The Round Ball Game

[teamsaint]

If ER does a midweek round up, I may have to frame it !!

[EdgeleyRob]

Wasn't in the mood really but

Results update -

Sunday.

Carlisle United 1 Coventry City 0

Tuesday / Wednesday.

plastic dons 2 Sheffield Wednesday 0
Stoke City 4 Crystal Palace 1
Blackpool 1 Fulham 2
WBA 0 QPR 1
Stockport County 1 Mansfield Town 3
Salisbury City 4 Truro City 3
Chelsea 2 Southampton 2
Coventry City 1 Tranmere Rovers 0

[Beef Oven]

We made hard work of West Ham. Standards are slipping at United. But, to be fair, we had no RvP and had to have Wayne Rooney as a replacement.

[teamsaint]

Wasn't in the mood really but

Results update -

Sunday.

Carlisle United 1 Coventry City 0

Tuesday / Wednesday.

plastic dons 2 Sheffield Wednesday 0
Stoke City 4 Crystal Palace 1
Blackpool 1 Fulham 2
WBA 0 QPR 1
Stockport County 1 Mansfield Town 3
Salisbury City 4 Truro City 3
Chelsea 2 Southampton 2
Coventry City 1 Tranmere Rovers 0

Thanks ER. appreciated. I don't think I can frame it with that Stockport result.
Probably a bad idea anyway. Last time I put a Saints thing up in the kitchen was a cut out of the league table, at Xmas 2003. We were 4th !!
18 months later we were relegated for the first time in 27 years. Pride comes before a fall......

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

why have The Saints sacked Adkins for heavens sake?

If only Abramovich would do the same for Emenalo ever since he joined the club he has done a very creditable impersonation of a complete Jonah!

Is Arsene right?

Wenger also admitted that he expected Guardiola to come to the Premier League.

“He asked me a few times and told me a few times he would like to come to England,” he said. “I always encouraged him to come to England but Germany is not a backward step. Germany, maybe along with Spain, are the country with the best young players. It is the football of tomorrow.”

[teamsaint]

thanks for breaking that news, Jazzer!

I am unable to properly reply in polite, R3 langauge


football never fails to surprise or disappoint, but i can't think I have ever been more disappointed by something the club has done.
Don't feel like going on Monday now.
or again for a long time.
We played sensational football under NA.

[johncorrigan]

thanks for breaking that news, Jazzer!

I am unable to properly reply in polite, R3 langauge


football never fails to surprise or disappoint, but i can't think I have ever been more disappointed by something the club has done.
Don't feel like going on Monday now.
or again for a long time.
We played sensational football under NA.

Pretty unbelievable - makes you wonder what these owners think. The team were obviously playing for the manager, they had developed a good bit of grit to go along with their attractive football and looked very capable of finishing 17th or better. Bonkers decision as far as I can see from up here.

[teamsaint]

Pretty unbelievable - makes you wonder what these owners think. The team were obviously playing for the manager, they had developed a good bit of grit to go along with their attractive football and looked very capable of finishing 17th or better. Bonkers decision as far as I can see from up here.

in this weather i am amazed you can see anything from up there !!
Just reinforces my reluctance to spend £35 a game or more. Don't think I could ever give it up, but the days when I loyally turned out week after week, whatever **** the board or team gave us, are long, long gone. They treat us like (idiot) customers, and that is how I behave.
Very sad day for the Saints, IMO. And I should know one of those when I see one ....there have been a few !

[cloughie]

in this weather i am amazed you can see anything from up there !!
Just reinforces my reluctance to spend £35 a game or more. Don't think I could ever give it up, but the days when I loyally turned out week after week, whatever **** the board or team gave us, are long, long gone. They treat us like (idiot) customers, and that is how I behave.
Very sad day for the Saints, IMO. And I should know one of those when I see one ....there have been a few !

Why is it that managers who successfully get sides promoted are continually thought not to be up to the job in the top flight - they should be given the opportunity to grow with the job.

[Lancashire Lass]

Problem is, we are not dealing with rational people here, Cloughie. We are dealing with moneymen whose inflated egos give them the delusion they can run anything, anywhere when they clearly have no experience of the sector or the culture. It's Sam Allardyce and Venky's all over again. It's about showing who's boss. Men like that have no place in football but unfortunately while English clubs can be bought by any billionaire who can then install whoever they want as chairman, with no emotional ties to the club or sense of stewardship, it will carry on.

My sympathy, TeamSaint. I do hope there is a good outcome. At least Saints fans are doing justice with NC's Wiki entry.

[teamsaint]

thanks Lancashire Lass.. cortese thinks he can take us into the champions league or something. that is delusional. If he spent many tens of millions , in a few years he might get us there once. maybe. Parma and Bayer leverkeusen are examples of that kind of thing. But it couldn't last. there is a queue of potentially bigger outfits waiting for the money men to take them there...villa, Everton, spuds, leeds, forest, wednesday, west ham etc.
Not going to enjoy monday night much, if I do go.I have tickets.......

[cloughie]

Problem is, we are not dealing with rational people here, Cloughie. We are dealing with moneymen whose inflated egos give them the delusion they can run anything, anywhere when they clearly have no experience of the sector or the culture. It's Sam Allardyce and Venky's all over again. It's about showing who's boss. Men like that have no place in football but unfortunately while English clubs can be bought by any billionaire who can then install whoever they want as chairman, with no emotional ties to the club or sense of stewardship, it will carry on.

My sympathy, TeamSaint. I do hope there is a good outcome. At least Saints fans are doing justice with NC's Wiki entry.

LL you talk a lot of sense - I guess Adkins will be snapped up by the next Championship side to lose patience with their current boss. Sorry by the way the Owls did not stuff MKD but I think Jones is concentrating on improving our Championship position - 7 changes from the battling side that comprehensively thrashed Hull last Saturday - players who had not played competitively together for a while against a well-organised Div 1 side including a couple of ex-Owls!

[eighthobstruction]

jeez what B' shame for saints....one of the few English managers....lucky for you McLeish got picked up by Forest recently BUT....http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21063276

[teamsaint]

I suspect that Forest's owners are as delusional as cortese.

They have got rid of two proven quality Championship managers (Billy Davis and Sean O'Discoll) and keep trying failed PL/international managers.

O'Driscoll would have been great for them given time. his problem seems to be that he has a properly functioning brain...not popular with football chairmen I guess.

[Alison]

My goodness, this news is scarcely to be believed. So Sorry Sainty.