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I don't think anything he said was rocket science, same as the other managers. They are asked to come up with words every week to either explain a good performance or a poor performance and there are only so many reasons for either. Pardew is a decent manager but I think if you read what all the other managers were saying this weekend it would be difficult to tell them apart (aprt from Ferguson or Wenger!).

No, where I work we are trialling virtual courts but it is not working very well. You need to get people together in the same room. We may not have a perfect justice system but it is pretty good. Take away the element of people coming together in one place to deal with these issues and you take away the human element that makes it work.

I don't think that Davis is the problem. There are times when the defence just seem to lose concentration and fail to give him any protection. We had some good chances against Brighton but nothing like the ones they carved out for themselves. The goal against Charlton was another example of the defence switching off and not playing as a unit. If you look at all the goals scored against us how many could you say were down to Davis?

As I said, grow up. He is not my Messiah (what a stupidthing to say). I just see that he had a decent record with us and Ipswich and Hearts. It is called balance. I usually agree totally with the notion of free speech. Unfortunately in your case I think that someone should stick duct tape across your mouth and chop off you fingers so you can no longer contine with these pathetic little vendettas against people whose only sin is that they seemed to have upset you by doing their jobs below the ridiculous standards you set for them. Once again you fail to answer my points, that is simply because in that strange world of yours you actually know what you do and say is totally unreasonable in the real world. But you can't help yourself. It is like some mutated form of Tourettes. It has been suggested that if you gave a monkey a typewriter and unlimited time he would eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Give Alpine a typewriter and unlimited time and he would never get that far because he gets stuck at abusing someone he has never met forever...poor old Romeo wouldn't even get to first base with Juliet, Henry V wouldn't make it to France, the Princes in the Tower would live happily ever after and the B U R L E Y keys would be worn to stumps.

And smoking doesn't kill and alcohol is good for you....

You are a very strange little man Alpine, and you call me obsessive! Will you give Pardew te same treatment if he gets us into the play offs I wonder? Redknapp sepnt £6m and took us down. He then did F*all about getting us back up again but not a peep from you about him. Why is that? You hero Nigel Pearson only managed 3 wins in 13 games and was 20 minutes away from relegation but no criticism from you. One full season and a play off place that would have led to a play off final if it wasn't for a couple of individual mistakes on the pitch. Highest win ratio. A win every other match. Yet that is supposed to be rubbish. What equals success in the World of Alpine? You just seem to pick certain people and decide that because they don't fit in with the Alpine Sceme Of Things that you will spend endless hours finding opportunties to slag them off. We have had a succession of managers since Burley was here, none of whom have won matches at the same rate, although Pardew might change that. Grow up and move on.

Bloody hell, what has that got to do with anything? Forget big team, small things, geographical boundaries etc etc. What happened to fair play and the best team winning? If the situation had been reversed and the French knocked out by a goal like that it still would have been wrong and sickening. If teams win or lose within the rules of the game, fair enough. No team should lose a match to a "goal" like that. But I don't see how it can be a conspiracy. If Ireland had been 3 up what was the ref going to do? Give that goal and two dodgy penalties? Henry will now join Maradonna as a player with great skill who will mainly be remembered for cheating.

A good old Victor Meldrew is at it again! Not happy that we have lost one in 9 ( I make it) and that we have WON most of our games recently I see. Brighton were not sh*te. They defended well and were excellent on the break. Even the best sides that McMenemy put out occasinally lost to a so called poorer team. Only you could find a problem with the Charlton game which was an excellent performace apart from ONE sloppy moment. Still every sliver lining has a cloud eh Alpine?

You have to laugh don't you. People were slagging off Pardew for persisting with a 5 man midfield now he is being slated for playing 4 4 2. Whatever the formation he needs to sort out the defensive frailties. If the forwards fail to score 3 we are in trouble as we can usually be guaranteed to give away 2.

Perhaps James was told to play the long diagonal ball every time he got it? It all seemed so predictable and pedestrian but if he was playing to instructions...I thought Harding did okay and I thought that we bossed large periods of play but didn't have their sharpness and cutting edge going foward and didn't defend as well as they did. We looked a completely different team to the one that beat Charlton but we have still had a great run and will beat much better teams than Brighton.

Mods, why is a thread about the ex-Scotland manager on the Saints board?

You really are a tw*t of the highest order Alpine. You are typical of the morons who vote for Jedward every week on X factor. Despite your obsessive hatred toward him he did a decent job at Ipwich and Hearts and yes, he is still the manager with the best win ratio that we have had...but let's slag the bloke off anyway. You obviously don't see making the play offs as anything to get excited about but he managed us in the last decent season we had, remember? Scotland are hardly blessed with a great side are they? Perhaps he could have done better? Perhaps Lawrie Mac should have done better at Sunderland? Or perhaps you should just shut up.

I sat amongst of large group of Manchester United supporters and was unwisely wearing a yellow jumper. I jumped out of my seat when Stokes scored only to sit back down very quickly when I remembered where I was sitting! The Mancs were not happy bunnies and walking down the steps out of the stadium there was a hail of cans from the back - the were throwing them at their own supporters? Happy days. The later match was better footbal-wise and safer even though we lost to Liverpool by 1-0 in the Charity Shield, but I wasn't complaining - two trips in a few months to see Saints at Wembley, awesome.

I didn't see the game but by all accounts we controlled the play with pretty much any formation we used. If we were making chances that is all you can do with any formation isn't it. If they went in earlier would we then complain about 442?

Discuss it by all means, but if things carry on the way they are I suggest that perhaps Pardew knows what he is doing and should carry on with his own ideas. The bickering can go on all day here but if we continue to pick up points as were are doing I think it all rings a little hollow.

Grow up Alpine, you do say the most ridiculous things. The point is that Pardew was critisised for not getting results and now he is being criticsied for getting results. Pathetic. Five wins and one draw in the last six is more than any of us could hope for a short while ago. He has turned things round big time. If it wasn't for the minus 10 we would be up there chasing promotion. He, like Burley, another one who you slagged off religiously during our last decebt season, is doing what he can. If people gave him support instead of nit picked over his every "mistake" you wouldn't get people complaing about posts. Pardew has dropped tow points in six games. I think it is fair enough to assume that he knows what he is doing.

Won five drawn one in the last 6 games but lets have a pop at the manager shall we?

The same happens when we release a player people think is carp and then he scoes a goal for another team and the same people say we should never had released him! Pearson is managing under a different set of circumstances now. He only managed to win three games for us, if he had won a lot more I think he could well have stayed...we shall never know and we shall never know if he had stayed if he would have been any good for us. Strachan is hated by Coventry fans but loved by ours. McMenemy was loved by ours and hated by Sunderland fans. Good luck to him, but all these ifs and buts are a waste of time. If Strachan is successful with Boro no doubt there will be much waling and wringing of hands on here....

What is this thread still doing here? Shouldn't it be on The Lounge or General Sports???

Yes you are right, it was Dave Jones. We have been lucky to have so many talented players in the ranks, none for a few years now though sadly!!! Still, happy days.....

Steve Howe is awesome

Bit of a no brainer wasn't it? We all die at some point so it was totally right!!!

No generalisations here then. We were no worse in the 70's when it came to being "dirty" and fans revel in stories about Big John McGrath and Docker Walker to name but two. Times move on but some fans don't it seems. There is probably not one person at LUFC who was there in th 70's. What is this doing on the Saints pages anyway???

I was there too and yes he did - ran most of the length of the pitch to as I remember. He did the same thing later that season and won a penalty. Great dribbler, never really fulfilled his huge potential.

I miss FC too. His spelling was worse than mine but he always tried to give a balanced view, something you don't get on here too often!!!