Jack

Feels like the FA could still derail our season with some bullshit call over this. So shit that we’re 3 weeks away from the start of the season and it’s not resolved, entirely predictable though

This will look like good business if he pings a hammy again playing for Scotland. It’s a shame but he’s never been fully fit and doubt he ever will be, we only got a tune out of him by having a like for like striker to play half the minutes for him, and that’s not the best business really. Shame as I wanted him to stay, but he could so easily be on the treatment table for the length of any contract we gave him.

Regarding Fellows I think he actually looked at his best when played out of position by Still, but maybe the caveat to that is that everyone else looked absolutely shocking. There’s a player in there, just needs to find his confidence. If he cuts in and slots one in the far corner early in the season, maybe it’ll jolt him into life. Just needs a bit more variation to what he’s doing. Work on crossing low and hard from the right, and early crosses with his left if he cuts in rather than dribbling into traffic. I doubt that position will be high on the list to make expensive changes.

This could also be decent, but he’s only had one decent season really. Will be interesting to see if he can replicate it. 23 goals in 44 this season, only 7 in 42 the season before, and 10 in 37 in Ligue 2 before that.

100%. Now that Larin has signed, I’d love to see Stewart stay. We’ve proven that by rotating the two of them we can keep them fit and fresh, and since Larin came in they were the top two in the league for goals/minute. If Stewart goes, that should still be the blueprint, get a second target man so we can play the same way whether it’s Larin or the other one starting.

Getting our hopes up and then it falling through at the 11th hour would be the most Saints-y thing ever.

I’m sure he’d be open to a move, but who’s stumping up the £25m+ we’d want for him? We paid £20m for him so would want a return and he’s already been found out in the Prem once, though that can be partly mitigated by the Russell Martin experiment. He does get found out pace-wise at times. Not sure any of the promoted sides will be spending that much on CBs?

This noise isn’t going away so the club need to get ahead of it and use it to our advantage. ‘They’ve tried to fuck us over, we’re not having it, we’re coming back stronger next year, keep crying’ is the approach I want to see. Play on the new rivalry with those peasants from the north east, another opportunity to make sure we get all the points off Pompey, we basically started last season on -20 from the Will Still experiment so -4 is fuck all. They need to get a few players tied down early to get the feel good factor going, then season tickets, and hopefully quickly replace those who are on the way out regardless. Looking forward to it already, there should be a real edge to the season.

Glad they’ve all been back at work today after a lovely half term break and can start sorting out the shit storm they’ve caused. Season ticket renewals out this week? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cq6pn58pmn4o

Exactly, I don’t think it’s even fans wanting heads to roll necessarily, just some reassurance that the club are taking it seriously, actually doing something about it and have some sort of plan to get us out of this mess. It just feels like they’re on holiday hoping it’ll blow over, or at least be old news by the time they want the fans to put their hands in their pockets again for season tickets. If that’s the strategy then they’ll be in for a shock. They need to put their chips in one way or the other, either back those involved or sack the lot and restructure. The longer it goes on without a decision, the harder it gets.

Yeah fucking off on a week’s holiday during what is probably the most damaging crisis in the club’s history, is not what a CEO should be doing. What sort of message does that send through the rest of the structure? Complete lack of leadership, utter contempt for the fans who are still left in the dark, staff and players with no idea whether to look for a new job over the summer or not. Absolute shambles from the top, sorry FF but just because someone seems a nice chap and has a family, doesn’t give them a pass to down tools in a situation like this. How we handle these couple of weeks are clearly crucial to the future of the club. I predicted ages ago that I reckon the next communication from the club will be on season ticket renewals, looking even more likely now. The circus marches on

Modern FIFA and Trump’s America are a perfect recipe for ruining what should be an amazing event. Rinsing every penny/dollar out of people and making it completely inaccessible to normal football fans even if it means empty stadiums. Too many teams, too many uninteresting fixtures, too expensive, travel and accommodation quadrupled in price, talk of an NFL style half time show for the final, makes you sick. It’s not what football is about. I’d have been far more interested if it was just in Mexico, amazing country apart from its troubles in the north. No coincidence that the closer you get to the USA, the worse it is.

This is where I’m at. Still absolutely raging that we did ourselves out of the playoffs in that manner, and Tonda has to own that. But he also got us there in the first place when the season looked a write off by October, and I have absolutely zero faith in SR finding a suitable replacement. They got lucky with Tonda, even if he’s a cheat, we need to own it and focus on what he did well rather than what he did wrong. Just hope the players can be talked round and are up for going again.

Interesting to see Lincoln City in the ‘South’ and therefore a title contender

The club need to throw whatever they’ve got at making a deal for Peretz if he’s even slightly open to the idea. It’d have a huge positive impact on the supporters and I’m sure on the playing squad too, he’s a proper leader and clearly well liked, it may sway others that are on the fence. Hugely unlikely that he’d want to sign with us, I’m sure he’ll have far better offers, but it’d be negligent not to try everything with the state of our goalkeeping department.