Charlie Wayman

Nobody gave him a tough time 'though. What happened to the seacrching questions that make people squirm in their chairs. Invite 15, they feel special, sell them the 'poor me' routine and off they go, pleased as punch! Works every time. Go along and listen by all means but make sure you shove your tongue up your cheek and not elsewhere.

PS Last post should read "The only problem with this line..."

The only problem with this lie is that we know that the informed soccer press are widely castigating Cortese for his absolute lack of understanding of football and how it works, he is not in the network and has never been in football before so it is unlikely in the extreme that he'll know waht it takes to make a good football manager and ev less how then to develop him to get the best from him. If it was otherwise, Alan Pardew would still be here and I wouldn't be depressed with migraine! Just a footnote to those well wishers who think I'm forsaking Saints to watch the gooners... I am not! After this summer's fiasco and the total lack of competitiveness in the PL and increasingly the other leagues, I'm done with "pro-soccer" and will be watching Esatleigh.

So I am one of the 7.93% who thinks this is a disaster for Saints and typically another deal done on the cheap. I'll stick to my prediction that this is a sticking plaster job so that Cortese can tie up all the loos ends before he clears off in January with the club up for sale thereafter. I don't give a monkey's that most of you think I'm a grumpy bastard who is hard to please, this is the worse possible outcome of all the far more exciting options that supposedly were open to us - what happened to the other 49? - in any case I'm not mug enough to keep paying scarce dosh to support this regime any more. I've already posted my request for a refund on my ST for what' s left of this season. I'm out of here and good luck to all of you guys who have been suckered into believing the club bull**** that this was the "best possible appointment". Oh! come on the blokes only been in management for 5 minutes so it is bound to end in tears but then neither Cortese or I will be around to give a ****. Sad day but everything comes to an end... Adieu!

He'll soon be off, gone by February I wouldn't mind betting. We are in the sh*te with nobody on hand to rescue us this time. Long time since I felt so cheated.

Relegation Looms! Unthikable? Think again.

You said it. They whacked us 3-0 at home so could be a drubbing up there.

A somewhat elegant turn of phrase. You seem to have been excelling yourself on this thread. It is hard to determine your problem with other people but boy you do have some issues. Most readers will still be looking up 'pikey' on Wiki, it's certainly not a word that one has encountered amongst the polite society of the Itchen. It emphasises the wide diversity of people who label themselves as Saints fans. Remember the mantra "Live and let live!"

Crikey! Did you hear that excerpt of Adkins on Solent this morning? The bloke can't even speak grammatically correct English on this evidence.

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!