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As i said in a previous post (of which I've had very few) EVERYONE should watch the Barcelona documentary by Storyville. It took them half a season (with plenty of it stuck outside the champions league spots) to actually bring everything together. The fans were calling for Rijkaard to be sacked, the finances were in a mess, etc. etc. I suppose the point I'm making is that even the great Barca took time to re-establish themselves over that season, we've got the right people in place, it will still take time for things to click.

I personally think that every fan should watch the documentary about laporta taking over at barcelona. The first half of their season was terrible, by their standards, and there are many similarities to our situation (ie new owners, manager, and trying to fix a system that has long been infected). If i wasn't a poor student i'd start a new thread about it.

you beat me to it!

how very mature of you. in fact, while your at it, i've noticed that grown men running around after an inflated bit of leather is rather childish, why don't they all do some gardening or get their accounts up to date? football is tribal, everybody knows it and everybody accepts it. fair enough if niemi wants to help out david coles, all it means is his allegiances are to him as opposed to southampton (who previously paid his wages). act accordingly.

but you neglect the fact that neither portsmouth nor marseille were in a particularly bad situation when perrin took over. our squad have underperformed and, it could be suggested, have not got the best of attitudes. compare this with a portsmouth team that had stayed in the prem and were doing pretty well under redknapp. what perrin did is try to fix something that, ultimately, wasn't broken. if a squad needs a no-nonsense disciplinarian, then pardew's speech is perfect. perrin was foolish enough to try it with a team that already had a reasonably decent attitude and were used to a manager with impeccable man-management skills.

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14.30 Friday by the way...

if true, the effect it would have on the whole city (MLT returning and bringing KK in as manager) would be just as monumental as when he came as a player, considering the rubbish we've had to put up with.

obviously you have to approach this with as much scepticism as you would the news of the world etc, but if we kept forecast and KD why would we need another keeper?

the halves get my vote, very good...

Charles Dunstone??

i am a big fan of the quarters... can someone make a poll with these designs? i'd love to see someone try a man city third-esque shirt with a red sash, to really take it back to the st mary's youth days

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it's pretty amusing that this thread already has three pages. how gullible are some of you? a nobody has taken thirty seconds to post some tosh, shouldn't we be used to this by now?

Ince?! He has NOT managed in League 1, he got MK Dons promoted from League 2, with a squad that Martin Allen had built. I have never seen an interview with him that didn't make me think he is bit of a plank. Good footballer, not clever enough to be a good manager. Don't you remember Bentley's swipe that he made people do press ups for standing nonchalantly and insisted on being called the Guv'nor? Dowie's record at Coventry, over the period he was there, would have meant they were challenging for the playoff positions, he was screwed over by QPR and Charlton, the former now has an even worse manager and the latter have been in freefall. Dowie is a clever bloke, and as previously mentioned an innovative manager. The game is changing and we need people who will embrace that rather than Ince's archaic methods. Also, Dowie would have us playing much better football than Aide Hoofroyd... He gets my vote.

go on denzil, pm me!

didn't gecko saint used to put designs up on one of the older boards?

I think if you got rid of the scarf, football and halo that badge would be brilliant. love the kit. send it to them!

I find this all a bit confusing... I understand that the Pinnacle assisted bid has entered a period of exclusivity, which is BRILLIANT. What I don't understand is all the conjecture and apparent bitterness by some of the people on here. I find it pretty impossible to think of, for example, Marc Jackson as anything other than a bit of a plonker after his previous forays into the takeover world. He might have done something good this time, but the fact is the average fan has no idea about this, so how can we be blamed for having a view on the guy? If the only evidence we have points to one conclusion, it isn't such a daft view to hold. MJ might have been doing lots of good stuff behind the scenes, but WE HAVE SEEN NO PROOF OF THAT, you can't expect us to believe what a few ITK's say (especially being that none of you have been 100% correct in anything) without telling us actually what happened. Either tell us why we should be grateful to MJ, or dubious of Pinnacle, or any other reason for holding your view, otherwise you make it impossible for us to agree with you. If I don't know what you know I have no obligation to think what you think. I hope this makes sense, I'd have thought that this announcement would get rid of most of the ITK rubbish on here, but it seems to have made it worse!

then pop along to the Southwark, 30 secs outside of the station and bloomin' brilliant.

Nick isn't a windup, he's just not telling us everything

can't somebody just whack it onto youtube?

for some reason i can't view it, any tech geeks out there know how to get my little mac to view it?

I agree completely. Just because Ince was a useful player doesn't mean he can translate it to being a useful manager. In League 2 most ex-players of his stature would be successful because of the respect they command amongst players who will never reach the same heights. The thing that worries me about him, above all, is that he doesn't seem to be all too clever. His interviews didn't make much sense, he's not particularly eloquent, and as for calling yourself 'The Guv'nor'...

He knows about the club, as I said he tipped me off about Lowe. His source of information is from the club itself rather than either of the bids. To be honest, if there is one that comes from nowhere that's better I'd like it too! I just wanted to mention this because we all seem to have a bit of a doomed philosophy about it all. There is hope!