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Someone said it a few weeks back regarding Markus. Now it is whoever is overseeing the club from the Liebherr family. And whoever it is needs to reel this Cortese in cos he is making us, and by that very fact, a company they own look a shambles. That cannot be good for them and their good name, let alone Southampton FC.

there are.....one is in Kent and their is a small town in Dorset - the one in kent is pronounced with a soft G, the one in Dorset with a hard G ;-)

And the main reason for that is the ambition NC and ML have put into the club. All the bigged up talk of automatic promotion has given fans a feeling of expectancy. If Adkins is seen as an underwhelming choice, well I can see that, he may well be brilliant, only time will tell if he is the choice. But really NC has raised the level of expectancy and then left us scratching our heads in dis-belief at a less than inspired looking appointment. You cannot blame people really.

I remember that yeah, it was against Leeds. Pretty sure the girls name was Helen and she was from Gillingham in Dorset.

Common sense and logic I would think ;-)

I bet you are fun to sit next to at a game ;-0

Yeah, me too.

We won so many last year because Rickie was in **** hot form and buried virtually everything that came his way. We had Antonio and Papa to come off the bench and create their own brands of havoc and mayhem when opposition were getting tired. We had a fully fit Lallana. There is no great mystery IMHO

So he wants to use us as a stepping stone to the England job ? The man is deluded. I'm sure if/when NC reads that any chance that Brown had will go bye bye

Could you refresh my memory as to which games they were please ? Wilkins was at a different game than me. Anyone who failed to witness the complete lack of sense of urgency from the players with 20 minutes to go and two goals down must have been sat on the planet La La. They had just given up.

Isn't Howe one of Redknapp's boys like Pulis and Cotterill ? One of those good old 'Arry puts his arm round and offers him advice....or am I doing him a dis-service ?

You do not become successful and have the ear of a billionaire if you are a clown. You may not agree with the decision to sack AP, I dont personally but then again I dont know all the facts. Perhaps if they were known it would be a different feeling towards to whole thing. However, I tend to agree that if this was pre-planned we would have appointed a new manager by now. The fact we haven't and that Kelvin Davis has said NC told the players it could take a while leads me to suspect there is a lot more to this than meets the eye.

I think thats a bit below the belt. Two weeks ago we were all moved by that story.

Martin O'Neil is a pipe dream. Would be wonderful but i cant see it and honestly, why would he drop 2 divisions when in a couple of months time a Premiership job will come up somewhere. Tony Mowbray however is a real possibility. Not a shoe in for a Prem job and the challenge of taking us up two divisions is well within his capabilities. We would play football too. Connolly wouldnt have a crick in his neck watching the ball sail over his head for starters ;-)

I would take Phil Brown to...............Southampton Airport with a one way ticket in his hand.

Would love it to be right. Just in case it isnt ;-) I would be quite happy with Tony Mowbray. Plays good football and did a really good job with WBA. Not too sure how he would do in the Prem but he has the track record of getting there whilst playing good football.

Only if they wanted to try out that new Sushi place in the food court !!

I think what you need to consider is that many people are disgusted that a guy who they feel is doing a good job has been sacked for reasons that have not been made clear. Ok, it may be something whereby the nuts and bolts cannot be discussed but a statement a bit better than that thing the club issued Monday would have helped. Basically nobody knows why he has been sacked. So, if taken at face value, which quite often has to be done in lieu of further information, AP is sacked after a 4-0 victory away from home, following on from a season where we won a trophy and would have made the play-offs without the 10 point deduction. Wanting success quickly is one thing, and yes its a good thing, but there has to be a reality check thrown into the mix somewhere, and again at face value it hasn't. If me being outraged at AP's sacking makes me simple in your world then fine. If me being outraged at AP's sacking because I see it as un-necessary and a big mistake as well as being mean and petty towards a decent man who was doing a good job then tough, shoot me.

If we dont overcome the might of Rochdale on Saturday even Cortese would have to seriously wonder if he has done the right thing. There will be a lot of unhappy people if we dont win.

Really ? I think the stuffing has been knocked out of us over the last couple of days. Its the first time for years that I really couldnt be bothered to go tonight.

I thought all decent pitches had crowns to help with natural drainage.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I still think....no..... hope.....that Antonio is a deadline day deal !

Steve Williams or David Armstrong

Ostlund doesnt play anymore I believe.

You seem to forget that whenever AP deemed fit to put him on he created mayhem in opposition defences and was always on hand, in the right position to poach a goal.