Secret Site Agent

When I was 6 I was ill in hospital and Gary Glitter visited me. I was touched.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Except a digital one, which isn't right at all.

Hey, I bothered to read it. If you can't be bothered to read it, don't bother posting. To Ludwig, I don't necessasily agree with you, but found it interesting. The notion of using SRL as an impact sub is bold, but only in so far that our plan B without him includes more pressure in the box, and less dawdling in midfield. I believe without him teams aren't too sure who to mark out, so we have an advantage, but you can't argue with his positioning and goal record. I'm still a little bit of a traditionalist and would like to at least see us TRY 4-4-2. The problem is that we have a system and perhaps a few of the key cogs are misssing through injury.

I'd like to see that young manager frolm s c unthorpe. 4 promotions in 6 years. Nigel Adkins. I wonder what happened to him. He has some Premiership experience. Lets get him in and give him, say, 1 year to see what he does.

Sorry, you can't legally enter into a contract by implication, only by action. That is why when you sign up for anything online the terms and conditions come up with a yes/no, or a statement that by continuing, (pressing next) you agree. Their reliance is on the fact that they don't give you any recourse to refuse.

+1 for me.

At his first Beerhall speech, 17 people listened to Hitler. It was 38 the following week. Within 6 months 1200. Small acorns, **** loads of new threads, Turk calling them Spaz's and you calling them weirdos. They'll gain momentum. Now come and give Fitzy some support.

Count me in and colour me happy. I think that too many have been spoilt over the last few years with our success and they don't realise that we are in a whole new world from whence we came.

No Kraken, it's still them and another 34 want him gone, (i've not included the feller who pressed the wrong button). If I can change at least one of these, then it will only be 35 that want him gone.

I know you didn't want him back, but perhaps they weren't thick and unable to read, perhaps they were reading between the lines.

nrhsaint wants him gone. Miltonroader, if we can make assumptions by his thread to bring back Saggers, wnat's him gone. Turkish, by association, wants him gone. (The last one is a joke to my cute Turkish pal. Kiss Kiss).

See. You are doing it again. The PERCEPTION is that you want him back. I know you don't want him back, and that you came up with a pretty good argument that he wasn't a crap as made out, and people will always have a biased view of him. you didn't stop people assuming you were for him though. There you go. Practicing what I preach, without resorting to name calling.

And it is. Thanks for that.

Now where is Trousers? He needs to partake. And Bearsy. And Delldays. ANd, lets not forget Alpine.

Which you have failed at. in my own personal opinion of course.

Apart from the five that have started since yesterday, and the two wind up ones, and the poll, why no one. No one at all. Not even you. In our survey of 576 people, 37 have said they want him gone. You have to look with better eyes than that Turkish. Why not so long ago, were you not partaking of reasons for bringing back Saggy chops and Rosie, giving the impression that you wnated Nigel Gone? Perception is a dnagerous thing, mein freund.

Would I **** her? What again? It's the big eyes that get me, and the look that if you asked her if you could do some sailing to bum island, she would be surprised you would have to ask, and she' be upset if you didn't.

The Spoilt Generation. I think we should have a thread called, 'Time for Adkins to go.' Followed by, 'Atkins just can't cut it', (notice the spelling mistake?) Then we could have 'I'm sorry, But Nigel just has to go.' Closely followed by 'Wanted. One manager with Prem Experience.' And finally, 'So long Nige, and thanks for all the promotions'. In April of 2009 I rushed to take my daughter to her first football game. I bought her a scarf, a hat and a Saints top. My wife and I weren't getting on that day and she asked me why I was doing such a stupid thing and wasting money. I told her, 'I want my little girl to see Southampton play before they don't exist any more'. She just nodded her head, and my little girl had the time of her life on that day, but didn't understand that we were going down. That's when we were at our deepest ebb. The club was going down and also going out. Or so many thought. We got Markus, and Nicola and also Pardew for a while, who got us some silverware but started a trend. As ****ty as the League 1 was, we started going to games thinking, 'we could win this.' We paid 1 million pounds for an overweight, not bad by League 1 standard, forward, bought a defender for 1.2 million. But didn't stop there, in came Dean Hammond, Radhi Jaïdi, Graeme Murty, Dan Harding , David Connolly , Michail Antonio , Papa Waigo, Lee Barnard, Danny Seaborne,Jon Otsemobor and Jason Puncheon. We started with - 10 points and got within 7 of a play off place. We started to actually to like winning. Then came Nigel Adkins, with the departure of Pardew, (bye bye Al, and thanks for all the fish). We started well and actually thought at Christmas, 'Well F me, we could win this league.' We came second, but Promoted. Into the Championship. Here comes the big shock, Can Rickie play at this level? We'll be lucky to stay mid table. We started well and actually thought at Christmas, 'Well F me, we could win this league.' We came second, again but Promoted. Always the Bridemaid never the Bride. So here we are, in the big time. Not 'Back in the Big Time'. Nope. That Southampton is dead. Gone. Ceased to exist. This is the dawning of a new age. An age where we cry, and whine, and moan, and want Nigel gone. Why? Cause we wanna win everything. Nah, nah, nah, it's not fair. Nigel must go, and all the team. We must spend in excess of 400 million, today, and have players for January. F the club, f the Liebherrs, they should bankrupt themselves and give us more and more money, so we can win win win. Spoilt. We've been spoilt. Rotten. Because we have been winning and used to winning, and we want more. But guess what? We aint going to do that at the moment, because we aint a big fish in a small pond anymore, we're swimming in the sea with the bigger fish and the sharks, and it's going to take time before we can fight back, but there are some equally small, and medium size ones we can have a crack at. Remember, for the last three seasons our first team has remained pretty much the same. Now it has changed. Remember, 3 years ago we were told that in 5 YEARS we would be in the Prem. If it took us that long, would you have moaned? Doubt it. Probably would have had a better team than we have now. Remember, we are playing against teams who already have their Manager with Premiership experience, who only need one or two signings. We are playing against teams who are already teams, and have been since we started climbing back. And we are playing against teams who are Already here and didn't have to fight to get here. 3 years ago a number of players thought they would never better themselves and get to the prem, or get back to the prem, and yet here they are. Some thought they would never taste English football at the very top level. Yet here they are. 3 Years ago there was an ex Physio who thought that one day, in the distant future he may get here. and here he is. And all you lot want to do is kick them when they are down. Our team, ( the whole 25 of them as a unit) and our manager have 7 games experience in this league. Anmd we are so spoilt, we are whinging after 7 games that we just aint good enough. Yeh, wel so f-ing what? We can only get better. Or go back to where we came from and have another go, perhaps this time after winning the Championship. Well, if you don't like it, because you are spoilt, I suggets you go and support Pompey and Bompey. And I don't say that to be a ****. They have hte oportunity to have the sort of rollercoaster ride we have just had, which was fun! Wasn't it? Because from here on out, it aint going to be much fun with us for a while. ( and if you are reading this and you didn't start at the top and read the whole thing, the paragraph above is for you, bacause this whole thread is about you)

No, it's worse than that, one own goal and another deflected off our player. I say no, don't be so fargin stupid. To coin a really cheesey line, you don't change horse mid stream. We are Prem new boys, there is only Adam and Spidey here that were here when we went down. We need to learn and so does he. As mentione above, we have got here EARLY in the five year plan, and have had to cut out cloth to match. We are the highest spenders so far, and we have a new team. They need time to gel as well. Our defence IS Poor, but the manager isn't the issue, i don't think, it's the system at the back, it's lack of awareness. We have already kicked Kelv into touch, a player who, may be too slow now for the prem, and who's reactions may be getting a little jaded, but last season with Penalties, Rickie scored them at one end and he saved them at the other, has been discarded and we have what I thought was a scond string keeper for cup matches against lower teams as our number one, *****il Bucic starts playing). This may be our problem, no one commanding the defence. we don't know. In summery. Keep Nige. How else is he going to get and experience.

nrhsaint, please don't become too dispondant with some of the answers. Everyone has their opinion, you have yours, they have theirs. And the rest of you, please stop the name calling, the man has only posted 29 times, so try not to be too hard, you heady keyboard warriors, you. And I disagree to a point, that perhaps the substitutions made sense if we hadn't gone 2-1 down almost immediatly, which ****ed me off. But we shouldn't be reliant on RL and AL to be our golden tickets, and to provide and score all the time. I agree that we not only need to work on our defence, ( and don't forget that if Jos had gone off early, would they have got two goals?who knows). I just think we should concentrate on other formations, without Rickie, and focus on a more attacking midfield set up. I hated that we settled in for a 1-0 win, and strangly enough, if we had listened to those who wanted Fonte out for bot cutting it in the Prem, would we have lost 2-0? But I don't think 'Nige Out'. I think he needs to learn a little more. I think our team with 6 new faces from last season need to learn to gel more, ( and i'm glad we're still playing the Southampton Way), I think we need to try and reduce our reliance on Rickie, and we need to employ a decent Prem experianced defensive coach, AND have a few more tactics based around keeping the ball midfield. Them midfielders need to be scoring more as well, final product and all that. And please nrh, learn to spell Nigel Adkins. They'll hang you for it, 'round here

Then my apologies to all:lol:

Christ, i wish i hadn't even bothered. I don't know why, I was just satirising the goings on here.I just took the reports and gave an informed view based on my 20 years in construction.

OK, let me lay it down for you. My source is Turkish. His source is the Echo. I cut and pasted the item from the Echo into here. I had a little joke with you. I put the LOL on the end to show I did this for fun. In my own professional opinion I'm guessing it is related to a thing called 'Future Proofing' which means that, as an extreme example, putting on an Asbestos roof back in the 80's when you know that Asbestos is going to be banned in the near future. So a change in spec means a redesign. They may even be looking at making it a Passivhaus, which is a type of construction that doesn't need heating or lighting because it's design incorporates a lot of insulated materials and strategically placed windows and skylights. Hope this helps.

Problems with the structure would NOT lead to a contractor being removed from site. It's very difficult to remove a contractor from site and normally requires a lot of time and perhaps dough. If there was a problem, they would write to the contractor, give him a time frame to resolve, and if he doesn't, then get it resolved by someone else and charge the contractor for it. The same with any professional if they are at fault, that is why we carry Professional Indemnity insurance. It's normally the other way round with a contractor walking off of site, but here he leaves himself open to the same charges. Yep. That NEVER happens. Try attending a meeting involving a government department. When the brown stuff hits the fan, everyone blames everyone else. Contractors blame the Designer/Architect, Designer/Architect blames the client., Client blames everyone especially the contractor. And the problem with clients, (and some of the poor devils on Cowboy Builders) is that any change COSTS MONEY!!!!!!!!!! You may think you can change the size of the fencing, Mr Bloody Client, and you think just because I haven't put it up yet, it's not a problem. But if it takes 6 weeks to manufacture, 2 weeks to deliver, I ordered it 8 weeks ago and have to pay for it, so does the client, who don't like that.

Hey it's alright. According to my sources, it has been agreed to pause the process whilst details of a specific aspect of the specification is confirmed. I can't reveal my sources, (see Turkish post 166) but once this aspect is confirmed, the works will continue. Sorry, had to bite. My guess is a change in the offing to allow us to still be at the top level for training, so they are having to have a rethink regarding changing the spec to make it Futureproof. Plenty akers will be involved, as stopping work mean paying an agreed 'standing time' for the machines and workforce. And I can't see that coming out of SFC coffers unless it really is a client change, and the Risk Register identifies it. For the layman, this means that a flat schedule of rates will be paid daily to the contractor for his plant, and his men SHOULD still be paid, but at a flat rate, which is hard as if they were getting say 50 hours/week, they may now only 37.5 - 39. And standing is a regular occurence, more common than not with a lot of newer schemes using more innovative processes, as the cost of rework is normally much higher than just waiting to do it correctly first time. I have been stood down in the past for a specificational glitch for concrete for a central reserve barrier, (to do with the stuff in the concrete that isn't cement and water), stood down because of a change in the waste regs due to us tendering a job before april to remove a carriageway with 0.1 % tar bound material, which was below the trigger level for contamninated, and going to remove it when the job started after april to find it was now classed as contaminated, (this cost 200k and, you guessed it, you loverly boys paid for that mistake.) I've also been stood down because of Badgers, Newts, Dormice, and a microsnail (Desmoulin's whorl snail, which didn't stop the Newbury bypass strangly enough). I'm on stop now because of Asbestos cement sheeting used as permenant formwork, which wasn't identified at tender stage. unfortunatly I must exclude myself from the argument over builders and Architects, on account of being a Civil Engineer. Wish I had got involved sooner, to clear this up. Perhaps NC should employ a decent company to provide it. We'll do it for a fee, modest of course, and ensure the job is future proofed.