OldNick

Billy Davies has been appointed manager at Forest. IMO they will now stay up. That leaves Saints in an awful position as i cant see any other club we can overtake. It was a mistake not to go for him. His desire and will to win will be a big factor. I know many dislike him, but he is one of those that if he is on your side you love him if he is against you he really winds you up. Jan seems a nice man but I cant see him turning us into winners.

I expect it is down to money as much as anything.Watford are paying more and at the same time helping weaken us.Cork would be settled here now and so I dont expect it is anything to do with knowing the Chelsea man ,as he has been away from Chelsea for a season and a half.

It was quaint seeing the board at the time,it shows how archaic it just was. i bet LM ran rings around them. george reader was my fathers headmaster. Some terrific memories brought back, and seeing LM as i remember him best.

he has gone. Sad but true

I suppose you are one of those who go into the loos to sneak a puff (not poof )

Im a nonsmaoker and am pleased that there is a ban.Having said that I still think it would be correct for an area out of the ground where a pen was made to allow smokers to enjoy a fag. I understand that the econoimics and stewardship of this is a major problem. Either way the club cant win.

that is totally untrue. You put caveats up saying that Sol was not a major player and so wouldnt bet. You wriggled because you knew your claim was holed below the waterline. You Welshed perod. Granty backed you up about Sol not being a main player I think you will find.

If you saw me play you would believe it to be possible. Sarcasm not at all

(my quote )to be fair I cant recall you being a great backer of NP. you wanted others. (your reply)I have never denied it. But he was chosen (out of almost nowhere), and did a job. Your reply above would to most seem to let us know what you were thinking.I did not say you slagged him off by the way.

Like me then, but after me enabling the club to win the European cup after running away with the PL titile with my goalscoring feats for 5 years running i might then leave as RL and his cohorts had made too much money from my superhuman exploits. i would then perhaps then join Man u to help them back into the Pl.

I suspect most would see the point that you are using NP as a stick to beat the club with, when all along you didnt rate him either. The point is you aint been happy with any choices of manager and so from GB thru to jan you have been complaining. Now that is fine but you cant pick and choose who to use just because it suits your particular arguement of the day.By the way happy new year to you and may we argue happily in the coming year.

Put it this way DD, I know if I played for Saints and knew i was leaving I still would give my everything while playing for us.Surman especially and lallana I believe would do the same. Whether you and Alpine would I cant say, but I expect you both would as you are Saints supporters as well.

to be fair I cant recall you being a great backer of NP. you wanted others.

your point being you were a disloyal and ungrateful employee I suppose.What point could it be otherwise? The players mentioned by you have an attachment to the club and would give their all whether they were leaving or not.

Happy when we're losing, he's only happy when we're losing. If you get my drift.

He f'ing terrorised us when he came up against us.

I thought you might like to be reminded of this post a couple of weeks ago. (quote by Merovian) I'll give you a £50 bet right now the only major player likely to be leaving is Diarra, who we have been playing without for 4-5 games now. in fact this season he has not quite reached last seasons heights, he keeps picking up niggles and injuries. Show me hard facts we have to sell, that is facts that have not come from a jackanory journo. If you can find facts then also include tony adams comments today that we are in fact going to have funds in Jan. We have agreed to sign Belhadji for £3M in January ! But we are skint - remember that, I'll be back Jan 31st to resurrect your post (end of quote) Merovian the last few words are amusing, even you might see that.Xmas greetings by the way

How can highlights not show DMG's shot against the bar??????

So having an attachment to the club mean they are not allowed to improve themselves!!!!! Why did you move to Austria, dont you have any attachment to Southampton? Or was it you wanted to get the best for your future and family.

is Ince not still free as well? Some of those would be fine by me, but again unless we know the finances of what the club can afford then it is futile thinkng of these people. i would be very much in favour of changing jan (although I would like him still to stay at the club)and many of those above can work with young players.Sadly 3 of them I associate of long ball, my choice of Davies creates a dirty side (a bit like when we had Mc Grath Hollywood etc)

I havent watched the highlights but if the Reading chances were after they equalised it is not a fair assessment.When you lose a late goal the opposition are lifted and you are likely to be on the back foot. I notice that the handball penalty shout seems to be left out which would have meant a pen in the last minute.

Alpine it is not a put down it is the case. You find the result the most important thing because you are sitting at home. Of course I wan us to win as much as anybody on here ,but also I pay with my money and time to go and be entertained. The players are trying to play football the right way.Al ot of them have been at the club years and so have a certain attachment to us. Most are earning very good wages but not astronomical ones and so are more like the players I watched when I first used to go. I left saturday feeling upset for them more than myself as they really deserved more and really did play good football with energy and enthusiasm. As you know i dont like jumping on the grave of opur club and so wilol defend it to the best of my limited ablity from unfair criticism or downright mischief making.

I canrt argue with that, but if the British man is G&D etc then I might wish to keep what we have.

Well you dont need Einstein to come to that conclusion.It was always going to be difficult.I said that the target this season is to stay up. I also asked give us a credible way of going around this is a different way. It is hard for any of us to know what financial restraints ANY manager would be under. If you are losing 300k a week you cant go and loan highly paid players and so you have to use any asset you may have.The Acadamy was the obvious way. I have no confidence that Jan will turn it around and will be surprised if RL does not act.

I agree we should kick to the Northam 2nd half. Yesterday we kicked off and so Reading must have won the toss. The winter sun hasnt stopped the opposition scoring