alpine_saint

Charlton, Colchester and Huddersfield all slipped up today. Our game against Bristol Rovers looks a biggie.......

What about the Beetroot-Faced-Bastard ? Mikey Wilde ?

Bring it on I say.

How do you know he wont be there ?

Cant we give him to them ?

Of course I do, and once again, I hope a great time is had by all with the right result. But I dont share your pessimism about the rest of the season, especially as this last distraction will be gone Monday morning, which was what this thread was really about.

The sarcasm on here is pathetic. Does anyone disagree with the statement : no more JPT games = no more "distractions" ?????

I agree they should be immensely excited. Only a fool would argue its just another game. But being distracted from other important and more immediate issues ? Yes, I have never been a professional player, so dont understand it.

And I hope you have a great day out. All of you. And of course the right result... But all the JPT is is a few moments of gratification. The League is the lifeblood of the club. It is immeasurably more important, and I cannot figure professional players being "distracted"

But I never had any doubt we would bounce back, so maybe it does not seem such a significant achievement for me. If you remember rightly, I was calling for administration MONTHS before it finally happened because I felt a decent owner would appear and would get rid of Lowe (under whom we were going nowhere fast). What I am struggling with is why after so much support and resources that enable us to assemble a team to beat Leeds, Norwich away and thump two teams around us by 5 goals, why we cannot win against teams near to the relegation zone.

The difference between you and me is that : 1. I dont see the next league game as "meaningless" - I still think we can do it, and even if we dont, the racing to the line as hard as we can is good mental preparation for next season 2. I know that we are in the JPT final, not the Champions League or even the FA Cup, FFS.

AP saying in the Echo that the team were "distracted" against Hartlepool. We have more serious work to attend to. Isnt AP supposed to get the team focussed ?

A fair assessment. Dont agree with everypoint, but the message is sound.

Suspect quite a few people in Sheffield agree with you.

heheheheh. 0-5...

Even so, I suffered a serious brain fart on this...

Why can you just admit you wish Lowe was still here ? And Lowe DID hang managers out to dry - he spectacularly failed to back up Sturrock. As for your latest bugbear about money not getting high table positions, I suggest you take a look at the PL table...

Oh, yeah. Feck me, that must have been a bad acid tab I had in my yoof, giving me 25-yr flashbacks to 2 points a game. dunno what happened there..

Sorry, just wanted to point out that if tonights scores stay as they are, Pompey are relegated.

Do grow up, media stoodent boy...

19 points from 9 games is do-able.

Very unfair, imo. Cortese doesnt sit in the squad photo or turn up at Staplewood with "NC" stitched onto a team tracksuit. He also isnt playing power games to manoeuvre himself into a position of influence at the FA, and there is no indication of him manipulating the press. What he has done is given a couple of fairly straight interviews since he arrived. Interviews, I might add, that indicate he has developed real feelings for the club in very short time. I understand he meets weekly with AP; only after he first went public about the results (just before the Pompey game) did our performances take a significant upswing. Maybe AP just wasnt listening to him before, he found it necessary to escalate to the real judges of team and management performance - the fans ???

Very bold statement... And rather cruel to Gillet, if its not true.

I worship, respect and love the job MLT did for Saints as a player. If what you say is true, and considering his involvment with Pinnacle (which I was originally willing to excuse), his contribution to Saints since retiring is now confirmed to be an utter embarassment. NC is the best CEO this club has had in decades. He is keeping the staff on their toes, something that has been badly, badly needed for a long, long time.

Aye, and the reaction on here is exactly as you would expect - polarised along the lines of ones opinion of the job AP has done so far. I reckon this article is an indirect tapping-up of AP for the West Ham job.