badgerx16

Liar, liar, pants on fire !

If somebody had come up to you at the end of the Sheff Utd game last season, and offered you the choice of Nigel Pearson or Jan Portvliet as the Saints manager for this season, which would you have taken ? ( Please no prevarication or replying 'neither'; a straight choice ).

You truly are a despicable character.

It might be, but the dutch duo have had a clean slate, NP inherited a team in meltdown that had just shown their collective @rses live on TV at Brizzle Rovers.

Scabby doesn't bite, he's Rupert's poodle.

I guess that makes you either a pot or a kettle, black in colour !

Now come on, you know very well he is not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy.

Could only post a brief response earlier, as the curry I was cooking was ready for serving, but now I can give this the considered response it most certainly does not deserve. Scabby, I do not want to be pedantic, or to disrupt your delusion, but Rupes is NOT a Lord. He is a ruddy cheeked, mediocre, wanabee financial big cheese who is desperately following the plans laid down by Barclays Bank in an attempt to stop his investment in the club going down the administration pan. He is not in control, the bank are. He is not visionary, he is following orders. Second, JP and MW are not a 'golden duo', they are just a pair of saps whose egos were boosted when Rupert came calling. Nigel Pearson was not kept on purely because RL didn't appoint him, and as a bonus he managed to find an opportunity to save a few shekels at the same time by delving into the lower echelons of the Dutch leagues. Goodness only knows what sort of endearments Rupes offered to JP that persuaded him not only that Saints were a good career move, but also to buy himself out his existing contract with a significant amount of his own money ! The collective career management records of the 'duo' amount to zilch, nil, nada, nowt,a big fat unimpresive ZERO. Third, whilst we can at times play some pretty passing football, there is a million miles between what SFC are churning out and Total Football. The Blackpool and Barnsley games showed that, and from looking at the comments on here about today's game, and looking at the match stats, we were far from convincing, and equally far from dominating DONCASTER. As for spittle on the keyboards, I bet you have wet dreams over RL. I support the Saints, and I support the manager, whoever he is, but I reserve the right to criticise where I feel necessary once the match has finished. JP was the wrong choice, but he is what we have, and there are signs that he has the potential to stabilise things, but we are very far ( and at least three experienced players ) away from a promotion chasing squad. However, I will never give any form of support, vocal or moral, to Rupert Lowe. The man presided over the decline of this club, has to shoulder a considerable share of the blame for it's current plight, and is too damned arrogant to do the noble thing and find a buyer for his share, and finally butt-out.

From one of the 'flat caps' who preferred to keep NP, Shut the **** up !!!!!

Hopefully something to build on - and my son's brass band have just won the National Championships in Harrogate, good day all round. :):):)

We have a habit of playing players out of position though, don't we ? Surman at LB, BWP on the pitch.....

As the song says "Tomorrow is another day"

He's not the only one. Dyer has been living up to his name, and BWP is living down to our expectations, to name but two others.

Where, in our current position, is the line between pessimism and realism ? At the start of the season, some of us were not quite as enthusiastic as others about JPs appointment, seeing no logical reason to replace Pearson with a completely unproven unknown; who so far has shown very little that might change our preconceptions. Similarly, we were not quite so certain that playing 'total football' with last year's reserves would lead us to the promised land. I do not think there is a single person on this forum, or Saints fan elsewhere, who fails to realise the financial situation, but even so, letting almost all of last year's seniors go, and not even playing the ones that remain, strikes many of us as plain suicidal. Similarly the apparent belief that Killer would be the great saviour, and somehow remove the need to build any sort of strength in depth in the defensive unit. Nobody, except possibly scabby and sunprance, take any pleasure in seeing OUR team decay to such an extent, (even MackRill and EyeSk8 are probably more embarrassed for us, than laughing at us, at the moment ). Sure there are plenty of points still to play for, and I sincerely hope that JP can manage the team in accumulating, by fair means or foul, sufficient to guarantee survival at the end of the season; but anybody who started the season with the 'we will walk this league' attitude has already been shown how wrong they were. It is, and always was, going to be very long, very hard season, and the biggest concern is that with such a young squad, their confidence is fragile, and once lost may never recover.

Don't think even the M*A*S*H team could revive this patient. Still, we can play out the final act with the Manic's version of SIP.

Puts me in mind of the Goodies show, with the formation of giant geese dropping golden eggs to the Dam Busters theme

You truly are beyond a joke, unlike your duck killing chum who is one.

Thing is, it's now got to the point of 'gallows humour'. I'm having to laugh the whole situation off as a bad joke, in an office full of Blackpool supporters, - I'll say that again BLACKPOOL supporters with a superiority complex. ( There's even a skate :mad: ). Even so, come kick-off time I'll be eagerly anticipating the start of the great revival, ( but by half time it'll be business as usual ). Still, as an eternal pessimist, I may find that by full time I am pleasantly surprised.

red & white forever ( poor deluded fool )

My youngest is playing in the brass band National Finals in Harrogate, so yes I am looking forward to Saturday.

Actually I think it is a well considered and erudite summation of the known facts !

Scooby, where are you ? Come out, come out, wherever you are !

But the manager picks the team, ( or at least reads out the names the Chairman has written down for him ), and he is the one standing on the touchline watching the players fail to pass to a team-mate, and failing to get crosses into the box, and failing to cut out the opponents chances; and he is the one failing to make the correct substitutions, and failing to change the tactics. ( Or is all that the fault of the players as well ? ). He is in charge, and he should be able to alter things when it is patently going wrong . Maybe when we get to League 1 JP will be managing at his level ?

League 1 ?

My wife's a City fan, so a good day all round