Guest michaelfoster Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Southampton have announced that Jan Poortvliet will take over from Nigel Pearson for the new Championship season. Pearson was only appointed as manager at St Mary's in February and he succeeded in keeping the club out of the relegation zone on the final day of the season. However, following this week's power change Southampton have decided not to renew Pearson's contract when it expires next month. Former Holland player Poortvliet has now been named as head coach in what the club has described as a 'new continental set-up'. Poortvliet, who has previously had spells in charge of Den Bosch, Roosendaal and Stormvogels Telstar in his homeland, will be joined by fellow Dutch coach Matt Wotte. Southampton's new coaching programme which will also heavily involve reserve team boss Stewart Henderson and youth team coach Dave Hockaday. Chairman Michael Wilde told the club's official website: "We are extremely grateful for Nigel's contribution. He came to the club at a time of crisis and through his hard work and commitment we were able to avoid relegation on the last day. "However, the board have been looking closely at the situation on the playing side of the club whereby we are inevitably going to have to depend to a large extent on the quality of our youngsters in the academy and the reserve team. "Our view on that was we would need to adopt a European-style coaching system comprising head coach, with the objective of linking the academy to the first team. "The board believe this will create opportunities for our younger players, which might not occur within the traditional English management structure." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crumpy Gunt Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 He's a useless twat regardless. No surprise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Guy on SSN's saying over 97% of Soton fans wanted him to stay as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daishi Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 97% of sounthampton fans would elect Matt LeTissier as mayor, though... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Skit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Dave Hockaday. mackems.gif Also - I give this set-up until Christmas, when Lowe gets bored of his failed experiment ala Woodward and Clifford. Go back to hockey. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 hah mental Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Did well to keep them up, but I just wonder if he is Management material. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 My Southampton supporting mate liked him. Will be interesting to see what he thinks of this new "continental set-up". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Skit. Swedish for shit. Why would you write that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Means 'serves you right' here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Speaking of sacking, lots of names I recognize now saying "guest" ... no update in house of the banned, what did I miss lads? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Speaking of sacking, lots of names I recognize now saying "guest" ... no update in house of the banned, what did I miss lads? Alex & HTT are the only ones, Indi is being as naughty boy though and pretending. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Speaking of sacking, lots of names I recognize now saying "guest" ... no update in house of the banned, what did I miss lads? Alex and JJC left the forum of their own accord, and CoachHTT has deleted his account for some reason. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Speaking of sacking, lots of names I recognize now saying "guest" ... no update in house of the banned, what did I miss lads? Alex and JJC left the forum of their own accord, and CoachHTT has deleted his account for some reason. Probably hit the wrong button. Is currently trying to post and wondering WTF is going on? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCormick Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Speaking of sacking, lots of names I recognize now saying "guest" ... no update in house of the banned, what did I miss lads? Alex and JJC left the forum of their own accord, and CoachHTT has deleted his account for some reason. Sad really.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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