All those Worthy Outers

[NavMan 0]

That wanted George Burley to replace Worthy - well I am glad that did not happen for a start.

Bet Saints fans are glad they got rid of their manager for him.  Fourth from bottom of the Division with a chance of doing a Forest.  And here were we still hoping for a play off spot last week. 

[The Duke of Norfolk 0]

I wouldn''t be so quick to shoot down Burley.

He will get it to work there, just needs time.

[Citizen Journalist Foghorn 0]

Lets just see how Burley gets on in the long run eh....  He did much the same at derby - a slow start keeping them from relegation followed by good signings and a speedy climb up the league the following season culminating in a play-off place once he had left... And look what has happened to Derby since...

Oh yeah and i have NO DOUBTS George Burley would have our team passing the ball not hoofing it.

you have to look at all the facts here are Southampton''s 21 players leaving:

Player	To	Fee	Date
Jason Dodd	Brighton	Free	29-06-2005
Kevin Phillips	Aston Villa	£ 1000000	29-06-2005
Anders Svensson	Elfsborg	Free	29-06-2005
Jo Tessem	Lyn Oslo	Signed	29-06-2005
Alledine Yahia	St Etienne	Signed	29-06-2005
Peter Crouch	Liverpool	£ 7000000	20-07-2005
Paul Telfer	Celtic	£ 200000	22-07-2005
Mikael Nilsson	Panathinaikos		01-08-2005
Fabrice Fernandes	Bolton	Free	31-08-2005
Olivier Bernard	Rangers	Signed	31-08-2005
Alan Blayney	Doncaster	£ 50000	05-01-2006
Antti Niemi	Fulham	Signed	10-01-2006
Neil McCann	Hearts	Free	17-01-2006
Dennis Wise	Coventry	Free	19-01-2006
Theo Walcott	Arsenal	£ 5000000	20-01-2006
Brett Ormerod	Preston	Free	27-01-2006
Tomasz Hajto	Derby	Free	27-01-2006
Nigel Quashie	West Brom	£ 1200000	31-01-2006
Andrew McNeil	Hibernian	Signed	31-01-2006
Matthew Mills	Man City	Signed	31-01-2006
Rory Delap	Sunderland	Free	31-01-2006
Total: £ 14450000

 

and the 8 signed of which wise and fuller arent playing for them anymore

Player	From	Fee	Date
Dennis Wise	Millwall	Free	27-06-2005
Darren Powell	C Palace	Free	01-07-2005
Ricardo Fuller	Portsmouth	£ 90000	28-07-2005
Tomasz Hajto	Nuremberg	Free	28-07-2005
Djamel Belmadi	Al Ittihad	Free	04-08-2005
Bartosz Bialkowski	Gornik Zabrze	Nominal	06-01-2006
Jim Brennan	Norwich	Free	27-01-2006
Alexander Ostlund	Feyenoord	Signed	30-01-2006
Total: £ 90000

[Citizen Journalist Foghorn 0]

Lets just see how Burley gets on in the long run eh....  He did much the same at derby - a slow start keeping them from relegation followed by good signings and a speedy climb up the league the following season culminating in a play-off place once he had left... And look what has happened to Derby since...

Oh yeah and i have NO DOUBTS George Burley would have our team passing the ball not hoofing it.

you have to look at all the facts here are Southampton''s 21 players leaving:

Player	To	Fee	Date
Jason Dodd	Brighton	Free	29-06-2005
Kevin Phillips	Aston Villa	£ 1000000	29-06-2005
Anders Svensson	Elfsborg	Free	29-06-2005
Jo Tessem	Lyn Oslo	Signed	29-06-2005
Alledine Yahia	St Etienne	Signed	29-06-2005
Peter Crouch	Liverpool	£ 7000000	20-07-2005
Paul Telfer	Celtic	£ 200000	22-07-2005
Mikael Nilsson	Panathinaikos		01-08-2005
Fabrice Fernandes	Bolton	Free	31-08-2005
Olivier Bernard	Rangers	Signed	31-08-2005
Alan Blayney	Doncaster	£ 50000	05-01-2006
Antti Niemi	Fulham	Signed	10-01-2006
Neil McCann	Hearts	Free	17-01-2006
Dennis Wise	Coventry	Free	19-01-2006
Theo Walcott	Arsenal	£ 5000000	20-01-2006
Brett Ormerod	Preston	Free	27-01-2006
Tomasz Hajto	Derby	Free	27-01-2006
Nigel Quashie	West Brom	£ 1200000	31-01-2006
Andrew McNeil	Hibernian	Signed	31-01-2006
Matthew Mills	Man City	Signed	31-01-2006
Rory Delap	Sunderland	Free	31-01-2006
Total: £ 14450000

 

and the 8 signed of which wise and fuller arent playing for them anymore

Player	From	Fee	Date
Dennis Wise	Millwall	Free	27-06-2005
Darren Powell	C Palace	Free	01-07-2005
Ricardo Fuller	Portsmouth	£ 90000	28-07-2005
Tomasz Hajto	Nuremberg	Free	28-07-2005
Djamel Belmadi	Al Ittihad	Free	04-08-2005
Bartosz Bialkowski	Gornik Zabrze	Nominal	06-01-2006
Jim Brennan	Norwich	Free	27-01-2006
Alexander Ostlund	Feyenoord	Signed	30-01-2006
Total: £ 90000

[Citizen Journalist Foghorn 0]

Lets just see how Burley gets on in the long run eh....  He did much the same at derby - a slow start keeping them from relegation followed by good signings and a speedy climb up the league the following season culminating in a play-off place once he had left... And look what has happened to Derby since...

Oh yeah and i have NO DOUBTS George Burley would have our team passing the ball not hoofing it.

you have to look at all the facts here are Southampton''s 21 players leaving:

Player	To	Fee	Date
Jason Dodd	Brighton	Free	29-06-2005
Kevin Phillips	Aston Villa	£ 1000000	29-06-2005
Anders Svensson	Elfsborg	Free	29-06-2005
Jo Tessem	Lyn Oslo	Signed	29-06-2005
Alledine Yahia	St Etienne	Signed	29-06-2005
Peter Crouch	Liverpool	£ 7000000	20-07-2005
Paul Telfer	Celtic	£ 200000	22-07-2005
Mikael Nilsson	Panathinaikos		01-08-2005
Fabrice Fernandes	Bolton	Free	31-08-2005
Olivier Bernard	Rangers	Signed	31-08-2005
Alan Blayney	Doncaster	£ 50000	05-01-2006
Antti Niemi	Fulham	Signed	10-01-2006
Neil McCann	Hearts	Free	17-01-2006
Dennis Wise	Coventry	Free	19-01-2006
Theo Walcott	Arsenal	£ 5000000	20-01-2006
Brett Ormerod	Preston	Free	27-01-2006
Tomasz Hajto	Derby	Free	27-01-2006
Nigel Quashie	West Brom	£ 1200000	31-01-2006
Andrew McNeil	Hibernian	Signed	31-01-2006
Matthew Mills	Man City	Signed	31-01-2006
Rory Delap	Sunderland	Free	31-01-2006
Total: £ 14450000

 

and the 8 signed of which wise and fuller arent playing for them anymore

Player	From	Fee	Date
Dennis Wise	Millwall	Free	27-06-2005
Darren Powell	C Palace	Free	01-07-2005
Ricardo Fuller	Portsmouth	£ 90000	28-07-2005
Tomasz Hajto	Nuremberg	Free	28-07-2005
Djamel Belmadi	Al Ittihad	Free	04-08-2005
Bartosz Bialkowski	Gornik Zabrze	Nominal	06-01-2006
Jim Brennan	Norwich	Free	27-01-2006
Alexander Ostlund	Feyenoord	Signed	30-01-2006
Total: £ 90000

[Dicky 0]

[quote user="NavMan"]

That wanted George Burley to replace Worthy - well I am glad that did not happen for a start.

Bet Saints fans are glad they got rid of their manager for him.  Fourth from bottom of the Division with a chance of doing a Forest.  And here were we still hoping for a play off spot last week. 

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Well said - I do believe that Foghorn Leghorn bloke still thinks we should have him in.  Touch.

[We need a Manager 0]

Would still much rather have Burley here than Worthless , to be honest i would rather have anybody rather than Worthless  i rate him one of Citys worst ever managers and he even comes across as a clown when interviewed.

[ronbol ronbol 0]

I do hope you are not comparing southampton''s season to ours!george burley has hardly had 5-6 million to spend on pathetic players has he!come to think of it when he took over almost all the squad from the previous season had already been sold.

[ZLF 333]

Burley is having to reconstruct Soton after relegation and with no finances after being deserted by Redknapp.   It was inevitable that theywere going to struggle this year especially after losing their only two decent players in crouch and phillips during the summer.   The time to judge Burley will be this time next season.

Just as any new city manager will need some time to build his own squad - Nige had three years to do this, so should any new city manager but we should see signs of improvement within a year.

 

 

[The Walking Man 13]

[quote user="Nigels Tic-Tacs"]Would still much rather have Burley here than Worthless , to be honest i would rather have anybody rather than Worthless  i rate him one of Citys worst ever managers and he even comes across as a clown when interviewed.[/quote]

 

One of the worst city managers? You have got to be kidding right? He took us to the premiership when nearly all hope was lost, avoiding relegation was seen as a sucess when he first took over. Look where we are now, complaining because we have just been in the premiership and now lying top half of the championship.

[Unlucky Fried Kitten 0]

I think my paperboy could do a better job than Worthless. The man has lost the plot. Whatever fluence, or skill, or ability he had in guiding the team to promotion two years ago, has deserted him.

[macdougalls perm 0]

Yes Worthington has been useless this season and I want him out, but if you are honestly trying to say that you would be happy as a Saints fan after that long in the top flight going to their league position at the moment, then you have all well and truly lost the plot! And Paul, please don''t print that huge list of transfer figures up again in reply, 3 times on one thread is more than enough. [:)][;)]

[Old Shuck 280]

I''d take Burley anytime over the current "manager".

So what if Saints are struggling this season-he''s rebuilding from the bottom up-if we have a new manager next season, we''ll likely have a similar one ourselves, but at least it''ll come with the knowledge that change is happening.

With Burley in charge, Southampton WILL finish above us next season, no doubt about that.

[0peteddMMyyyy0Falseen-USTrue 0]

Football also to be played at St Marys, Carrow Rd a football free zone for now and years to come.  Doesn''t Delia remember what entertainment football used to be?

[Citizen Journalist Foghorn 0]

[quote user="macdougall perm"]Yes Worthington has been useless this season and I want him out, but if you are honestly trying to say that you would be happy as a Saints fan after that long in the top flight going to their league position at the moment, then you have all well and truly lost the plot! And Paul, please don''t print that huge list of transfer figures up again in reply, 3 times on one thread is more than enough. [:)][;)][/quote]

rubbish internet connection at home im afraid I have to click and click sometimes....  normally duplicate posts are deleted automatically?? 

Archant Lads (and ladies) could you delete 2 of the 3 duplicate posts?

[Citizen Journalist Foghorn 0]

[quote user="macdougalls perm"]Yes Worthington has been useless this season and I want him out, but if you are honestly trying to say that you would be happy as a Saints fan after that long in the top flight going to their league position at the moment, then you have all well and truly lost the plot! And Paul, please don''t print that huge list of transfer figures up again in reply, 3 times on one thread is more than enough. [:)][;)][/quote]

I think you will find they blame the chairman at st mary''s.....  If we had sold Green, The Doc, Drury, Francis, Ashton, Mckenzie, Hucks, Eddy, Shackell, Mcveigh, Svenny, Fleming, Charlton, Jarvis and Safri  I wouldnt expect us to be challenging just yet...

[Karl Pilkington 0]

I was reading in the paper the other week that Vladamir Romanov at Hearts sacked him because he would not attend an Alcoholics clinic.

 

[rich 0]

seriously you might as well blame kevin ball for sunderland''s problem if your going to blame burley for southampton''s. what a pathetic points scoring post, oh and on what planet do we have playoff chances?

[CANARY BRAVEHEART 0]

Yep I couldn''t agree more with you Citizen Journalist Foghorn you''re spot on about Burley.

[Citizen Journalist Foghorn 0]

[quote user="CANARY BRAVEHEART"]

Yep I couldn''t agree more with you Citizen Journalist Foghorn you''re spot on about Burley.

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He is runoured to be an alcoholic however.... Good Manager.  Typical Scot I guess!!

[macdougalls perm 0]

I thought that that might be the problem Paul, well funny. [:D] Anyway, just to balance things a bit and show how things seem different from different angles - the fact that we had to get rid of Ashton is also blamed on Worthington up here (absolutely endlessly). So even if he does have to get rid of his top players, that is blamed on him as well. I would like to make it clear that I am NOT standing up for Worthington I think his time is up but it would help to keep a consistent argument. And much as I dislike Ip***t, its obvious they sacked Burley for a reason - perhaps we should have a look at their financial dealings while he was in charge.