alpine_saint

He's a mod, and you value the site so much you havent even contributed a fiver.

lol

Maybe drunkeness amongst people north of the border is uncontroversial

I know where you are coming from, but we will only end up with someone worse filling in.

lol !

And from what I recall, its a big one.

Let's strengthen all the opposition around us without any financial gain, shall we ? I know we are Saints, but less of the phillanthropy, eh ?

I beg to differ. He got the job because he was the only non-controversial Sweatie in football management with any experience that hadnt already done it. I'll say one thing for the Scots - at least they have a correct sense of national pride and insist on having a fellow Scot running their team, unlike a country not a million miles from here............

Wow, I'm gobsmacked. What circumstances was that, then ? Wilde gave him too much money to spend ?

Completely agree. It's a breath of fresh air compared to Burley, where half the time you felt games were lost before the kick-off with his attitude. Just a crying shame that JP doesnt have the tools to do his job with that Burley had.

Thankyou, Baj.

Agree completely. The very people who sneer "what dont you get about the situation ?" seem to be having massive problems understanding this. Proabably because most of them would go to matches still even if Lowe had smear dog poo all over their seat and put out 11 toddlers on the pitch, all in the cause of proving what hard-core fans they are..

Fines, so let's fire JP and RL, and put the bloke in charge of special accounts at Barclays in charge of team selection, and save the club an even bigger fortune, if its such a clear-cut issue.

Why dont you put aside all of your abuse, sneering, sarcasm and petty playground points-scoring and ask yourself the question as to whether the change in plans regarding transfers affects not only the task JP feels he has ahead, but also JPs ability to do the job he thought he was brought here to do ? Or have you already forgotten that Burley gave up on his responsibilites for similar reasons ??? It's not hard to discuss things sensibly, you know...

Yawn.

So, every thread should just be 50 repetions of variations of "COYR" and "We will walk this league", should it ?

But surely the plan was to get rid of the likes of Skacel, and keep the likes of Surman, and although JP may be accepting of the situation, how is he supposed to react when he sees the real (not planned) transfer activity and starts to doubt the viability of the original plans for the team ? If say, Skacel doesnt go and Surman has to so that the bank plan is compensated, he doesnt get to play Surman because he's gone OR Skacel because he's not interested and MIGHT get sold too. It's a mess. Feel sorry for JP, because the goalposts have clearly moved already.

I reckon I have every time the usual suspects respond to a point about the club with personal abuse...

Is there a problem ? We had Saturday's comments about Davies and Sunday's hasty "clarification" Now there seems to be confusion about Surman's wanted-or-not status. Has JP got the full picture, or is situation very fluid and he is not being kept in the loop as well as he should be ? Knowing our chairman as we do, I am somewhat surprised JPs comments to the press are not going over his desk first.

Why would JP come out and say this if it was a black-white choice between Surman going and administration ? FFS, some people are so anal-retentive sometimes. Maybe something is going on with Euell and Skacel at last.

FFS, it was a joke

Great news if this is the case. However, I still think there is a gulf between what JP thinks will happen and what will happen when Loew has had his say. Anyway, only 9 days to go. Time to batten down the hatches. Any chance someone could cut the telephone cables at SMS ?

I take that as a compliment from you.

saints are great..........

Exhibit A : The Jack Cork thread. Talk about people only seeing what they want to.