Howay

He's a better coach than Pardew, slightly less of a bellend too (dodgy dutch accent aside). I far prefer him over Pardew but it's not an overly ambitious appointment.

Depressingly expected. Hopefully whoever comes in next will put ol' Willo out to pasture and send 'friendly' John to the glue factory.

We done that with Debuchy didn't we? Let his contract run down a bit more after unsettling him and signed him. So it's basically nailed on that it's McLaren, better than the lingering fear that for some odd reason Carver was kept on. I'd probably rather give Clement a shot.

It worked though, I'm not saying it wasn't a desperate move but at least they acted in a time of need rather than sit on their hands like Ashley, Charnley and co have.

Shows what some investment when it's clearly needed can do, Advocaat and Defoe have kept them up really (along with Pantmillions brick wall performances), I know Defoe was a lot of money but it's been say 9m or so between the two of them and it has kept them on the Premier League gravy train for another year. Meanwhile our cunts appointed the next ball bag in the line then sold half our (should have been) first choice defence and are paying for it.

Did he write much in the lead up to any of the other protests? I know Douglas did but I can't remember Ryder saying too much, he's trying to stay as close to the club as possible and half his articles read like the club approved them before he sent them to his editor.

QPR (a) West Brom (h) Leicester (a) Swansea (h) Spurs (h) Liverpool (a) Mackems (a) Arsenal (h) Everton (a) Man Utd (h) I know it's stating the obvious here but one fucking win out of that lot and we'd be safe now ONE SINGLE FUCKING WIN! Even if we'd managed 2 more draws out of the 1 we got we'd be safe right now, absolutely fucking incredible how this bloke still has the gall to come out and praise himself and say he still has a shot at being kept in the role. I fully understand he's not going to come out and slate himself but how about just shutting the fuck up? I just can't get over it looking at that run of fixtures, not a single fucking win, 1 single draw and 9 losses.

So 10 coaches? Obviously not including some junior coaching staff but that's fucking ridiculous to be running a Premier League academy, I'm sure many Championship sides have more than that. Also this is what we should have been aiming for from when Ashley took over: http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/nov/05/southampton-reaping-rewards-philosophy-new-training-ground If we had built something towards that sort of level he would have been adopting the Spurs/Arsenal model he seemed to want early on. I just get the feeling he has completely given up and wants to do as little as possible with as few staff as possible. Imagine if we had the success their academy has had, there's no chance Ashley would be investing a further 30m in it he's probably be trimming off some of the staff he saw as excess.

Spot on, fully agree about the Southampton bit. He's been here 7/8 years so the Academy kids that are reaching 18 now would have been 10 or 11 when he took over, we could easily be reaping the rewards of a good coaching and scouting network. How much would it even cost? I can't imagine decent youth coaches and a local scouting network would cost much money, even if you said 1m a year we'd recoup that by placing one league place higher. It should have been top priority for him and it seemed like it was going to be as that would fit the model he was supposedly interested in however as you say I think he abandoned it. Amazing when you look at the coaching staff and that bloke who got fired couldn't even get kept on at a League two club after us, how much less money was a bloke like him demanding than a youth coach with some ability? The ill state of the academy is simply down to him being a tight cunt, I know it wasn't exactly stellar under the Halls and Shepherd but they preferred the idea of spending lots of money in the transfer window which was faulty for another reason. It's just odd like you have mentioned as the shocking state of the coaching staff and scouting network fly completely in the face of the profits he clearly wants to make, for a relatively small outlay he could be making much larger profits and I would have thought the Carroll transfer would have shown that to him (of course not always to that level but teams will pay large sums for young British talent). It would also mean the players that have been brought in for profit potential would realise that potential, we've just lost money on Yanga Mbiwa and Santon and although he will no doubt make a profit Sissoko's margin of profit grows slimmer by the shite performance. He simply makes no sense and I'd say he's a total fucking moron but the bloke is a billionaire through his own business acumen.

Your sister is your mother, your uncle is your brother You all fuck one another, the Mackem family

I'd love to believe Carver's trainers are photoshopped but sadly that's what he really wears, the colossal fucking charva.

Aye Edgar was shite, same as that Huntington lad was. Our academy is shocking really, Carroll, Taylor, Ramage, Orr, Ameobi brothers, Dummett, that's the best it has put out in the last decade, even the mackems put out Henderson and Colback, Henderson being better than anyone in our list imo and Colback is a regular starter for us . Shit coaching staff to blame tbh, we've had plenty of lads come in who were highly rated like that Speer lad, Kadar and Zamblera or whatever he was called and none have come close to making it, never mind the pathetically average players we have produced from the area.

He's keen like

They all sprinted out.

"Wheeze blue pop is over heeyah marras?"

Agreed, total and utter nonsense. We played from 1993/94 all the way up to 2008/09 with no relegation's, we could now be relegated for the second time during Ashley's tenure and narrowly avoided it the season before last. Ashley has been a nightmare for this club.

What an utter shit show, are they preparing us for blue and white stripes? Ridiculous. Mind as HMHM said you'd have to be a right chode to go out as an adult and buy that.

Horrific.

Completely forgot Harewood had played for us

Ashleyout.com should print 40,000 of those out and have people hold them up as John heaves his kite to his seat

Agree with what DK and Alex said. Another difference for me is we don't have those squad players that I think could step up and have an impact (like Lovenkrands) as our squad is paper thin now.