Dellman

Quote: This "I'm always available - they can give me a ring" stuff (not intended to be a verbatim quote but an approximation) is not as quite as benign a remark as he is trying to make it appear. If I were NC or a new manager or whatever, I'd feel somewhat patronised at the very least. Exactly! Look what a helluva mess we were in when he was around with all those numbskulls that ruined us

In most walks of life when you leave, you leave and LM doesn't seem able to do that, what would the Labour people say if Gordon Brown was still sounding off about the party leadership? I note LM says he doesn't go to the training ground any more...why should he for heaven's sake, what's it got to do with him? Absolutely nothing

It's horses for courses, the days of a fixed first eleven playing in fixed positions are long gone, that's why the managerial skill of using the squad is so crucial, reckon Adkins is doing it ok

The Poles had a nickname for him which in English means 'wooden legs'. He was the most statuesque striker I ever saw for Saints

We were tortured for years by failing management, failing players with bankruptcy threatening until financial ruin actually arrived. Have posters forgotten that chaos? Now we have financial stability a team worth watching and a structure that givers us a chance of holding our talented youth and making a long term future. How is it that people still want to slag off NC who has made it all possible? I just don't get it.

Nine pages! I can't believe it, I use this forum to get news about the team I support not these rants and as for the Club's pledge to fans I understand that was to get the club on a debt free footing and earn promotion NC is doing fine in my book

I never see the Echo becaue I live out of the area but I know there is conflict with the Club , I guess because it is so amateur and our Club is now professionally run. My question is..is it true that the Echo was telling us the sale of Oxo was a done deal and if so shouldn't it be called to account? Or at least apologise, it unsettles the club the players and the fan base

NI is self-important and sets himself up as a fans spokesman-what a cheek-thank goodness we now have a strong enough management to stand up to him. If he is such a big supporter why doesn't he get on with supporting, like the rest of us

Just because he has a great work rate and gets all over the pitch, doesn't mean he's the best option for captain in fact his busy-ness probably means he's the worst option. From his position, and with his quality Fonte looks the best man for the job

I watched FB for years and he became a favourite because he had fanatical enthusiasm but we all know he was short on brain. It'a really showing now. Very sad

It's good NC doesn't have to go public on our financial position, if it was widely known it would immediately foul up our negotiating position. I'm very pleased NC plays his cards close to his chest and refuses to play the publicity game.

Charlie Wayman was my boyhood hero, yes I am that old, and I remember his five goals against Leicester as if it was y'day. It pains me that his name is abused by the guy who writes this bitter stuff about the club and players of today who are making a great effort to restore former glories, I want to live long enough to see that happen but this Charlie Wayman pretender seems to be against that. Weird and sad.

If he goes it means we are still a selling club and still training talent for the benefit of others and that's not good business. That's why I think NC will do everything possible to keep him

I wonder how he is received when he goes back to Sunderland

If NC is not concerned with the Club's history, how come we are celebrating the 125th anniversary?

What hold do Pompey have over football administators? what ever pompey do, however badly it affects others, a nod and a wink sees them through, what is going on? That old goaly Knight who served them well won't get away with it and neither would any of us but if it's Pompey the FL or the PL just bow down

Personality matters because its a team game and there's a squad to fit into, and it looks a united squad atm

NC wont sell for two good reasons: he is building from the roots and no one is more roots than Oxo and Lallana and the second reason is if he was in it for money he will get twice as much in two years time so no way will he sell now. Its a happy time, we are not a selling club, believe it and enjoy it!

Just at the moment we don't need to buy and don't want to sell, just consolidate. We're getting away from football's madness of thinking it can solve every problem by flashing money.

Who was it on this site that said Adkins had 'lost the dressing room'?

Don't tell antone in Stevenage the Cup has lost its magic, they wont believe you, only the FA Cup gives the minnows a look-in

we're building from the roots, AL and OXO are the models, sell OXO even for£20m and the vision goes..hold him please, he's our future style

At last we are not a selling club, thanks ML and now NC you have now sorted our lovely old club out, I hope the fans will appreciate you properly.

Anyone note the steep decline began when WAGS and kids arrived for Cmas hols with Daddy, why didn't they come after the Test -if at all?