Burley OUT

The mighty Saints are in real trouble. The club is making a beeline for administration. Burley is tactically inept. Plays everybody out of position. Never picks the same team twice. Buys crap.

The sign of a bad manager is when the team is weaker that the sum of the individual parts suggests it should. Burley has made that an artform.

The sign of a good manager is when the team is stronger than the sum of the individual parts. Roy Keane showed how that works last year. The players at Saints were significantly better than the dros Keane had to work with, but Sunderland were in a different league to Saints (and now they are literally).

I suspect we can't afford to fire Burley. So no doubt things will get worse before they get better. But that's ok - it is the club motto after all.

Hoddle started the rise of the Saints. Strachan took it to the summit. When Strachan left I wanted Hoddle back. I was in the minority. If Hoddle had come back when Strachan left, or when Sturrock left, chances are Saints would never have got relegated. But the fans got their way and here we are.

Lets forgive Hoddle for the mistakes he made in his former life and get him back.

There is local precedent. Harry Fartknocker (who referred to Saints as "they" in every interview he did whilst at Saints) went back to Skatesmouth (whereupon "we" reappeared) and look what happened. Lets learn from our fishy friends. Or we will be the next Leeds.

Saints rant over.