OldNick

behave, we are not a laughing stock we just have made a decision that most dont understand. The laughing stock comes if you keep someone on who is nice but is unlikely to achieve your goals. Steve Wigley , Gray ,Portliet were nice people but they had to go.

fantastic post that i can relate to

All very laudable but if NC did nothing and NA got us relegated we would be saying why did he do nothing? NA is a good man, not that i could gain much from his interviews as he never really said much different each time.

iam told there was a player revolt at Pompey Mack, there was hell of a do. It has settled down now and they are sitting outside the headmasters office waiting to be seen

you are probably right. I think we should get the Solent interview up that NC did at the time of AP?. In it he laid bare his plans and in it he stated how he was going to make a structure at the club that made sure if a manager went the club in general was not in upheaval. He did not wish to get to the stage where managers upped and left leaving the club to start agian. i suspect there were other things in that interview that may be revealing now about his longterm vision.

Huffton you really have lost the plot. Sadly the search only goes back 13pages on here. i would have liked to have seen some of the threads about NA when we were bottom of the league. i suspect there were many who are now up in arms that would be wishing for NA to be sacked then. I hope the new man is very successful and in 10years or so we are sitting in a 50k stadium being the only team in the south of England playing in the European super league. If we dont keep up we will be left behind. Cortese has a ruthless drive that i hope will bring us unbelievable success. If he fails you can go proudly to our sparsely filled ground with your rattle, swing your scarf around your head, and talk about what a gentile football club we are,whilst we take on Hereford etc.

but NC wants to achieve more than Everton. I think Moyes is a great manager but what has he done? I think 1 CL qualification and losing a cup semi final. it could be more but i dont follow them, in fact i have disliked them since 1984

Manji I fully agree but VFTT is not a fool, although at times he disagrees with me and so that knocks him down a peg lol. Many saints fans are decent people and don't wish to see a decent man lose his job. Whether he was really up to it is another thing, but we do seem to worry what other fans think of us. It seems that being graceful losers is more important than being successful at the top. i doubt many Man U fans lose any sleep over being unpopular with other clubs

Bearsy you keep me sane with your insanities, lol

Whitey i hope you are well. Is the timing better now or after another 4or5games? The timing of the 2-2 with Chelsea was terrible for NC, can you imagine fans feelings towards NA if we had lost on Wednesday? Playing his wonder plan against Chelsea had us 2 down at half-time, it was only forced upon him to bringing RL onthat helped unsettle the Chelsea defence and in turn give us a focus to build from. Iam glad NA can walk away from here with his head held high, a wealthy man and with many jobs open to him. NA is a winner in all of this, we are the ones who are left holding our breath

it is all emperors new clothes. I have never felt the club to be that welcoming at anytime. Perhaps FF , the sponsors, and any one who provided a bit of free service,may have seen some of it as they were useful to the club. Every school holiday my brother and me would walk from Shirley to the Dell car park to wait for the players to come out from training to get autographs. Out would come one of the club officers and throw us out of the car park. Those were the days when kids and women were not welcome at football. The clubs then woke up to the fact of merchandising etc and all of a sudden they couldn't do enough for the later generations. Do not believe that any football club cherishes its fans as much as they make out, like Starbucks or any other big business, money is the main reason they are there. Saying that NC and ML set up the Saints foundation and that is the closest I have seen to a proper charitable scheme set up. Iam cynical i know but it does make me smile when I see fans worrying what other fans feel about us. At the end of the day we all have soft spots for certain teams but when we were hours from being wound up where were they? People say they hope we go down, most of them did already.

well the telegraph got the 2-3years ahead of schedule wrong, also adding that NA left in tears. I doubt that NA would have left in tears,surely his psychology would stop that

It was a game plan that was superb until 25 minutes, and worse after 45 mins.fortunately he saw sense and brought RL on and things improved

yep,lol

nod doubt in 48/49 he was calling for the managers head as well lol

I thought PM didn't go to games anymore or was banned for his on pitch antics when we went down

lol

the BBC would never do such things of course lol

you,d believe that as well

lol, I find that fanciful at best

Whilst not NA,s biggest fan, I think NA is a man of the highest integrity.

Alan, I agree,I recall the posts on here saying NP was going to be England manager. If we go down NA is probably the best man to get us back up, but it would be hard to find another RL to score 20plus goals. We need to stay up, and some of the bizarre team selections might have been costly

well spotted DT

he might take the job of the last best English young manager we had Nigel Pearson

Both have not been incompetent in this league but both have had bad days. Please do not give the impression that NA is some super manager, yes in the lower leagues but the PL? It will be interesting to see what PL club sacks their manager to take NA on,