Nordic Saint

Back in the days when we had a centre forward. 2 goals from Che Adams and 1 from Stuart Armstrong, who I see scored the winner for Aberdeen this week.

Some good news for those who want McCarthy in goal: The only regular season game we've won at St Mary's in the last 4 years with McCarthy in goal was against Preston, and Preston did have 1 attempt at goal during the game! So, there is still hope.

People also tend to forget that he saved us from defeat in our most important game of the season, v Pompey. Brilliant MOTM performance from Bazunu again tonight!

I've been using AI and search engines, which are not always reliable, but no team is actually worse, although a few have gone 12 months with only 1 home league win, so we haven't broken the record. Derby went eleven and a half months without a home league win, but won one before the 12 months were up. Macclesfield and Stockport also had long winless runs at home, which didn't quite reach 12 months, so they also share the record. If we hadn't scored those late goals against Wrexham, we'd be record breakers at the beginning of November.

Some good news! One home league win in 12 months is not a record. Oh, how we cheered at the end of that Wrexham game, with good cause.

He had a win rate of 29% at Bournemouth, which, although not good enough for them, is, by our standards, good. It means we should expect more than 4 wins over the next 50 games if he is in charge. We can't ask for more than that, can we?

I couldn't find the old thread with records Saints hold, but I believe 4 wins in 50 games is a new Football League record to add to the list, breaking the previous record of 5 in 50 held by Derby. PS Admin, if you want to add this to the old thread, feel free.

Sadly, I doubt there's any truth to this. It's not something Juventus would publicise. Before he washed up here there was a similar online rumour that, "Newcastle were said to be interested in him." If you use words like "said to be interested" nobody can sue you.

You obviously didn't read the comments. It's a joke.

If you were recruiting for a manufacturing company that had incompetent workers producing a shoddy product and terrible salespeople trying to sell it, but good delivery drivers, and then said, our priority should be to get more delivery drivers, even though we don't have lorries for them all, your company wouldn't do very well, would it?

There's an article in the Echo online now which states very clearly that Damion Downs was Johannes Spors' "first choice" in the summer transfer window. Perhaps he doesn't want to talk about that now. In some areas Spors is an idiot e.g. football recruitment, but in others he is a genius e.g. his ability to get well-paid jobs as a sporting director.

We are about to equal (if we're lucky) or break Derby's all-time record for the fewest wins in 50 games, which was 5, set in the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.

Yes, and we all know what happened to Spors' last employers, where he was sporting director. This all stems from Ankersen's wacky philosphy that you should employ managers who've failed in the past because they'll have learned from their mistakes, when any sane person could tell you that you are far more likely to have success if you employ people with a track record of success, not failure. #EmbraceFailure

And now we're suffering the consequences of Sport Republic's recruitment leaving the team with a weak spine whilst spending a fortune, by Championship standards, on a job lot of midfielders who neither score goals nor stop them. All style and no substance.

You could say that every week. In fact, this week we can say it twice.

"We have to find the tools to replace him." Is this his comment on the quality of Sport Republic's recruitment?

Thanks. I'd forgotten about him. I'll edit my post

We haven't got one player who's ever been in the EFL Championship Team of the Season, let alone Player of the Season. EFL Awards - Wikipedia Previous Teams of the Season aside, the best of the Championship talent would be players like Viktor Johansson, Leif Davis, Luke Ayling, Wout Faes, Josh Murphy, Hayden Hackney, Isaac Price, Josh Sargent, Jaden Philogene and Haji Wright. They're the sort of players you'd expect to be candidates for this year's EFL Team of the Season.

They certainly are. A new manager would be the 8th different one under Sport Republic. It's incredible the rate at which we're getting through them.

Damion Downs was on the pitch. I think he'd make a good secret agent as you never notice he's there.

He's not been able to play a full game since. That's why they released him. The last time he scored a goal was more than 1½ years ago. He'd just be company for Ross Stewart in the treatment room.

Have you seen his injury record? Patrick Bamford - Stats 24/25 | Transfermarkt

Above all, we needed a new centre forward to score goals and a goalkeeper to replace Ramsdale. We got Damion Downs and George Long.

That team has a real League One look to it. In fact, the team that got us promoted from League One in 2011 was better than that. It just goes to show how much Sport Republic has downgraded the squad.

You're not the only one. I gave an overly generous 2. There should have been a minus option.