Smirking_Saint

There was reasons behind the Stuart Gray sacking ..... i know why this is Reasons behind why Souness left....... i know why this is Reasons behind the WGS leaving..... i know why this is Fact is, doesn't matter who is in charge people will know the reasons behind why certain people leave, and very rarely do chairmen at any football club have any reason to share that info, as for AP's sacking, i have a decent idea from a source i trust. Will we ever hear the truth ?? probably not but then does anyone ever ??

Lol

Lol Gerrard is arguably the most complete midfielder in the whole team, it is not hidden the fact that when a youngster England never lost a game a young Gerrard played in for a long time. He can defend, he can attack and gives everything. An absolute wasted player from our so called 'golden generation' and without a doubt if we played him in his best position we would have done so much better. Lampard is a big head, and not a complete player, he is lazy and plays only one dimensional, attacking. Chelsea build a team around him, England can't do that. England need to take a continental approach and cull the elders from the squad and only pick the players that could make then next world cup, use the Euros as a training ground. Jagielka was stand put, Dawson and Cahill were good, showed they could cope with Terry/Ferdinand absence. Barry/Gerrard worked very well. Walcott, Johnson (a), and Milner looked good. The only player that looked sh*te was G Johnson whos defending is horrific at times but even his attacking was woeful against bulgaria

KK would be the big name everyone craves, but as far as managing goes, he isn't up there for me as a 'good' manager, only manages teams with money and backing and fails a lot of times. We need someone with hunger, not an old name who believes they no longer need to work for it.

Was thinking the exact same earlier. AP's legacy was a big hoof and play off of RL's scraps, the big hoof hasn't worked all season and so we look poor. We need a manager in with more to his game, and more importantly we needed a backup to Rickie, we have niether ATM and the team don't seem to know what to do. I know Akinfenwa everyone slagged off as a fat f*ck. But the man is big, strong, and he is scoring goals.

The position Reed holds now is the future tbf, Chelsea do it, Barca do it, I expect Arsenal and Manure do it. Pardew is head strong, always has been (re. Tevez and Masch) everywhere he has gone has been marred by some sort of dispute. But he seems a god down here, he bought well, he planned well but TBF anyone could have got a decent achievement out of this team. Tactically inept.

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