Sammy Lee - joining Southampton FC (NOT assistant manager at the Albion)

[Eeyore]

S/hampton: Hi Sammy, we had totally forgotten you existed, had no interest in you and you weren't even on our radar until we heard you were joining Brighton, ....fancy coming here instead?

Sammy: Where do I sign.....

Sadly, this seems to be our lot in life.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

For me it is extremely embarrassing and the club look tin pot

I think you'll be in a very small minority of over-sensitive types then.

The club seem to have acted quite normally here for my money, and somebody has simply changed his mind. Nothing "tinpot" about it at all. Certainly not "embarrassing".

I'm quite relaxed about it all. Circumstances are slightly annoying, but I'm really not hat bothered in terms of who we've lost. He'll be easily replaced.

 

[Ernest]

We look so SMALL time and TINPOT now, no wonder we can't get a BETTER manager than Hyypia. I bet Gus POYET is peeing himself laughing today at the SHAMBLES and glad he got out.

BARBER OUT

 

[Bladders]

Bolton fans must be pissing themselves over some of the comments on here, panicking that we've lost the bloke they kept on the books to train their kids

 

[severnside gull]

We look so SMALL time and TINPOT now, no wonder we can't get a BETTER manager than Hyypia. I bet Gus POYET is peeing himself laughing today at the SHAMBLES and glad he got out.

BARBER OUT

Ernest...........give it an Enrest

 

[HarryFlashman]

new poster with very specific knowledge of one issue but not knowing which job he has gone to speaks to me of a well informed Sun reader (is there such a thing) or a Sun journo with Bhafc sympathies

.......my point being of course to disparage the Sun "newspaper"

Not that it matters did know what club just didn't want to post it as I didn't know that papers would have the story and sometimes they pick up bits from forums . I certainly didn't get it from a paper as I had no idea it was in one and I waited to be registered to post so I'm pretty sure I couldn't have got it from a paper at that time , although irrelevant as I didn't .

I personally feel disappointed for Sami because it certainly it seems he's been let down by Lee but I do think the club have jumped the gun as well.

I just wanted to put a bit of info online & thought it'd be on interest . I'm hopeful I might have a few more bits over the next few weeks

 

[Bladders]

Not that it matters did know what club just didn't want to post it as I didn't know that papers would have the story and sometimes they pick up bits from forums . I certainly didn't get it from a paper as I had no idea it was in one and I waited to be registered to post so I'm pretty sure I couldn't have got it from a paper at that time , although irrelevant as I didn't .

I personally feel disappointed for Sami because it certainly it seems he's been let down by Lee but I do think the club have jumped the gun as well.

I just wanted to put a bit of info online & thought it'd be on interest . I'm hopeful I might have a few more bits over the next few weeks

Look forward to it. Hopefully about who's coming in and not who we've just been pipped to.

 

[Eeyore]

We look so SMALL time and TINPOT now, no wonder we can't get a BETTER manager than Hyypia. I bet Gus POYET is peeing himself laughing today at the SHAMBLES and glad he got out.

BARBER OUT

Not enough BUTTER for your toast ? Or did you put your egg all over your FACE this MOURNING ? Still the HASH brownies are back up to FOOL capacity.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Why are people wànking over this? Great appointment? How do you know? He was at Bolton FFS.

He might prove to be the best coach we've ever had, Hyppia might prove the best manager but personally I think it's more likely they'll both prove to be bang average.

Hmmmmm

 

[Knotty]

We look so SMALL time and TINPOT now, no wonder we can't get a BETTER manager than Hyypia. I bet Gus POYET is peeing himself laughing today at the SHAMBLES and glad he got out.

BARBER OUT

The only thing small time and tinpot is you.

You're like the needle going round and round in the centre circle of an old 78rpm record, making meaningless and repetitive scratchy noises. Mind-numbingly tedious and ceased to be entertaining when the needle left the interesting bit a very long time ago.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

So as he put pen to paper, surely that's the shortest (or one of) Managerial appointments ever?

 

[HarryFlashman]

So as he put pen to paper, surely that's the shortest (or one of) Managerial appointments ever?

I think at most it was a verbal agreement .

 

[symyjym]

Quite obviously the wrong appointment, if he cannot make his mind up on simple matters it’s a good job he isn’t going to be making decisions on the pitch for us. This is a blessing in disguise even though we have the embarrassment of being taken hook, line and sinker by him. Although it just shows that we are not perfect ourselves when someone like this can pull the wool over our eyes.

Not a good sign for Southampton employing him either, so it should be a bit of a larf next season when they have to sack him.

 

[Bolton va va]

So as he put pen to paper, surely that's the shortest (or one of) Managerial appointments ever?

Aye...about 5ft 2in.

 

[clippedgull]

Jones now has his pro-licence, can he step up and try to make that position his?

He could, but I'm sure the club factored that into their decision to look for an assistant manager in the first place.

 

[wellquickwoody]

, but why were you so quick to criticise the club in the first place without knowing the facts first?

Because normally people do not decline an offer of employment after having accepted it in writing. Therefore I assumed, wrongly, that he had not given a written acceptance as yet but the club had decided to go public with the appointment early doors.

 

[KZNSeagull]

I think at most it was a verbal agreement .

Eh? The club could have insisted on him working a notice period. Not the usual outcome of a verbal agreement, surely?

 

[8ace]

I just wanted to put a bit of info online & thought it'd be on interest . I'm hopeful I might have a few more bits over the next few weeks

Thanks for the info Harry.

 

[Bolton va va]

Bolton fans must be pissing themselves over some of the comments on here, panicking that we've lost the bloke they kept on the books to train their kids

Just mildly amused, but as i said in my previous waffle, I was more surprised at how thrilled some people were at his original appointment.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

I think at most it was a verbal agreement .

Definitely more than that.