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Adkins will prove to be an outstanding appointment. Forget all this bolleaux about the so-called "wow-factor" - points and promotion are all that count.

Actually I thought we played quite well. The defence went AWOL for 15 minutes in the first half and we missed a few chances. Apart from that it was OK. I thought that our approach to the game needed more variation. I think it was obvious that we weren't going to get very far continually pumping high balls into the box. I would like to have seen much more passing on the deck and intelligent movement. Pardew has worked miracles considering how poor we have been for years and considering that the squad was in tatters a few days before the season started. I think Saint Richmond is overreacting in the face of a single bad result in anotherwise impressive sequence.

Yeah, Shearer and Keegan wanted to manage the Saints and Mummy's Boy Fiasco was worth hundreds of millions .... Why doesn't MLT keep his trap shut and let ML and AP get on with the reality of sorting out a club brought to its knees by delusions of grandeur ..?

Even the best sides offer discounts for supposedly less attractive games. For example, any seat at Stamford Bridge to watch Chelsea v Athletico Madrid in the Champions League is £19.50 for adults and £9.50 for kids. Non-members might pay a quid or two more, I don't know. Which makes £25 to watch a Third Division game against Yeovil seem very expensive.

Pardew will deliver a lower-mid table finish this season and promotion to the CCC next. In the meantime - just relax.

I'm quite relieved that John is going - I thought it was a mistake to build an attack around someone so old, slow and lazy. Let's hope we can find a finisher who is both strong and pacey - then we can let Raziak go as well.

Agree 100%. Bearing in mind that we start on minus 10 and that AP has only 2 weeks in which to find let alone organise a squad, his target for 09/10 must simply be to avoid relegation.

I agree that John has a decent shot and is OK in the air but IMMHO he is just too slow to be able to use these attributes ... I find him truly painful to watch ... he just makes life so easy for defenders .. I really hope that we get rid of him ..

Euell always looked to me like a player who had been quite good in his day but was too old and too slow to even get to the ball let alone do anything useful with it. You need pace in every division - otherwise you don't get into the game. Also, using forwards who have no pace puts a massive extra burden on the rest of the team - both in terms of having to produce pin-point passes and in terms of making opposition defences feel comfortable and encouraging them to push forward. I would also get rid of Stern John for the same reason.

Yes we're gutted that your illustrious team (or was it just one investor, forgive me I forget) was unable to complete the purchase as a result of which we've had to make do with a common-or-garden multi-billionaire who doesn't use fan forums to project his fantasies ..

Agree with that 100%.

Sorry!

Is anyone other than SkyBet offering odds on our next manager?

OK let's stick to the positives ....errrm ... breath test?

Can't say I'm that happy about Pearson - I thought he did OK with Saints last time around but no more than that ... mind you the circumstances were very far from ideal ... taking over a team of slow, demoralized donkeys with only a few games in which to avoid the drop ... His record at Leicester is very good ... maybe we should judge him on that ...?