Is Saints' manager the hottest seat in English football? (From Daily Echo)

HAVEN'T LAUGHED SO MUCH FOR A LONG TIME: 2 REASONS.
1. I told you this was going to happen 2 weeks ago, and several aggressive mor0ns accused me of being out of touch and anti-saints.
2. I have read with great mirth the chameleon statements from the l0sers who LUVVED Pardew last week, now they agree that nickers is doing the right thing. WELL, WHICH ONE IS IT?

Ha ha ha ha
He he he he

OK, you did.
But you also stated that relegation is on the cards this season. Do you have tea with the Pakistani cricket team?

Paul hart is going to be new saints manager sky sports news NC please get a bigger name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right - I am praying this is a wind up but Sky Sports News are saying that Paul Hart is high up on our 'wish list'...... Lord help us if he is!!!!......

I would accept Nigel Pearson, Phil Brown, MARTIN ONEIL, Zola, Shearer,Cotterill, Howes, Santa Claus....... BUT NOT HART!!!!!.... He is useless!!!!!........


I neither agree nor disagree with Pards sacking because we dont know what went on behind the scenes.... but if Hart comes it is far from a progressive step!!

COYWWRS!!!

Atpost wrote:
HAVEN'T LAUGHED SO MUCH FOR A LONG TIME: 2 REASONS. 1. I told you this was going to happen 2 weeks ago, and several aggressive mor0ns accused me of being out of touch and anti-saints. 2. I have read with great mirth the chameleon statements from the l0sers who LUVVED Pardew last week, now they agree that nickers is doing the right thing. WELL, WHICH ONE IS IT? Ha ha ha ha He he he he

Yeah **** the club right mate! As long as you're proved right! We could do with more fans like you right now!!!!!

Atpost wrote:
HAVEN'T LAUGHED SO MUCH FOR A LONG TIME: 2 REASONS.
1. I told you this was going to happen 2 weeks ago, and several aggressive mor0ns accused me of being out of touch and anti-saints.
2. I have read with great mirth the chameleon statements from the l0sers who LUVVED Pardew last week, now they agree that nickers is doing the right thing. WELL, WHICH ONE IS IT?

Ha ha ha ha
He he he he

Yeah, well even a broken clock is right twice a day

what a complete tool you really are

Mr Cortese if you still read this website please do all that you can to NOT get Paul Hart at our club.

NO ONE WANTS HIM HERE

PLEASE GO FOR EDDIE HOWE, MARTIN O'NIELL, BILLY DAVIES

NO TO PAUL HART - BRING BACK PARDEW!

cpnhaddock wrote:
Right - I am praying this is a wind up but Sky Sports News are saying that Paul Hart is high up on our 'wish list'...... Lord help us if he is!!!!...... I would accept Nigel Pearson, Phil Brown, MARTIN ONEIL, Zola, Shearer,Cotterill, Howes, Santa Claus....... BUT NOT HART!!!!!.... He is useless!!!!!........ I neither agree nor disagree with Pards sacking because we dont know what went on behind the scenes.... but if Hart comes it is far from a progressive step!! COYWWRS!!!

Absolutely. Hart's win % is 30. If appointed this will really test the allegiance of those who have faith in NC.

S-word "rely-gate"
I hope not!

We need someone in charge who has the potential to do well, not a has-been who has failed in the past. Why do we want managers that no-one else wants? Martin O'Neil has a proven track record and I dont think has ever been sacked. Eddie Howe, an up and coming manager who seems to have the nack of getting the best out of what he has got. None of the others mentioned will be any better than Alan Pardew.

martin oneill was at the game last saturday so i think it might be him which will be a good thing

lroberts2010 wrote:
martin oneill was at the game last saturday so i think it might be him which will be a good thing

Do you know this for a fact? I really hope you are right. If it turns out to be Paul Hart im gonna top myself.

Hart no , dowie, mowbray, shearer nooooo

coleman, jewel, O'Neil - yess!!

mayb NC saw how many people didnt fancy Zola yesterday so hes put out the rumor of Hart, so when Zola does sign, we can say, "well atleast its not hart!"... i know thats exact how im feeling rite now..

Jasper7 wrote:
OK, you did. But you also stated that relegation is on the cards this season. Do you have tea with the Pakistani cricket team?

I can predict
The next manager is short of personal wealth - so will be a stooge.
He will not ask for money, and will gloriously take the team to Division 2

I do not want to believe what I have read on Sky Sports: "Southampton have approached former Portsmouth boss Paul Hart over the vacant managerial position at St Mary's, Sky Sports sources understand."

His face doesn't fit, neither does the baggage that would come with him. There are plenty of other 'tough guys' who could come in (excluding Dowie). Please, NC. Read Harts CV thoroughly. I hope sincerely that this is just a ruse.

Nic on the N332 wrote:
I do not want to believe what I have read on Sky Sports: "Southampton have approached former Portsmouth boss Paul Hart over the vacant managerial position at St Mary's, Sky Sports sources understand."

His face doesn't fit, neither does the baggage that would come with him. There are plenty of other 'tough guys' who could come in (excluding Dowie). Please, NC. Read Harts CV thoroughly. I hope sincerely that this is just a ruse.

Saints have said on their Twitter feed that it is 'agent talk'.

Seriously. Martin O'Neill?

What are you guys smoking?

Why oh why oh why would Martin O'Neill take the Saints job.

We'd be unlikely to get him if we were still in the Premiership.

Is that the same Martin O'Neill that left a team that was going for a four four finish this year but who couldn't live with interference and politics from the boardroom?

So he is impatient for success at Villa and instead decides he will relocate himself to the South for a job in League One with a club that sacks managers win 50% win ratios, a trophy in their first season and a 4-0 away win.

The same guy who still remembers the way Leicester fans treated him and called for his head after a couple of games?

Get real. I truly hope I'm wrong, but Alan Pardew was as good as we could ever have hoped for in this division.

Whoever does come in has to look forward to working with a squad he didn't assemble for four months, with high expectations, not much money left, and a difficult boss.

Add to that the fact that quite a few players will be angling for a move come January if we aren't top of the league and you have a very worrying situation.

Jason D wrote:
Seriously. Martin O'Neill?

What are you guys smoking?

Why oh why oh why would Martin O'Neill take the Saints job.

We'd be unlikely to get him if we were still in the Premiership.

Is that the same Martin O'Neill that left a team that was going for a four four finish this year but who couldn't live with interference and politics from the boardroom?

So he is impatient for success at Villa and instead decides he will relocate himself to the South for a job in League One with a club that sacks managers win 50% win ratios, a trophy in their first season and a 4-0 away win.

The same guy who still remembers the way Leicester fans treated him and called for his head after a couple of games?

Get real. I truly hope I'm wrong, but Alan Pardew was as good as we could ever have hoped for in this division.

Whoever does come in has to look forward to working with a squad he didn't assemble for four months, with high expectations, not much money left, and a difficult boss.

Add to that the fact that quite a few players will be angling for a move come January if we aren't top of the league and you have a very worrying situation.

Some good points, Jason. And, I agree (with one or two reservations) that AP was as good as we could have hoped for. Trouble is, we'll never know now.

As for the new incumbent working with a squad he did not assemble, I don't see this as a problem. I believe Saints are a force to be reckoned with. It's just that AP didn't seem to know how to get the best out of them every game. The new guy - if he's worth his salt - should be able to fast-track us towards promotion with the existing squad, plus a couple of loanees until the next window opens.

Jason D wrote:
Seriously. Martin O'Neill? What are you guys smoking? Why oh why oh why would Martin O'Neill take the Saints job. We'd be unlikely to get him if we were still in the Premiership. Is that the same Martin O'Neill that left a team that was going for a four four finish this year but who couldn't live with interference and politics from the boardroom? So he is impatient for success at Villa and instead decides he will relocate himself to the South for a job in League One with a club that sacks managers win 50% win ratios, a trophy in their first season and a 4-0 away win. The same guy who still remembers the way Leicester fans treated him and called for his head after a couple of games? Get real. I truly hope I'm wrong, but Alan Pardew was as good as we could ever have hoped for in this division. Whoever does come in has to look forward to working with a squad he didn't assemble for four months, with high expectations, not much money left, and a difficult boss. Add to that the fact that quite a few players will be angling for a move come January if we aren't top of the league and you have a very worrying situation.

Agree with you on this one Jason.
Sky sources say Paul Hart.......Thanks, but NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully that knob Atpost of Minstead will f**k off down to Poopie, where he obviously belongs.

The new manager,whoever it is,is on a hiding to nothing.NC wants nothing short of automatic promotion.
That must mean that the new manager will only get a contract until the end of the season and will leave if we don't go up.
Whoever they appoint must be so desperate for a job.

le god7... i disagree.. infact i think its the complete opposite.. do u not agree that our squad is pretty much the best in the league, most have had time to gel and are just starting to hit form..
I totally believe that my mother could get promotion out of them this year.. if i was a manager who had not really achieved much so far in my career id be thinking this is a cant lose situation. u will start with the one of the top favs to go up squads, most money of any team in the league to spend in jan. and if it all goes wrong, u just say.. well i didnt get the preseason and by jan it was too late to bring in the players i wanted....

code word (hate-when)... hart signed and llanana was sold to fulham in the same day (come on u all know how this week is going, im suprised considering the day it is that he hasnt been mentioned on ssnhd yet!)

Rudolf Hucker wrote:

Jason D wrote: Seriously. Martin O'Neill? What are you guys smoking? Why oh why oh why would Martin O'Neill take the Saints job. We'd be unlikely to get him if we were still in the Premiership. Is that the same Martin O'Neill that left a team that was going for a four four finish this year but who couldn't live with interference and politics from the boardroom? So he is impatient for success at Villa and instead decides he will relocate himself to the South for a job in League One with a club that sacks managers win 50% win ratios, a trophy in their first season and a 4-0 away win. The same guy who still remembers the way Leicester fans treated him and called for his head after a couple of games? Get real. I truly hope I'm wrong, but Alan Pardew was as good as we could ever have hoped for in this division. Whoever does come in has to look forward to working with a squad he didn't assemble for four months, with high expectations, not much money left, and a difficult boss. Add to that the fact that quite a few players will be angling for a move come January if we aren't top of the league and you have a very worrying situation.

Agree with you on this one Jason. Sky sources say Paul Hart.......Thanks, but NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully that knob Atpost of Minstead will f**k off down to Poopie, where he obviously belongs.

No, I am a west hants man.

BUT

You KNOW I am right

ha ha ha ha ha !!

Brussel sprouts are evil wrote:

Nic on the N332 wrote:
I do not want to believe what I have read on Sky Sports: "Southampton have approached former Portsmouth boss Paul Hart over the vacant managerial position at St Mary's, Sky Sports sources understand."

His face doesn't fit, neither does the baggage that would come with him. There are plenty of other 'tough guys' who could come in (excluding Dowie). Please, NC. Read Harts CV thoroughly. I hope sincerely that this is just a ruse.

Saints have said on their Twitter feed that it is 'agent talk'.

It's okay. We can relax. The 'approach' was just to tell Hart to bother even thinking about applying.

Nic on the N332 wrote:

Brussel sprouts are evil wrote:

Nic on the N332 wrote:
I do not want to believe what I have read on Sky Sports: "Southampton have approached former Portsmouth boss Paul Hart over the vacant managerial position at St Mary's, Sky Sports sources understand."

His face doesn't fit, neither does the baggage that would come with him. There are plenty of other 'tough guys' who could come in (excluding Dowie). Please, NC. Read Harts CV thoroughly. I hope sincerely that this is just a ruse.

Saints have said on their Twitter feed that it is 'agent talk'.

It's okay. We can relax. The 'approach' was just to tell Hart to bother even thinking about applying.

Whoops.Typo. Should be NOT BOTHER. Sorry!

Nic on the N332 wrote:

Nic on the N332 wrote:

Brussel sprouts are evil wrote:

Nic on the N332 wrote: I do not want to believe what I have read on Sky Sports: "Southampton have approached former Portsmouth boss Paul Hart over the vacant managerial position at St Mary's, Sky Sports sources understand." His face doesn't fit, neither does the baggage that would come with him. There are plenty of other 'tough guys' who could come in (excluding Dowie). Please, NC. Read Harts CV thoroughly. I hope sincerely that this is just a ruse.

Saints have said on their Twitter feed that it is 'agent talk'.

It's okay. We can relax. The 'approach' was just to tell Hart to bother even thinking about applying.

Whoops.Typo. Should be NOT BOTHER. Sorry!

NO, right the 1st time.

Don't panic everyone. I have it from the exactly the same sources that Alan Shearer is being lined up as next manager ......

URGENT EVERYBODY!!!

Email SFC at sfc@saintsfc.co.uk immediately to tell Nicola that Hart is NOT the man for us and to ensure that Pardew's replacement is a worthy one.

Stop this madness now.

COYR

I can't see NC settling for some of the nearly men and has-beens of the English game being mentioned.
More likely he'll go for the continental playing coach / director of football combo.
This doesn't work too well with English managers, who are used to doing everything their own way, so I'm expecting a youngish coach doing well in France / Italy / Holland.

Jason D wrote:
Seriously. Martin O'Neill? What are you guys smoking? Why oh why oh why would Martin O'Neill take the Saints job. We'd be unlikely to get him if we were still in the Premiership. Is that the same Martin O'Neill that left a team that was going for a four four finish this year but who couldn't live with interference and politics from the boardroom? So he is impatient for success at Villa and instead decides he will relocate himself to the South for a job in League One with a club that sacks managers win 50% win ratios, a trophy in their first season and a 4-0 away win. The same guy who still remembers the way Leicester fans treated him and called for his head after a couple of games? Get real. I truly hope I'm wrong, but Alan Pardew was as good as we could ever have hoped for in this division. Whoever does come in has to look forward to working with a squad he didn't assemble for four months, with high expectations, not much money left, and a difficult boss. Add to that the fact that quite a few players will be angling for a move come January if we aren't top of the league and you have a very worrying situation.

Would agree Jason, particularly AP being the best we could hope for and I thought he did well. You never know though, O'Neil thinks he's taken Villa as far as he can, he won't get a job at a club higher up so maybe he might look at a completely fresh challenge! I don't think NC would scare him much! Like I say, you never know! I do smoke though!!!

hart has a lot of experience in managing a team where all the players have been sold ,very ominous .

Hart has never won promotion with any club he has managed,however he managed to get Notts F relegated one year after they were in the play offs. Do you really think a man of NC intelligence would appoint a man with this record,i think not???

What idiot has given Hart's name to Cortese,because for sure he will have never heard of this muppet. We need someone with half a clue on how to pick a team,NOT Hart.

Hart is NOT coming here!!

How many of you have said never believe the press with transfer rumours? what's different.........

pathetic i wish to god i would never have got a season ticket.promotion? i will now see us go the other way.season ticket for sale anyone intrested.

hart for manager i dont think so what the echo go a deal with sky

THERE MUST SOMEHOW BE A WAY TO BLAME THIS MESS ON RUPERT-COME ON ECHO,COME UP WITH SOMETHING TO PLEASE THE FANS.

did i just hear on sky that Clive Woodward was spotted in the crowd.... lets all look on the bright side.. least the hart thing seems to have been a joke.. SW come-bank (says it all!)

pugwash wrote:
THERE MUST SOMEHOW BE A WAY TO BLAME THIS MESS ON RUPERT-COME ON ECHO,COME UP WITH SOMETHING TO PLEASE THE FANS.

Rupert was a **** cat compared with NC. No comparison.

What I find particularly worrying about this situation is if NC is the business man everyone says he is then he must have thought through his sacking of AP. If so then surely he must have seen the consequences of his decision and taken steps to ensure the situation re the appoinment of a new manager was acheived quickly with minimum of delay and to maintain continuity. Any delay in the new appointment suggests to me the decision to sack AP was an emotional one. If that is the case it begs the question what other emotional decisions will he make in the future to the detriment of the Saints.

NC is just an arrogant, egotistical dictator who is clueless about football. NC relies on advice from a London public relations oufit run by a dimwit called David Bick. All the staff at SMS hate him. The next manager will be a YES man who doesn't answer back. Pardue wasn't a yes man and paid the price with his job. NC is a hard-nosed banker whose only interest is to sell the club at a profit at the end of his 5 year plan as soon as Saints reach the promised land. Got help anyone who gets in his way.