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Ex-Manager Thread

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ElliotMP, Mar 28, 2016.

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Who would you have as our next Manager

  1. Eddie Howe

    8.0%
  2. David Moyes

    3.3%
  3. Unai Emery

    45.1%
  4. Ryan Giggs

    1.9%
  5. Frank De Boer

    8.5%
  6. Steve Bruce

    2.3%
  7. André Villas-Boas

    22.1%
  8. Anyone that Uncle Les picks

    30.5%
Multiple votes are allowed.
  1. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    I think it's the things you don't do that you end up regretting. It is with me anyway - I've made loads of mistakes and hopefully learned from at least some of them. It's the things I passed up or chickened out of that occasionally have me thinking "if only".
     
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  2. Libby

    Libby Derby County, we're coming for you

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    Rickie did score a few goals for Liverpool as well, including one in the CL so I'm sure he does have some good memories.
     
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  3. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    You've been softened living oop norf.... we don't check the dates of yoghurt here Lambo, we take a judgement on how furry or not it is :(
     
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  4. jonny 'hasen' shuttle

    jonny 'hasen' shuttle Well-Known Member

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    What if i am not sure of any of the new manager options in the list?
    why is koeman leaving for Everton? That is a terrible decision. His car will get stolen and he will not like scousers
     
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  5. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    Archers, she'd have only turned you down mate. Probably best you never got enough courage to ask her :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  6. Pelletron

    Pelletron Well-Known Member

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    I've been doing it since February at my job - known as being on the bench. Being at home applying for internal projects on full pay. And yes, the dream has been achieved - made it to the Euros! Start a new project soon, but not for four weeks!
     
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  7. Le Tissier's Laces

    Le Tissier's Laces Well-Known Member

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    What business are you in Pelletron? Sounds like construction management to me...
     
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  8. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    <laugh> She wouldn't have though - not the one I'm thinking of. Just wasn't meant to be, I guess.
     
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  9. Pelletron

    Pelletron Well-Known Member

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    Work for IBM. They were doing a bit of restructuring in the first quarter, meaning less suitable placements were coming up. Then in Q2, was a glut of staff competing for positions. Which combined to make it a bit harder to get off the bench.
     
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  10. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    Good Luck when it starts. All feels like fun when you're paid not to work at the beginning, however it then gets a bit frustrating on the brain.
     
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  11. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Would suit me....I am the laziest person you are ever like to meet. I have the intellect but not the application or ambition. Been pretty happy though :)
     
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  12. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    Been a homeworker since turn of the year - work in IT (Remote access & server visualisation is my forte), so always been able to do what I do from anywhere in the world. Miss the human interaction sometimes, but it's nice to get up at 7:29 to start work at 7:30am! This time of year is good too, as little coffee breaks in the garden are nice :)

    I'm also the only one of my colleagues (all office based in Plymouth), that isn't worried about England v Wales being on in the daytime :)
     
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  13. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    You've got waaaaaaaaaay too much personality and positivity to work in IT :)
     
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  14. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    Lol, they all say at work to me when **** hits the fan, I am always the calmest and most likely person to see the positives out of it :)

    Last year we had a major sev 1 when basically we lost the Comms room. So all customer websites were down (work for a white label insurer - so no quotes were coming from the price comparison sites for all our blue chip customers!), but I sat back, grabbed a coffee and worked out how to make the best of a bad situation. Three hours later we got it back, they all lost about 10 years of their life and most their hair, I was glad that we finally got to reboot some of the 24-7 servers that needed patching :)

    To bring it back on topic. Ron leaving in my world would be a Sev 1. Other teams would panic, throw money around and tear out their hair. Les sits back in his chair, puffs on his cigar and thinks that at least we can upgrade Ron with the minimal of fuss ;)
     
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  15. Le Tissier's Laces

    Le Tissier's Laces Well-Known Member

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    More I think about it, more I think Everton have done themselves up a treat here. I just don't think that move is going to work.
     
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  16. davecg69

    davecg69 Well-Known Member

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    Never worth going back .......... Take it from me. Married my first girlfriend after a hiatus of over 30 years ........ Then discovered what a lying, scheming, deceiving, vindictive b*tch she is ..............

    Not that I'm bitter .......... this time next week I should know how much this stupidity has cost me from my pension and house ...... Anyone got a caravan to live in? :emoticon-0107-sweat
     
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  17. davecg69

    davecg69 Well-Known Member

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    Good luck!! Know plenty of folk who used to work there - seems that "restructuring" is the way forward with many companies these days ...... Glad I'm out of it.
     
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  18. - Doing The Lambert Walk

    - Doing The Lambert Walk Well-Known Member

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    I like to imagine that this is how Les handles the 'meltdowns' at Saints.

    Sitting back, having a coffee, a break in the garden and sorting it all out in a calm manner while everyone else sh!ts themselves. <laugh>
     
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  19. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Sorry to hear that mate. She's not Dutch is she?
     
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  20. ImpSaint

    ImpSaint Well-Known Member

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    Hurrah for that. I'm not going to go into all that detail though. I said all of the above 6 months ago as did a few others and most of us who did so then didn't bother to comment much further.

    What I will say though is from watching every match via stream bar a couple since we returned to the Prem I didn't bother watching many at all this calender year and went to watch Lincoln City instead every other week.
     
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