OldNick

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,

I would have voted yes a few months back.

May I also say that when I mentioned about how fans were happy for KD to be cast aside after all he had done, There were posts saying you can't be sentimental etc etc those same people are now up in arms. Football has become is distasteful industry,I don't think it was ever different

The new manager is coming in before a very difficult run of games coming up. That brave timing for him to join us. I doubt NA would get us many points out of the next 4 games and so assume NC weighed up that the next 4 games gives the new man time to assess us. After the next 4 games he then must perform to get us to safety.

I don't believe that, NC may be some things but I doubt he would do such a thing

fair points but we have had 3different keepers and strange team selections and substitutions. The 2 all draw the other night was not down to brilliant tactics but we got out of jail.

The best English manager of this generation! Could that not be McDermott,as he with less resources won the CCC. I will always be grateful for what NA did for us but if NC is a man of his word and he had a plan with ML to get us to the higher level then I can see why he has become frustrated with NA and the way the season had gone. I was perfectly happy chugging along in the bottom 5, the old Southampton way but it seems NC isn't

Not universal