Baird of the land

Love all this dissecting of quotes from the club. Club is clearly massaging the truth. Just as they have done with Adkins profile on the OS. It's not a good starting point when the club are embarrassed about your managerial career. Read the profile on the OS and you'll note they have expunged last year's 20th place finish.

He has to the end of the season. He's got a huge task to turn around a club that's been left disarray by the sudden sacking of its manager and the freefall that's followed. At the end of the season if we're not promoted Cortese will have to explain to the owners why were still languishing in a lower leagues and i doubt very much he'll lay the blame on himself.

Think the only good thing i can say about this appointment is surely he'll be able to get better performances than Wilkins has managed for the last 2 weeks.

Underwhelmed by the appointment. Get rid of a good high profile manager and replace him with one who comes up short in comparison.

I find some of these rumours extremely humourous. The pardew having an affair has now morphed to suddenly be having an affair with Fonte's wife. Could this be linked to a posting yesterday saying that if he did have an affair it should have been with Fonte's missus as she's a real looker. This has all the believability of those chain letter that keep circulating the internet. The message is always the same but the details keep changing so gullible people will swallow the horse****

Shocked. Found the line on the OS saying that they realised how important managerial stability is while they chopped Pardew and co very funny. Can't see any obvious replacements. Would love o'neill but it is not going to happen.

I'd be happy with a couple of decent loan additions from the championship like last season to be honest. I don't like loans when they are at the core of the team but to add a bit of quality competition to the 1st XI they can be ideal.

Couldn't believe the news when i saw it on the OS site last night. Very sad news for everyone who knew him and potentially devastating for the club. Couple of questions spring to my mind. Has the club been holding back in transfer activity with a thought to the possibility of a heir looking over the accounts? Secondly if as suggested there's been provisions made for the immediate future of the club, How long?, How much? Will there be any money for anything other than loan signings in the immediate future? What's the liklihood any heir is going to feel disposed to pumping money into Markus' plaything? Football in the uk isn't a profitable business venture unless you are at the ultra top end. If they don't share his passion for the club the speedy return to the premiership may have died with Markus as any new owner is likely to be less finacially endowed. Obviously we're not going to get answers to these questions while everyone mourns but i think we need to get our heads round the notion that the clean path onwards and upwards that seemed so clear with a rich and committed owner might now much more uncertain.

The injury he got last year really didn't help him. I'd like to see him given another year as from what i've seen of him he's a naturally gifted finisher.

I'd like to see Waigo & Barnard rewarded with starts on tuesday. Move puncheon into the middle and really try and bury oldham. Need a stockport miracle next week. Wish we could loan them a few players!

All seems like moving deck chairs on the titanic for me. Until we get some sort of graduated wage cap all down the leagues were not going to go forward.

Think huddersfield will end up close or on 80 points. Think we have every chance of overhauling colchester but won't mean much except for pride.

was thinking the same thing about surman. He'd be the perfect addition.

3 vital points which keeps the dream alive. Sounds like the team struggled and sneiderlin wasn't at his best. So hopefully that 70 minutes after his injury will set him up to get back to his best against charlton. Surprised we brought on antonio rather than papa.

There was that rumour earlier that he'd turned down a loan move elsewhere. If true it may not have gone down well with Pardew who would have wanted him to go out and develop as a player.

Impressed by this signing. Always thought he was a good player and hope he proves me right.

Some people need to get with the real world. If we pulled Gillett back all we'd get is a sulky angry player. I say good luck to the boy. He's found somewhere he fits to how the manager plays & we can get some money for him. There's 3 or 4 people ahead of him at saints & we're only a month away from the transfer window when there's planned investment in players. It's a no brainer

of course he wants france to knock out england. Most of the saints team are english so he'll like anyone be hoping his team knocks them out so he can crow about it. If saints win and pompey lose I'll crow about it. It's no different and there's similar historical rivalry too as france is england's traditional enemy.

Quite funny reading how he's requested to come back to st mary's to vie for first team football after losing his place at grimsby

If its true Roy keane's kicking out a bunch of players from Ipswich i'd be happy if we went after owen garvan of those supposedly in line for the axe.

sounds like its slowly coming together. although the slowness is exasperating. somebody else mentioned there's no cohesion. that is hardly surprising though considering half the team has only played a hanful of games together at most. Just get fish mills or holmes off treatment table by next saturday & hopefully we'll have some left side width in the team. Also think lallana being hung out to dry on left wing. Really want to see him on the right for a number of games before i give up on him. I'd like a right winger though as an alternative though instead of thomson.

Centre mid ball winner needed. Please hammond be half decent & be signed for saturday. You can't win games without winning the ball in the first place. Spine needs sorting or else we're in for a long hard season. Worried by the fact pardew refused to make subs till it was much too late. Really hoped he have some tactical nous. Still supporting him & will be till the end of the season.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could actually touch the ball

we have to earn the right to play the pretty stuff. I really want us to sign a take no prisoners centre back & really hope hammond will act as the defensive lynchpin for our midfield. In the meantie please bring on gillett!

Davis Murty Thomas Perry Harding Lallana Gillett Sneiderlin Holmes Patterson Lambert I'd like to see holmes give us a left footer at left wing & also give us some real width. Drop wotton & try gillett & sneiderlin together. Patterson back i as i'm not sure what he did wrong in order to be dropped in the first place. I'm hopeful with a couple of changes & a rocket up them the players will turn in a much better performance against swindon & things will look rosier again.