doughnutman

Looking at their record they - won more points than Rochdale - won their first Wembley trophy since 1976 - scored more league goals than Bournemouth, or any team in the League One playoffs - averaged 21,000 gates, including 31,000 against Exeter - sold out their ticket allocation for the Football League Trophy Final (and could have sold 1,000s more) - gave Pardew £3 million to spend on players Any chance this can be forwarded onto NC!

So why are they bothering when no other paper are?

Hmmm im quite sceptical as all this seems to be originating from the Daily Mail and no other paper really seems to have ran with such a story. Would it be below Lowe to start trying to cause uncertainty at the club especially seeing as he has links to the Daily Mail??

Didn't Cortese say at some stage that there was great importance in the scouting system as they could have consistency with transfer targets even if they had to change manager??

Remember his reactions at the JPT final. Is that really the actions of a man not satisfied with the progress of his club? (apologies if someone has made a similar point but I couldn't see it anywhere)

Quite possible they are hoping that by releasing the news early NC will pull out early like the Elliot Ward/SSN incident

Some lad playing for Southend today by name of Matt Paterson. Seems to be playing pretty well and would be good back up for Lambert. HCDAJFU.

I really hope this is the case

I think it would be unlikely that ML is removing NC as didn't ML always say that he was doing this as long as NC was?

Pardew has just said on Solent that he's not looking forward to playing Bournemouth next season which would suggest he will be here next season. It would be very bizarre for him not to know he was going but that the programme staff did.

Good to see Antonio starting, hopefully a sign that he will be starting with us next season. Anyone know why Fonte is not playing??

Cant see the LH or DC rumours being true for the reasons states above (especially as Leicester are in with a shout of going up and I dont think DC is good enough for the prem anymore sadly). However, WT could well be true as Plymouth may be looking for defenders after this year and on paper WT would be a solid choice for them and they'd probably offer better wages then what we would to him. PW would be harder to speculate and seeing as he still has a year left on his contract im not sure if Bristol would want to pay a fee for him (though I wouldnt complain if we took Lines in exchange ). As for Robinson, it would be great for him too be here as he's got quite a few goals this year, though having not seen him play is he anything like Lambert as that would fit in with Pardews target of a lambert-like player.

Who would we replace him with?? I dont think Lambert, Grayson or Jackett would come here and the odds of attracting a manager from a higher league would be highly slim (would love to have O'Driscoll here though) and I dont think there are any out of work managers who could do the job AP has done and any that could do a decent job (Hughes and Mowbray only two that spring to my mind) would be well out of our price range. Had Coppell still been unemployed I could have seen it happening but due to a lack of other options I think NC should stick with his man, who IMO is doing a very good job and should been given until December 2010.

Other than the adjustments in bold agree with this

He is an immense signing on FM10. Less than a million and scored 45 goals in the league for me. I say this as if we sign him, I expect nothing less than that

Something about comparing a tackle to raping someone or something like that. I think he was commenting on a replay of a tackle and said that the tackler absolutely raped the player with the ball. HTH.

20/30

Weren't we linked with him July/August last year?

Leon Britton or Brian Stock for CM Elliot Ward for CB Orr for RB

Another defender please. I dont think Seabourne has what it takes in all fairness. Sounded like he had a poor game today from what Solent were saying (at fault for both goals) and he hasn't really impressed me when i've seen him play.

As soon as the whistle goes, grab a pen and a contract and hand it to Antonio and ask him to name his price and then pay it!

Yes, when I read it I took it with a pinch of salt based on it was Wotte who said it (World Class Ryan Smith for example) but friends who watch the academy games do say he is pretty good.

Saintsplayer keeps cutting out already FFS...

McNish and Ox on the bench today. I remember an article in the Pink last year with Wotte comparing McNish to a young Viera (We can only hope!!). Would love to see Racine also on the bench for a couple of games. I dont think White will make it unfortunately, too many injurie have halted his progress and if he was going to be any use he would have been on the bench before now. Same for McLaggon unfortunately, although he now has Waigo,Antonio,Puncheon ahead of him.

How about Wotton next year??