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It all seems very disjointed.

This is it for me as well. Appoint a manager to build the club, although the flaw in that in the modern world is that he won’t want to stay around longer than two seasons (three at the outside) to see it through. Would such a job appeal to a manager ? Nowadays the strategy seems to be a Director of Sport signs the players, and a coach is appointed to oversee it, not necessarily deciding on tactics and team selection. Was it Lowe who commented that the manager was just another employee ? If so he was perhaps ahead of the game in publicly stating it.

Is that a Forecast reference for the (relativity recent) ‘older ones’ , or a Frank Saul for the even older ‘older ones’ ? (Such as me).

Good luck to him and perhaps he’ll show the form that Bayern saw in him originally. Hope that as an Israeli international his time with Saints isn’t seen as reasons for others to make Palestine protests etc (might seem far fetched but you wouldn’t put it past some cretins ).

Perhaps an end of window review might be in order

I was surprised he wasn’t put straight in. Strangely I think he’d have been a less popular choice than Tonda.

Fair point. But that would be the same for any new appointment, had Carrick come in and lost the first four would that have been the case ? Had it been Gary O’Neil it might have been cranked up a bit more as well. How many games did we go without a win after Burley arrived ?

I think this is reasonably plausible about O’Neil. The only other name linked from someone was Rodgers, but if he did speak with Saints then a) he probably wanted a Kings Ransome of a salary, b)he wouldn’t accept any interference from above, c) his and Rasmus’ egos would never both fit into Staplewood

Add me to the numbnuts club as well then. You can only answer this as you would have done end of November/early December, it’s easy to give a different answer with the benefit of hindsight. I was quite clear on my view of Still’s appointment from the outset, so I’ll put my head above the parapet here. As I’ve said elsewhere I don’t think the club could not appoint him after the run of results. Perhaps an extended interim period, but these things seldom drag and at least it wasn’t after a single game as they did for Selles. Why it has gone tits up since is another debate. Would Tonda have been my preferred choice the day after Still was dumped, no. But it did seem he’d changed things over a few weeks.

Despite our differences on the Tonda or Lego issue, I do agree with what you’ve written here.

We have to agree to differ on that then Willo. But I’d question your belief that Martin’s teams kept going. Fair point that they did get last gasp winners at Hull, Millwall for example, but often I recall they just fizzled out and passed it around aimlessly towards the end of matches with no idea or initiative on display.

Agree Gloucester, but you have to ask if SR actually want one ? Do they want someone to challenge the template, and say no, I want to mix it up, go long, whatever ? Big question for me is why we have regressed in this style over recent weeks. I read on here a comment referencing Nathan Jones outburst about being compromised etc. That may be nothing , and some (I’m sure you can predict who) will dismiss it as conspiracy bollocks, but food for thought perhaps.

Tonda on the grounds he’s not an egotistical bellend.

I lost count of how many times Smallbone put a crunching tackle in whilst playing under Lego. Most would have a go at passing it sideways and back to the CB’s. Let’s not rewrite history, results may have been better but the football was often dire.

Only if it were a direct choice between the two surviving candidates after a nuclear strike leaving him and Wayne Rooney in contention. Otherwise, not in a million years.