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He has my full backing until August 1.
I feel like I should start a few threads already.
Sack Pochetinno
Sack Frank de Boer
Sack Louis van Gaal
He has my full backing until August 1.
Where you get the JJ info from pal?Pls stay on topic fuck sack.
So, our tried and tested ITK here are saying its Pochettino, and now, coincidentially, JJ alludes to it being Pochettino! Funny that!
I'm onto you, @JJetset
He has my full backing until August 1.
I feel like I should start a few threads already.
Sack Pochetinno
Sack Frank de Boer
Louis van Gaal's Sack
Hey, no porn.I'm going to go find some pictures with Getty watermarks to post if we are going to start this
Hey, no porn.
... fair enough.Why not? Porn is way more pertinent to the discussion than JJ, Akqa or Twitter. After all, we continually get "fucked" by this club.
Again, he's not my first choice, but neither had Rogers when he went to Liverpool.
Southampton have, according to some of you, won the league below the top 7. This of course based on finishing 8th.
However....
This season they've lost games to:
Norwich away
Sunderland away.
Villa Home
WHU Away
Cardiff Home
Not great.
Hey Happy. Long time no speak.I don't know enough to say whether or not we should hire Ponch.
But let's be honest about what he's done with Soho. Their wage bill is 18th in the league and their final position is 8th. Ours is 6th and our final position is 6th. If he brings that same expenditure-to-position ratio to Spurs, we will be negative 4th next year. Negative 4th.....that's like winning 5 titles in one campaign.
Hey Happy. Long time no speak.
Please say that after debate we're sticking with Ponch as the nickname. I loved CHiPs
But you can say that about loads of managers, Steve Clark made 8th place with WBA last season, why not him?
He might prove the mutts but it will be a massive gamble and there's plenty of others with similar that might prove it or might not, if our criteria is a manager who's best achievement is finishing eighth once and taking the only other team he managed to mid table before back in the relegation zone it just seems a very low standard of selection
The only candidate who really is proven in that sense is Benitez. I don't think that's the best way to evaluate a potential manager though Barry. I'd say if we get a candidate with the right technical and tactical qualities as a coach, and with the personality/motivational skills to manage a club like Spurs, then it will be very likely that they will be successful here. I would say my concern with Pochettino is whether he is tactically good enough, based on some of the statistics that people have posted about Southampton never recovering from losing positions.
But from what I've seen he seems to be a coach that can improve players and can coach his team to be truly good in possession and able to use the ball constructively (as opposed to AVB's inability to properly coach a team in this regard). The concern with FDB imo is that while he has coached an Ajax side to be good in possession, Ajax as a club generally produces and trains players from a young age to use the ball constructively. He hasn't so much had to apply that system to a team in which most of the players haven't been coached their whole lives in that specific philosophy, and so I think there is a worry that he would have a far more difficult time implementing his ideas in our team.
Martinez after all had Wigan relegated in his last season but unsurprisingly went on to be a success at Everton, because he has the right qualities as a coach to be successful in a bigger job. We have to evaluate based first on qualities and second on achievements.
So for me perfect choice is Benitez but I wouldn't be unhappy with M.P.
I agree, which is why I want us to get Benitez. Both FdB and Poch have some risk, but upside too. I think the risks with both of these guys are worth it if we don't get Rafa.
Edit to add that the football Southampton have been playing is miles ahead of WBA last year, and I do think Poch will have a bright future. Steve Clark is a good coach/assistant, but isn't as talented a manager. Also wanted to add that I wasn't pushing for Poch to be the choice, but rather than to dismiss him because he hasn't won anything isn't really sound on the basis of how well Rogers did this year.
Posted in the RO but awaiting mod to view, Storts on COYS re Backroom staff:
"Ramsey and Les going, not sure on Freund currently, think he will be staying"
Posted in the RO but awaiting mod to view, Storts on COYS re Backroom staff:
"Ramsey and Les going, not sure on Freund currently, think he will be staying"