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...we might have got Billy Davies. Could one of the many who said we were crazy not to beg him to come here tell me if he is still the second coming please?

 

I think that could be a bit premature... if he keeps them up and we go down then I think you will have your answer. Conversely, if we pull off a miracle and they go down you will have your answer.

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You know what? I dont see their predicament as worse. Ironic I know but, yes they will go down (as will we) but I see them bouncing back up relatively quickly. We will not - we are heading to League 2.

 

 

you would have to be a fool to swap with them now, surely?:confused:

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I thought Davies would be great for us. But then i thought Forest would be up near Donny now as well. Looks like that isn't working out as i thought. Wrong again! That said it doesn't look like all is well behind the scenes there. He's had his hands tied regards transfers.

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Guessing about managers? What a great game.

 

Strachan's record before coming here was horrific yet...

'we should have got Hoddle back when we had the chance', his record after leaving us certainly showed what he is capable of as a coach and a man-manager...

Burley was a quality manager with Championship pedigree.

Woodward built a structure to keep England at the top of rugby for a generation.

And Harry was the man to wheeler-deal us out of a crisis.

 

Billy Davies?? Chimps could toss a coin and come up with an answer, which seems to have been how the current board has operated for a while so it might just work, we have to stumble across an answer eventually.

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Guessing about managers? What a great game.

 

Strachan's record before coming here was horrific yet...

'we should have got Hoddle back when we had the chance', his record after leaving us certainly showed what he is capable of as a coach and a man-manager...

Burley was a quality manager with Championship pedigree.

Woodward built a structure to keep England at the top of rugby for a generation.

And Harry was the man to wheeler-deal us out of a crisis.

 

Billy Davies?? Chimps could toss a coin and come up with an answer, which seems to have been how the current board has operated for a while so it might just work, we have to stumble across an answer eventually.

 

I felt we had the chance to put Rupert in charge of the first team and all things Saints football related and we blew it..We have ended up with second and third best..Come on Rupert get a grip..you football guru.:smt049

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...we might have got Billy Davies. Could one of the many who said we were crazy not to beg him to come here tell me if he is still the second coming please?

 

 

No one ever said he was the second coming.

 

However, in three full seasons at this level (and in the last five years, not a decade ago) he has a achieved the play offs three times, the play off final twice, and promotion once.

 

That's a bloody good record, recently, in this division, and with clubs as skint as us (the Derby little bit of spending happened in January when they were top of the league, and Davies spent, err, the same as Burley that season).

 

So apologies if it offends you that someone with that record is thought by some fans to be a pretty good bet for us. How awfully silly :rolleyes:

 

Who would you recommend that is so much better?

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That's a bloody good record, recently, in this division, and with clubs as skint as us (the Derby little bit of spending happened in January when they were top of the league, and Davies spent, err, the same as Burley that season).

 

So Derby spent £7million the season they went up? No wonder they got promotion!

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It seems lots of ITKs are prepared to say we are going into administration etc but not one of these ITKs has suggested the name of the loan signing we are trying to get in this week.

 

Incredible theboard will break the law and share information on admin but not a name we are trying to sign. I just dont understand it

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Like him or not,Davies - or possibly kerbcrawler Pleat -has managed to bring in McSheffrey and Gunter on loan.Names we could only have hoped for.

 

Results however are another matter.

 

Davies may be making far too many changes at a time where regularity and consistency may be more useful. Gunter will take time to adjust to the pace of the Championship game and frankly the situation they're in can't make it any easier; don't really understand Notts F, they started getting better results after Davies took over then he started changing everything and they've cracked up completely.

Too much, too late probably sums it up.

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Too much, too late probably sums it up.

 

Not dissimilar to us then, although we are probably more in the 'too little,too late' league.

 

One thing though,if it comes down to and end of season eyeball to eyeball confrontation with Forest for relegation,I'd expect Davies to have his team more fired up than we will.

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Like him or not,Davies - or possibly kerbcrawler Pleat -has managed to bring in McSheffrey and Gunter on loan.Names we could only have hoped for.

 

Results however are another matter.

 

It is true that managers with reputations have a better chance of persuading the more skilled players to sign.

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It is true that managers with reputations have a better chance of persuading the more skilled players to sign.

 

I see that Davies has started dropping players because he doesn't think their "lifestyle" is suitable;Just what you need to build up a team when you're up sh*it street. There's a time for everything, trouble is it probably isn't just now.

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I heard from someone whose friend is in the playing squad at Forest that Davis is not very popular with the team at all.

 

nick you have me as a friend and all i have is you. I give you the odd snippet and you go and tell everyone..Can't you keep any secrets.:smt017

 

nick keep the info coming...I keep passing it onto The Sun in the hope I can make some money..No luck so far.:---)

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Oh god yes... whilst there's a slim chance of survival. But, I know which Club I'm backing for success in League 1 and it isnt Saints.

 

You must be the most relentlessly pessimistic poster on this site. Why do you bother even supporting Saints if it brings this much misery into your life?

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You must be the most relentlessly pessimistic poster on this site. Why do you bother even supporting Saints if it brings this much misery into your life?

 

He's a realist Sid and imo we'll be in the League 1 relegation mix next season.

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someone commented that they saw Swindon and we aren't that good, and I saw

Orient v Crewe and we wouldn't have got much change out of them two either - teams battling at the bottom of the table.

So Div 1 is no picnic, we may have to wait another year or two before we slide to a level where we can hammer someone.

 

Is it just me or has the light at the end of the tunnel gone out?

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nick you have me as a friend and all i have is you. I give you the odd snippet and you go and tell everyone..Can't you keep any secrets.:smt017

 

nick keep the info coming...I keep passing it onto The Sun in the hope I can make some money..No luck so far.:---)

If you are my only mate someone hand me the rope I have an oak tree outside. i dont care if you believe me or not it makes no difference, some know that the stuff i put up is spot on regarding info.

Some bits i can't put on for various reasons and the bit i heard yesterday .......

On a tenuous vein the share price went up very slighly today. Only £2500 worth though.

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Have what answer? Keeping forest up with far more money for loans etc?

 

 

"Far more money for loans etc" oh we're so hard done by. :rolleyes:

 

Last time I looked we had a keeper in goal we paid a million pounds for, while Forest have a keeper in goal we turfed out because he wasn't good enough. Oh, and we have a £1.75m left winger, two £750k strikers, a £1m centre back, a rising-to-£1m midfielder and so on.

 

Forest got Earnshaw in, and a couple of loans down to Pleaty's contacts more than cash, but not a great deal else.

 

If they stay up it won't be because they've blown everyone else out of the water financially.

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