OldNick

it is as true as any other statement that has come out today.

That Weston saint certainly has a charm but idol???

You think that 2 days on the training pitch , getting to know the players and go through some routines, is worse than having a new man in place our squad turning up to training expecting to meet the new man only to be told 'He doesn't want to meet you yet he thinks saying goodbye to his old team is more important' I doubt he would make a massive difference, but any would be important. Again we dont know if this is truly the case but if so, a mistake.

shouldn't you be at Pompey dockyard?

it is a big mistake

i cna see both sides but are we a bunch of pussies. We have started the season badly and so need a manager getting the side prepared for an important game. Yes he should go and say his goodbyes but immediately before a game ????

FF but in May Rooney was happily married England were in with a chance of the world cup etc etc. We dont know what happened, and i suspect your sources are not as clued up as they were with this new regime. It saddens me that a fan as commited as you have been so easily turns on the one it loves

that is all well and good but it is thursday, he would not have got to training until tomorrow. Hardly the preparation before a game. Surely he could go and say goodbye sunday or monday.

are you trying to compare a club that is being run professionally and in line with proper finance and business practice and your grimy heap. PES you should go away and hang your head. Your club have cheated beyond reason, and deprived the revenue (the nation) of funds, add to that barefaced bending of rules and there is no comparison. Perhaps our club is being run by a tough chairman and we dont know if the club was bought on borrowings, but one thing is for certain it is not trading insolvently and used every dodge in the book to avoid paying its way

Fulham had the same situation recently when the press said Martin jol had the job but Fulham ended up with M Hughes. it was staed then that Hughes was not second choice, they got on with it and it is forgotten

I respectfully suggest that we ddint think the compensation he was asking was due, not that it was. The club statement says they accept compensation was due, unless there is a belief that the club is lying, something that i would never adhere to

at present the Scunny chairman is losing. he has scuppered his managers chance of moving to a bigger arena, his players will be unsettled as they know NA will be leaving in the near future. Both clubs are hurt

but as soon as we approached them to talk to his manager he may have had an axe to grind. i had no axe to grind with Spurs/Man City? Sunderland until they unsettled our managers in the past. The Scunny chairman has his own agenda and may have misread how to deal with NC

I suspect that NA was in poll position but i wouldn't side with the Scunny chairman before hearing our side. The OS statement was clear and cut down all the accusations. By recognising the fact that the manager was under contract and that the club accepted compensation was due pours scorn on the Scunny chairmans version IMO

the9, you are normally the voice of reason! have you been taken over by an alien?

again it is hearsay. Im sure somebody said on here they saw MLT at the stadium but i could have been wrong. The same rumour was about him at Wembley but then he was in a corporate box. i doubt he has time to go to games with his Sky commitment either. I have no doubt that NC is a difficult man to dela with though, but is mildly successful in life and so must do somethings right.

but MLT is not banned as far as Im aware. What aobut the contrators?

if we ever have negotiations with other clubs regarding a maanger i doubt that they will spill the beans before time. Phone up Bournemouth and get Howe he is on a par to NA

I have seen the Scunny chairmans quote but I have not seen any of the contractors at Staplewood, benali and Sky's. What were they?

I think brown did his chances by going to the media yesterday

why not believe the club for a change and back us not the opposition. The Scunny chairman has been a loose cannon and is trying to do the best he can for his club. Whether that is more money or keeping the manager i don't know. His comment about Nigel shouldnt work for him, could be calculating to get NC's back up to pull out and so he still has a manager. We just don't know, but having a go at our club is counterproductive IMo

'is fully aware that appropriate compensation payments become due where the candidate managers are currently under contract. The Club has acted in an entirely professional manner and will continue to do so.' FF like yourself I want the club to act correctly, by the statement I have pasted from the clubs statement , it appears they agree with us both.

Ken I see where you are coming from but to be fair NC/SFC have been consistant in not going public until all is done and dusted. In theory NA applied for the job, and we asked Scunny for permission to interview him. That does not mean we were to offer him the job and to be fair it is their chairman and the media fed the news by NA/Scunny Chairman/agent that has said he was to be unveiled. Now i do agree that the odds were, he was to be installed but we can only assume/jump to that conclusion. The club have left their options open with the statement and it looks that we will still have Wilkins in charge of the next game

How can you say that is a good post if the facts are unknown. If the truth is what Scunny are reporting then he feels the same way as me, but in alll these things there are two sides to the story.