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would love him here. Me too, would be amazing.

I agree with you 100% my man, unfortunately we reacted like Keegan leaving was the apocalypse and we can't undo the damage we caused. At the same time, Ashley should have just ridden the wave and stuck to his strategy... he was naive in thinking he would always be popular with the fans.

I wouldn't mind seeing Martins on the right of a 433, might be he can cut inside more and get shots in.

not a chance. Not unless the owner does not care about being popular with the fans and just sticks with a manager they believe in. Looks like we need this kind of manager like Moyes who can manage on a shoestring and steadily improve until such time that the club is in a healthier financial position. This could take a few years and would take patience that I do not believe our fans have got enough of. Most fans of most clubs are the same now, but some owners are prepared to take the wrath of the fans for the short term, while quietly building for the longer term. To be honest that's the key, I'm the first to say our fans expect too much and turn against the club/team too easily, but at the end of the day it's up to the people in charge to see past that and stick to their long term plan. No club can be run pandering to the changing whims of the fans.

That's the key, but the difficult thing is - how do you know when someone should be given time and will turn it around, and when they're just shit? In our case I'm pretty convinced our managers were just shit. I am as well, I always disagree with people who say Allardyce should have been given more time.

But we can all see from the accounts and what Ashley said about clearing tonnes of debt that money is tight, and everyone is still whinging about the lack of signings.

That's the key, but the difficult thing is - how do you know when someone should be given time and will turn it around, and when they're just shit?

In a related question, how come all our celebrity fans are freaks? Actually, Gabby was probably the most normal one :-[

We've still got that horseracing bloke, don't worry.

I don't rate her TBH.

Have a quick scroll up to the top and see that 80% of people on here don't think that NUSC reflects their views. They've got a tough job on now because their start has been so monumentally awful so far.

To be fair, bringing in youngsters is the easy bit. Well we've never managed to do much of it before. we have,we've always had academy teams,youth teams etc, some have even included foreign talent, pinas,kiedel but either we were identifying kids who werent good enough or we were crap at improving them (my opinion is a bit of both) Well fine, maybe I should have said we never did it very well before... or it never produced any decent players. Obviously we'll have to wait and see what happens with the current lot, but I'm encouraged by what I've seen so far.

To be fair, bringing in youngsters is the easy bit. Well we've never managed to do much of it before.

I've actually got a decent example to back up the lower leagues thing. My missus was teaching at a school in Southampton the year after they'd got relegated. They all went to St Mary's every home game with their dads, but they also called themselves 'Chelsea/ManU/Arsenal and Southampton supporters'. I don't reckon they'd have been spending so much time at St Mays if they had the option of watching a 'big' premiership game instead every week. I've got rid of Sky as well Gol, had it at uni (bill split between 6 didn't seem so much...) but now I'm living with the missus I'll go to the pub if there's a game I want to see. Means I enjoy the games I watch a lot more, and don't find myself watching rubbish I'm not interested in. I'll miss the cricket coverage more. Interesting, I definitely wouldn't get Sky until it is properly customisable and I don't have to take loads of stuff I don't want.

Tuesday's press conference should be interesting... "Which one of you is Simon Bird?"... Think we know the rest!

Balde isn't any good, but we aren't signing him, so it's OK.

Don't think it makes any difference whatsoever.

I've always wondered what would happen to crowds if 3pm games were on TV... maybe Mowen is right it might affect the lower leagues more. But 'the market' seems to decide everything else, if people would rather watch the game at home then maybe they should be allowed to?

True love is unconditional, yes we're all depressed but that piece is just unneccesary.

Can you give us any reason why they wont be any better than Ashley ,The Al-Kharafi family wealth estimated at 9.6 billion dollars seems like a no brainer to me bonny lad . Nice and patronising, cheers. I can't really give a reason, no, other than I don't know anything about them or what their plans for the club would be. At the moment it seems like people would sell the club to Mugabe Holdings Ltd if it meant Ashley would leave.

Stupid thing is that this is what we were told their job was in the first place but then it seems that they started pricking about with the first XI. Being honest and showing clarity at the beginning could have saved a whole lot of fuss really. Yeah, fair enough, I still don't know whether Wise had as much to do with first team matters as everyone says though. People just seem to have scapegoated him because he's cockney and a complete tosser of a man... don't know how much he's actually done wrong.

Absolutely, we need to be getting some real premiership players into the middle of the park, that will make all the difference.

Even though I'm pissed off at the lack of first team players coming in, it's great to see us continuing the youth policy. Hate to say it, but Ashley and Wise deserve some credit for that aspect of the club.

"jet-heeled" - Pleased with this one, got a feeling it could turn out to be a shrewd move.

The main point is that everything should be done to protect the matchday experience and make sure people actually go the games. Football played in a half-empty stadium is so much worse off, just look at Boro. They could also make Sky Sports subscriptions more flexible, I would be willing to get it if I could pick and choose what I wanted, but I'm not paying £40 a month for a load of stuff I'll never watch.