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Nope. Twas only a month ago that he was integral to ripping Fulham apart.

And was playing at a time when there were a number of candidates who could do the job, but unfortunately he was behind Beckham and Shearer in the queue. Tony Adams, a domestic stalwart with Arsenal (and their captain for almost 15 years) was only England Captain 15 times. Most of the England squad would probably be in with a shot of Captaining their Club team, however only one can do it at a time for the National team. Non story for me, but he's got the publicity he and his publishers probably wanted!

Sounds slightly different to the Redknapp/Woodward set up/debacle, but as you say the single biggest unknown is MP's reaction. Redknapp was never going to work with Woodward, particularly when Woodward was a bit more hands on than this guys brief seems, plus Woodward was being groomed to actually take over as manager at some point! Turkish points out an interesting conundrum, in that if this guy is not hands on and perhaps somewhere higher up taking a lead in the Club and its development & strategy, then does this cross over with what Reed is doing?

Freemantle's sponsors, T J Dukes, built my house. HTH

And their club/manager was upfront with regards his priorities and explained his thinking. We on the other hand were led to believe we would be well up for this game.

Think you'll find the Premier B League already exists. It's called the FA Cup!!!!!!

We were saying much the same in the pub on Saturday. A real engine in the midfield, often seen closing the keeper down. Gets on with his duties without much fanfare, but seems critical to the way we play. When we were thinking about who Wanyama would come back in place of we never considered Davis!!!

Do the Chinooks ever drop in at Marchwood, as was convinced one did recently?? regularly get Apaches and Lynx over Mottisfont and last Friday was first time since an air show that I saw a RAF jet zip up the Test Valley.

Adams was a threat as long as he was on the pitch. His pass for the first looked sublime and will be interested to see how good it was on the highlights. He helped neutralise Lallana, sprayed the ball around the pitch and was general thorn in our side. Very glad when he went off.

So which four players do you link with those kits???? My instant responses were: Phil Boyer Dave Armstrong Glenn Cockerill Ricky Lambert with regards the book, glad to see the decision reversed and hopefully a few more will be shifted to ensure the Hagiology guys don't end up out of pocket, as they provide a sterling service to many supporters and the Club itself.

I can't say too much, but ........................... .......

I went around the same time and then back a few times after, the latest being three years ago. I doubt you'd recognise it as the same place!!!! Still a great place, but it's changed massively (some things for the better, others not so).

With all due respect, with perhaps the exception of Shaw (& maybe Lovren) the others aren't going to walk in to a top four club. If they really thought they were coming to a Club who would regularly be playing Champions League football, then I'm afraid to say they're a tad dim.

He was a Saints fan though.

The years go by and I must have seen every mock up of these, but they still never fail to make me p1ss myself. Can still remember a 30 minute phone conversation with Exit2 on the night of the unveiling when we only managed to get about 5 words in between the fits of giggles. These pics are instant pick me ups!!!

Go back on the search function and you'll refresh your memory. Lowe had the pair lined up well before he actually got back in at SMS.

Rich, methinks you're taking the ether of the internet a tad too serious. 'Twas never a James Bond, more a Simon Templar. As for the exaggerations, well sadly most were actually true, or were they?

You're as gullible as I was with regards Wilde if you believe him when he said Pearson was being "released" due to financial reasons.

Not the toughest draw so that's a positive, but certainly not an exciting one taunts going to tempt me in to making the journey north.

As I mentioned above I think Lowe should be given credit for delivering the stadium and helping set up an infrastructure that brought the club in to the 21st century. Although the previous board had started out down the new stadium route, they seemed to be struggling to really get it moving. Whether they could have used the SKY monies and delivered SMS is something we will never know. Always thought Staplewood was over hyped as was Lowe's claims of starting the Academy, I think he did reinvigorate it with some judicious decisions. But at the same time we shouldn't forget that Lowe squandered that legacy through a series of poor decisions that led to relegation and ultimately administration. Poor decisions that continued throughout our first season in the Championship. Given our cost structure (inc a rather expensive "mortgage"), the huge drop in income and what had happened to many other teams who fell out of the top flight around that period, then unless (a) we got repromoted in 2 years, or (b) found new investment to plug the holes we were always destined for a visit from Mark Fry. (Should I trot out the Man United of the South speech and suggest you were sexually aroused by that ;-) )

Harry Redknapp might be our pantomime villain, but his managerial record is fairly decent and as others have said whilst he might not be one of the top stellar managers, he is some way up the managerial list. IMHO there's certainly more managers below him than above him if you could come up with a league table. I think our view is tainted by his Portsmuff connections and also the debacle that was his tenure here with us. He came on a rebound, was never the right man for the job and was asked to work in a culture and set up that was alien to his method of operating. Woodward probably wasn't a bad shout when taken in isolation, but combine it with the context of restructuring following relegation and having to work alongside Redknapp, it was always going to be an uphill task.

Indeed. Not mega millions, but a few million to fill in some of the losses whilst we regrouped. Wilde failed to back up his promises of investing money and failed in finding others to aid him in that respect.

Have no idea why we've jumped to would he have done this or that, I merely answered your question of who would have been up for the job.

Stoneham was already well under way when the reverse takeover came upon us, (think within days of the takeover planning permission was granted), so the big question is, would the old board have been able to oversee Stoneham and/or would they have had the ability to deliver St Mary's???? On the plus side, the influx of SKY monies would have made their task easier, on the negative side, they hadn't shown much evidence of driving on in the past.

You asked who would be up for the job, I provided an answer. Any other candidates will be purely conjecture (either way) and as for success, hypothetical.