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Wesley Hoedt - incredibly arrogant but bang average

Thomas Pekhart, Jordan Robertson or Neil Trotman. But being serious it is hard to look beyond Ekelund. Dale Stephens and Joe Rothwell both contributed to promotions. Other random maybe forgotten loans were Eric Nixon and Jason Bowen.

Stuart Pearce - great guy John Barnes - good sense of humour, happy to hold and give the piss taking Graham Taylor, first time rude, second time couldn't be more different, charming guy, generous with his time Matt Holland, very polite Russell Beardsmore turned up in Bransgore one Sunday to play for our vets side. Down to earth and very much better than anyone else on the pitch.

Keep Fernandes and we get promoted.

Derby's 11 points will be under threat.

Results under Rusk compared to Martin and Juric indicate that clearly isn't true.

Sometimes you have to accept that whatever the tactics and formation, with inferior players you are going to lose. Rusk is trying to mitigate the size of the defeat - a sad indictment of our recruitment. I'm not sure anyone is championing it, but it is pragmatic given the quality of who he has to pick from.

It reminded me of an FA Cup game where the clearly lower ranked team go ahead and then desperately look to hold on for 80 mins. The gulf in class was evident on the pitch/respective benches. Don't blame Rusk for the set up, any other approach with this group of players who clearly are not good enough, would likely end in a hammering.

If Saints want to do an advance deal for Rohl, now is the time!

I think the bounce after the 2022 Euro win is over for many women's sides. Unless you are a huge club hard to see how it is sustainable. Would make more sense to go semi pro and play at Totton.

Think the club are calling in the women's team debts for use of the stadium and Staplewood (they are run, and have to be run, as separate entities) - staff are being asked to take pay cuts, quite a few have exited and it sounds quite precarious financially.

Yep, it makes no financial sense either if we pay less post relegation. A lot of planning will happen in the background unofficially with Rohl I am sure.

If Blackmore was right about his reporting line then I wouldn't hold your breath.

I wouldn't trust them with 75p in a charity shop tbh.

Im not unconvinced the strategy was "hope" to stay up but not be too worried if we didnt, as financially we are on a much firmer footing if we then come back up (big "if" and risky strategy) Not sure they quite expected this level of humiliation though.