i care about many other fans opinions, but a ignorant, obnoxious liverpool fan, im okay move on go back to your hole and come to terms with the fact you are not a big club anymore
Much as I appreciate your dismay, this is just spoilt brat syndrome, you have a choice, follow Southampton FC or follow Nigel Adkins, you can't do both. Tough choice.
No choice for me. I will follow Nigels career and will be backing at the bookies whoever he takes over to get promoted but SFC is the important thing!
A couple of points here, the Chelsea analogy is a bit of an enigma, Chelsea changed their manager, somewhat out of the blue and the fans didn't like it, and although the away support have been rewarded, the home crowd have turned against the Club and as a consequence their results have suffered too, our low numbers at this game was more to do with the price of tickets and the impression that we didn't stand a chance against a "superior" team. You will have gathered that we are all shocked at the events over Adkins dismissal, but protests won't change anything, we have to move on or just give up and accept relegation, I am not prepared to take that route, one man, no matter how good, is not the whole, (I include Nicola in that as well). You are right we will be buying the Programme on Monday hoping that it will enlighten us as to why it happened like it did. You aren't a Saints fan so you won't have much idea of what has gone on in the last three or four years, perhaps if you bothered to follow the progress, and what this apparent pariah, has done to get us where we are now. No one is perfect and Nicola makes few friends, but he doesn't quit when the going is rough, he just changes direction and pushes on, we may not like him at the moment, but we have an enormous debt owed to him.
I like loyalty as a quality. I'm going to stick by Cortese. If he hadn't persuaded Markus Liebherr to SAVE Saints, we might not have had a club / match to boycott. I like ambition as a quality. I'm going to stick by Cortese. He has a top four vision, and is clearly focused on that goal. I like Nigel Adkins. So I wish him well.
He stayed loyal to Southampton FC when AC Milan came knocking. Even with Markus Liebherr gone, he has remained committed to the vision they shared when they first rescued the club.
My first love was Southampton FC, not Nigel Adkins. That's not say, I hasten to add, that Nigel Adkins isn't loveable. He is.
Cortese didn't kick off with a vision for Adkins to be a top four manager. His vision was for Saints to be a top four club ( whether you buy into it or not ).
Yes but I think clubs should show at least some degree of loyalty to their players and staff. People expect players and managers to be loyal to the club, well... shouldn't it work both ways?
I don't believe that boycotting the match is helpful. There is a fine line between showing support for nigel and creating a hostile atmosphere for the new man. My anger is directed at cortese, not the new manager or the players. I will continue to support them. Who knows, maybe this appointment will be a great moment in saints history but right now my overriding emotion remains disappointment and anger at our chairmanship decision. I would support any suggestions that would clearly demonstrate our objections to what has been done to Adkins but would not poison the atmosphere for the players. Chanting Nigel's name would, I think, send the message to cortese and the viewing television audience.
Hi SAINTDON, I don't think we can reverse the situation. But there is a different between meekly accepting this behaviour and complying. Communicating your displeasure (I am not talking about turning up with a pointy stick and threatening one and all at Saint Mary's) can change things for better of for worse (look at Blackburn), but why continue to pay towards something you don't feel part of anymore; maybe a little maudlin I know. Will football still be as popular when every club is run by extremely wealthy people and money has saturated the game, I am not sure.
I personally think that club / manager / player loyalty is an unrealistic expectation. There are simply too many variables. For example, what do you do when your loyalties clash?
I question the statement, "when every club is run by wealthy people", how else will clubs survive without finance, I know the League are trying to change the rules to avoid this, but I am not convinced it is workable, a lot of very big clubs will fall by the wayside, if their sugar daddies depart. The choice is nebulous, do you want your Club to be successful, or is success a poisoned chalice which changes the Club, is a must win at all cost, the right way to go, or would you prefer to be bumbling along in a relegation battle, with no real ambition? Sorry I cannot answer for you, it's your call.
The truth is we are both speculating and no one has the answer. I guess a lot of people are assuming that being ruthless will lead to success and that success will bring us happiness, a mantra of the world we live in today. I guess each individual will have to make their own decision about whether one can say that it is 'our' club or just merely Southampton.
I wonder whether this thread is responsible for the Sun's mention of several fans planning a boycott of Monday's game on their front page. For the sake of my own personal reputation, can I please categorically state that I did not buy the paper but merely perused it whilst waiting for the missus in Asda.
