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Sorry, feeling pedantic. First home game was Colchester (a really dreadful 0-0), but his first game was a 2-0 defeat at MK Dons. However you cut it, would any of us thought we'd be planning trips to Old Trafford (a Wednesday night! What's that about?) or The Emirates? I was excited when we kicked off against Leeds last season That felt like the big time.
 
Channon walked on H2O said:
Sorry, feeling pedantic. First home game was Colchester (a really dreadful 0-0), but his first game was a 2-0 defeat at MK Dons. However you cut it, would any of us thought we'd be planning trips to Old Trafford (a Wednesday night! What's that about?) or The Emirates? I was excited when we kicked off against Leeds last season That felt like the big time.
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I was there that woeful evening, however poor old Nigel had been in charge for about a day for that game.
 
Did anyone notice that Nigel didn't deny we might sign a free agent. He remarked that as soon as the window shut the phone started ringing about free agents. He then said that the important thing was team confidence, but Saints always look to improve the squad. Took that to mean that he's not going to upset people by saying that one area (let's call it the defence for sake of argument) isn't good enough and undermine confidence, but never say never.
 
Channon walked on H2O said:
Sorry, feeling pedantic. First home game was Colchester (a really dreadful 0-0), but his first game was a 2-0 defeat at MK Dons. However you cut it, would any of us thought we'd be planning trips to Old Trafford (a Wednesday night! What's that about?) or The Emirates? I was excited when we kicked off against Leeds last season That felt like the big time.
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It was a Wednesday because it had been rearranged due to the death of Markus a few weeks earlier. It doesn't seem right that Markus and Nigel never met each other, but hey life isn't fair.
 
Channon walked on H2O said:
Sorry, feeling pedantic. First home game was Colchester (a really dreadful 0-0), but his first game was a 2-0 defeat at MK Dons. However you cut it, would any of us thought we'd be planning trips to Old Trafford (a Wednesday night! What's that about?) or The Emirates? I was excited when we kicked off against Leeds last season That felt like the big time.
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Psst..! Never in doubt. ;)
 
If Pardew was given the whole of the 10/11 season, would we have been promoted and more specifically where would we have come? We didn't make a great start, but we wouldn't have had the dreadful period under Dean Wilkins and Adkins took a few games to get going, however we did look like a team that not only played better football, but played better as a team as well. Don't forget that Pardew was good at getting high profile players-maybe our January additions may have been better. IIRC, after the Bristol Rovers game Pardew was saying about getting in more Summer additions and he was sacked two days later on the 30th of August.
 
Jose Fonte baby said:
I doubt it, Cortese and Pardew never saw eye to eye and ML wouldn't have approved of sacking him.
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Now that's where I believe you're incorrect. It was reported soon after Markus died that he'd wanted AP sacked, for failing to achieve promotion, but Cortese had advised against it. As Saints didn't catapult themselves away into the new season, Cortese decided that enough was enough. There was also those other mysterious circumstances. There is also a report from someone who worked at St Marys that one day during early pre-season, Cortese and Pardew were at opposite ends of a corridor and that as they passed each other they hi-fived. That doesn't seem like a pair who don't see eye-to-eye.
 
TheSecondStain said:
Now that's where I believe you're incorrect. It was reported soon after Markus died that he'd wanted AP sacked, for failing to achieve promotion, but Cortese had advised against it. As Saints didn't catapult themselves away into the new season, Cortese decided that enough was enough. There was also those other mysterious circumstances. There is also a report from someone who worked at St Marys that one day during early pre-season, Cortese and Pardew were at opposite ends of a corridor and that as they passed each other they hi-fived. That doesn't seem like a pair who don't see eye-to-eye.
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I heard a rumour that Pardew was sacked because he was always late to training and was out drinking and gambling a lot of the time.
 
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