CB Fry

Personally one of the biggest obstacles we face early on for acceptance of our new manager is that if Sports Republic think he is the best man for the job then he probably isn't because Sports Republic are effing hopeless.

They're not three different responses, they are pretty much identical. The first response doesn't say "managing in the Premier League" specifically, it talks about scale of club. For someone desperate to hammer people on specific word use it is strange you have ignored that. Those three answers are not different, they are saying the same thing.

I can't see "three different responses" on this thread. Just you pointlessly nitpicking and you trying to pretend Saints fans would reject Graham bloody Potter because he wasn't "experienced". Abject nonsense. Just looking at every possible candidate through the prism of your very narrow interpretation of one single word seems utterly futile, even for this forum.

List out the "three different responses" and how they are different.

It doesn't just mean that and I haven't said anything remotely like that. You don't get gravitas walking into a new club with zero relevant experience. Honestly you need to do a bit more work on the meanings of words. It's a a teeny bit more than the first line of a dictionary definition. Keep trying, you'll get there.

What planet are you living on that the people saying they want someone with "experience" would also reject Graham Potter? I think you are getting carried away with how clever you think your shitty little question is.

Why are you asking this question like it is some genius killer question? All the candidates will be slightly different on all metrics. But I think "experience" is a good phrase for someone to walk in to the club with significant gravitas, knowledge, know-how, authority who can inspire the fanbase and the playing staff. So yep, someone with experience please.

We're going down this season because of the disastrous decisions on players and managers made by the current leadership of the club last summer, in January and throughout. You want keep crying about Cortese leaving 9 fucking years ago carry on mate. But it's got fuck all to do with anything you thick cunt. Enjoy the Eurovision final tonight X X 🌈🌈🌈💖💖💖🌈🌈🌈

How are we getting on compared to all the last-ten-game match predictors everyone was doing a few weeks ago?

https://www.fotytv.com/2023/05/southampton-vs-fulham-preview.html Surprising good site, have been using for a few weeks now - probably will be shut down before long.

I wish we were Leeds

Good line up to be honest. 4-1 Saints no bother

I can't believe we're going to be relegated entirely because Newcastle can't even beat Leeds 😪😪🤬🤬🤬

COME ONNNNNN NEWCASTLES

We are an attractive proposition. We have money and should go into next season as one of the favourites to go back up. Graham Potter is not going to be our manager. Both of those things can be true, and they are.

It's a nonsensical idea that the only thing stopping us getting Graham Potter is us "paying out" enough and somehow the club will "choose" between paying out for Potter and paying less for someone else. You realise Potter himself has a say in these things, right? He is not going to be our manager, get used to it. Honestly if he did take the job I would seriously question his sanity and judgement because it would be a pretty mental thing for him to do at this point in his career.

It's almost like there is no magic formula.

Quite like the look of our entry Mae Muller but I'd be really nervous about letting her wank me off.

Yes but really effective, successful CEOs use someone else's money so well that they keep getting roles and opportunities to apply their skills to new and bigger businesses. You know, to deliver on a return on that investment, not just merrily spend their way through a vanity project. The Italian never worked at any other football club, anywhere, at all ever again. Which is weird what with him being such a visionary genius and everything.

He got us to 8th. We finished 8th under Strachan. In the seasons around Pochettino doing it the clubs that also finished 8th included Swansea, Fulham and West Brom (and Pompey). I don't think I will ever understand this bizarre/skewed interpretation of what actually happened. Especially as what did actually happen is we were significantly better in subsequent seasons under brand new leadership and a very different team.

We had a lot of money for league 1 and the Championship but not compared to the Champions League clubs. Honestly this is pretty basic stuff.

We should have offered him a contract extension and £100k plus a week surely? We'd be in the Champions League by now and no mistake

So "phenomenal" that he never worked for any other football club anywhere on the world ever again. Spending a fuckton of money to get promoted out of League One is not actually "phenomenal". Teams like Burton or Peterborough or Rotherham or Bristol City can do that without smashing transfer records to buy in players from the division above. Ditto the Championship, it's not that "phenomenal" to do what Swindon or Barnsley or Blackpool or Wigan or Brentford have also achieved. It was great, Adkins and the team did great, but hardly mould breaking. Club spending loads of money goes up. Yep, great. Not phenomenal. He got found out once he hit the big leagues, crashed and burned and was never heard from at any football club ever again. In fairness that bit is phenomenal - pretty impressive to fuck it up quite so much that no one in the sport gives him another job. We went from strength to strength after he left. So good to finish 7th then build on it to finish 6th and then 8th again, great. A great job from the club leadership to rebuild and take the club into a much stronger place. Stronger than ever. We made a disastrous appointment in Pellegrino and we know the rest. But loads has happened since then too. Where we are now has nothing to do with the club that got promoted 12 years ago, and nothing to do with the achievements of the new leadership that got us that truly phenomenal 6th place either. The current owners bought a club with great infrastructure but it's their decisions that have relegated us. The current owners spent hugely summer 2022 and made their own managerial choices. Those choices have taken us down. Other leaders could have come in and made choices where we did not go down in 2023. It's pretty obvious that relegation was not an inevitable thing under Sport Republic. They made very bad choices. It really has fuck all to do with 11 years ago. You weirdos can keep pretending 2023 is some outcome of binning that Italian after his little season and a half in the top flight more than a decade ago but obviously, obviously it isn't.

We spent huge chunks of that season in the top four, and followed it up by doing it again the following season and finishing sixth. The best Premier League squad we ever had and probably ever will have. Ever. But yeah, lets work up "alternative realities" to those seasons. Jesus wept.

Counter-factual does mean an alternative reality scenario so it does imply "fiction" because it is can only ever be assumptions (counter to the facts). So it is the right word. Leicester is an irrelevence to be honest - they did not "build up" to winning the league, they finished 14th on 41 points the season before, they'd just come up and subsequently changed their manager that summer. They won the league out of nowhere. We finished 7th that season under Koeman so were far better placed to win the league than Leicester were when that season kicked off. We finished 14th on 41 under Adkins/Poch so our league winning season should have been the season after that, 2013-14....funny really because at that time we had a driven ambitious Champions League focused chairman but got nowhere near achieving what little old Leicester did from exactly the same starting point. Ain't it strange?