VectisSaint

No disrespect to Lewes We clearly struggled to beat their reserves 2-0, and they were even reduced to 10 men for the last 20 minutes. Our coach moaned that it was difficult to break Lewes down because they put men behind the ball. So it would seem that this is the ideal preparation for the CCC, and shows that any team can foil Saints one-dimensional style of play by getting everyone behind the ball, even the reserve team of a team currently bottom of the 5th tier of English football... It may be better if we were playing reserve sides from higher divisions, but quite frankly with the current set up its questionable whether we would have any success, and being bottom of a reserve league is not great preparation either. With the team at our disposal against Lewes we should have won 6-0, but our inept coaches cannot see how dire we really are and think this was a good result and performance.

The OS is great. It was really exciting to read about our Reserves outclassing the mighty Lewes Reserves yesterday. Our new Reserves Manager (at least for this game) was clearly highly impressed with our win but noted that we had a problem scoring goals. Against LEWES FFS. How bad have we become, and how bad is the OS if it is bigging up this game as some sort of awesome performance. Remind me which league Lewes compete in :mad: [Come to think of it I don't know which league they play in]

His record speaks for itself. He is a clown and hopeless manager. So what if he really rooted for us on Sky. What has he actually ever achieved? One promotion.

Ian Branfoot Peter Reid Rupert Lowe Mike Wilde Rodney Marsh

We are in the **** whether games go for or against us

Docker, please take on the job. We will all stand as witness that you were severly provoked

Don't see much sign of oscillation, the price has not gone up once in the last month and a half at least Oscillation: the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value

Its what happens when a club falls on Hard Times

No doubt an improvement on Wotte, like Holloway. But there are so many better (and probably cheaper) options out there than a dinosaur and a clown. I'm surprised no-one has mentioned George Graham. Time has passed, football has eveolved, the dinosaurs though are extinct and even circuses have had their day. Unlikely, but not impossible that a new man now could actually make a great deal of difference, though I have always maintained the squad is good enough for mid-table given the right leadership, but it would take someone quite special to dig us out now.

Alan Ball, love to bring him back in more ways than one...

Quite right, people are getting het up about what players are eating and dringking immediately after or even during a game. This is not an issue. Its what they do during the build up to the game that is important. After a game its a case of replenishment. I attended an FA conference a couple of years back where the top FA dietician for the England youth teams stated categorically that the best drink during a game was Coke. I was somewhat taken aback, the only thing is it should be taken 50/50 with water. Evidently better than any of these so called high performance. Jaffa cakes also are one of the best sources of energy during half-time etc. I suspect the reason why the players are so eager to scoff pizza etc straight after a match is because it is the only time they are allowed to do so. Good diet is great but it can also be very boring.

Don't have too much of a problem with them eating pizzas etc AFTER a game, jaffa cakes also during game (half time) are good. The issue is what they eat the rest of the week leading up to the game, and especially the day before/morning of a match - that is the important time. I do wonder about ANYONE eating KFC though, thats just plain nasty, cheap and low quality like MacDonalds. Went off KFC may years ago when I saw a notice scrawled on a toliet door in the factory where I worked - "Kentucky Fried Wombat - Its toenail picking good"

And a points deduction would hurt us in what way? We are going down so whether we have 30 points or 0 points makes no difference.

You can't polish a turd. At least Wotte The **** can't... It might be better to give them the whole week off, that way they won't learn any more from this embarrassing excuse for a coach.

I don't think he'll get the chance, we all know Sir Alex is going to be our manager next season. Coppell to Saints, some people must be busy smoking something if they think this could happen...

Its got nothing to do with someone with a wad. Someone with some sense, both football and financial, would make a difference. It is Lowe's mad experiments that have put us where we are, bringing in hopeless 3rd rate Dutch coaches who have no understanding of the CCC or even of football as far as I can see. Lowe is a failure both financially and from a football perspective he is no more qualified to run a plc or fc than most of the people are who run our banks.

In that case we probably deserved 3 points. But we got no points because we lost. AFAIK at the end of the season the Football League do not review all of the games and award bonus points to teams who deserved to draw or win. Its nice to know we deserved more, but in the end its totally meaningless. We lost, we have lost far too many, we can't score, we have another manager who doesn't know what he is doing, we are going down.

I'll be amazed if we even get 9 points from 14 with Wotte The **** in charge...

If the dumb****er really believes this then why did he pick him in the first place? Wotte is the point of replacing JP with a total asshole? The guy is a fecking joke, at least JP was likeable, whereas this **** is just plain stupid.

Please no Hermans Hermits songs, please...

Amongst the other reasons would be the moon being made of blue cheese I suppose. How on earth (or on the moon) can anyone rationally come to such a conclusion?

Tom Dunford. Comes from Wootton on the Isle of Wight, came through the ranks at Cowes. Has just signed a 2 year contract. There was a piece about him in the IW County Press last week: http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/tom-signs-for-saints-24469.aspx Hope he does well, being from my home village

If as alleged anyone had a pop at Saga then that is well out of order, we should be supporting the guy who is our best (only) hope of getting out of the more. For those who had a pop at McG and BWP I do not have this sense of outrage. By the way someone above asked whether manure players regularly go out on the lash. I suspect you will find they do, Mr Rooney is hardly a paragon ov virtue. It is also clear that Liverpool players also are not complete Saints, ask mr gerrard about his nights out, whether on the lash or not, and whether behaving in such a way as to potentially impact his profession is really a good idea. the only difference with both these examples are that these 2 teams are top of the Prem, if we were top of the CCC would we have these issues, probably not. Sadly the idea that footballers are professional athletes and should avoid alcohol/tobacco/late nights etc is so far from reality as to be laughable, people in other sports have accepted that this sacrifice needs to be made, but generally footy players have yet to wake up to this need. Still I agree it must be tough for young kids when they have no role model, can't say I was a saint when I was their age either, but then I was also no athlete

AFAIK there are no requirements for particular coaching certificates in the Fotball League, that is or at least was a Premier League only rule. It would only become a problem when Tiss got us promoted

I bet Lowe would crap himself, if it happened. This would add even more dislike of Lowe if the man he dismissed then saved our bitter rivals from the relagation we all hope they will suffer.