieve the club back for a nominal sum. This £1 thing is rubbish as well by the way , in the event of a pre-pack even the FL debt ie... player wage defferals , costs to the adminstrator (not cheap) , HMRC debt and any protected creditors would have to be paid.It might even mean paying some of off the avivia bond to allow a transfer Getting the club even under a pre-pack would not be cheap and it would be very very painful. Stanley is right in a way about a ten year plan though , Keith Harris was on talk sport this week and clearly stated that when he approaches a buyer he suggests that it IS viable to make money from investment in a football club but really you should look at it as a ten year plan not a short term investment and he agreed that championship clubs are a more viable purchase than the likes of newcastle or everton who require huge sums to purchase them. Failing that the winning the euromillions buying pompey for 30 million selling all the players and fratton park and throwing the keys into the harbour works for me .