Miltonaggro

Seaside Turkish barbers…

And a little bit of reflux 😂

In the summer I was dead against Still's appointment when it was first mooted, then having looked at his record at Lens, and watched some of the 'fly on the wall documentaries' managed to talk myself into it in terms of giving Spors the benefit of the doubt. Still seemed a likeable bloke who players would want to play for. I knew that we'd been in talks with Rohl throughout the second half of last season so assumed Still was second choice after Rohl had overestimated his options. I have watched all bar two of Still's games as our manager and the thing that worries me most is that there is lethargy throughout the side and no apparent desire / clue of how to craft chances or grind out results. The blanket substitutions are also a red flag. Martin's side in this league seemed to have another gear to use as a get out of jail free card against limited opposition, which would work four times out of five - we don't even have that now. Saints are big fish in this league on the back of a £56m spend, I think we need to be more ambitious than 'let's see how it turns out and hope for the best'. You'd assume Solak feels exactly the same regardless of what is said in public. If it's not been done already Still should be given a finite number of games and if there isn't a dramatic upturn, replaced, hopefully with a known quantity for this league.

And Solak should be banging heads together on this.

There’s always fifth time lucky for Clownforce. Chimpanzees typewriters and all that. Personally i think dragan should sack the lot, including Spors & Co. and have a fans poll of ST holders in terms of replacements.

Freeze their assets, apply sanctions, put in place a no fly zone!

I dont think Will Still can improve on this, so looking like a dead duck. Wonder if the brains trust in the Boardroom can see it.

Brownmore loves all that!

Every fucking week and zero urgency to rectify!

I expect as long as we go up a couple of places William Stilliam keeps his job this afternoon, but you never know.

Its almost as if he’s playing football manager in his kecks!

Plucky draw is no good at all, for our club or Will Still. This team needs an enema!

Terry?

Bamford.

That’s the problem with historical facts ‘within living memory!’ 😊

Deju fucking vu!

I think most of the fanbase think the club’s ‘place’ is to be pushing for top half in the top division with a sortie into Europe now and again, and not unreasonably so given our history last 45 years. Sport Republic seem to be insuring that this is made as difficult as possible.

Think it’s likely that this is already underway. Even with our inept Board.

100% agree. Daft decision.

From memory, the following played for both, and as a spoiler alert for next week would probably be fucking shoe-ins for our starting 11 right now: Richard Dryden Paul Tisdale David Howells Russell Osman Stern John Joe Jordan Dryden played for BCFC directly before joining SFC, and the others all joined BCFC directly after playing for SFC. Make of that what you will...

I watched that match with the nipper and staggered by how fluent and game Northern Ireland were, set up really well and gave the Germans a fright. Had to look up their centre forward who looked better than anything we've currently got and found out he plays for Stevenage.

He used to go to Simon's wine bar with Hurlock and Adams on school nights around 1993/94. He couldn't match their drinking prowess and was usually wrecked by about 9pm. Once saw him forward roll down the flight of stairs after visiting the gents western style. Happier, simpler, times.

On the subject of Lampard, along with the likes of Dyche, Cooper etc. My gut feeling ever since Sport Republic took over is their pathological avoidance of appointing an experienced and known figure within English football, hence the need that every permanent appointment has to have 'an angle' or a 'blue sky' feel. You could point to Juric as an established manager, but he was a temp with a previous (if tenuous) link to Spors. Most Saints fans have nothing personal against Still, or Martin or Jones for that matter, but would prefer their relatively big club not to be treated as a work experience project. In my time as a supporter the club has always done particularly well with a 'big name' former player at the helm even when they've struggled elsewhere (Ball, Hoddle, Strachan, Koeman). Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but Lampard would have probably been a great fit for us when we could have got him!

You never know. He was interviewed in 2022 after RH was sacked and fancied the job then. If he had been appointed id doubt we’d have had the level of trauma of the last three years!