Smirking_Saint

You really are a pillock

Wow I can't even remember what the first video was

This i agree with. The more i look the more we just look like a team in turmoil however. And so we should. NOTHING seems to be working atm, Lambert is off form, our manager was sacked for some reason and even on BBC they are saying something must have happened behind the scenes. And our owner has died. Pretty crazy stuff really.

I won't forget Wembley, it was a cracking day out. But the JPT is nothing to sing and dance about, its a low league trophy. My Reading supporting mate, when i slat his team for having no history bangs on about the sydnahms cup or whatever it was called back then. It is a nothing tin pot trophy and cost us NPC status.

No its true. fickle ******s, they boo him in the first few games and now sing his game as if he is god, can't make it up. Well done to the Northam for getting behind the players. On the pitch on the pitch and pardew pardew. FFS

And the JPT won't be remembered when we are back in the prem lol

Dune why don't you just f*ck off

It should do though

I don't. Pardew clearly had cash to spend, this is due to the fact he kept saying he was looking to bring players in. He said himself he made approaches to players but he wasn't happy with their commitment and so turned them down. He then went on to say he was waiting for the 25 man squad lists so he could pick up better players and waited to ensure he didn't miss out on signing better players. Truth is, he did miss out. Everyone knew we needed a back up to Rickie and a new CM. Now we are stuck with 1 fit striker in DC and are struggling so we are playing an injured Lambert up front which IMO is a catastrophe waiting to happen. We have f*cked up, i held some faith that the signings would come and they didn't, may i be the first to apologise to Alpine who although i still think he was premature when he bemoaned the lack of signings is now spot on. We should have been ready this season, instead we are players short, short on form and managerless (for one reason or another)

Good replacement for Pardew then, if reports are true lol

For some reason i have a real feeling it will be Eddie Howe. And i am actually quite excited..... strange.

Because he has gone, for reasons unnexplained. And didn't really set the world alight in my eyes.

Exactly, even Ince has a biggish name in football management, just for being a decent player in my eyes. When i look at it, i don't know about you.... but names like Keegan for example, their success for me doesn't quite add to the likes of Adkins, Howe and Curbishleys achievements, as he has only went to clubs with cash and backing. The other three have managed to steer clubs with low stature and cash to promotions. Howe's achievement is fantastic in my eyes so why people write them off is beyond me. Big names really don't amound too much for me, like i said earlier, beware the managers on the way down settling at our team with supposed big names. I question their desire, a la Coppell.

Curbishley took Charlton up from the wilderness twice, and almost got them into europe. Far better achievement IMO. Especially at a little club like Charlton. I just think his heart isn't in it any more, which is why i don't really want him at Saints.

There was also that interpreter that became a manger..... did quite well.....what was his name ??

Bit like Pardew then ?

How is he drumming up business ? If he was doing that surely he would be saing xxxxx is available, not the job is filled ?

Step down ?? Not really. People are forgetting Pardew was a manager on the way down when he came here, he had walked out on Reading and failed at West Ham at the highest level. I never trusted him as a person and it speaks for me that every club he has been at has ended in stories of unrest. Brizzle city fans must have been creaming when they got Coppell, a man with pedigree, a man who had experience, a man........................................who has been there, done that and has nothing to prove and so has no desire and no passion. The footballing world is marred by this sort of thing, many many managers who have failed at clubs both with experience and without. Howe has done fantastically well at a club with no budget and in the depths of despair, he has united a dressing room and achieved what was almost the unnacheivable, whats more he is young, new to the managerial game, will probably embrace the future of football and not be stuck in the past. Most importantly he has heart and desire. Once upon a time St Mirren took a chance on a manager about 32 or 33. He didn't turn out too bad. Another team, Porto took a chance on a guy that was trying hard to get into the managerial game, and they didn't do too bad either. Thing is, picking a manager will always be hit or miss, and sometimes you need to take a chance, just as a little while ago Pardew was saying he didn't want older players looking for an easy ride i don't want a manager with an ego bought by past successes thinking the same thing, i would rather a guy with heart and desire and for me Howe fills that void. On the other hand Howe is an up and coming manager with plenty to prove.

My manager was in southampton the other day

MON would actually make me wet myself in a sticky ecstacy. But TBH i think Howe would be a great shout. Young, charismatic and with a drive to improve. I'd be happy with Brown, Adkins. Definately have a better pedigree to Pardew IMO. Curbishley is past it IMO

Wouldn't be a bad thing, as much as i hate the saggy faced wheeler dealer 'awight mayte' c*nt. You can't deny he is a good manager and seems to get the best out of players.

I would be happy with Howe, plays good football, will be hungry to improve and push on. Plays attractive football and has done wonders at AFC B with no budget.

I always get oxford street/London road mixed up but it is there, it was always on the road to the left of Rhino's. Theres a menu on the website you can look at incase they don't do any veggie options (i assume they do, most italians do) plus if you fancied it i would book as it gets busy. No problem btw

Dunno what do you know oh super diddlyuper one ??

Pilgrim House Ennios Le regatta Bouzy Rouge all brilliant And also Puccinnis down oxford street, i thought it looked a dive but it is bloody lovely in there, its an italian and if you bring some photo ID with a date on it your birthday meal is free. http://www.puccinissouthampton.com/southampton/restaurant/eat_for_free/