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[redneb]

I hope they have a dramatic season - just fail to stay up - and pass us going in the other direction. And I hope we are more prepared for the Premier League than they are currently. Too much too soon for Saints, and simply why we were fortunate not to get promoted last season - it would have been extremely difficult to change the team sufficiently to finish in a safe position. Would be a bit mad to get rid of Adkins now - let him cock it up a bit more first.

Absolutely. So envious

 

[Pinkie Brown]

According to Ladbrokes, Dear Nigel is red hot 7/4 favourite in The Sack Race Stakes from Southampton with 2nd favourite Hughes, a distant 6/1.

Like all Managers when they are under the preasure, they will look for & try to claim 'positives' from a bad situation. The positives for Adkins? He isn't odds on - Yet.

 

[BensGrandad]

I think that it is inevitable that he will get the sack sometime during this season the question is more of when rather than if.

 

[Mellotron]

To be fair, most of us only really take a disliking to Southampton because of their twat of a manager.

and Harding. And Hamm...oh.

 

[OSRGull]

and Harding. And Hamm...oh.

Harding doesn't play for Southampton...

 

[Mellotron]

Harding doesn't play for Southampton...

Still a knob.

 

[Mutts Nuts]

I hope they have a dramatic season - just fail to stay up - and pass us going in the other direction. And I hope we are more prepared for the Premier League than they are currently. Too much too soon for Saints, and simply why we were fortunate not to get promoted last season - it would have been extremely difficult to change the team sufficiently to finish in a safe position. Would be a bit mad to get rid of Adkins now - let him cock it up a bit more first.

Yeah i`ll agree with all of that

 

[Perkino]

Oh bother, I'm rather enjoying their current campaign

 

[Gwylan]

To be fair, it's only really Albion fans who dislike him coz of his 'if they can keep up with us' comment in 10/11. Similarly Saints fans generally don't think highly of Poyet coz of him comparing us to D&G and a few other strange anti Saints outbursts that season.

I think the decision not to give a guard of honour was worse. The 'keeping up with us' was ill-advised but it was banter, the refusal of the guard of honour was mean-spirited and the sign of a bad loser.

 

[Beach Hut]

So clearly the song is true, they making plans for Nigel

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

it would be very harsh on adkins after two successive promotions

a promoted side can't really expect anything from man city, man united and arsenal, so it's only really the wigan result that was poor

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Grimsby Town ?

 

[Pinkie Brown]

it would be very harsh on adkins after two successive promotions

It would be harsh. Life can be so cruel sometimes.

 

[rcf0712]

To be fair, most of us only really take a disliking to Southampton because of their twat of a manager.

give that man a biscuit grandma

 

[redneb]

I think the decision not to give a guard of honour was worse. The 'keeping up with us' was ill-advised but it was banter, the refusal of the guard of honour was mean-spirited and the sign of a bad loser.

Not really. It wasnt your last home game of the season which is generally the tradition. That game was so important to us and we need the points more than you. Didnt need any distraction and so it proved with the win we got. Besides, that week, Poyet didnt help by whinging that Saints had a game in the final week of the season which apparently gave us an unfair advantage, even though Saints were complaining themselves that the original game had been postponed. Probably contributed to the decision not to do the guard if honour.