Charlie Wayman

Thank goodness! For one minute it looked like we really had appointed this Johnny No-name. Ambitious club? You can be sure of one thing and you need to think very carefully about this, if Adkins is appointed it proves once and for all that he is the cheap sticking plaster Cortese needs to stop the roof leaking before he clears off in the new year. It's a simple and very obvious equation Adkins IN = Cortese OUT (and the Liebherr account) I guess you think I'm mad and a miserable sod but take heed and be warned. As always, be careful what you are wishing for right now 'cos they haven't stopped making movies about Rupert yet. " Third Time Lucky?" may be coming to a cinema near you soon, after which Cortese will have seemed like a gift from heaven.

Maybe somebody can post a photo of this geezer - must confess, I don't have a clue what he looks like and wouldn't know him if he sat opposite me all the way down to Southampton. To be fair it's almost impossible to be certain who you think you might have seen in public even when you think it's somebody famous. In real life people rarely look like their images in the media.

Usual load of uninformed bull**** about announcements today, where is it?

I'm sure one of the very clever people on here will explain how it is humanly possible to interview "50 candidates" and announce a result in less than a week. Something doesn't add up and smells very fishy. Maybe closer to the truth is that they had only three applicants who showed any interest at all in joining this mad-house of a managerial merry-go-round and all the rest of it sis pure undiluted bull****. In which case it probably is a straight choice between Adkins and Howe. If that makes you uncomfortable spare a thought for fans like me who are very, depressed at such a prospect.

Before we all start accepting the of Adkins being a good appointment, always remember that this is Saints and every decision in our history bar about one was based on the maxim "who's the cheapest we can get?" If it is Adkins then we have an even bigger skinflint running the show than Wupert ever was. Still he will be a good bet to get us out of the Fourth Division in 2012-13 if he isn't fired in the meantime. I'm afraid the capture of KK back in the 70's was one of those strange events of history that defy logical explanation and will never be repeated let alone here in old S'ampton Town.

Here we go again, the mysterious Premiership manager is Mark Hughes... I know this as fact and when he turns up on Thursday, I'll answer all your questions. Until then I am bound by the Chatham House rules of Confidentiality.

It's not OUR club anymore, once it was bought up privately it became the expensive plaything of the owner, nothing more nothing less. B*llacks to all the revisionist "fans are important" rhetoric being churned out on the OS with the same monotonous regularity as Saints banging balls "up the channels" in the vain hope that some bright spark up front might fancy chasing after one. Who do you think you are kidding Mr Cortese? Fans have been systematically sidelined and marginalised under this regime so that your views and mine are worth the candle any more and if you don't like it do what i am doing VOTE WITH YOUR FEET! Once the revenue dries up you'll be surprised how quickly things will change. And will it really matter if this lot sells up and moves out? We're not excatly spending like Man C or Chelsea so we can't be that flush, debt-free for sure and grateful for it but floating on cash? I don't think so.

Here is a rumour you can believe. I will not be attending another match until this mess is sorted, which means a new and respected manager in place and the team firing on all cylinders and that cretin Wilkins nowhere to be seen. Yep! it means my ST will be wasted each week, so what, that's life but what's the point of watching ***** if no pleasure is derived from it. If the wrong manager is appointed, i.e., somebody with zero reputation and zero experience then I'll be phoning in for a refund on the balance and be off for good. At my age there are plenty of other things to waste my money on, it's time that is precious and at the moment waht is going on up at SMS is a complete waste of ******* time.

Once again all eyes will be on the royal box to see who's been sneaked in by Snr Cortese for a butcher's. Last week as some know but many may not it was the Lloyd Webber brothers (FACT by the way) but before rumours spread about takeovers and selecting our team on a TV show, they sat in the 'O's' bit of the box not ours. Nevertheless, don't be surprised if somebody shows up in a Phantom mask....

Of course they're going to tell anybody who calls in, without even a rudimentary check on who they are and why they need to know. Honestly mate if that 's the best you can come up with, I'd stick to selling balloons in the Above Bar precinct

Amen to that and just about everyone else mentioned on this website. MON or nowt! Houllier will do as well

How very effing depressing. I hope this is a nightmare 'cos if it's real life and one of these cretins gets picked I'll personally hurl large lumps of brown stuff at the director's box

That'll be Taffy Hughes for sure or that Wigan bloke who may want out before he's pushed

Look guys, make sure to take your binoculars along tonight as we've been turfed out of the Itchen - only Kingsland and Northam open - so we won't get to see all the comings and goings in the director's box or hospitality boxes. Even' bet there will be some managerial hopefuls along.... If Phil Brown shows up put the word around so that we can all leave! "What is brown etc.... Or, chant out the names of any you see so we can all get in on the act

We are clearly modelling ourselves on Chelsea and Man C. Just look at the sins that Hughes and Mourinho committed, like winning titles, not conceding goals and winning 1-0 most weeks. It wasn't that they were not playing winning football but their teams lack of style in winning was 'what done for them'. Although we know this to be a results driven business, clearly results are not all that matters. Entertainment is equally important; many on here have failed to spot that on average we are not playing to anywhere near capacity gates at SMS - as Norwich did last year for example - and this would be a BIG worry for Cortese and his henchmen. The manager's job is not only to win football matches but fill stadiums as well; for sure we will not fill SMS with hoof-ball from Davies, slowing the game down every time we are in possesion and aimless square passing. It will be this as much as results that will have hastened the end of Alan Pardew. It's a shame he's gone because in my view he would have got us promoted this year for sure but clearly if we have to earn a penny before wes pend a penny tne it is obvious he wasn't doing that well enough and hence the lack of transfer activity. Best wishes Aln and better luck next time 'though Randy Lerner may not be particularly tolerant either. Maybe better for you in the long term to get a proper job

It'll be Sven Goran Erikson, prviouly of Notts County ame - if he is willing to do th eFourth Division, he'll jump at the Third. Then none of your sisters will be safe!

But what would you have said after Rochdale beat us 2-0 next Saturday under Pardew? I don't agree with you at all, lots of people have been calling for Pardew's head for months, now they've got it. Sooner rather than later is good for the club if we want it to progress. Let's face it we are not playing very attractive football most of the time and I for one am fed up with long aimless balls up to their box. I suppose a few players will bugger off now that Pardew is out but there are better ones around and Cortese has made sure that he didn't give Pardew more money to squander.

Hate to say "told you so" in any case most of you probably didn't read my two comments last week; (i) A very closely connected ex-player hinted to my pal that Pardew was 'on his way' (ii) Pardew's coldness towards Guly suggested to me that Guly was appointed by Cortese and not Pardew - suggesting Pardew was no longer in charge of recruitment. Ah well, we old lads don't always get involved in the rumour rounds but we do have enough savvy to understand how these things work and what is a real story and what is not.

Makes you wonder if he has fully recovered from the pre-season injury that helped fuel the debate about him leaving the club. It will be a test without him but if we are good enough to win it then we should expect to be able to cope with the inevitable absences during the season of Lallana and Schneiderlin through injury or red cards

Roll on Tuesday night!

I think you are quite right in your prognosis of the state of affairs at the club. Everything has changed despite the reassuring rhetoric emanating from up stairs. Cortese may not feel the same way about Saints now that Marcus has passed away - in fact he may never have been as fanatical as Marcus but was prepared to do his master's bidding. Although he is wise enough not to be disrespectful to Marcus' legacy and quit immediately it must be a realistic consideration after a decent period of time has elapsed. In which case he will want to leave a legacy of a sound business free of debt and unnecessary cash flows such as additional wages for decent players. It will ease his way out leaving fans on a high note and more importantly raise the stakes for bidders in a sell-off of Saints. The present squad may be good enough to take us out of this mess called L1 as you suggest but would not be good enough to get us much further. Nevertheless, if we are on a good course by the end of the year, it will prove that we didn't need more players and Cortese may feel ready to hand over the baton to a new owner whose job it would be to rebuild the team once we are in the nPC. Every one is a winner and we will all feel good again - provided of course that Rupert Lowe does not leap from the bushes with £25million to buy the club.

Correction mate, we battered their second team, which would be about lower nPC level. Get real!

What is the difference between a prediction and a lucky guess? Can you make a WRONG prediction? We need to do some work on semantics.

Surely, the Club have to pay the police to attend matches so presumably this was not an initiative of the boys in blue. If anybody has a problem with it why not get onto Club Security and ask a few direct questions about human rights and so on? Innocent fans have a right to be indignant and concerned at this incident; questions need to be answered. Of course if you tell the blue lad to stick his camera up his tunic (ever so politely) you'll be in trouble for harrassing him but it shouldn't be like that. Innocent until found guilty but guilty of what - calling a referee a winker?

Maybe it's me but did anybody else notice during Pardew's comments pre-Bolton on Tuesday night the detached and emotionless way in which he referred to Guly when describing how he would fit into the team? Very unenthusiastic would be my interpretation, which led me to think that maybe the Italian connection has come to the fore once again. Was this the work of Corteses and his pals in Italy? Maybe Cortese is now deciding who comes in and not Pardew? You never know, maybe he takes the view that very few of Pardew's buys have been a huge success. Shades of Delgado and Lowe...