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Not steam.

Perhaps the balder the player the less we pay for the loan?

Aha, so not just bald then?

You make some reasonable points Tony but how does it follow that if you question the CEO you are not behind your team? As you will know, we have had a succession of CEOs who haven't been widely popular for one reason or another and I guess there is a % of the fanbase who are worried about this one. In short space of time he has fallen out with the contractors at Staplewood, a manager, ex Saints legends, the media, a local football club, staff at SMS and a section of the fanbase. Not the start many of us hoped for to be honest. If he is successful of course that will fade away, but at the moment, whilst many us of still are behind our team, we are left wondering about the guy at the helm.

Why not? he had a good record with us. People still remember Strachan kindly here. Not sure if Coventy or Middlebrough fans would agree though but that's football.

There are degrees of baldness?

Eh???

Indeed. An although he may not have been technically banned, being told you are unwelcome unless you apologise for saying something you believed to be true is a bit petty. FFS stop prattting about, rise above it and just concentrate on getting us promoted.

One of the most depressing matches I have ever seen.

As you say, it is just opinions and I respect the fact that some people think he did a good job and some people don't. Whether he went cap in hand and asked for money I don't know. Perhaps Cortese offered it up? What I do know is that you can't just buy promotion. We could have done better. Many teams did worse and they will be saying the same. Should? Why? Just because we spent money? If only it were that simple SS.

What do deloitte's have t say about England performace in the World Cup?

He only failed because he was hamstrung from the start. I believe without the minus 10 we would have been promoted through the play offs. It is a tin pot cup but for a club that has ome of the smallest trophy cabinets in the country and one that has been through a dismal time, it was a very large light at the end of a very long dark tunnel. You can apply the word "should" any where you want but it means nothing. England should have done better in the World Cup. He did a decent job last year and played his part in turning this club around.

Managers/teams can only beat the teams in front of them. We have divisions which means that we have groups of teams which are deemed to be of similar standards. A high win ration has got to be better than a low win ration. A win is a win and no easier to get in Div 3 than the Premiership for teams in those divisions.

He won a cup and would have got a down and out club into the play offs if it wasn't for the minus 10 points. I would say that was an achievement, evn if it falls below your expectations. You could add that he signed some players who could easily be playing in the CCC. No mean feat either.

Not that bad either to be fair. Plenty of managers are egotistical, it is what drives them to manage. As for your last point, as you say, rumours.

Lowe didn't haveany trouble geting people to apply for the job and he had a far worse reputation. Football managers aren't fools. If they can get a job like ours then they are heroes if they do well and minted if they get sacked. As for Pardew getting sacked several times, he is not a lone stastic in that department. HIs stock will be high after what he achieved with us last year and although he might not get a Prem offer he could certainly manage in the CCC again.

If that is what happen. If. Then it is understandle. Pardew know he can get a CCC job, if not another Prem job. So why take sh*t in the third division? If.

A lot of managers go to work in environments that are not great for a variety of reasons. If Cortese laid on the charm the rest is easy as the club sells itself. I doubt if he gave Pardew a call and said should I take it.

If it was easy to get players to get the ball down and play it on the deck every manager would be sorted. It isn't as Adkins found out last night and as Pardew found out last year and pretty much most managers find out every week. The simple fact is that we need to win games and do we really care how Adkins does it so long as he does it? If he does as well or better than Pardew then no harm done. If he doesn't then Cortese will have a problem.

No I don't want to go through all that again. But I don't want another problematic CEO either!

Hoofball is often what players resort too when they either lose confidence or don't have the gumption to play to the managers instructions. Adkins found this out last night. Managers like Jack Charlton and Graham Taylor actually set up their teams to play like that. Most other managers spend their lives trying to stop their teams playing like that. Pardew must have done something right last year because his teams scored an awful lot of goals and had a very good win ratio.

I have heard that his relations with the staff at SMS is very poor too. If what you say is true it is very worrying.

No one knows for sure whether the pre-season was a shambles or not. Lambert came out and said he was the best prepared he has ever been. Perhaps the crap start was down to the huge weight of expectations on the team? Certainly plenty of chances were made in several games and missed. Had they gone in, different story. Players were signed pre-season, okay not in the positions we wanted them but signings were made non the less.

Yeah, because things are so much better now. And if Pardew had been manager for the games since Rovers you would be going ballistic Alps.

So is that yes or no Ron?