deadpanmatt Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 ... reckons we will finish 19th and our key player will be... ...Paul Wotton.
Thedelldays Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 ... reckons we will finish 19th and our key player will be... ...Paul Wotton. LOL great
yellow&blue Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 Are you sure that's not last season's prediction reprinted??
SO16_Saint Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 ... reckons we will finish 19th and our key player will be... ...Paul Wotton. in which casae Four Four Two magazine know **** all about football
deadpanmatt Posted 15 August, 2009 Author Posted 15 August, 2009 Are you sure that's not last season's prediction reprinted?? There is every chance of this being the case, although the article does seem to linger on the 'uncertainty surrounding the club since the takeover', which basically translates to me as "your guess is as good as ours'.
krissyboy31 Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 ... reckons we will finish 19th and our key player will be... ...Paul Wotton. Key in the fact that the more we leave him out, the better our league position will be.
yellow&blue Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 Just out of interest, what write up do they give to Bristol Rovers and Rickie Lambert?
revolution saint Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 I always buy the season preview 442, it's normally fairly good although I hardly ever agree with their predictions about Saints. This one is particularly bad but that's mainly due to the fact it was written just after the takeover had occured and Wotte had been sacked. Pardew hadn't been appointed and obviously we hadn't signed anyone although we had sold a fair number. I guess at around that time things didn't look quite so good as they do now.
revolution saint Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 Just out of interest, what write up do they give to Bristol Rovers and Rickie Lambert? That he would be key for them, star player and terrace favourite.
Junction 9 Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 What a let down. I can't believe I renewed my ST now.
RedArmy Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 TBF if Wotton was our key player we'd be lucky to finish 19th.
SNOWY Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 Bring back "shoot!" How I miss those league ladders.
SFC Forever Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 True but only after a few weeks when we have started climbing up the league
Mase Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 Surely this must have been written before the takeover. Even so, they got the key player way off. Davies and/or Lambert now!
Window Cleaner Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 And why should 442 be so wrong, we have obtained 1 point from 2 games ie 23 for the season and have a 10 point deficit) Right here right now we should be on -4 points,we're on -9 actually, we won't get better without realistic signings,so why should 18th be so ludicrous? Charlton are joint top; there's a way of doing it in this League, unfortunately we haven't done it-yet.Leicester showed the way, why can't our gazillionaire owner just follow the path of an oick like Mandaric?
the boy from saints Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 (edited) And why should 442 be so wrong, we have obtained 1 point from 2 games ie 23 for the season and have a 10 point deficit) Right here right now we should be on -4 points,we're on -9 actually, we won't get better without realistic signings,so why should 18th be so ludicrous? Charlton are joint top; there's a way of doing it in this League, unfortunately we haven't done it-yet.Leicester showed the way, why can't our gazillionaire owner just follow the path of an oick like Mandaric? As was quoted earlier the 4-4-2 piece was written before the takeover and pre Pardew, Harding, Murty and Lambert were signed. Pardew stated 2 weeks ago that the season had come 3 weeks to early. Pretty much every other club are more prepared than us. We should be grateful that we have a club and no debt. Edited 16 August, 2009 by the boy from saints Took out swearing.
Fan The Flames Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 442 jumped the shark when they signed up the **** Robbie Savage.
Gorgiesaint Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 And why should 442 be so wrong, we have obtained 1 point from 2 games ie 23 for the season and have a 10 point deficit) Right here right now we should be on -4 points,we're on -9 actually, we won't get better without realistic signings,so why should 18th be so ludicrous? Charlton are joint top; there's a way of doing it in this League, unfortunately we haven't done it-yet.Leicester showed the way, why can't our gazillionaire owner just follow the path of an oick like Mandaric? Theres a way of doing it in this league - yes, called stability & having a pre-season!! Not why you think 'we should be on -4 points' - because we're an ex-prem club perhaps? We are the team we are right now not what we were 6 years ago, we've had 4-5 years of total mis-management of the club at all levels, it will take more than 4-5 weeks to repair it. And if you think that just throwing money at it is the answer then it is one solution - but I would much prefer that Liebherr & Cortese build a solid club that can support itself if & when Liebherr walks away (unless you think Pompey fans are enjoying themselves at the moment)
John B Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 Theres a way of doing it in this league - yes, called stability & having a pre-season!! Not why you think 'we should be on -4 points' - because we're an ex-prem club perhaps? We are the team we are right now not what we were 6 years ago, we've had 4-5 years of total mis-management of the club at all levels, it will take more than 4-5 weeks to repair it. And if you think that just throwing money at it is the answer then it is one solution - but I would much prefer that Liebherr & Cortese build a solid club that can support itself if & when Liebherr walks away (unless you think Pompey fans are enjoying themselves at the moment) We did have a pre-season and were Rubbish so it is not surprising we are still rubbish
Block 5 Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 19th position would be about right IMO, judging by the performance I witnessed yesterday. Obviously AP will turn things around, but right here, right now...... yeah.... 19th if we're lucky.
SaintRobbie Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 ... reckons we will finish 19th and our key player will be... ...Paul Wotton. Agree with position... but Wotton? LOL. Lambert will be our key player.
The9 Posted 17 August, 2009 Posted 17 August, 2009 I posted this about a fortnight ago (on the Jason Euell thread, as there's also an article by him in there), and even then the season predictions were clearly at least a month out of date, they probably wrote all that in April.
Saint Fan CaM Posted 17 August, 2009 Posted 17 August, 2009 If AP does not sort out the midfield and CB positions quite quickly IMO there is a real chance that Lambert will go 'off the boil' as he will sink to the level of the team supplying him. In fact, there are a number of decent players over the last few years that have seen their performances go dramatically downhill because they have been mixed in with a mis-managed squad of utter poop - (e.g. Lallana). This is not about winning this league and a rapid rise to the Prem - this is about really sorting out the squad so it can SURVIVE this season, play some decent football and then fight its way upwards. At this rate though, we will be lucky to survive L1 such is the state of this demoralised team.
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