John B

It will eventually work out but it may not involve Pardew and I think it will take longer than five

I doubt that you have any idea New managers usually bring in new staff when they are appointed

Well I think you could be wrong In lots of cases sacking the manager improves the situation but of course not always . If it was such a bad idea Chairman would not do it that often. Norwich seem to be doing OK at the moment as do Colchester and Charlton after sacking Pardew Dont know any other new managers in League 1 Harry is not doing too bad at Spurs either after they sacked Ramos The only place it does not seem to work is at St Mary's so perhaps we should have kept Wotte or even JP

Plan for life in League 2 I would have thought and recruit Sol because he will like our training facilities

Well you learn something new each day;)

Steve Coppell probably the first choice anyway

I dont know either but I doubt it is complimentary Made be a golfing term like a bogey

We had a new start with Mr Wilde and that nearly worked out until the money ran out Results were a lot better even with Burley in charge

I dont think Stuart Gray was capable of stability never understood why he was appointed as results were poor in the games he was in charge after Hoddle left. But lets face it there are not many consistently good managers anyway Apart from Bruce Moyes and possibly Allardyce away from the top teams

It has already taken four years and we are now in the worst league position since I have been supporting the Saints in almost fifty years. Blind faith is not in my makeup - your last phrase could have been spoken by a religous zealot

No his problem was he had no money to enhance the team - something we dont have now

The team was pretty rubbish as well I would have thought when we got relegated with a geriatic defence That was the time we needed Markus after the 2003 Cup Final when we needed finance to improve the team/squad

What is the long term plan. Iit is difficult to comment without knowing its content

Well if you are happy with one win out of ten and are not worried about the future under Pardew that is OK by me. But other people are concerned that despite money being spent on the squad to improve it results are not at all good. Usually it is very difficult to address poor results which proved the case with Pardew at Charlton so there is always the possibility he will fail. However there is the possibility that things will improve but nothing is certain so lets hope we start winning soon . With regard to minus 10 Leeds if I remember were in administration on -15 but managed to win lots of games and got to the playoffs

Yes but where are they today after finishing below us last season.

So why was Pardew sacked at Charlton I wonder Possibly was not that good

Are you suggesting that we kept JP Gray or Wigley because I think they were the ones sacked Hoddle Strachan Redknapp Burley left for Pastures new Sturrock did not fancy the job and Pearson was too costly possibly Mind you I agree that stability is a good thing but not that common theses days except at the top clubs

Perhaps Markus was over for the game and just wanted to get an update from Cortese

Yes agreed things went really wrong last season around Christmas when we were unable to beat fellow strugglers at home this has not happened this season and unlikely to happen however if it does something will have to be done

Well said my point too. I would really be interested what they were trying to do in training

Yes I agree however if by March we are not playing well perhaps things could change. In the meantime we are surely going to beat the other clubs around the relegation zone

Unfortunately I dont think Pardew maybe the long term solution but I dont see the point of sacking him because it is very likely that we will beat most of the teams in the bottom part of the league and move away from the relegation places by January. However if results dont improve in the spring that is another point.

I thought that too It was highly unlikely that he would use both as substitutes In fact he had little positive to come off the bench unlike Bristol

I fully understand why the OS are putting out this drivel they have been doing it for years. Of course as I said earlier they are hardly likely to say come on Saturday and see Gillingham stuff us Until we start winning I suggest that we have had enough of it

I think it would be a mistake to dismiss all of Alpines posts because over the years many of his posts have been spot on but of course many have been over the top too