LiamSFC

The photo caption: "Very sensitive to vibrations: Soton cat Kelvin Davis does not want to hear a lot of negative stuff about how everyone loved Nigel Adkins, and don't like the new bloke" ... are they for real?

No. I'm saying if he has family down here it's likely that he already knows the area and would be interested in moving here. Like I said, he's proving to be a very capable manager at Swindon and that's obviously the most important thing.

As much as I love Nigel, and as much as I appreciate what he's done for us, he's been incompetent this season and seems out of his depth, so I'm starting to think it might be time for him to go. Benitez would be great but we are nowhere near big enough for him and even if he was interested, he'd want massive, massive wages. Realistically, I'd love Paolo Di Canio. He's Italian and his daughter goes to Southampton Uni, so it seems like a perfect fit. He's passionate, a great manager and a complete and utter lunatic. He'd be an instant hero.

They seem about right considering we're a newly promoted team and largely untested at the top level. I'm sure the likes of Lallana, Ramirez, Lambert etc will break into the 80s after a few months. Saying that though, quite how they can rate Schneiderlin a 72 (seriously, wtf?) and Yoshida, who *captains his country*, a 69 is beyond me.

It's loathsome.

Na na, na na, na na, na na, na na na, Morgan Schneiderlin, Schneiderlin, Morgan Schneiderlin! Not very original, but easy to sing and remember.

Why is this forum so infested with ****s?

What's wrong with 'well duh'? Just means 'that was obvious'. Anyway, you have completely missed my point. As I said, clubs have always changed badges, kits etc, and they always will. That's fine. Chelsea used to be nicknamed 'the Pensioners'. Man United used to be called Newton Heath, and wore green and yellow. Many Premier League clubs have changed their badges in the last few years. Sometimes clubs need to freshen up their image and I accept that. My point was that it's not so much the changes at Cardiff City which have upset people, although that's obviously a big part of it, as such sweeping, wholesale changes, despite your constant assertions, are very rare in football. Rather, it's the reasoning behind it. "We Asians like dragons and think red is lucky, so we're going to waltz into your club and change nearly one hundred years of tradition to suit us. This will please the new foreign owner, and will somehow allow us to flog more shirts to fake fans with no connection to the club who live thousands of miles away, although we're not going to explain how. If you don't agree to this, we're going to let your club die." Bit different from Don Revie simply changing Leeds' kit because he wanted to emulate Real Madrid, isn't it?

Well duh. Congrats on stating the blindingly obvious. I doubt there's a club in the world that hasn't changed its badge/colours at some point in its history. Nothing wrong with that. It's the fact that the Cardiff City board are changing everything about the club - colours, badge, nickname, the lot - against the wishes of the local supporters, for the explicit purpose of selling more shirts to Asian 'fans'. It represents everything wrong with the modern game.

Apparently he now plays for 'Orlando City' in the American third division...

You can't think of anything intelligent to respond with so you're just going to keep calling me simple without doing anything to demonstrate it. You're a real intellectual. Have you thought of debating Dawkins? You could just respond to all of his well thought-out, structured arguments with "you're an idiot".

Why thank god for Saints' improvement in fortunes if you don't believe he's favouring us? You're a bit of a nutter.

This coming from a man who thinks an all powerful being sits in the sky supporting football teams...

He has Sky+, so he can watch one and record the other. And we didn't have a billionaire owner when we got relegated. God only starts supporting a team when they get rich owners, hence why us and City are suddenly doing well. He's a bit of a glory hunter in that respect.