I am signing up to the following if any body wishes to follow me. I will update and post the league table on this thread. Did ok last season but joined late and was unable to catch up the leaders. Here's hoping for a better result this season!!

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Cheers scrip. Well its now obvious what the problem is at st marys some bloke called rupert lowe. To come out say the board run the club and two days later say he has gone because of media attention seems a bit weak to me. 10 managers in 10 years is that a record? the love affair with glen hoddle, will it continue.

Soon be able to field a 'Southampton Ex-managers Eleven' ;o)
Gerard Houllier in the frame after Wigley?

I think the press are going OTT though. Jones had to leave, Hoddle left to go to Spurs, Grey was never a replacement and Strachen had had enough. So record not as bad as it seems.

Kivver, I"m a Palace supporter, hopefully my portfolio won"t do as badly as them this season, I"ve lost count of how many managers we have had in the last 10 years, Steve Coppell came back 3 times !

Yes and you had my hero Trevor Francis managing you, sorry about that, he did an ok job for my team bham city. But he was a fantastic player, the hairs used to stand up on the back of your neck when he got the ball. I was also very sad to see AJ leave and he seems to be doing a good job for you.

Cheeky Trev was still a fabulous player right to the end with Sheff Wednesday - definitely in my tep ten English players.

I would rather forget about his time as our manager, you definately got the better part of the deal ( Steve Bruce ). Trev was a fantastic player though, we could do with someone like him to help us against Chelsea tonight. AJ is one of the hardest working players I"ve ever seen, if they were all like him we may stand a chance tonight.

Brian - I think Francis was playing for sheff wednesday when he scored a fantastic hat trick against our arch enemies 'the v***a' (no swearing) at the age of about 36.

Stubax - i think you have to be realistic about palace in the prem, they have done fantastically well just to get there. It is a massive step up and you cant replace a whole team. Just enjoy the year and the chance to see great players. Hope you stay up but it will be hard job even with new players. That Routledge looks a bit handy. Better to be like West Brom rather than Leeds, Bradford, Sheff Wed, Barnsley etc.

My charge up the table continues!!

Kivver 26
Scripophilist 18
MT Glass 16
dave37 16
tbm 10
Themuffinman 9

Putting on the pressure Scrip, some particularly difficult chioces to make for tonights games.

6-0 Blackburn looks a cert ;-)

Kivver 31
MT Glass 24
Scripophilist 20
dave37 19
tbm 15
Themuffinman 11

Curiously my alter ego which I am using as a placebo is on 28 points!!

i agree with u kivver about your rant a few weeks ago. too much money these days.........its the same everywhere.

scottish footy is shit now cos of it. we have 2 bigoted teams full of foreigners. i just wish u english boys would take them and all their bile and hatred

Kivver 36
Scripophilist 28
dave37 26
MTGlass 26
tbm 18
Themuffinman 18

Before Norwich match.

As at Sunday night.

Kivver 38
Scripophilist 30
MT Glass 27
dave37 26
tbm 20
Themuffinman 19

Scrip

Just signed up, although now a tadge behind. using scabbers as my logon.

Regards

PTH

Can't find you, you may have a logon and username.

Scrip

Username is ptholden, logon scabbers and I got the score completely wrong tonite, so a poor start, mind you who would expect Portsmouth to score 4 goals in one match!?

PTH

Kivver 38
Golgafrincham_UK 34
Scripophilist 31
MT Glass 27
dave37 26
tbm 20
Themuffinman 19
scabbers 13

Got you in the table now! I started late last season but made up ground all the way through. You are not that far adrift. A few decent results and you will be well up there.

As a Southampton fan I can safely say this is one of the most bizarre starts to a season I can ever remember. What ever next.