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tufcyellowarmy wrote: 30 Apr 2018, 18:20 I dont think you are qualified just yet Teigngull.
Chuck a few anti Nicho posts around and ensure that you
Jump down anyones throat when they disagree with you and you are nearly there.
Dont forget the odd Idiot, moron or baboon insult. To finish with 😆
Just saying ! And good luck .

And don't forget to then make a sincere apology which you don't mean: Teigngull - the poor man's Merse OMG!

I've checked the Steve Breed Q & A thread & see no direct q's from a Southamptondave present, but I did find an answer from Steven regarding CP Gulls question in relation to who Steve would have liked to replace Chris Hargreaves with.
It turns out that we had 4 strong candidates for the available managers job, but against SB's advice, the previous board went with the inexperience ( and probably cheaper too, my thoughts not SB's ) of KN, SB was also of the mindset that Kevin should've real!y come in as a n'o 2 to gain that vital experience ( so obviously missing, once again my words not SB's ).
Kevin is now suffering his decision to take the managers job on at tufc, & has yet to work at the level of management he left behind & SB reckons Kevin's chances of getting work again within the pro game debatable, out of the 4 candidates who applied, Kevin wasn't in SB's top 3 !
Says it all really, don't you think ?
Or were you looking at a different set of questions & answers Dave ? If so please enlighten me.
Cheers chuck.

I've had the roth of merses postings only once or twice and merse does come accross a little blunt to put it mildly. However the previews he does on btpir and some of the knowledge he posts does for me outway everything else. Better with his postings than without for me totally. Don't agree with everything he says but I'm sure he would not expect me or anyone else to all the time.
#debate

Teigngull wrote: 30 Apr 2018, 17:53 Who was the manager of the team then Dave ? Go on tell me, I'm sure your itching to , when I look back in the record books Kevin Nicholson was. And if I recall correctly, we escaped relegation with a late rally of form.
As for morphing into merse, well he is knocking on a bit, somebody has to pick up his baton & run with it sooner than later, so better it should be me, in your eyes at least, I'm well qualified !

I dont think you are qualified just yet Teigngull.
Chuck a few anti Nicho posts around and ensure that you
Jump down anyones throat when they disagree with you and you are nearly there.
Dont forget the odd Idiot, moron or baboon insult. To finish with
Just saying ! And good luck .

A fully qualified Merse, that would unease the natives

Read Breedy's reply to my direct questions. That's why I say your statement is absolute crap!

westyorkshiregull wrote: 30 Apr 2018, 12:15 Against a 9 man Tranmere team !! Having a laugh , should have been 3 points all day long. If it followed up by a good results in the next game or few then it would have been forgotten about.
It was a dreadfully bad start by the lottery winning dream team

Southampton Gull wrote: 30 Apr 2018, 15:52 Absolute crap. I wonder whether you've morphed into merse occasionally.

This was addressed by our ex CEO and if you can't take his word for it then perhaps a forum isn't the right place for you to debate? You could try your Teddy in the privacy of the bathroom, he might not argue back

Who was the manager of the team then Dave ? Go on tell me, I'm sure your itching to , when I look back in the record books Kevin Nicholson was. And if I recall correctly, we escaped relegation with a late rally of form.
As for morphing into merse, well he is knocking on a bit, somebody has to pick up his baton & run with it sooner than later, so better it should be me, in your eyes at least, I'm well qualified !

Teigngull wrote: 30 Apr 2018, 08:22

Got us out of 2 consecutive escapes. Which HE put us in in the first place.

Absolute crap. I wonder whether you've morphed into merse occasionally.

This was addressed by our ex CEO and if you can't take his word for it then perhaps a forum isn't the right place for you to debate? You could try your Teddy in the privacy of the bathroom, he might not argue back

Perhaps one day we will find out what happened during the Summer of 2017.
Why did we sign so many players from the Bristol area - Clarke, Gosling, Klukowski (Chippenham boy) and Davis? Who spotted them and recommended them to the Club? Gosling and Pittman were both in the Grimsby team that got promoted in 2016 so bringing them back together had some logic behind it although Pittman had spent the 2016/17 season at Harrogate.
Why did we keep Chaney. He was the only outfield protege of Harrop to last more than one season as a pro - what a dreadful record for our former head of youth development who was in post for 7 years. Chaney was his most successful youngster apart from Dan Lavercombe.
Why did we have so many trialists during preseason? That must have been a hindrance to our preseason training and perhaps Nicho in a fit of pique brought on his kit man to show how bad the trialists were that he had been lumbered with.
Would Nicho have kept us up? I doubt it given the potentially hostile management environment that he would have been trying to work in. Would he have got more out of the players already on the books when Owers came in? Definitely.

Don't forget that "competitive draw against Tranmere" was against a team down to 9 with two sent off!

Against a 9 man Tranmere team !! Having a laugh , should have been 3 points all day long. If it followed up by a good results in the next game or few then it would have been forgotten about.
It was a dreadfully bad start by the lottery winning dream team

Rossi Martin wrote: 30 Apr 2018, 10:00 In Nico's defence and notnow, Nico had absolutely nothing to work with in terms of a budget and for a first managerial job where he had to play for the first three months of his job due to not having enough subs to field a whole team

So (knowing that he was about to start the job of Player-Manager) did he cup-tie himself by turning out for Bath in the previous round and follow that by presideing over tha utter capitulation at Basingstoke....but not as player-manager you'll understand?

Rossi Martin wrote: 30 Apr 2018, 10:00 We got a competitive draw against Tramere and were competitive to both loses to Boreham wood and Aldershot which compared to where they finished was good

Having been at two of those games (Aldershot & Boreham Wood) it is my view that the six goals conceded could so easily have been doubled ~ we were bloody miles off the pace!

In Nico's defence and notnow, Nico had absolutely nothing to work with in terms of a budget and for a first managerial job where he had to play for the first three months of his job due to not having enough subs to field a whole team he did a hell of a job to keep them up. he got drawn a small straw when the new owners came in as the writing was on the wall for him. You can't say he would of got us relegated based on four games. We got a competitive draw against Tramere and were competitive to both loses to Boreham wood and Aldershot which compared to where they finished was good. plus we were scoring goals in both those games. I do believe we wouldn't had gotten relegated if he was still in charge. unlike the brilliant gary owers

They did a deal with a local travel firm didn't they-unfortunately they didn't do their due diligence on them and were provided with a not fit for purpose coach and driver!