70's Mike Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 First time we have had a real charachter since Dennis Rolfe, a few rockets up a few backsides good news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Is it me' date=' or do I sense everything moving in the right direction...and with the defence tightening up the first victory can't be too far away. Maybe Charlton is too early(1:1), but the following week..[/quote'] Actually as Charlton are a big team in this league, I reckon we could raise our game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 First time we have had a real charachter since Dennis Rolfe, a few rockets up a few backsides good news We'll need to buy Pains Wessex! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Steve Coppell = D i c k Whittington Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Bit of a nutter Good stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Will Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Bit of a nutter Good stuff You should be able to relate to him well then! ;-) 6 under today at Studley Wood btw, 1 shot off the lead about bloody time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 You should be able to relate to him well then! ;-) 6 under today at Studley Wood btw, 1 shot off the lead about bloody time. Yep, same wavelength and all that Another day tomorrow? Nice work, sorted out that oh so powerful push fade then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Will Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Yep, same wavelength and all that Another day tomorrow? Nice work, sorted out that oh so powerful push fade then? Yeah, one more day tomorrow. There are 3 players on 7 under, so a quick start required. I went back to a few swing keys that I was given at the Butch Harmon school in Vegas and they're working a treat. I'm just aiming down the left side and hitting a drilled low fade - barely missed a shot today. Birdied all the par 5's. Wish I'd entered European Tour school now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectisSaint Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Let me tell you - this is an awesome appointment. Think of him as a character similar to Glynn Snodin, who i also thought was a huge loss for us. (i can assure you that he has had a big impact in leeds current form...) If WD has half the impact that Snodin had then we will soon be flying, Snodin, the man that almost made Burley look reasonable... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Yeah, one more day tomorrow. There are 3 players on 7 under, so a quick start required. I went back to a few swing keys that I was given at the Butch Harmon school in Vegas and they're working a treat. I'm just aiming down the left side and hitting a drilled low fade - barely missed a shot today. Birdied all the par 5's. Wish I'd entered European Tour school now. The beauty of Hindsight eh Best of luck for tomorrow then bud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Will Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 The beauty of Hindsight eh Best of luck for tomorrow then bud Cheers homie. Need to win this one and another couple so that I don't need to get a job this winter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clifford Nelson Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Too true - need somebody who is a bit more vocal, channel that us vs. them camaraderie to productive ends. alot of our players seem a tad too withdrawn. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-509622/Why-hump-Wally-Downes.html I've ever only heard his name before. With these qualities he could be very important for this team. It looks like another very astute signing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Just what we need, another Wally at the club!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamsaint Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Was Brentford manager when he featured in the C4 programme Faking It. Was quite amusing. I think Wally can definately be thought of as 'old school'. This was rumoured at the time AP took over. Surprised it took so long. Maybe PArds feels that he needs some help improving morale and banishing the losing ethos that the club seems to have.... TBF we have replaced the losing ethos with a drawing ethos recently. An ethos that would do OK on Saturday at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crab Lungs Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Bloody hell, on another note, does anyone remember this? George Santos tackle on Andy Johnson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildgoose Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Just seen this: http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Southampton-line-up-Steve-Coppell-for-key-role-at-St-Mary-s-article147907.html Bet they got it off of here :-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glkdcdes Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 news now reporting Steve Coppel being lined up as director of football. If that happens it is yet another sign that the new owner means business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 news now reporting Steve Coppel being lined up as director of football. If that happens it is yet another sign that the new owner means business. or...we will know who will replace pardew if and when he leave/resigns/gets sacked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgiesaint Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 I've ever only heard his name before. With these qualities he could be very important for this team. It looks like another very astute signing. He could be our most important signing yet. Many have talked (including me) about the losing mentality at the club, WD could be a massive influence on the player regaining the right mentality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 7 September, 2009 Author Share Posted 7 September, 2009 or...we will know who will replace pardew if and when he leave/resigns/gets sacked Don't agree. Would be ridiculous doing that, Pardew will lose all interest and we might as well have appointed Coppell in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Don't agree. Would be ridiculous doing that, Pardew will lose all interest and we might as well have appointed Coppell in the first place. indeed..but seeing as pards is here. coppell will step in when it all goes wrong with pardew (when that is who knows but it will one day)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 news now reporting Steve Coppel being lined up as director of football. If that happens it is yet another sign that the new owner means business. what news? is it elsewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glkdcdes Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 indeed..but seeing as pards is here. coppell will step in when it all goes wrong with pardew (when that is who knows but it will one day)... i think you will find that Coppell is a man of integrity. If he indeed does come in as d.o.f. he will only do it with Pardews total support. He im sure will have no desire to become our manager. If this comes off it will be a significant day in the history of our club. Good times really are around the corner............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Great appointment. Downes will be a firm favourite with the fans and players alike, and he has a wealth of experience in the game, especially at this level. Good to see that Pards has been able to strengthen his backroom staff even further too. Everything is taking shape both on and off the field, albeit slowly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 7 September, 2009 Author Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Great appointment. Downes will be a firm favourite with the fans and players alike, and he has a wealth of experience in the game, especially at this level. Good to see that Pards has been able to strengthen his backroom staff even further too. Everything is taking shape both on and off the field, albeit slowly! Which to be fair is exactly how Liebherr, Cortese and Pardew have all said things would progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 we might as well have appointed Coppell in the first place. I'd be surprised if he wasn't on their original shortlist.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsacar saint Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Markus Liebherr is certainly getting everything right off the pitch. This great club of ours will be back to former glories in the next few years. The new bosses definately mean business, as I and others have said all along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Mockles Posted 7 September, 2009 Share Posted 7 September, 2009 Yeah, one more day tomorrow. There are 3 players on 7 under, so a quick start required. I went back to a few swing keys that I was given at the Butch Harmon school in Vegas and they're working a treat. I'm just aiming down the left side and hitting a drilled low fade - barely missed a shot today. Birdied all the par 5's. Wish I'd entered European Tour school now. To be fair St Will (with the greatest respect), Golf is dull. I, amongst a few on here, prefer football & didn't open this thread to sieve through the plethora of throw away golf comments. There is a PM facility, The lounge or other areas of the forum to discuss golf. Sorry to be a stickler but I hear enough golf talk at work to send me to sleep. It bores me sh*tless! I don't wish to read hijacked threads going off topic & harping on about golf. Thanks! No offence. ;0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRobbie Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~1790246,00.html Don't know too much about him, but good to see the rebuilding of the whole club being continued. Good stuff. I assume he's not the fitness coach though Clearly one of Coppell's men... bring on the new DOF shortly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRobbie Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 or...we will know who will replace pardew if and when he leave/resigns/gets sacked I think you're living in a different era. That one passed when Barclays Bank rescued us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingeletiss Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 DD just say's these things for effect.......to get a rise, I'm sure he doesn't really believe it...he posted the same thing on another thread...same result!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 I think you're living in a different era. That one passed when Barclays Bank rescued us! So Pardew is going to be manager for the next twenty years is he? Is he balls. Not sure if you noticed by every other club on earth does a good job of changing managers every eighteen months as well, it wasn't some exclusive thing only Saints did. Pardew will leave/resign/get sacked/retire/move upstairs or something at some point in the next five years, probably sometime in the next two. It's a fair point that we do have plenty of able caretakers at the club, and one more if Coppell pitches up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WATERSIDEIFASAINT Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 Great appointment.My mate who is a Wimbledon fan reckons we have got a great coach and a real character.He apparently was the chief instigator of the crazy gang being set up at Wimbledon.Will definately help these players get a real togetherness and one for all attitude which is probably the last main ingrediant we now need to have a sucessful side in this division.We need real team spirit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctoroncall Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 Great appointment.My mate who is a Wimbledon fan reckons we have got a great coach and a real character.He apparently was the chief instigator of the crazy gang being set up at Wimbledon.Will definately help these players get a real togetherness and one for all attitude which is probably the last main ingrediant we now need to have a sucessful side in this division.We need real team spirit A shame it wasn't the first ingredient as you can never underestimate what team spirit can add to the team performance. Onwards and upwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secret Site Agent Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 I knows what i likes and I likes what i sees Things are certain looking up for the better If only we could win one. And then another one. I look forward to the day that going to watch saints is boring because we win so easily, (tee hee hee). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 A shame it wasn't the first ingredient as you can never underestimate what team spirit can add to the team performance. Onwards and upwards. Agreed. If true that he was the main instigator of the Crazy Gang at Wimbledon, then I take my hat off to him. They remain the best known example of a football team with the highest level of camaraderie, the epitomy of the difference that great team spirit can make, translating into playing above your level because you play for your team mates as a unit. That esprit de corps also meant that players were reluctant to leave, as a large part of their enjoyment in playing for that team was derived from the deeper friendships that followed on from it and which they knew they would miss elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 sooner or later no one can keep up with the excuses...we have it better than at the very least 20 clubs in this league right now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clifford Nelson Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 He could be our most important signing yet. Many have talked (including me) about the losing mentality at the club, WD could be a massive influence on the player regaining the right mentality. There were one or two of us who did talk about the lack of a winning habit/winning mentality before AP was appointed and I was absolutely exstatic that he spotted this shortcoming immediately. Since he hasn't yet managed to eradicated it he is taking further steps to do so. It is very comforting. Some posters think that the problems we have should have been sorted out now, like Charlton did, for instance. They forget that our problems have been rubbed in over years and seem to have acted like some virus infecting everybody associated with the club. APs job is not just to design a tactic and take charge, it is more like purging some kind of plague, or bad blood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 There were one or two of us who did talk about the lack of a winning habit/winning mentality before AP was appointed and I was absolutely exstatic that he spotted this shortcoming immediately. Since he hasn't yet managed to eradicated it he is taking further steps to do so. It is very comforting. Some posters think that the problems we have should have been sorted out now, like Charlton did, for instance. They forget that our problems have been rubbed in over years and seem to have acted like some virus infecting everybody associated with the club. APs job is not just to design a tactic and take charge, it is more like purging some kind of plague, or bad blood. I get annoyed with tosh like this. Norwich got relegated from the Prem the same season as us, have got through an armful of managers and false dawns and also went down with us to L1 last season. And their new manager had less of a pre season than Pardew and managed to win a couple. And Charlton have had a faster and harder fall than we've had as they came down to the CCC a season after us. We're not that special, we're not super hard done by. We haven't got "a virus" any more than any other club. We're currently rubbish on the pitch and in the league. That's all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctoroncall Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 I get annoyed with tosh like this. Norwich got relegated from the Prem the same season as us, have got through an armful of managers and false dawns and also went down with us to L1 last season. And their new manager had less of a pre season than Pardew and managed to win a couple. And Charlton have had a faster and harder fall than we've had as they came down to the CCC a season after us. We're not that special, we're not super hard done by. We haven't got "a virus" any more than any other club. We're currently rubbish on the pitch and in the league. That's all. Interesting, as there seems to have been periods of stability (off and on the pitch) for those clubs except Saints who lurched from one disaster to another. Charlton lost Curbs and went into decline from appointing a manager not equipped to survive the Premier League and bought badly. At least they stuck by Parkinson and kept hold of the squad that started to pick up towards the end of last season. Norwich have had changes to their management, also having many loan players but nothing as serve as us in both respects, something they changed when buying players this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 (edited) Interesting, as there seems to have been periods of stability (off and on the pitch) for those clubs except Saints who lurched from one disaster to another. Charlton lost Curbs and went into decline from appointing a manager not equipped to survive the Premier League and bought badly. At least they stuck by Parkinson and kept hold of the squad that started to pick up towards the end of last season. Norwich have had changes to their management, also having many loan players but nothing as serve as us in both respects, something they changed when buying players this summer. Neither Norwich or Charlton have got anywhere near the play offs since relegation from the Prem, we did. Neither club have had a season as "successful" as that post-Wilde Burley season. Not sure how getting to the play-offs is a "disaster". Norwich and Charlton would have taken that "disaster". Neither club have had two revolutionary and exciting takeovers and we have had two (Wilde turning to ****e is neither here nor there). We've had two adrenaline rushes of new hope, Norwich appointed Peter Grant and Glenn Roeder. Charlton just went down, and down. So please don't cherry pick facts and say "well we've had it much rougher than them". We haven't*. Edited 8 September, 2009 by CB Fry *and don't even bother with "administration". We've got a billionaire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 Agreed. If true that he was the main instigator of the Crazy Gang at Wimbledon, then I take my hat off to him. They remain the best known example of a football team with the highest level of camaraderie, the epitomy of the difference that great team spirit can make, translating into playing above your level because you play for your team mates as a unit. That esprit de corps also meant that players were reluctant to leave, as a large part of their enjoyment in playing for that team was derived from the deeper friendships that followed on from it and which they knew they would miss elsewhere. Agree with much of what you say,but I still believe our Alehouse team were on a par,if not better than the Crazy Gang .The Alehouse were certainly better players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurosaint Posted 8 September, 2009 Share Posted 8 September, 2009 I get annoyed with tosh like this. Norwich got relegated from the Prem the same season as us, have got through an armful of managers and false dawns and also went down with us to L1 last season. And their new manager had less of a pre season than Pardew and managed to win a couple. And Charlton have had a faster and harder fall than we've had as they came down to the CCC a season after us. We're not that special, we're not super hard done by. We haven't got "a virus" any more than any other club. We're currently rubbish on the pitch and in the league. That's all. I think it's important to look at each club situation in isolation. Whatever team performance problems Charlton and Norwich had were not exacerbated by severe boardroom discord and subsequent administration, leading to the edge of oblivion ! SFC has had to rebuild from scratch, it has had to reassure employees who were paid late for 2 months and feared for their jobs, it has totally revamped the coaching and scouting structure as well as the management and the players ! Sure , a lot of teams have had upheaval but ours has been exceptional from top to bottom and (without making excuses for poor results) IMHO what has been achieved in 2 short months has been nothing short of remarkable ! In all leagues you can compare one team to another but individual circumstances tend to impact in different ways, perhaps we will slump to a lower trough and then hit a higher peak, who knows ? Only time will tell, but in terms of sensible, rational planning and recruitment I consider that they are doing a great job ! The next step (clearly) is to put all the pieces together and create a winning mentality, thus ensuring that ability and motivation go hand in hand ! I can see it coming, I really can !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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