Yeah, Les has surprised me once or twice before, but I'm very sure he'll never give a January transfer window free run to Large Sam.
You are right and you don't have to like the manager. Whoever we may appoint in the future not everyone will like the person. I am a proud saints supporter though and I could not be proud of having him leading our club.
I never want us to lose and I’m not one of those “I’d rather go down and be in the championship” type of chaps. I have never been a fan of Hughes, but in all honesty I’d rather take my chance with Hughes or anyone over Sam, no matter how likely he keep us up. For me, it’s a no.
Whilst not a BFS fan, I maintain, name a side he has done a bad job with? He is not particularly a nice human being in some respects, but so is Gino D'Acampo (Who robbed Paul Young and his wife and left them in fear of living in their house in the 80s) and I still like his recipes and cook them regularly.
As much as I enjoyed league one and the championship, I don't want to go there again. If BFS will stop it until we sort our **** out, I'm fine with that.
Indeed. I think we'd have a greater chance of survival with Sam at the helm - if we appointed him this side of January, that is. I've just double-checked, to make sure I'm not spouting rubbish, but he took over at struggling clubs in the following months: Blackburn - December Sunderland - October Palace - December Everton - November So always before the January window. A little bit of time to assess his new squad, and then 31 days to strengthen it in his way. He's never taken over at a club post 31 January before, so his ability to keep a club up when he can't add to a squad is unknown. And given his style of football, I wouldn't want to be the first to try it out. (From memory his first few games at Palace were awful; he has no impact at all until he had new signings imbedded in). But it is doing a deal with the devil. I will probably always look at Big Sam that way. The fact that I am even contemplating him says so much to me.
I would disagree with that. Look how poor they were when we played them a year ago. He came in and steadied the ship and got them 8th. I'd take that now?
I'd rather have Jose (not Mourinho) and SKD giving it a go than Fat Sam... * with Rickie as Striking Coach
We don’t need to be told that, me thinks and pay a huge sum to find out. MH must crack on but with a helpful top team supporting him.
This day has turned out to be a catastrophe. I have had to hire a car at Manchester airport having written my car off along with a City fans car. Fortunately no one hurt.
No to Allardyce. Always no to Allardyce. He is rarely in the same place for long, and his 'turnaround' doesn't generally last, so bringing him in to stabilize and hand off to a different manager is an exercise in futility. Of his reclamation projects: Newcastle was relegated a year after he was fired. Blackburn was relegated the year after he was fired. Sunderland was relegated the year after he was fired. So yeah, he might keep you up that season, though arguments can be made as to whether those were reversions to the mean in some cases. But the nicest thing you can say is that he's a bandage on a wound that needs surgical repair; setting a team up to play Allardyce football just makes it all the harder later to set them up to play properly.
Oh no Tom! At least you or anyone else wasn’t hurt, but that’s a real ****ty end to a ****storm of a day. Bad luck mate.
BFS is an innocent compared with the filth like Boris Johnson, Gove, Fox, Bill Cash, Redwood, Royston Smith, Suella Braverman, and to keep the balance Momentum (Corbyn and McDonnell)
