New boss will find it tough (From Daily Echo)

Phew - what a day yesterday! I will miss Nigel and I thank him sincerely for all he did for us. Anyone though who thinks protest will get us anywhere is deluded. If you would like Cortese out or fan 'ownership' take a long hard look down the road before you wave your hankies, rip up your tickets or boycott St Marys. 100% behind the lads and our new manager on Monday please - no stamford toxicity!

What's needed then is a black eye patch for Pochettino and Cortese to shave his head whilst stroking his mr. Bigglesworth and go for outright world domination. Fricking ****.

Bang on the button St Graz.... Cortese is here to stay whether we like it or not. If he has made a monumental **** up then its he that will have to answer to the owners.... not the fans.

All we can do is get behind the team and the new manager to keep the momentum of recent results going.

Nigel has proven his worth over the past few seasons and will soon be back in work... thank you Nigel Adkins and good luck for the future.

COYR !!!

Much as I regret the dismissal of Nigel I will not be waving the Italian flag on Monday night.

Wonderful satirical tone. But when will the Echo realise that "buy the paper to read the rest of this..." is such an outdated publishing model that has never driven paper sales? Paywalls won't work anyhow, but punishing those for not living in the delivery area in a global age is just stupid, especially when smart ads can be served to an international audience. An easy test of this would be to put the rest of the article behind a paywall and see who is willing to pay. Up for the challenge, Echo?

St Graz wrote:
Phew - what a day yesterday! I will miss Nigel and I thank him sincerely for all he did for us. Anyone though who thinks protest will get us anywhere is deluded. If you would like Cortese out or fan 'ownership' take a long hard look down the road before you wave your hankies, rip up your tickets or boycott St Marys. 100% behind the lads and our new manager on Monday please - no stamford toxicity!

Well said St Graz,all of us need to unite and give the manager and players 100%,lets show the rest of the world what fantastic supporters we have

I feel drained after yesterday. Nigel will never be forgotten by us for what he did and how he led us from the depths of English football, but we can't allow St Mary's to become Stamford Bridge, a place where the home side a frightened and nervous about playing in and if that can happen to world class players like they have, think what that would do to our young team of future world class players! Get behind he boys, they must be just as shocked and need us more than ever!

P.s I wanna frickin Messi with a frickin laser beam attached to his head!

You need to realize that cortese buys the players , yet Adkins has taken the stick for this...
The Norwegian you have just signed, surely if that was adkins deal, then it would have been cancelled as Adkins was leaving...
Just shows that cortese should take the blame ....

Like most football fans before yesterday I hope you survive but now you have become a bit like qpr and most neutral fans would want you to go down...

NA has gone and I am gutted. Yet Monday we play Everton, the players will be down because NA was well liked. So the last thing they need is a hostile atmosphere. If we do not get behind our players on Monday we will get stuffed.
Yes chant there is 'One NA'
Yet it is pointless to turn on MP, as all he has done is take a job that would of gone to someone else otherwise.

Its one thing for Chelsea fans to produce negativity at the Bridge, all they lose is points. We do it and we will be relegated.

NA's philosophy was everyone together, Okay he has gone but that still applies.

Perplexed as I am by this move by Cortese. I was equally perplexed when Pardew was sacked and Nigel who? came to the club as were many.
Yet NA was fantastic and what he achieved was enormous.

I do ask if you can't speak the language, how do you get your message across? How do you show your passion and give motivation?

Across various sites fans from all over the country are saying Saints have just relegated themselves. This just feels like a massive mistake.

Our team needs us more than ever, the new manager needs a chance, whatever we think. All I know is he is rated highly by the likes of Pep G and Jose M.

I think this was lined up when we had four points and the delay was the work permit.

NA deserved better we all know that and he was doing a good job. Yet nothing will bring him back.

The team needs us to lift them and if we don't we are down.

having spent all day here in Aus trying to comprehend the deeds of the Don, i am now convinced the best path ahead is get behind the new regime. From all that has happened, it is clear NC is ambitious and we should embrace that ambition. When NA was apointed, i like many was WTF. I am hooping that this will work out as well as that appointment. In the mean time thank you so much for the past few years Nigel. You ARE a scholar and a gentlemen. Good Luck and God bless.

Lets keep these posts positive today, negatively will not help our cause.
We are the 12th man on the pitch, we don't even know yet if this appointment is right or wrong so how can most of us **** it out of hand?
As most of my fellow posters above have had said, lets show the world just how different we are from the Chelsea dissenters!
I'm excited today, COYR!!

Well I'm very pleased to see that a good nights sleep seems to have quelled the anger felt by some.

Support the team, support the manager and wish Nigel all the very best. We're a better class of supporter than Chelsea after all!

I for one will be there on Monday night showing my support to the players , the new manager ( its not his fault NA has been sacked) and I will not be joining in if there are any protests against NC as love him or hate him he is the chairman of our great club and without his ambition to make us a successful club where would we be ?

I think the fact he mentioned that he had been studying the club in recent weeks shows that NC had made his decision to remove Nigel Adkins some time ago. I think where everything has been done so callously by Cortese is sure to make it a baptism of fire for MP. Winning his first ten games will still leave a bitter taste for the fans due to the way this has all been handled and the total disrespect shown to Nigel and his staff. I agree that protests are not going to help matters, but there's alot of anger and pent up frustration that has to be vented somehow. This season to most of us was all about consolidation, but now at least we know Cortese wants us in the Champions League next season!!! COYR.....

Well now I've had a chance to sleep on it, I have to keep on supporting my team.

As far as I'm concerned it's a dirty deed and it's going to leave a bitter taste for some time to come for me.
I think it would be appropriate to demonstrate our support for Nigel on Monday night but then, I think, we have to move on.

Nige is gone, continued protest will not bring him back. (Hasn't worked for Chelski has it?)
The best thing we can do for those lads on the pitch is get 100% behind them and sing our hearts out. this is a crucial point of the season, we have space between us and the drop zone - that needs to be increased.

I just hope that Mr Cortese has made another astute decision, and not a massive blunder.

100% Saints fan, disappointed right now. Prove me wrong Potty.

milton road wrote:
NA has gone and I am gutted. Yet Monday we play Everton, the players will be down because NA was well liked. So the last thing they need is a hostile atmosphere. If we do not get behind our players on Monday we will get stuffed.
Yes chant there is 'One NA'
Yet it is pointless to turn on MP, as all he has done is take a job that would of gone to someone else otherwise.

Its one thing for Chelsea fans to produce negativity at the Bridge, all they lose is points. We do it and we will be relegated.

NA's philosophy was everyone together, Okay he has gone but that still applies.

Perplexed as I am by this move by Cortese. I was equally perplexed when Pardew was sacked and Nigel who? came to the club as were many.
Yet NA was fantastic and what he achieved was enormous.

I do ask if you can't speak the language, how do you get your message across? How do you show your passion and give motivation?

Across various sites fans from all over the country are saying Saints have just relegated themselves. This just feels like a massive mistake.

Our team needs us more than ever, the new manager needs a chance, whatever we think. All I know is he is rated highly by the likes of Pep G and Jose M.

I think this was lined up when we had four points and the delay was the work permit.

NA deserved better we all know that and he was doing a good job. Yet nothing will bring him back.

The team needs us to lift them and if we don't we are down.

hoping not hooping. Stripes above hoops always. COYS. Just found out my wife is going to be induced and will conincide with Everton game which is on at a respectable time for us for a change. Bad news keeps on rolling.

Stroppy_gramps wrote:
Well now I've had a chance to sleep on it, I have to keep on supporting my team.

As far as I'm concerned it's a dirty deed and it's going to leave a bitter taste for some time to come for me.
I think it would be appropriate to demonstrate our support for Nigel on Monday night but then, I think, we have to move on.

Nige is gone, continued protest will not bring him back. (Hasn't worked for Chelski has it?)
The best thing we can do for those lads on the pitch is get 100% behind them and sing our hearts out. this is a crucial point of the season, we have space between us and the drop zone - that needs to be increased.

I just hope that Mr Cortese has made another astute decision, and not a massive blunder.

100% Saints fan, disappointed right now. Prove me wrong Potty.

Exactly, 'another astute decision'. All this about NC the dictator, when has he ever made a decision that is not in the best interests of SFC?
To date, what decisions have been bad ones? (And we don't know yet whether yesterday's will be right or wrong).
Get behind the team, get behind Mauricio and stay loyal to our Chairman everyone!

Sorry Milton meant to quote my previous quote not yours (spot the novice). Anyway could not have agreed with your post any more.

St Graz wrote:
Phew - what a day yesterday! I will miss Nigel and I thank him sincerely for all he did for us. Anyone though who thinks protest will get us anywhere is deluded. If you would like Cortese out or fan 'ownership' take a long hard look down the road before you wave your hankies, rip up your tickets or boycott St Marys. 100% behind the lads and our new manager on Monday please - no stamford toxicity!

Back the team support the 11 on the pitch , they are going to keep us up . Positive terraces is what is required . Thanx N.A. you were a star , but the players need full support , COME ON YOU REDS

I, like so many fans, am recovering from what can only be described as a dramatic day. In the cold light of a new dawn following a night of reflection and allowing the emotions to cool one cannot argue that at times NA has been criticised for some of his tactics and losing 19 pts from winning positions does, I'm afraid, does speak for itself. Yesterday I quickly developed a very negative attitude toward NC, however although he is seen by large numbers of the fans / public as a tyrant / dictator it has to be said that it appears his actions are being taken for the best interests for the club. Being Italian the feeding of his ego will be driving NC on and if the club benefits that's alright by me. Meanwhile I thank NA for all that he has done and wish him, and his family, all the very best for the future.

Nice to see the post's are getting more positive, yes I was totally shocked and disgusted at what happened yesterday, but at the end of the day I'm a Saints fan and will always be so, through think and thin it's Saints forever. I would be at St Mary's on monday if I had the money, health and time to travel that far,but in my heart I'll be there shouting out 'COYR'S. P.S: Thank You so much Nigel for all you done for our Saints, and good luck in the future, hope to see you lead out your new club to play us soon (Villa me thinks).

milton road wrote:
NA has gone and I am gutted. Yet Monday we play Everton, the players will be down because NA was well liked. So the last thing they need is a hostile atmosphere. If we do not get behind our players on Monday we will get stuffed.
Yes chant there is 'One NA'
Yet it is pointless to turn on MP, as all he has done is take a job that would of gone to someone else otherwise.

Its one thing for Chelsea fans to produce negativity at the Bridge, all they lose is points. We do it and we will be relegated.

NA's philosophy was everyone together, Okay he has gone but that still applies.

Perplexed as I am by this move by Cortese. I was equally perplexed when Pardew was sacked and Nigel who? came to the club as were many.
Yet NA was fantastic and what he achieved was enormous.

I do ask if you can't speak the language, how do you get your message across? How do you show your passion and give motivation?

Across various sites fans from all over the country are saying Saints have just relegated themselves. This just feels like a massive mistake.

Our team needs us more than ever, the new manager needs a chance, whatever we think. All I know is he is rated highly by the likes of Pep G and Jose M.

I think this was lined up when we had four points and the delay was the work permit.

NA deserved better we all know that and he was doing a good job. Yet nothing will bring him back.

The team needs us to lift them and if we don't we are down.

Spot on Iºm afraid. I think Saintsfans to Adkins is tremendous it just shows what heart they have, But today is a new day reality has set in and lets hope the new guy can deliver Corteseºa vision. We can expect movement on the transfer front because I think in part that is why Adkins had to go. Top players wont come to a club managed by a former physio they have never heard of. A sad reality but that is the size of it, Saints were looking to compete with top clubs for the best players out there you can be sure.
. The nest two weeks will be interesting for sure.

mack chinnon wrote:
Much as I regret the dismissal of Nigel I will not be waving the Italian flag on Monday night.

ditto

Change is rarely embraced in any walk of life. Nigel isn't/wasn't the high profile manager to pull the players to get us to the top half of the table as NC has always wanted in his vision for the club. Therefore change was probably always coming.

Unfortunately, more change is on its way. I feel that fans favourites on the pitch will be the next to go as most of this squad wouldn't get into a top 10 prem side. There is no room for sentiment if we want success as this isn't the same club that was in the Prem some 7-8 years ago. To be constant relegation candiates is just not good enough and not why NC convinced the legendary Marcus to purchase the club.

Despite all of this I am still gutted for Adkins. But if I am being honest with myself it's not because I feel he could achieve more success for us but because of the person he was. Likeable, intelligent, 100% committed to the cause and because he got us promoted twice and he deserved a chance. Now he will live on as a legend to us. In the past, I was critical of his ability to have the pulling power to purchase players. Weren't we linked with Michu and Butner in the summer?

Good luck to Nige. We treated you badly and for that I am very sorry and wherever you go I will fondly follow your results and wish you well (unless its down the road). Now though I have to continue to support my team and there is no room for sentiment if we want to be successful.

I have supported the saints for well over 50 years and have seen some very strange decisions along the way. The decision to sack Nigel Adkins, is, unfortunately a sign of the times and I am sure there will be many more managers with other clubs, between now and the end of the season who will share the same fate.
I feel that we have to accept what has happened and continue supporting the team from Monday night. After all they must feel as confused and uncertain of what lies ahead as we do. They will need the belief and extra encouragement from the fans from now on .

Not sure if anyone else has said this on another thread, but does anyone think that this guy has been appointed because of his friendship with mourinho?

Maybe NC's trying to spark up a loan relationship with real Madrid? Wouldn't be surprised to see some up and coming Spanish players suddenly appear in the window.

One aspect of this dramatic action I am having difficulty rationalising is the timing. If, as suggested, MP has been assessing the club's players for some little time, an act that clearly indicates MP was considering an offer of 1st team coach, then why wait until halfway through the transfer window? MP must have made decisions about players capabilites and potential and ideas of whom he would like to ship out and bring in. Cannot imagine this was not discussed during his meetings with NC. He now has just two weeks to acheive this instead of 4 had NA left at the end of December. Anyone any deas?

CORLEONE STATEMENT REVISED:

“This decision has been made with the lack of ambition of Southampton Football Club in mind. Whilst we acknowledge the contribution Nigel Who has made during the past two years, for the Club to regress and achieve our long-term targets of getting everyone to speak Spanish a change was needed.”

Executive Chairman, Nicola Cortese said: “Mauricio is a coach of dubious quality who has gained a reputation as an **** tactician and excellent man manager – probably because he has the face of a lady. I have played him at FIFA 13 on the Playstation, and I have a girl’s name, and know this. I have every confidence that he will perspire our talented squad of players to perform at the highest possible level.

“He also shares Nigel Atkins belief that the most successful clubs are built by nurturing young players through a development system that provides a clear path to the door, thereby creating a culture that keeps them at the Club for the long term until they are offered more money by 'Arry at Queens Park Rangers because let’s face it, who wants to live in Southampton? This is an approach he has employed with great success in the past, resulting in him being sacked from his last job at Espanyol, and I look forward to him bringing that experience and expertise to the Venkys at Blackburn in due course.”

Stroppy_gramps wrote:
Well now I've had a chance to sleep on it, I have to keep on supporting my team.

As far as I'm concerned it's a dirty deed and it's going to leave a bitter taste for some time to come for me.
I think it would be appropriate to demonstrate our support for Nigel on Monday night but then, I think, we have to move on.

Nige is gone, continued protest will not bring him back. (Hasn't worked for Chelski has it?)
The best thing we can do for those lads on the pitch is get 100% behind them and sing our hearts out. this is a crucial point of the season, we have space between us and the drop zone - that needs to be increased.

I just hope that Mr Cortese has made another astute decision, and not a massive blunder.

100% Saints fan, disappointed right now. Prove me wrong Potty.

You have similar views as me.

Yes I think we, as the vocal support should show our chaiman that we are an integral part of Southampton football club.
That our financial input is a major factor in the existence of the club.
I think we have to demonstate our distaste in the manner that he has DISPOSED of the best manager the club has had in the last 20 years.
We should show this in the only way possible for us by chanting Nigels name.
Without the support there is no business.
Once demonsrated,we then have to tell the players,who must be shell shocked,that we are totally behind them and the new management team.
Without the money from Marcus Liebherr, there was no club.
Without Corsese seing the opportunity, there was no club.

Just so disapointed with the despicable way that it has been done.

I had hoped that the great name of Southampton football club would avoid any more adverse media,as we have had more than our fair share over the years.
Alas not to be!
Hope he has got it right cos after 50 years of supporting our club I have to say that my patience of bad management is on it's limit.
COYR

I have supported the Saints since the sixty's when dad took me to my first game. A nice family run club with a nice following. However in a the years I have been going I think that this is the most back stabbing, uncaring, vile decision ever. When do we, as supporters, come to the point where we say,that this is not the kind of actions we want our club to adopt. Or do we just sit back and let a tyrant walk all over us...

Did you see the pics on the news of that bus sliding out of control in the snow? That's us that is!

On twitter there is a message that Nigel left for the club.
KEEP SMILING.
HAVE FAITH + BELIEF THAT YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING.
KEEP LOOKING TO IMPROVE,
Seems to me that is exacty what Cortese is doing.
BUT my point is........this exactly what Nigel is like.
Positive ... whatever!
I would hope that Cortese will be able to talk about Nigel in good terms and wish him well.
A rumour that Nigel left in tears is well beleivable.

NOW.
A new dawn.
support the Saints.....always.

NC and the Liebherrs have poured millions into a bankrupt club. That allowed the purchase of players from above the team's lowly status, attracted by the money on offer and the investment in facilities. For 2 seasons NC and the Liebherrs purchased a team that were a league better than the league they were in and it was less than a surprise when they were promoted. Now they are in the PL they cannot do that because half the teams are richer and more supported than Saints. So success can only be achieved by great management and temporary over investment. NC has still poured money into the club as a temporary investment but the results have been devastatingly bad because Adkins was unable to manage the team properly. The results speak for themselves: they are 3 points off relegation, their recent mediocre run of form is largely due to playing the lower teams. Their defence is a joke, nearly the worst there is. Everyone is nearly always out of position and they have let in 40 goals. Adkins has had a fortune to spend and that's what he has achieved. It must always be remembered that Cortese has to run the club successfully in the PL or he is out as well, and fans must remember that if he fails the Liebherrs will probably sell. If we want a club in Europe and the top six in the Premier League then we support NC. Next you can go to St Marys and watch Everton, Manchester Utd and City: without NC and the Liebherrs it would be Brentford, Bury and Crawley.

I KNOW WHAT I'D RATHER DO; I AM FOR ONE, SUPPORTING NC AND POCHETTINO

JohnItaly wrote:
One aspect of this dramatic action I am having difficulty rationalising is the timing. If, as suggested, MP has been assessing the club's players for some little time, an act that clearly indicates MP was considering an offer of 1st team coach, then why wait until halfway through the transfer window? MP must have made decisions about players capabilites and potential and ideas of whom he would like to ship out and bring in. Cannot imagine this was not discussed during his meetings with NC. He now has just two weeks to acheive this instead of 4 had NA left at the end of December. Anyone any deas?

There will be new players coming in I feel Forren was the new manager's first.
There is no time in this window to assess our squad players they will stay for a while,or be loned out to make way for new ones.

Sainthicks wrote:
I feel drained after yesterday. Nigel will never be forgotten by us for what he did and how he led us from the depths of English football, but we can't allow St Mary's to become Stamford Bridge, a place where the home side a frightened and nervous about playing in and if that can happen to world class players like they have, think what that would do to our young team of future world class players! Get behind he boys, they must be just as shocked and need us more than ever!

Good Post :

WE ARE SOUTHAMPTON.

We don't do frightened. We play Everton on Monday Night to WIN.

FANS IN A RAGE - Yes after Nigel lifted THE MIGHTY SOUTHAMPTON SOUTHAMPTON 51 Places up the League, clinched 2 Promotions, guaranteed them £90 and rewarded with the sack.

Even in one of his darkest days - WE CHANTED HIS NAME as he got off the Coach (surrounded by the local village idiots from QPR)

Terry McMillan of the Independent Supporters Association wants to wave white flags in protest ...

NOT FOR ME - RED AND WHITE FLAGS - ALWAYS !!

THERE IS NO SURRENDER
(that's for the Argies !! lol )

WE HAVE HEART AND PASSION AND FIGHT.

GET BEHIND THE LADS FOR THE WIN.

RED ARMY 2013. COYR
FIGHT AND WIN.

At the end of the day NC is only doing what's best for the club, as he has always done. He may be harsh at times but has always achieved his ambitions, I just hope he hasn't made the wrong decision this time round.
Next few days will be exciting though, expecting a couple decent players coming in before the transfer window closes.

montecristosaint wrote:

milton road wrote:
NA has gone and I am gutted. Yet Monday we play Everton, the players will be down because NA was well liked. So the last thing they need is a hostile atmosphere. If we do not get behind our players on Monday we will get stuffed.
Yes chant there is 'One NA'
Yet it is pointless to turn on MP, as all he has done is take a job that would of gone to someone else otherwise.

Its one thing for Chelsea fans to produce negativity at the Bridge, all they lose is points. We do it and we will be relegated.

NA's philosophy was everyone together, Okay he has gone but that still applies.

Perplexed as I am by this move by Cortese. I was equally perplexed when Pardew was sacked and Nigel who? came to the club as were many.
Yet NA was fantastic and what he achieved was enormous.

I do ask if you can't speak the language, how do you get your message across? How do you show your passion and give motivation?

Across various sites fans from all over the country are saying Saints have just relegated themselves. This just feels like a massive mistake.

Our team needs us more than ever, the new manager needs a chance, whatever we think. All I know is he is rated highly by the likes of Pep G and Jose M.

I think this was lined up when we had four points and the delay was the work permit.

NA deserved better we all know that and he was doing a good job. Yet nothing will bring him back.

The team needs us to lift them and if we don't we are down.

Spot on Iºm afraid. I think Saintsfans to Adkins is tremendous it just shows what heart they have, But today is a new day reality has set in and lets hope the new guy can deliver Corteseºa vision. We can expect movement on the transfer front because I think in part that is why Adkins had to go. Top players wont come to a club managed by a former physio they have never heard of. A sad reality but that is the size of it, Saints were looking to compete with top clubs for the best players out there you can be sure.
. The nest two weeks will be interesting for sure.

agreed!

lets win on monday night!

ps, who will be captain?

The facts are;
Adkins and Cortese did not get on. Adkins cant attract decent top flight players...allegedly the new guy can. Playing for a new boss should spur players to play better. As long as the new manager keeps the same flowing attacking football as we have been playing, we should play as we have been. Be prepared to see more signings this week as this guy has been lined up for some time and knows what dept we lack in. What out for new goalie!

I've had a chance to sleep on this now and still feel sick to the stomach at the way NA has been treated. This is only the second time I have felt the need to vent my thoughts on this forum (the other time was yesterday). Of course I support the team and will continue to do so but the dream is over. The conductor has been thrown off the bus, we have a new man on board but I no longer know where the bus is going. We had it all, a brilliant owner, astute chairman, excellent English Manager with players and fans all heading in the same direction. Things were being done properly for once, negotiations kept secret until the deal was done, youngsters being brought into the first team, it's been a fantastic ride but I can't help but feel that the I am no longer supporting a club that does things properly and we have lost something very important. Not just the Manager but the ethos of the club.

I for one don't want to see a whole raft of Spanish players being drafted into the squad. I'm very happy our young, hungry English players such as Shaw, Clyne, Lallana, Puncheon etc ... that's where I was going on the bus but I fear that the direction has changed forever. Of course I will continue to support the Saints as I have for more years than I care to count but something of the magic of the club has been lost here. I just hope that this turns out to be the right decision, but I fear not.

Lets not lose the fact that NC brought us this success for the past two and a half years through having the savvy to replace AP with NA (much to the disgust of many fans at the time), lets hope he has yet again pulled a master stroke,thank-you and good luck NA
COYRs

Bpl333 wrote:
You need to realize that cortese buys the players , yet Adkins has taken the stick for this...
The Norwegian you have just signed, surely if that was adkins deal, then it would have been cancelled as Adkins was leaving...
Just shows that cortese should take the blame ....

Like most football fans before yesterday I hope you survive but now you have become a bit like qpr and most neutral fans would want you to go down...

Strange thoughts!

status wrote:
I have supported the Saints since the sixty's when dad took me to my first game. A nice family run club with a nice following. However in a the years I have been going I think that this is the most back stabbing, uncaring, vile decision ever. When do we, as supporters, come to the point where we say,that this is not the kind of actions we want our club to adopt. Or do we just sit back and let a tyrant walk all over us...

Agree totally. I feel embarassed and ashamed.

AmsterdamSaint wrote:

status wrote:
I have supported the Saints since the sixty's when dad took me to my first game. A nice family run club with a nice following. However in a the years I have been going I think that this is the most back stabbing, uncaring, vile decision ever. When do we, as supporters, come to the point where we say,that this is not the kind of actions we want our club to adopt. Or do we just sit back and let a tyrant walk all over us...

Agree totally. I feel embarassed and ashamed.

May I ask you both a polite question? How did you feel when Dave Merrington was sacked after 'successfully' keeping Sainst in the top flight in 1996 a few weeks after being named manager of the month?

What we don't need now is for supporters to forget that they are supporting THE SAINTS not any individual currently or formerly at the club.

Our chairman is a very single minded individual, that much we all already knew. The thing is, where does it stop? When does success and all that comes with it lose it's value because of the way you achieved it? Like most fans, I was gob-smacked at the decision and am gutted for NA. At the same time, it's not goinna help to get on the new guy's back - he just took a job that was offered. My concern is basically this, what price success? Do we have to sink to the depths that Pompey went to in pursuing glory or is anything and everything okay just so long as we get what we want?

Nigel was a brilliant manager and what NC has done is a travesty that may yet backfire on him. This said, the club is effectively his and without him we would not be here, so we all just have to grunt up and support whoever he chooses to manage our mighty team. His judgement has got us into the Premier League and he clearly has ambition for us, so I say let him get on with it. By all means show support for NA, but above all, ensure we are fully behind the team. Without that we will surely fail. Good luck on Monday boys!

magnette wrote:
NC and the Liebherrs have poured millions into a bankrupt club. That allowed the purchase of players from above the team's lowly status, attracted by the money on offer and the investment in facilities. For 2 seasons NC and the Liebherrs purchased a team that were a league better than the league they were in and it was less than a surprise when they were promoted. Now they are in the PL they cannot do that because half the teams are richer and more supported than Saints. So success can only be achieved by great management and temporary over investment. NC has still poured money into the club as a temporary investment but the results have been devastatingly bad because Adkins was unable to manage the team properly. The results speak for themselves: they are 3 points off relegation, their recent mediocre run of form is largely due to playing the lower teams. Their defence is a joke, nearly the worst there is. Everyone is nearly always out of position and they have let in 40 goals. Adkins has had a fortune to spend and that's what he has achieved. It must always be remembered that Cortese has to run the club successfully in the PL or he is out as well, and fans must remember that if he fails the Liebherrs will probably sell. If we want a club in Europe and the top six in the Premier League then we support NC. Next you can go to St Marys and watch Everton, Manchester Utd and City: without NC and the Liebherrs it would be Brentford, Bury and Crawley.

I KNOW WHAT I'D RATHER DO; I AM FOR ONE, SUPPORTING NC AND POCHETTINO

A voice of sanity and reason. Well done!!

I'm still pretty traumitsed by yesterday's events. I struggle to find the words to express my outrage at treatment handed out to Nigel. Considering we are in the middle of a relegation scrap, with a testing series of fixtures looming, the timing is ludicrous.

That said, I'll support the new man and his regime.Time will tell if this massive gamble has actually been an inspired decision. As a lifelong Saints fan for over 30 years, I truly hope that this is the case.

The whole business leaves a bad taste. The only way to rid that taste is by winning football matches.

Massive thanks and respect to Nigel. I hoped he'd be our gaffer for years to come, sadly that's now not to be. The man is a legend forever in my eyes.

Have we just appointed the new Christian Gross?

I find it quite hypocritical for you to be fawning over him now! Oh well, at least this'll give you more fuel to add to your Cortese hate fire!

http://georgeweahsco
usin.com/2013/01/18/
mauricio-pochettino-
the-man-with-a-plan/

batesieboy wrote:

magnette wrote:
NC and the Liebherrs have poured millions into a bankrupt club. That allowed the purchase of players from above the team's lowly status, attracted by the money on offer and the investment in facilities. For 2 seasons NC and the Liebherrs purchased a team that were a league better than the league they were in and it was less than a surprise when they were promoted. Now they are in the PL they cannot do that because half the teams are richer and more supported than Saints. So success can only be achieved by great management and temporary over investment. NC has still poured money into the club as a temporary investment but the results have been devastatingly bad because Adkins was unable to manage the team properly. The results speak for themselves: they are 3 points off relegation, their recent mediocre run of form is largely due to playing the lower teams. Their defence is a joke, nearly the worst there is. Everyone is nearly always out of position and they have let in 40 goals. Adkins has had a fortune to spend and that's what he has achieved. It must always be remembered that Cortese has to run the club successfully in the PL or he is out as well, and fans must remember that if he fails the Liebherrs will probably sell. If we want a club in Europe and the top six in the Premier League then we support NC. Next you can go to St Marys and watch Everton, Manchester Utd and City: without NC and the Liebherrs it would be Brentford, Bury and Crawley.

I KNOW WHAT I'D RATHER DO; I AM FOR ONE, SUPPORTING NC AND POCHETTINO

A voice of sanity and reason. Well done!!

Ditto and amen to that... Good Post indeed. Good Luck Nigel if I were the rusky I get you into Chelski.. but if Blackpool is for you then good luck and see you in the prem very soon :)

Getting back to Adam's story; I think it's right to say Mauricio has it up against him. Hard KPIs at SFC - The Chairman will want us to stay up... If we drop back into the relegation zone and don't immediately start thrashing teams I'd expect yet another replacement. I wonder if NC is already talking to big name candidates trying to tempt them into the premiership. Trouble is we now have no base of stability and ambition backed by cash input but not matched by performance or sensible recruitment.

We probable all read Maurico's profile and wiki etc it appears he did okay initially at Espanyol but had no financial backing at all and failed so was ousted... surely his record there was not the inspiration for him being a long term manager at Saints.. tell me I'm wrong - and why please..Perhaps those above Mauricio in the pecking order of Euro star club directorship have advice Nicola that Maurico is an unrealised up and coming talent that can do the job required? Geesh I hope so for Saints Sake.. COYR

PS If you want to protest for goodness sake get our stripes back :)

Tirau Dan wrote:
Getting back to Adam's story; I think it's right to say Mauricio has it up against him. Hard KPIs at SFC - The Chairman will want us to stay up... If we drop back into the relegation zone and don't immediately start thrashing teams I'd expect yet another replacement. I wonder if NC is already talking to big name candidates trying to tempt them into the premiership. Trouble is we now have no base of stability and ambition backed by cash input but not matched by performance or sensible recruitment.

We probable all read Maurico's profile and wiki etc it appears he did okay initially at Espanyol but had no financial backing at all and failed so was ousted... surely his record there was not the inspiration for him being a long term manager at Saints.. tell me I'm wrong - and why please..Perhaps those above Mauricio in the pecking order of Euro star club directorship have advice Nicola that Maurico is an unrealised up and coming talent that can do the job required? Geesh I hope so for Saints Sake.. COYR

PS If you want to protest for goodness sake get our stripes back :)

Morning Dan. Yes - let's get our stripes back! This nearly-all-red look just isn't saintly.
One thought that cheered me up a tad when I was looking at MP's first training pix, is that in Mau we now have the BEST LOOKING MANAGER in the PL! Maybe he is a 'smiling assassin', but that's a heart-melting smile he's got! Not at all important, I know, but a girl's got to get her pleasure where she can in these cruel times

WILL THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS

Disgraceful action, timing and deceitfulness by Cortese. The club belongs to the supporters - not some power-mad entrepreneur.
Saints fans will be there long after he has gone.

It has all left a bitter taste in the mouth of decent fans.

However, once it has dawned on him that perhaps he could have dealt with the mangerial side a whole lot better, and if he is big enough at some stage to admit he handled it badly, then perhaps people will understand that the new appointment was actually the right one - albeit done in the wrong way.

Fans have rightly made their outraged feelings felt. now is the time to move on and support the new manager.

SaintRachel wrote:

Tirau Dan wrote: Getting back to Adam's story; I think it's right to say Mauricio has it up against him. Hard KPIs at SFC - The Chairman will want us to stay up... If we drop back into the relegation zone and don't immediately start thrashing teams I'd expect yet another replacement. I wonder if NC is already talking to big name candidates trying to tempt them into the premiership. Trouble is we now have no base of stability and ambition backed by cash input but not matched by performance or sensible recruitment. We probable all read Maurico's profile and wiki etc it appears he did okay initially at Espanyol but had no financial backing at all and failed so was ousted... surely his record there was not the inspiration for him being a long term manager at Saints.. tell me I'm wrong - and why please..Perhaps those above Mauricio in the pecking order of Euro star club directorship have advice Nicola that Maurico is an unrealised up and coming talent that can do the job required? Geesh I hope so for Saints Sake.. COYR PS If you want to protest for goodness sake get our stripes back :)

Morning Dan. Yes - let's get our stripes back! This nearly-all-red look just isn't saintly. One thought that cheered me up a tad when I was looking at MP's first training pix, is that in Mau we now have the BEST LOOKING MANAGER in the PL! Maybe he is a 'smiling assassin', but that's a heart-melting smile he's got! Not at all important, I know, but a girl's got to get her pleasure where she can in these cruel times

Quite agree.

I've got a lovely smile too!