OldNick

Saints away fans are great although i did not like it last night when on Radio Hants a caller phooned in from the game.There i was warm in the knowledge of a great win and avidly waiting to hear about the performance from somebody there and what did he talk about?? but RL !!! That was enough for me I listened to Wottes interview and went to bed.

lose pointsLOL Pompey would be in the Conference by now. I assume he asked the fans to quieten down when BT was about to take the penalty the other day. He is hypocritical and is too sensitive to be a footballer. I expect he will want flowers and candles around the touchline next

that explains a lot

nt anymore you dont

i dont think it is anymore than being part of the team. As i have said ther3e is a great spirit in the dressing room, something that has been missing for a long time.HR said in the relegation season that the dressing room was quiet. A good spitit in the dressing room ups the performance. Perhaps the mainly British spine of the team is starting to pay dividends.

All in your opinion of course VK. I myself find it interesting seeing others viewpoints and debating with them if I believe they are being unfair or wrong. it has helped me in the past to see if in fact i have been wrong.Fortunately that has been very rare, Saga is probably the one thing I have been most wrong about. he has helped rejuvenate the team, that with Wotte changing the players mindset and good pros like KD PW JE geting the team fight there. Football is about opinions, sadly most of the opinions are about politics of a football club not the great game we love.

Who is saying we are doing well.Iti s not me. The 15 players you mention I assume includes loans who have gone back and also players who were free agents and on the injury list. Size Perry Morgan Wotton Pearce (when here) have been very good.Robertson was part of a swap deal that didnt come off (he did score a goal that got us 3 points thankfully). Peckhart soon went from where he came.Forecast is a back up keeper. Holmes(injured) and Ryan Smith were free agents and so cost token amounts. Liptak looks useful to bring on when we are closing a game.Pulis was linked to the davies sale (turned out to be fine business) gasmi i have seen snippets of and doesnt look that good at present. As for ythe conjecture about keeping the staff from last season yes if we had Strern Rasiak from day 1 we may have more points but that is all perhaps and maybes. Do not compare Leicester in L1 to CCC or you may as well compare us and WBA or Man U.Different leagues, wait for next season and then lets judge NP how good he is.The fact as I see it is that he so very nearly took us down, and his main attribute was that many of the disbelievers of now were right behind him and so the fanbase were united. That was his main asset to my mind, LC could not have been that convinced or he would have signed him up well before RL came back in. Perhaps we had better not get points per game debates going either as they prove little

He did buy neil mccann and so perhaps it wqas best he didnt have a big pot to spend. WGS lost his appetite after we lost Bridge.He became disenchanted and stated that , you just about get to the big clubs coattails and then they buy your best playrs and you are back to square 1. That was a major reason as he could see with a club like ours in the middle you are never going to compete against the top 4 and the CL money rolling in. He did not leave due to RL IMO

No i wont know as will very few. Apart from Arsenal and Manu very few clubs have kept their manager for a long time

Which ones quit because they were unhappy? HR I suspect. GH went for the obvious reason, WGS left on a promise to his wife.

LTC it is ok to make cheap pops like that, but they are all pertinent reasons. LM lost a lot under his football directorship, LC had 3 in less than 6months. How many managers have been replaced in the leagues already this season? When you have the modern football fan wishing for the manager to be gone before his first game then the revloving door keeps happening.

I am just reporting what he said recently when his health was shown to be not good.I cant recall the illness he is suffereing from that he has had for a long time now. he did say the pressure was too much for him.

Prince Charles but not same year, he often tells people his in on the same day as mine

I think this goes back to when the stadium was going to be built and the FA then said something about if the ground was big enough they might use it as a venue.Considering the FA are not in a great financial state then I dont think they will lend money, especially after missiug the Euros

Are you new to this forum? i think there was a poster a while ago who used to post under a similar name when things were going well.Then as it was suggested he'd disappear when things got tough and then return when things perked up again.Lol That same person was telling us that the stadium had started as well as the training facilities.I think you lot have become the donkeys and a carrot is on a stick 2 feet in front of you and you just keep walking thinking you are really going to get it. If you stay up in the next 3 years and the economy picks up a bit a buyer may come along and then MAY build a stadium, but dont keep thinking it is really there because it patently is not at present. You gimps need to realise it and fast.Football is losing its edge and the PL is fast becoming a tarnished product, fans like us have seen the days when football was more closer to the fan, not the ivory towers they have now.I enjoy where we are as in a mainly british style and a lot of the young lads coming threough.Its not PL glossy but the hurly burly of the old british style. If we were in the PL then perhaps i may think differently, but hand on heart i really dont yearn for the overhype over paid PL.

Souness walked out, said to be unhappy at transfer budget, (RL denied that he had been told any budget) immediately walks into benfica job.No interview process just straight in..odd that Dave Jones. Now tell me how RL could have kept him on? We have the Mc Donalds family centre, Ford acadamy (at that time) parents deciding whether to send their young lads to play in our acadamy, the players having their own kids, and then the Police drip drip of new offences being aimed at him. Even the fans who were supportive, in the main started to question as the 2nd raft of 10's of offences were published.No company would have been able to have kept him as manager, and at least we offered to support him during that time. Hoddle. Do i need to say more? Gray. He had the opportunity to go with the rest who GH had taken away but turned him down as he was loyal to the club. RL rewarded that loyalty by giving him the job.i wasnt too impressed but there is nothing wrong in rewarding loyalty.RL was decisive in replacing him when things were looking bad. WGS again he stated when he came that he would only be here for 3 years as he promised his wife so.WGS a man of his word carried that out.The news of him leaving destabilised the club and we couldnt get someone ready and it was all public , the results went on a steep decline, relegation form in fact.RL wished for GH to return, i like many others voiced our disgust. Sturrock, was a brave/reckless decision similar to keane/Ince appontments.PS has statd recently that the pressure was too much for him and so he resigned. Left again in the lurch Wigley was installed. He had rave reviews what he had achievedin the reserve set up, and glowing reports from the playing staff. Hit by a terrible run of injuries (a very unlucky period in time, 2-1 away at Arsenal in the injury time and van Persie hit a fantastic equaliser, Niemi injured pre the vital WBA game and his replacement makes 2 howlers and we only draw)he is replaced, perhaps too late but still over 20 games left. HR an exciting appointment, the fans in the main were overjoyed we were to be saved, and should have been. Basset/Wise caretaker. Showed nothing that they could improve things and after his outburst shwed why Wise would not be the man for us. GB again welcomed by the fanbase.Left under LC again walked out on the club, no fault of ours. NP taken on a short term contract(not immediately negotiated for longer by regime of time). Did adequate job, saved on last day, but united the fanbase.RL decides he wishes to use his own appointment . Jan under severe financial restraint, for long periods nearly worked.left too long before being nudges. Wotte??? All those appointments you have to go back to the time and assess the clubs position. If the fsans had had their way NONE of the appointments would have happened.(perhaps Hoddle and GB)

I personally didnt see any.The marchers did it with the best intentions so i dont want to knock them.the anti Wotte and sitting in the highway were some very bad miscalculations and so the point got muddied. I noticed a march was not organised and rightly so as i doubt the Cardiff fans would have been too sympathic and it could have turned out bloody.

How many fans were worried about RL or Wilde after the PNE or Cardiff games? I didnt give them a thought and i doubt many did.The crowds wil come back in the main when the results improve.The club offering incentives is a positive IMO

Could be but also we normally get a good crowd.i also think they bring quite a few and if i m right dont the clubs have to offer the away fans the same price? Also some of the deal is aimed at the S/T holder, i noticed that RL/board have made it clear that if there are any incentives the S/T holders will get the credit or value.I think the Mna U game the s/t holders got preference to remaining tickets etc.

He made 2 terrible blunders.1 against PNE from a free kick his first season and QPR home where he got caught with the ball.Many games last season he was motm especially in away games. The main save i remember was at SMS when he got his fingetips to a shot from Lee Hendry when it was 0-0 against stoke. We went onto win by a single goal but it tilted the game in ourt favour.There were a lot more occasions but they all blur into 1 now.

How about the club want to get A) a big crowd to roar the team on B) fans rejuvenated into the ground that then may wish to buy s/t's and so return C) get a bumper crowd and that would say to whoever 'it has nothing to do with RL that fans are not turning up D) the club wish to make bridges and wont to instill some interest again

some were , many on the marches were but in general the majority whilst underwhelmed gave him a little time.We are a long way of having a new messiah as manager but i do like what he says and even the fans stuff was on the button IMO. The tone could change again by next monday but it is good not having the constant negative posts on here.

All in your opinion. I cited loads of occasions during that season where KD's briliance had won us points.Many were too blinkered to see it though.JE also and his last second goal away at Wolves got peoples hope back. Neither are the best players that have ever worn our shirt but like Crouch, Fuller JE KD they have gone on to prove the knockers how wrong they were, DMG will do the same mark my words

Im in the not for me camp Im afraid, I couldnt crawl over broken glass to wear one.