OldNick

Why does NA not come out and make a statement? I'm. Not sure a man who believes in mental strength would be happy that he left the club in tears.

Gordon Strachan did the same, e fans still love him

Charlie, I am right behind NC decision. I dearly hope he is proved correct, but if not all the hankie wavers will be able to say 'I told you so' Yet again we may spiral back to those terrible days of 'stand up if you want Lowe out'. And how it was so depressing going to games. NC like him or not helped keep our club alive and I dread the thought of him walking away and selling to Venkys or similar

thanks for that I didn't realise. So many people should be honoured but how can I argue with the ML suite

without a doubt if we get relegated NC is wrong

Seriously? I didn't know that had been taken away

But NC obviously thinks he has made the right decision and will attract more fans. He knows that there are many of these fans who are screaming we're not there in the bad days, within a few weeks they will forget NA (not literally)if we are sailing high

MLT has the honour of a suite named after him, many of our other heroes have not. MLT has a big problem with NC and visa versa , I dearly wished for them to make up,sadly I now can never see it happen. Matt was a footballing hero,but he so nearly killed the club by siding with a badly chosen takeover attempt. Keep to footy Matt, it is only so long you can live on your past glories as,as time goes by you will get the same disrespect from younger fans that Terry Paine has had on here from a poster.

Customers can always take a walk

As NC is so bad would you let a member of your family now join the club if the opportunity arose?

Why the minute after kickoff, is it because they won't get the tv coverage they yearn for

well a big fat bonus for one.

I didn't know NC thought that fans have no impact. I have always believed fans mindset has a massive effect on the team.some think not,but any club who has the fans on your back is negative to the team and I'm sure Moyes is delighted to whip the frenzy up,Sky will love it as well.

I think NC does, the value of the club in the PL to one in the CCC. We may get parachute payments but the club is again a very expensive machine to run. You could also say goodbye to Shaw and Co. it will be a disaster.

And who will gain? EVERTON. A fan of theirs I know is going and he loves the fact that the instability of the fans is going to help his team. In fact he said he was going to start NA songs to help. It ok being Joan of Arcs but at the end of the season when the Sky cameras are showing our fans crying due to relegation by 1 point you can all get your white hankies out and sing NA name, whilst forgetting that the fans actions cost the club. Surely you can see how the unrest in the past helped our relegation,are we like NA and not learn from our mistakes.

to be fair if you read the welcome thread there are many who are out to abuse the new manager. There are many with solid bone from the neck up who think showing their undying love to NA will somehow show the world how wonderful we are. When AP left we had a load of Madame then as well, had NC not got rid of him where would we be now? Nobody can say of course,only time will tell if NC is right but he is the one who has a massive amount to lose financially.

It is good to see FF who a lot of fans respect, showing common sense on this.I'm not looking for fans reactions as that is just emotions, it is how the players show on the day.

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